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Priya

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Working as a teacher. Reading scifi, watching football, fostering dogs, and walking the hills of #SWVA. Summers in Nepal.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/09/2026
How can we ensure access to heritage in the face of conflict? The Sudan Virtual Museum offers virtual access to the Sudan National Museum, displaying the artefacts that were exhibited there before the war #MuseumMonday 🏺 #Archaeology 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
View through broken windows from the inside of a building, looking towards another damaged building.3D reconstruction of the interior of a museum. On a doorway is written 'welcome to the Virtual Sudan National Museum'. The doorway leads into a room with a museum display depicting a timeline of Sudanese history.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Life comes at you fast
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My newest piece with proud Appalachian organizer Shawna McCown in @convergencemag.com We argue that while data center resistance is winning many of its immediate fights, it can accomplish something bigger: building a multiracial movement of the many. @surj.org j.org @stanfordpress.bsky.social
convergencemag.com
Is Data Center Resistance a New Vehicle for Multiracial Democracy?
Anti-data center sentiment, from Kentucky to Michigan, is proving to be an effective way to overcome racial divisions and carve out new winning coalitions.
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a pretty perfect case study in the harm that can be done by online misinformation for profit paired with a right-wing ecosystem willing to boost it because it suits their political beliefs
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Priya @priaad.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This fucking site caused so much grief and stress.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is classic neera in that it’s extremely racist but also substantively incorrect: bin Laden was interviewed repeatedly pre-9/11.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is the reported $100,000 fee on Optional Practical Training (OPT), which allows foreign students to remain for a couple years in post-graduate employment. The fee would devastate the program, making the US even less desirable as a destination for the world's best and brightest.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
After a long period of focus on trans people, the Texas GOP now identifies the eradication of all Muslims as a top priority. “Efforts by Republican state leaders to restrict Islamic practice have coincided with a push to expand Christianity’s place in public life.”
nytimes.com
Islamophobia’s Rise in Texas: ‘I Won’t Rest Until Every Muslim Is Gone’
Muslim communities have been growing for decades, particularly around Dallas. Now, conservatives want to roll up the welcome mat.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last week I spoke to Omar Compean, the 18-year-old frontman of Houston emo ska band I Hate Myself And I Want To Die. On Sunday, they played their last ever show because Omar's father was arrested by ICE and deported to Mexico. "It basically just all got ripped away from me just in an instant."
chron.com
After ICE deported his dad, a Houston teen is mourning his music dreams
"It basically just all got ripped away from me just in an instant."
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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s extraordinary how anti-immigrant European governments have managed to become “good guys” in U.S. liberal political discourse.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.
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Priya @priaad.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thought we could all do with having this ridiculous dog in our timeline :)
A blue heeler upside down on grass. He looks ridiculous and is smiling :)
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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/08/2026
However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
offmessage.net
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
any Democratic presidential nominee who won't free them within a month of taking office isn't worthy of holding the office. and Dem presidential nominee who treats them as something other than political prisoners should not make it out of Michigan.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
newrepublic.com
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Economist/YouGov poll ask "Should the U.S. arrest Netanyahu if he comes here?" 49% yes 27% no Men: 46% yes 35% no Women: 52% yes 21% no White: 47% yes 21% no Black: 53% yes 13% no 18-29: 58% yes 17% no yougov.com/en-us/articl...
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Half of Americans think the U.S. should arrest Netanyahu if he comes to the country
Nearly half of Americans think that Benjamin Netanyahu is guilty of war crimes in Gaza, twice as many as think he is not guilty
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
hell yeah willie www.chron.com/culture/musi...
chron.com
Texas data center boom gets a new foe: Willie Nelson
"The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center near our town."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Priya @priaad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Got accepted into this year's Virginia Master Naturalists program! Mondays are going to be: teaching grad class+ undergrad (w 70+ students), then being a student in VA naturalist class :)
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 20/07/2026
Historically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.
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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is about creating a permission structure for employing state violence against anyone they choose, by making any perceived deviation from their ideal "normal person" a marker of domestic terrorism that must be destroyed lest it destroy the state.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Again Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of terrorism and sedition (before pardoned by Trump) as well as gun crimes and an act targeting a black church, plus garden variety fraud, claims he was given entrance to the UK. Tho his buddy likely snuck across Ireland’s open border.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good overview of the Far Right actors involved in last month’s pogroms in Belfast. Neo-Nazis, a convicted murderer, a Far Right agitator with potential connections to British intelligence etc None of this is a secret. They’re comfortable enough being out in the open in 2026.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller made clear there must be no retreat: “One of the hallmarks of left-wing violence and terrorism is its completely pre-textual and disingenuous appeal to civil liberties in an effort to shield its own violence… When the leftist — who does not believe in freedom, who does not believe in civil rights, who does not believe in any ordinary notion of justice — protests that we are violating his rights, understand the he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.
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Little Gitmos everywhere
The White House explores entrenching U.S. concentration camps worldwide.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
wrote about why ICE keeps killing people. it's because they're part of a pretty explicitly genocidal project. trump wants them to kill people, and so they do. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/ices-missi...
everythingishorrible.net
ICE’s Mission Is Murder
It is a genocidal organization and it will keep killing people.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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Priya @priaad.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Went to check out Filipino anarchists (if Benedict Anderson says so, it's so!) who were jailed at Montjuic castle and found this exhibition on multilingualism in the International Brigade
Placard advertising exhibition on international brigades at montjuic castle, Barcelona Global presence of IB members in a mapPoster and text about how IB worked with multilingualism
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fourteenth Amendment has not changed since 1898. What have changed are the Republican Party and the modern conservative movement. Trump believes that “if you import the Third World, you become the Third World.” His rise to power began with his willingness to be a standard-bearer for a movement that cast the first Black president as an illegitimate invader and demanded to see his birth certificate. Trump’s second-term campaign promised “mass deportation” of those very same “Third World” immigrants, and since taking office, he has established an effectively whites-only refugee policy, specifically for white South Africans, illustrating that his objection is less to immigration itself, or to immigrants from the “Third World,” than to immigrants who are not white.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
You might think that the chancellors & presidents of the country’s leading R1 research universities, faced with such an existential crisis, would speak up, loudly & collectively against the authoritarian assault on their institutions. Alas, you would (still) be sadly wrong. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Mancur Olson, author of “The Logic of Collective Action,” with laser eyes George Akerlof, author of “The Market for Lemons,” with laser eyes
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 04/07/2026
It remains striking to see, counting from whatever year this disparity first struck you, who gets a police escort and who gets police truncheons.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
America turns 250 today, and I’m marking it 80 miles off the coast of Tunisia — on Lampedusa, at Mass with the first U.S.-born pope, among the graves of people who died trying to become the kind of strangers this country was on. It’s the most fitting place I can imagine to stand as an American.
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Why I’m Spending America’s 250th on Lampedusa Island
For the first time, I'm spending the Fourth of July abroad — at Mass on Lampedusa, where Pope Leo XIV stood today and children are buried under crosses cut from shipwrecks.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026
This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.
nytimes.com
Who Is Darializa Avila Chevalier?
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Priya @priaad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 23/06/2026
An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.
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‘I lost everything’: Orlando resident returns home after months in ICE custody in Pa.
The green card applicant was allowed to leave the U.S. temporarily to settle his father’s affairs — only to be turned over to ICE on his return.
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