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Tejana originally from El Paso and Killeen. Law school was a mistake so I focus on victim’s advocacy & feminism. Receipts & open letter against Seattle U’s abuse enabling linktr.ee/su_aint_for_you

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"We Can't Eat Road Salt" should be a whole ad.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
btw if you post about Alito's originalism book, which is bad, you are obligated to also post about my originalism book, which is good bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When ICE targeted DoorDash and UberEats drivers in D.C. last year, the companies remained notably quiet about their contractors being detained and sometimes deported
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
NEW: ICE shooting in Austin. Scant details at this time.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/09/2026
Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to Chris Brown? Apparently, it’s easier to denounce abusers when it’s politically advantageous.
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Stop trying to sell us Chris Brown's redemption arc
Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to another abuser?
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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There’s a fascist storm blowing over our entire world. And at the eye of the storm are people classified by nation-states as “migrants” Anti-migrant politics is how fascism creeps in and takes hold. Because nation-states need people to believe they are part of a “nation” under threat 💯 deflection
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Dover protesters caused 'morning of absolute chaos'
Police marched the protesters to the station, but the group have warned that they will be back.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026
I’m still working to get the unredacted emails at issue. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...
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ICE lawyer's email revealed as basis for entering homes without a federal judge's say-so
A federal lawsuit has revealed that the origins of the "determination" purportedly empowering ICE agents to enter homes without a warrant signed by a federal judge.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/08/2026
Oh nothing. Just @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social the leader of our party in the house spreading right wing talking points. We need new leadership yesterday.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism)
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sunshinelaughter.bsky.social @sunshinelaughter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
800+ USA Today Journalists Demand Paper End Deal With Palantir to Collect Reader Data www.commondreams.org/news/usa-tod...
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800+ USA Today Journalists Demand Paper End Deal With Palantir to Collect Reader Data | Common Dreams
Not only does the partnership "create an inherent conflict of interest," it "fails the journalists who have been assaulted and falsely arrested while covering immigration enforcement actions and prote...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/08/2026
The gloves, manufactured by a company called Compliant Technologies, have been described by groups like Amnesty International as “readily misused for torture.” And this week, ICE published a plan to order $20 million worth of them.
motherjones.com
The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 15/08/2026
From @candicequestions.com: These sacred spaces’ histories and remains—including human burial sites—tie the plaintiffs back to their ancestors. New construction of border barriers threatens to cut them off from religious funeral practices and gravesite visitation and prayer.
texasobserver.org
Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds
The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The fact that there was more white outrage over one Black fabulist in Britain than outrage over the centuries of lies, propaganda, intellectual misconduct, misinformation, propaganda, colonial violence and scamming that built the British empire says it all.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’ve gone on at length about this, and am working with the many, many others behind the scenes, but if you are alumnae (yes I fempluralized) or simply an admirer of the program, and you care about the future of the program, you might send your notes to the provost’s office. The general idea is that
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your daily reminder that being in the US illegally is not even a felony (and huge number of those detained ARE here legally). Mind-boggling we're treating these people like serial killers.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 12/08/2026
Some immigrants in Kansas City are changing their work hours and shifting other parts of their daily routine to avoid encounters with ICE agents. A new study found last year’s surge of immigration enforcement resulted in nearly 8,000 jobs lost in Kansas City.
kcur.org
Kansas City lost nearly 8,000 jobs due to immigration enforcement. But communities remain resilient
Some immigrants in Kansas City are changing their work hours and shifting other parts of their daily routine to avoid en
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/07/2026
Dr. Odey Ukpo has made an effort to emphasize his office's independence from police and prosecutors, as well as his desire to make as much death information public as soon as possible. to.pbs.org/4yxLUu7
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LA medical examiner pushes for more transparency in high-profile deaths
Dr. Odey Ukpo is also keen to underscore his office's independence from law enforcement in handling high-profile cases.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/07/2026
NEW INFO HAS REVEALED that the 28-year-old Mexican man killed while running from ICE last week was just visiting on short tourist visa—and already had a plane ticket to go home. newrepublic.com/post/213277/...
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Man Who Died Running From ICE Was Tourist With a Ticket Home
The man has been identified as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who was in the U.S. on a tourist visa and already had a plane ticket to go back to Mexico.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 14/07/2026
"A government that conceals its identity cannot demand perfect recognition from frightened civilians," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social. "ICE mistook Lorenzo Salgado Araujo for another man. He was expected to identify ICE instantly. Only one side was allowed to make an error."
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is dead. How long will ICE be allowed to hide its face? | Jamil Smith
A government that demands instant obedience while concealing its identity cannot expect trust – or escape responsibility for the consequences
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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NPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land. n.pr/4vqozsq
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Trump axed a Black history exhibit. Former park rangers are teaching it anyway.
