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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/08/2026

Activists say Israeli soldiers have prevented them from delivering aid to Palestinians who have been besieged by settlers outside their homes in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra for nearly a week. We spoke to Jonathan Pollak from the Sumud Network.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It is entirely possible to have a friendly conversation with someone who wants to do terrible things to people for stupid and selfish reasons. But why would anyone want to?

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/11/2025

THREAD 👇

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 08/09/2025

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Congrats, @scalzi.com! I just heard about your panel at Worldcon. You know you've made it when you're invited onto a panel with Olav Rokne.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"My buddy lives next door to you, so I'm taking your house. You need to leave." I guess some people think this is not an insane thing to say.

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Blue Travel Channel 📸 @bluetravelchannel.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Homeland Security Investigations & U.S. Secret Service served a criminal search warrant in an upscale Irvine neighborhood this morning, targeting the suspect they believe was responsible for posting fliers w/ the names, photos, phone numbers, & locations of ICE agents in SoCal in February. The target wasn’t home, and an arrest wasn’t made.

We are told he lives at home with his parents, and was previously arrested at UC Irvine during an on-campus Pro-Palestinian protest.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was on scene for the operation, telling me he took it personally that someone would try to put a target on his agents in an effort to interfere with them and put them at risk. Says person responsible will be held accountable.

We will not be identifying the target unless an arrest is made.

PHOTOS: Underneath are four splashy media photos from the operation.

Picture of the flier, which has photos of four people, along with their names and phone numbers for some of them (which Fox News redacted), which a message in Spanish saying that these individuals are working in Southern California to carry out immigration arrests, accusing them of terrorizing local communities and kidnapping residents, and saying many people have died while in jails, prisons, and detention centers.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

@nickhanauer.bsky.social just listening to today's Pitchfork Economics episode, Why Nothing Works. What if we resolved the tension between concentrating power to fix big problems and distributing power to avoid corruption by not leaving concentrated power sitting around?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/04/2025

Death and devastation as Israel hits residential homes in Gaza’s Khan Younis. — in pictures aje.io/jra1j6

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

TLDR: she was crossing from Mexico into California at an official port of entry, but her visa was denied. Rather than simply turn her back, they took her into custody and have been holding her for 11 days. The stupidity of this administration is rivaled only by its cruelty.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

@mattcameron.bsky.social given EO 14160's assertion that people unlawfully, temporarily, or provisionally present in the United States are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, have you tried dismissing any of your clients cases for lack of jurisdiction?

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Granting diplomatic immunity to all undocumented immigrants is a weird move for an administration that ran on mass deportations.

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The supremacy clause allows Congress to trump state laws. Since DC is a federal entity, there's nothing over which Congress needs supremacy. Free exercise? 🤷‍♂️ Between general welfare and police power, I would go with police power since the law is only applied to DC.

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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Forgive the probably dumb question, but is Elon Musk physically present at the Treasury building?

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’ve heard from a source today of USAID funding being stopped at hospitals and clinics for refugees and personnel being recalled or told to stop work resulting in people not getting life saving medical treatment as a result.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2025

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025

Harvard will now characterize criticism of Israel as antisemitism in its anti-discrimination policy. Entire disciplines could be censored for discussing or teaching about the genocide in Gaza. A dark day for academic freedom. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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One Day After Trump Takes Office, Harvard Settles Two Antisemitism Lawsuits | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard reached a settlement in two ongoing Title VI lawsuits accusing the university of mishandling antisemitism on campus for an undisclosed amount on Tuesday.

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Why do I live in a world where this is intelligible?

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A mistake occurs when a person draws an incorrect conclusion by either reasoning correctly from incorrect facts, or reasoning incorrectly from correct facts. To claim a mistake was made, you should have to explain the particulars of the mistake, so the answer is A.

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Kat of the 614 Abolish ICE @kat021171.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It was 100% about content, specifically that TikTok wasn't banning pro-Palestine accounts while Meta and Twitter were.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/01/2025

Joe Biden demonstrated “a double standard” on human rights; providing “arms without restriction” to Israel despite its war crimes in Gaza while condemning Russia for “similar violations” in Ukraine, says new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. Read here: aje.io/btemf1

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richardrob.bsky.social @richardrob.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

@iwriteok.bsky.social I drove a Chevy Prizm for years. It was basically a Toyota Corolla in an ill-fitting Cavalier skin suit. The engine never failed me. The rest of the car...

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The Internet is so good for stuff like mutual aid and keep people informed amid crisis. Like, when I feel despair--and these days I often do--it's a small encouragement to be reminded that when we are proximal to suffering, we are capable of extraordinary generosity.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here’s the thing: I’m 100% happy to pay for a social media app. Every month. Roll out Bsky Blue tomorrow and I’m in. The problem with Twitter premium wasn’t the premium. The problem was that you would be giving money to manic, drug addled Bond villain.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The Burmese junta bombed a church, killing at least seven children in Kachin state

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