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Greensboro NC Robert. Reads more than he posts these days.

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A big update to an important case: Alaska is dropping charges against a family of American Samoans it had accused of voting crimes. It should not be forgotten that Alaska inflicted enormous hardship and trauma, for years, for a simple, understandable mistake that the state itself helped facilitate.
boltsmag.org
After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every half-ass plan for our extinction that they provide just turns me on. No internet, you say? No online banking?? No 2FA to use the bathroom at my job??? Baby I was a latchkey kid in the 1980s. You’re describing my platonic ideal. Extinct me.
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
I don’t want to unknowingly support bad people but at the same time I liked it better when we knew less about everyone
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/07/2026
Duncan’s conviction was based largely on now-discredited bite mark evidence presented by forensic dentist Michael West and pathologist Steven Hayne. He was the 10th prisoner to be freed after being convicted in part due to the pair’s evidence. By @richardawebster.bsky.social
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Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible”
The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted based in part on forensic evidence that is now widely regarded ...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 08/05/2026
Good news? Hunger is a crisis in the U.S., and it can't be separated from the criminalization and incarceration of vulnerable populations. Kicking people off SNAP—especially as the cost of living skyrockets—is anything but good news. 🧵
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What a disgrace. These men are so young. Great story from Mercury, ungated: www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/16/n...
mercurynews.com
‘Nobody told us it was dangerous’: Quartz countertop boom linked to incurable lung disease among Bay Area workers
A surge in quartz countertop fabrication has triggered a growing epidemic of silicosis — an incurable lung disease — among Bay Area workers who cut and polish the popular kitchen material.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/01/2026
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
chicago.suntimes.com
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole… But a significant portion of those serving ‘death by incarceration’ sentences were convicted of offenses such as robbery, burglary or drug crimes under habitual offender laws in many states.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
PREA is the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
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The masculine urge to find six orbs scattered across the realm @jacbox132.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Alright how long before the tourism industry crashes
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Eliot @eliotetc.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Obvs blue states like NY and CA will be hit hard by this but Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, Montana etc are in for a world of hurt they will not see coming
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
nightmare country. I’m compelled by conscience to add that prisoners in the us are already treated like this and worse, daily; there’s escalation here but it’s from an already intolerable state of carceral excess.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I confess this question had never occurred to me.
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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Bunn would make so much bank off my generation if they produced the VPR in colors like plum, lemon yellow, navy blue and mint green.
The classic Bunn VPR, a drip coffee maker with an additional hot seat up top for another glass carafe to double the possibility of never running out of severely scorched black coffee.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.
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Suzi Rumohr @suzir.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
At a routine medical appt, staff asked what I do for exercise. Me: “Mostly I bike or walk for transportation when possible.” Them: “Most people laugh when I ask that question. You’re doing good.” Bike/ped infrastructure is #HealthyInfrastructure. www.transportation.gov/mission/heal...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 19/12/2024
Mass incarceration *is* an economic justice issue. It's no coincidence that the poorest & most vulnerable communities are also the most policed:
prisonpolicy.org
10 ways that mass incarceration is an engine of economic injustice
The fight for a fair economy and the movement against prisons are one and the same.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
EXCLUSIVE: During his years at Guantanamo a Malaysian prisoner did forensic-style sketches showing his torture by the CIA. They are now part of his sealed court record. But we have obtained them exclusively for you to see. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
nytimes.com
Prisoner’s Self-Portraits of C.I.A. Torture Surface From Sealed Court Record
“This is what his nightmares are all about,” said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I was thinking along these lines on recent trips to Boston and NYC. Ideally, transit should be easy. Even in my own small city’s bus system, there are enough irregularities and borderline arcane details that I can get confused, and I ride nearly every day.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 14/12/2024
Self-serving politicians may want you to believe that violent crime is rampant and repeat offenders are to blame – but two things to remember: 1. Overall crime rates are at historically low levels 2. 74% of all jail bookings are for charges that are not "violent"
Graphs titled: US crime rates continue to fall, and actually hit a 60-year low in 2023Graph titled: The most serious charge for most people who are booked into jail is related to drugs, property, or public order – not violence
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/12/2024
a tiktok ban is a huge win for us, the uggos who prefer text based communication
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
On the Q70 bus from LGA. First time back in NY in two decades (😲). Had forgotten how overrun with cars this place is.
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🌒🐺 Camarada Margot. @nunsoiyo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
La cuenta de Gaza Skate Team ye a vegaes la única razón pola qu'entro a Instagram tbh.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Never happened to me yet, but it’s always in the back of my mind.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/11/2024
‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
theguardian.com
‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29
Advocates and officials argue that consequences of Israeli siege are inextricably linked to tackling the climate crisis As countries negotiate over climate finance, Palestinian officials and advocates have come to Cop29 in Baku to highlight global…
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The Seattle Times @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo
seattletimes.com
The UN authorizes the 1st mpox vaccine for children in an attempt to control the outbreak in Congo
The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
From 1980 to 2004, the share of global translations INTO French doubled. The share INTO English halved.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Nothing is more binary than Google reviews: It’s either “This was the most positive experience of my life!” Or…”I didn’t like my Whopper and when I went back to BK a week later to complain the hateful people who work there refused to give me a refund. Zero stars!”
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Read the whole thing for a disturbing look at AI in law enforcement tech.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
More Esther. This one was penned by Van McCoy, possibly best remembered for “The Hustle,” but there was so much more. This one should have been a classic. (Another great take is by Irma Thomas! Not to be confused with excellent Supremes song of same title by Ashford & Simpson.)
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Esther Phillips – “Some Things You Never Get Used To” (Atlantic) 1964
YouTube video by 45rpmMike
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Oh, what the heck? Gonna make this easy and just use my real name again. Who knows what my next trick will be?
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Went the better part of my adult life totally ignorant of the work of Esther Phillips, which is a shame, but I’ve made up for it.
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Robert @robertstoesen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I think I used to be halfway good at this kind of thing a decade ago. Gonna try again. Why not? Everyone’s doing it, right? Anyway, it’s me. That guy from the show. (Once in a while you asked his age and were like, seriously? Same.)
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