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Nina C

@ninacoutinho.bsky.social
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Go slow and mend things. Recovering tech human. Follow =/= endorsement Reactions (likes) often to increase reach of the information

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📚 🦸🏻‍♀️RUTHERFORD COUNTY — “Go and thank your librarian. Absolute heroes.” Library director Luanne James gets thunderous applause for bravely blowing the whistle on library board director Cody York, the latest front in the right-wing war on books in Tennessee. Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
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Fellowship
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Erin 🍍 @maclebass.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The 511 flying down Bathurst today with the new dedicated lanes (hi @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social!) I used to be able to physically outrun the streetcar on this stretch, and now it takes me just 15min to get to a doctor appt at Toronto Western by streetcar 🥹
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
NEW from me —
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NJ GOP congressman's former staffer indicted in staged MAGA attack
Natalie Greene worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew and had body modifications to make it appear she'd been assaulted.
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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Trans youth who are hurting in Alberta right now, please know SO many of us see you, care about you, and know you deserve to be protected. We’ve got your back and will do everything we can to keep you safe in the face of attacks from craven, pathetic politicians ❤️
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Two kicks at being contemptuously notwithstanding in three weeks. This time on the backs of trans youth. The notion that human rights protection must above all be there for the most vulnerable in society means nothing in Danielle Smith's Alberta.
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Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on three bills affecting trans and gender-diverse youth
Legislation limits gender-affirming care and bans trans participation in womens’ and girls’ sports
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#ResistanceEarth What if you could take a waste product and make a biodegradable material with the qualities of plastic? That's what MIT senior Jacqueline Prawira has done with fish scales. She also helped develop a low-carbon process for making cement. news.mit.edu/2025/mit-sen...
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MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
MIT student Jacqueline Prawira’s invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS...
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
St. Simon’s will be hosting the Diocese of Niagara Vigil marking Trans Day of Awareness. Thursday, November 20, 2025 - 7pm St. Simon’s Anglican Church 1450 Litchfield Road, Oakville ON
A poster depicting a lighted candle on a blue square over the colours of the trans flag, with the words:
Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20th 7:00 pm
Vigil and Prayers
St. Simon’s
1450 Litchfield Road, Oakville
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Nina C @ninacoutinho.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
More of this please. ALL of this please.
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.
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Nina C @ninacoutinho.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Heck yes!!!! Open source revolution here we come.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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Ellis Weiner @ellisw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Here's an obvious, easy, fun move: Every day, Dems should stage a mini-press conference showing video of Karoline Leavitt's latest lies, and then providing the corrections and the truth. It's like solar power--an infinite resource. It needn't be a Congressperson, but an official Dem spokesperson.
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AxisPHX @lazosferns.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Katie Wilson, a longtime progressive organizer and founder of Seattle’s Transit Riders Union, has been elected as Seattle’s next mayor. She defeated incumbent Bruce Harrell. Wilson campaigned on expanding affordable housing, improving public transit, and enacting fairer taxation policies.
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Karen Costa (she/her) @karencosta.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#HigherEd, please read this. Resist and regulate. #AI #AcademicSky "Occasionally, when King lingered on the downstream effects of his work, he felt like Dr. Frankenstein looking at his monster." web.archive.org/web/20251112...
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‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/11/2025
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🗣🗣🗣BUT HIS EMAILS
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
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Dead Fish 🔻 @deadfish1965.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A banner which read "Stop killing children - Stop killing civilians" was displayed by Uefa before the Super Cup final between Tottenham and Paris St-Germain on Wednesday. The sign was shown on the pitch in front of the players as they lined up before kick-off at the Stadio Friuli in Udine, Italy.
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Uefa displays 'stop killing children - stop killing civilians' banner before Super Cup final
Uefa displays a banner which reads
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Corn maze in Vankleek Hill, Ont. celebrates Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope #TerryFox #MarathonOfHope #Ontario #Canada #CornMaze www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Corn maze in Vankleek Hill, Ont. celebrates Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope
Ouimet Farms in Vankleek Hill is honouring Terry Fox with a corn maze to celebrate the 45th anniversary of his Marathon of Hope.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/08/2025
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
via @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
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Federal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump's vow to crack down on crime
President Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
HUNG YEN — Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just US$3,200 and rice provisions in return. #TrumpGrifters www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for US$1.5 billion Trump golf club
Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just US$3,200 and rice provisions in return.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/08/2025
Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in digital locks used in multiple physical safes, including one marketed as “America’s #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer.” With help from EFF, they disclosed the research at Defcon. www.wired.com/story/secur...
