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EAJ

@rosemaryandrock.bsky.social
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Writer, quasi-lawyer, ex-professor. Fan of history, law, politics, economics, literature, food, art, and pets. Will auto-love all your cat pics.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you're normal, it makes you physically ill to even think about it.
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Jon @arfmeasures.bsky.social · 10/05/2023
Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
here’s the guy just hired by the pentagon to run a project on “the future of warfare.” just to be clear this isn’t visionary, it’s delusional science fiction. A “Kardashev-II civilization” means you can capture all the energy from a star, like with Dyson sphere.
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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Talarico is running in a state Trump carried by 14 points in 2024. Yet he’s actually leaned into the moral issues around immigration more aggressively than most other Democrats. He makes an expansive moral case that immigration is good for our country." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, this is where having anyone in the administration that believes in a logical connection between concepts and proof would help. (Vance and Rubio are some of the few to articulate a connection between policy and "evidence," but the evidence is consistently and patently false.)
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sharing to remember to put it on my list.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I kinda can't help but enjoy how profoundly kitschy this is. Definitely not worth the cost of AI inputs, but I appreciate how insanely over the top is aiming to be.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026
this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention so i click through to see her “art”… i wish there was an unveil feature here:
AI slop dragon in sunglasses 

BIGGER IDEAS
MESSIER CREATIVE PROCESS
MORE MAGIC
PET MORE DRAGONS
SAME SARCASM
Fueled by Coffee Chaos
BIG IDEAS
AI CHAOS
* DRAGON ENERGY
* SARCASM & SPELLS
WOMEN WHO CREATE
FANTASY OVER FEAR
PROMPTS & POSSIBILITIES
CREATE WEIRDER BRAVER
KINDER
COOLER WORLDS
FABULOUS
CHAOS
LIVES HERE
Same
Human
Different
Magic
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My blurb for Chloe Ireton’s new book, forthcoming from Hurst in November: “Chloe Ireton has brought to vivid life a love story in *Plotting for Freedom* and thereby made a unique, moving, deeply human, and sure to be lasting contribution to Atlantic history.” hurstpublishers.com/book/plottin...
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Devastating news.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Five years since I wrote this piece on the archival finds that made historians got ‘wut?’. I asked on Twitter and got hundreds of replies. Still one of my most read pieces. theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...
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I asked historians what find made them go ‘wait, wut?’ Here’s a taste of the hundreds of replies
Historians, archivists and other researchers got in touch with tales of their archival finds and bizarre research moments. These ranged from the quirky to the disturbing to the profound.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everyone keeps on asking what they can do: vote early and then serve as an election observer, ak.democrats.org/signup/voter....
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Voter Protection Volunteer Survey
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the DNC's Civic Engagement and Voter Protection Department. Please fill out this form to let us know what volunteer opportunities you are most interest...
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ugh. Sharing to remember to read.
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Vamoose! Hormuz Moose in a Caboose @kaboosemoose.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my concern is that republicans are trying to terrorize and exterminate my daughter. politicians don't care about parents who want to support their trans children though. only those who want to terrorize and exterminate them.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes. There's ALREADY an existential threat to the planet (more than one, including nuclear weapons).
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Grandma, what were the Trump years like?" "On a daily basis, I would check social media and the news, maybe more than once, repost a few horrible things, think about how it was all antithetical to everything I'd ever learned, and despair. Every day, for over a decade. 🤷🏻‍♀️"
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Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com · 10/09/2026
Not to be rude, but all y'all posting about this Dallas GOP midterm thing are straight-up sickos. This is not an important or necessary convention. Few conventions are. It's CPAC, basically. Let them talk their fascist shit to each other. You don't need to cover it.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We said this was going to happen, and it has happened.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Incredibly helpful piece.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
great timing on the trade war, assholes (ours)
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old when she stepped into the history books. Bravely accompanied by her mother, she was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school in the South. It was not long ago… Today is her birthday. She is still with us. She is 72. Happy birthday, Ruby Bridges 💜
Young Ruby Bridges, photo in black and white Ruby Bridges today, photo in full color
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ok guys it is September of an election year. could we take a short break from left/liberal infighting until like November 4th
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is mind-blowing.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Emily Wilson is translating The Odyssey (again). lithub.com/why-is-emily...
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Why is Emily Wilson retranslating The Odyssey from scratch?
Emily Wilson, chairwoman of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, best-selling translator, and website-crashing Christopher Nolan hater, is going back to retranslate The Odyssey less…
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry, friend and comrade in many fights and perhaps the writer who meant the most to me, is dead at 92. An appreciation--and a contrast with Elon Musk, in every way his vile opposite billmckibben.substack.com/p/two-men?r=...
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Two Men
One as great as America ever produced, and the other Elon Musk
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This reasoning is just devious. Everyone knows time flows in a circle.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Liam and children like him deserve better, and we’ve got to keep fighting for them to get it.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The quotes in this are unbelievable. "I hope that there will be some accounting someday — probably after President Trump is gone — about why we were there, and was it worth it? But none of that is gonna happen right now."
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
50 years and 100 versions of "Jolene" Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is one of my favorite songs. One of the things I love is how it's taken on a life of it's own since its release in 1973. I put together a timeline of 99 versions. A minor tribute to a major icon. RIP. sstirling.github.io/jolene/
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50 years, and 100 versions, of Jolene
I found 99 different versions of Dolly Parton's Jolene since she released the original in 1973. Here they are, oldest first, with 30 seconds of each.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
UK ceramics designer Clarice Cliff, Sunray leaves conical teapot, 1929 #Womensart
Angular teapot with art deco design of sun rays in orange and green on a cream background
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/08/2026
as someone who is kind of a nerd about virginia, i would enjoy this
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Andy has skee-ball in his Senate office.
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EAJ @rosemaryandrock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yeah this is a thing. In my experiende, afrer I have a patch where I'm productively getting on top of stuff, it's like my brain runs our of stuff to handle, so it decides to worry about trees so it has something to do. 🤤
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 25/08/2026
Tonight, SCOTUS lifted one lower-court block on the executive order targeting voter lists and mail voting. What the Court explicitly *did not* do: rule that the order is legal. And nothing about tonight's ruling changes voters' ability to vote by mail in the midterms. Here’s why ⬇️
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