As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, former national park rangers are hosting teach-ins and sharing history that the Trump administration has sought to erase from federal land.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan has GRANTED Katie Phang's preliminary injunction concluding she has standing, has been harmed, and will likely succeed on the merits of her case demanding the full release of the Epstein files. Blanche has until 7/2 to respond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #16 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 6/25/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 06/25/2026)
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 20/06/2026
Democracy works best when people have trustworthy information. We’re grateful for supporters like Celia, who believe that helping one more person become a lifelong voter is worth the investment. Help us continue this work: buff.ly/EBE646H
Red Trusted Elections 2026 graphic featuring a testimonial from supporter Celia. The quote reads: “If my donation can convince just one more disaffected person to start a lifetime of voting, it will be worth it. Thanks again for the awareness you bring to your state.” Mississippi Free Press and Mississippi Journalism and Education Group logos appear below, along with links to election coverage and donations. The background features a stylized American flag in shades of red.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)
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The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Same office that covered up prosecutor's crimes in the Broadview Six case just covered up a police shooting. Feds said a teen beat up a cop before he's shot. They have clear video evidence showing the kid just squirmed away from him. They hid it from the judge. Judge just set a sanctions hearing.
chicago.suntimes.com
Video contradicts FBI agent's account of shooting during undercover sting in Country Club Hills
U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling ordered the video’s public release Thursday after its discovery prompted federal prosecutors to drop charges related to an attempted robbery during an underc...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/06/2026
Wait so the plot of Severance
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
I’m thinking about one specific social media popular guy from Minnesota who called me out my name on Twitter in 2024 for saying that a lot of people were not experiencing a good economy
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 31/05/2026
The 2026 Day of Action heldon May 20 in Jackson, Mississippi, was organized by the Mississippi Voting Rights Act Rapid Response Coalition, a group formed in November 2025 in response to redistricting concerns.
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Mississippi Voting Activists Brace for Redistricting Fight
Mississippi voting rights advocates say they are preparing for a longer fight over redistricting.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026
I felt emotional after finishing this one, and at lots of points along the way. Great year to read extremely well-done fictionalized versions of successful slave revolts.
Burn Down Master’s House, a novel by Clay Cane
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/05/2026
I feel like Katrina was a live demonstration of how much Louisiana hates New Orleans
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'm teaching my sociology of climate change class in the fall. There's always quite a bit of interest from journalism & comms students. So I am going to put in the curriculum some examples of powerful reporting on the climate crisis. This is a running 🧵 of such articles. Feel free to add to it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
NEW: The 6th Circuit becomes the third federal appeals court to reject ICE’s mass detention push that targets people who have lived in the U.S. for years without criminal records. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
politico.com
Third federal appeals court rejects ICE’s mandatory detention push
The 6th Circuit said detainees must have a chance to argue for their release.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2026
horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 06/05/2026
This is AWFUL. "SAFE Alliance conducts around 90 percent of the area’s forensic exams." They offer these exams outside of a hospital setting. They have a ton of resources to help survivors during and after their exams. Wow, this has thrown me. cbsaustin.com/news/local/s...
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SAFE Alliance to end sexual assault victim services June 8 due to lack of funding
Sexual assault victim services provided by SAFE Alliance in Austin are set to end June 8 because of a lack of funding, CEO Pierre Baristain told the Austin Publ
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Again, the idea of hundreds of thousands of missing migrant kids is MADE UP. This whole thing came from a misinterpreted DHS OIG report that said that from 2019 to 2023 (half Trump, half Biden), ICE failed to start removal proceedings for 291,000 unaccompanied kids — not that they were "lost."
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Summary of Issues
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not monitor the location and status of all
unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed. During our
ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released
or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS
from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs
who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court. ICE reported
more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to
2023.
Additionally, even though HHS is responsible for the care and custody of UCs, ICE did not always
inform HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) when UCs failed to appear in immigration
court after release from HHS’ custody. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers
at only one of the eight field offices we visited stated they attempted to locate the UCs. ICE also
did not serve a Notice to Appear (NTA) on all UCs, after release from HHS custody, who warranted
placement in removal proceedings under 8 U.S. Code Section 1229(a). As of May 2024, ICE had
not served NTAs on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court
date.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/04/2026
(1/5) 🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by making it harder to challenge racially discriminatory maps. Today’s decision will threaten Black and brown political representation for generations in Southern states. Full story to come. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...
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🚨 Callais v. Landry
Learn more.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
BREAKING: Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. The vote is 6-3, with Alito writing. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
NEW: Seven new lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI by families of Tumbler Ridge school shooting victims. The families say OpenAI was negligent in its failure to report the shooter's disturbing ChatGPT interactions — and has since misled the public about safeguards. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre
Several families are suing OpenAI for its failures in the lead-up to the Tumbler Ridge massacre. Dozens of plaintiffs are expected.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The three parts of Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige", first composed in 1943, tell a history of Africans Americans in the U.S. "Black" for work songs and spirituals; "Brown" for military and blues; "Beige" for Harlem Renaissance. "Come Sunday" sung by the great Mahalia Jackson in 1958.
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Come Sunday (From Black, Brown and Beige) (Accapella)
YouTube video by Duke Ellington - Topic
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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yay, a bunch of fascists have decimated an economic sector that serves as the foundation of basic science research, an export good, and a huge source of soft power, and they've done it basically for spite.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
You’ve got yer @theflytrapmedia.com, @19thnews.org, @damemagazine.bsky.social, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @liberalcurrents.com … all sorts of great options out there.
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