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Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds
Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Masked kidnappers from the Terminal Island staging area violently detain and illegally arrest Unión del Barrio member Amanda Trebach August 8, 2025
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
When the Prime Minister makes a national statement about a man getting attacked in a park because he is Jewish and has never commented on the the Canadian women and girls who are killed at a rate of one every 48 hours I think it is clear where his priorities lie. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Femicides on the rise as report indicates a woman or girl is killed every 48 hours in Canada
Femicides in Canada are on a concerning rise according to a new report that says a woman or girl is killed every 48 hours in the country and this number is likely to increase.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 09/08/2025
SCOOP: - No Indigenous consultation - No historical analysis - No effort to prevent largest sale of Canadiana - No interest in preserving & protecting Canadian history & heritage And you need to sign an NDA just to see the HBC collection catalogue too #cdnpoli ricochet.media/indigenous/d...
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Despite requests from Indigenous leaders, HBC artifacts will not be returned
Those interested in the items have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements
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💀 Clawdric Moanses 🧛 @audricmoses.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Wow. Canadians — keep the pressure on. American wine industry — thank your idiot President. #cdnpoli
Chart showing 96.8% drop in US wine exports to Canada
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Love @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for saying this.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A Canadian company, GardaWorld, is staffing Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" -- and Carney's government awarded it MILLIONS in contracts. They also told me they won't rule out working with the company in the future. Here's what I dug up in my first-ever column for @thetyee.ca:
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 08/08/2025
Bike librarian perks: I get to test ride (& just ride) @mplscargobikelibrary.com bikes between rentals. If you want to volunteer with the library (mostly helping w/ check out/in) let me know via our site: mplscargobikelibrary.com/contact
POV photo of Laura riding a Tern HSD on Bryant Ave S. There is an iced coffee in the cup holder.
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Nina C @ninacoutinho.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Be safe, all.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 08/08/2025
BREAKING: At least one officer injured as Emory University warns of an active shooter on its Atlanta campus. Follow live updates.
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Emory University shooting live updates: At least 1 injured after shooting reported at Atlanta campus
The latest news and live updates on the active shooter alert at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Do you understand the connection between this and that? #cdnpoli #Canadasky www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028
Women's advocates call the department's three-year forecast 'extremely shocking' and 'disproportional' for the small ministry. 'The level of support will be radically reduced,' says Katherine Scott, w...
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
As Toronto's parks department searches for a new general manager of Parks while facing criticism from the Auditor General, landscape architect Fadi Masoud offers proposals for how to revitalize Toronto's green spaces. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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Toronto Parks Need a Reboot - Spacing Toronto
Recent Auditor General reports exposed deep-rooted inefficiencies and systemic issues in Toronto’s Parks & Recreation (P&R) Division. Despite these challenges, P&R is staffed by many dedicated public ...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/08/2025
8 Aug 25 -- Air Force denies retirement benefits to trans members w/ 15-18 years' service forced out by Trump policy. Other than involuntary removal their only option is lump-sum cash payment w/o no benefits. They were allowed to apply for exceptions but all were denied. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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U.S. Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to some transgender service members
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement ben...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Will Israel take control of all of Gaza?” NETANYAHU: “We intend to.”
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Prime Minister Netanyahu tells Fox News that Israel plans to take full control of the Gaza Strip. www.foxnews.com/media/netany...
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Netanyahu vows to take full control of Gaza Strip, ‘liberate’ people from Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared Israel’s intention to take full control of the Gaza Strip and eliminate Hamas, signaling a major policy shift.
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Every time I see someone post something horrible about ICE recruitment, I will share these opportunities to learn how to show up for our neighbors that are targets of these evil people. ⬇️
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Bob Cunningham 🇨🇦 @bobcunningham.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Well done! 👏🎾🇨🇦 Canada's Victoria Mboko advances to National Bank Open final www.sportsnet.ca/wta/article/...
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Canada's Victoria Mboko advances to National Bank Open final
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