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Catherine Keyser

@profkeyser.bsky.social
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Former prof. China specialist. Foster/adoptive Mom. Think globally, act locally, but do not forget to look up to the stars. It's where we came from.

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WIRED @wired.com · 2h
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Catherine Keyser @profkeyser.bsky.social · 2h
Wow. We are so unserious.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 21/12/2024
Liu Minhua was among the over a million people who were relocated for the Three Gorges Dam project. when he had to leave his home forever (which would become submerged), he carried on his back the peach tree from home Li Feng took the photo in 2012, but it was first published in 2019
photograph of a Chinese rural villager carrying peach blossom branches in a basket on his back
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16h
This should do wonders for their IPO valuation.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16h
My podcast is only a year old. I'm so geeked to be nominated for this particular episode because it's an episode ERRRRYBODY needs to listen to.
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Catherine Keyser @profkeyser.bsky.social · 22h
This is real politburo level behavior. 'Never be the first to stop clapping for dear leader.'
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website believes he is the “former” president and acknowledges his criminal indictments
Screenshot of America.gov answering, “Has a president ever been criminally indicted? If so, who?” The response says former President Donald J. Trump has been criminally indicted and that no sitting president is shown in the cited sources as having been indicted. It cites Trump’s August 1, 2023 federal indictment on four counts related to conduct after the 2020 election, as well as Congressional Research Service information noting additional New York and Florida indictments.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly.
State Rep. Angie Nixon: Folks. If we’re going to be a big tent, then damnit we need to be a big tent. We need all hands on deck right now. Trump isn’t going to willingly leave in 2028. We need to send more folks to DC with the political will and courage to stand up to his bullying.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, canceling work and gutting healthcare for millions of Americans? No thanks.
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More comment than question rly @mn-snow-show.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best part is when one of this dipshit’s young minions holds up a giant junior high science project board 🪧 that is intended as a gotcha! when they don’t know the difference between ATL Hawks and Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball lollll
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is crazy. They are laughing at us.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 23h
Dan Sullivan's campaign spent $1.6 million in July, $200,000 of it in one payment to a digital firm. It didn't send a dime back to Adam Kidan, Abramoff's old business partner who Trump pardoned that month. We asked if it will. No answer. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 23h
MAGA is racist: MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients. newrepublic.com/post/215973/...
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MAGA Furious Over Republican Ad Featuring White Man as Face of Welfare
Conservatives are pissed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders for choosing a young white man to portray welfare recipients.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 23h
Ashley Moody's campaign refunded four donors $15,000 in July. Adam Kidan, who Trump pardoned that month, wasn't one of them. Her campaign took in $7,000 from him. Will she give it back? Everyone should ask her. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grandiose delusions of narcissism so severe they're implausible. He thinks his name change of a Great Lake gives him power over 🇨🇦. 
Trump’s executive functioning, which was never great, has now deteriorated to the point where we get unchecked narcissistic/grandiose absurdity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Yikes! Trump today at his America dot gov event (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
Trump looks like a brick of melting orange butter while giving a speech
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23h
Oh god. Ted Cruz is up. “Mr. Smith, you and I have never met. But you subpoenaed my phone records.”
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Liar Liar Jim Carrey
ALT: Liar Liar Jim Carrey
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23h
In October 2018, Fox hosts began warning viewers that a migrant caravan was moving through Central America with plans to “storm our border” — and urged Trump to make that “caravan” a central issue for that year’s midterm elections. It's happening again. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 23h
Ugh make it stop
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 23h
#Simulations can help #Students learn while developing professional skills in subjects such as #IR & #EnvironmentalPolitics. Join Roni Kay M. O'Dell to learn how to create short- & long-form simulations that encourage students to be active #DecisionMakers. Open to all. Register: buff.ly/cEEWRZA
Students as Decision-Makers: Simulations in Environmental Politics and IR. Virtual PASS Course. Wednesday, 28 October. 12-1:30 PM (ET). 4-5:30 PM (UTC). Cost: $40 | Open to all. ISA logo. Background: Students raising their hands.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Catherine Keyser @profkeyser.bsky.social · 23h
Huh?
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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess they wanted a running mate worse than Vance! Contact Dirt Bag Sen Schmitt 201 W Capitol Ave., Rm. 320 Jefferson City, MO 573-751-2853 eschmitt@senate.mo.gov DC: 202-224-5721 Schmitt:"America is a country for white people descended from European settlers" share.google/HpZQtpoB8xUh...
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Commentary: Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri Independent
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt suggested true Americans are “the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
RBADVISERS: “.. For those who don’t think the world is changing, LT Treasury returns are now negative for the 1st time in 40+ years.”
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb. He was injured and the witness filming saw goons putting their knees on his back to pin him down.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23h
Demand DoorDash break their silence on ICE violence and urgently speak out for Wilber’s release.
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DoorDash is abandoning it’s drivers
Why hasn't DoorDash said or done anything for Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ICYMI: “Two veteran FBI agents overseeing counterterrorism operations in the nation’s capital removed from their jobs and reassigned” — reportedly because they didn’t consider harassing phone calls to Katie Miller terrorism. 🤔 www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/two-...
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MHeido @mheido.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He literally accused Smith of perjuring himself because Smith said he did not recall being in Atlanta or going to a Hawks game. Schmitt should be censured if not expelled.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...
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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
The former transportation secretary says weaker fuel-economy standards could raise long-term costs for drivers and leave U.S. automakers further behind China. n.pr/4hRyp21
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Democrat Pete Buttigieg criticizes Trump's rollback of fuel-economy standards
The former transportation secretary says weaker fuel-economy standards could raise long-term costs for drivers and leave U.S. automakers further behind China.
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V @vp511.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LMFAO
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe US Senators should have staffers who aren't imbeciles if they want to accuse people of perjury based on nonsense conspiracy theories, I don't know.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Iowa Farmers Union has backed Republicans for the statehouse, this month included. Then it picked its candidates for Congress. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have only about a month before the election. You know democracy is at stake. Are you doing all you can to help elect Democrats & oust the Republican party of violent #ICE thuggery & Trump corruption? If they can do it to this man, they can do it to your loved ones. They attack citizens, too.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's ICE thugs are torturing and killing people. #ICELawlessness Don't sit idly by. Silence is complicity. Volunteer for democratic candidates at mobilize.us The future is up to you. Do you want an autocratic nightmare, or do you want to start fighting to push us back towards a democracy?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Kidan went to federal prison with Jack Abramoff and was ordered to repay $21.7 million. Trump pardoned him in July. His money turned up in eight Republican Senate campaigns. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pard...
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Catherine Keyser @profkeyser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh wow. Those voucher school/private school connected friends' staffers in Scmitt's ofgice got a stern lecture coming...😆🙄
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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No, Jim, Jack Smith followed the law. He did his job. Garland should've appointed him a year earlier and we wouldn't be in this disaster of presidency.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 29/09/2026
Schmitt *must* have gotten this from some MAGA podcast or something. Tim Pool?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"It’s good to see GOP senators pushing back on Trump’s state-funded political propaganda. It’s just too bad that the Senate, as a purely ceremonial body, lacks the ability to do anything about it." www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-hi...
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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