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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Between the bowls, a.i., and the current state of things, the word of the year is going to be slop.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Florsheim shoes, Papal schism, Trump praising Allah. None of this on my bingo card.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Consensus that the president is a pedophile, popular suspicion that he's trying to prevent the midterm election, grocery bills going through the roof, AND we've started a terrorist war bombing schools of innocent children and sent the world economy into chaos. Sans "exceptionalism," where's it lead?

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Allow me to introduce my new line of Florsheim's Invisible Shoes

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I was just listening to a CNN "segment" on the possibility of the United States invading and occupying Cuba and I'm fairly certain that the "C" in CNN stands for "Colonial."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Read it all please.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

New @sarahljaffe.bsky.social just dropped, subtle as always: inthesetimes.com/article/capi...

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Just an update: I still don't want A.I. in shit. If you offer A.I. in your marketing, I am less likely to buy it. I think opt-out of A.I. scraping and functionality should be legally mandated. I'm not interested in A.I. education for myself or my kids. Turn the data centers into shelters.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 09/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good wasn't the first person killed by ICE. In 2025, 32 people died in ICE custody. In 2026, at least 2 people were killed by ICE, starting with Keith Porter on NYE. #AbolishICE

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

CBP's Francis Russo defending "Operation Salvo," talking about no interference with civilians. CBP's mission is so we can "Endure economic progress." I do not know what that means.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Noem is reminding citizens that tomorrow is Law Enforcement day, asks Americans to thanks law enforcement and "buy them lunch."

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Noem's message to the city and the country is that "Operation Salvo" is just the beginning. Mentions NYC, Chicago, and Minneapolis. "In every single thing the Trump Administration does, we put the American people first," says Noem, ignoring yesterday's murder of an American citizen.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Noem explicitly going after "sanctuary city policies." "Operation Salvo" was launched in nyc with cbp, hsi, ero, and the southern district. 54 arrested so far.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Noem Press Conference about to begin. Placard on lectern says "one of ours / all of yours."

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I know this is a well-tread point, but part of me always thought Alex Jones would be at Richter-5.0-tomato-red-neck-veins-popping-approaching-aneurysm levels in response to things like, oh, random armed government thugs murdering white moms and instead he's like hugging muppets.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This Times article should be a complete embarrassment to everyone involved in writing, editing, and approving it.

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Restorative Justice & Reparations @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Protests across America today: Washington, D.C. White House 1:00 p.m. Los Angeles, California Pershing Square 2:00 p.m. New York City, New York Times Square 2:00 p.m. San Francisco, California Powell and Market St 1:00 p.m. Find or add your city here: www.answercoalition.org/venezuela

EMERGENCY DAY OF ACTION
NO WARON VENEZUELA
STOP THE BOMBINGS!
SAT JANUARY 3
ANSWERCOALITION.ORG/VENEZUELA

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Last month's National Security Strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... (hat tip the guest on Al Jazeera who raised this and advised that people take this literally)

Screengrab reading: "We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable
and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the
United States; we want a Hemisphere whose governments cooperate with us
against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal
organizations; we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign
incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply
chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic
locations. In other words, we will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine;"

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Dumb question: What would happen if Venezuela stops shipping oil on tankers and pipelines/trucks/trains oil to Colombia, Brazil, and Guyana?

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In the last few years, Israel (with American backing) attacked Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank), Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Qatar, and a crossing run by Egypt. We should understand that Rubio and Trump may not stop at Venezuela and have designs on Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, et al.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

For those of you who want to brush up on your Latin American history, here's an excellent resource: www.themapofbloodandfire.com/map/2002/494 Please Share.

A map of Latin America with a timeline mechanism that allows readers to quickly learn about some of the histories of Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The internet has had stages chapters, always patchwork and often fractured. Shit is now broken. I make and weird websites. Where do I go to fund the non-slop, non-ai misinformation algorithm garbage chute, and instead remain in the cultivated garden and wilderness of the other internet?

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Dripped Out Trade Unionists @uniondrip.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

For all the mfers who say workers just serve coffee, just deliver packages, just stock shelves, just clean rooms, just prep food, or just check in guests, remember this, they keep our communities running every day. And when they’re on a picket line, you respect it.

An illustrated cartoon shows a person swinging a wooden bat into the leg of someone trying to walk past them. The text above reads, “How to kindly explain to someone that picket lines aren’t meant to be crossed.”

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Fun fact, I'm in the Rhodes piece like a "Where's Waldo." In the middle of the photo by Mark Peterson of the Jews Voice for Peace protest at Trump tower, you can see Amy Goodman and myself conducting an interview for Democracy Now!

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Rhodes doesn't need to explain to us that Gaza will change U.S. domestic elections. No shit. Democrats need to understand that there will be a housecleaning of the silent and complicit in the Genocide in Gaza. Newsom, Emanuel, Buttigieg, Booker, Shapiro, and Harris will not win a general. (3/4)

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Rhodes might as well be waving farewell from the Charon. Despite acknowledging Mamdani's principled stand, Rhodes represents the old way, their failures and bankrupt ideologies, and his empty words and bloodied hands should be banished from the body politic. (2/4)

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Ben Rhodes flawed NYT op-ed, "This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza," suggests jettisoning the "hug Bibi" strategy for "Hug Israel." Rhodes isn't just amoral and unprincipled, a national security advisor is now reduced to explaining the pivot is needed for political reality. (1/4)

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I've gone to several of the UN COP conferences, their annual meeting to deal with #climatechange. A week ago, I was in Brazil at #cop30; this is my attempt to demystify what I have seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM39... #unfccc

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Demystifying the COP

YouTube video by Sam Alcoff

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Massive climate justice protest outside the UN's cop30 in Belem. Walter Rodney, Amilcar Cabral, @winonaladuke.bsky.social, Angela Davis, and you among others

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I was at a protest 20 years ago at a Pat Buchanan talk and this young Buchanan fan started unloading all his anti-Clinton diatribes on us. "We don't care, we hate Clinton" blew his mind because he could not imagine that left critics of the far white didn't adore Clinton.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Elise Stefanik and Elissa Slotkin need to do a cage match that only one can emerge from. These names are too similar and confusing. (Alternatively, one could change their name)

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"Elon Musk is poised to become the first trillionaire in world history."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/11/2025

Responding to a question from @democracynow.org on Wednesday, during his first press conference as mayor-elect, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration. "Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What's fucked up is that @teenvogue.com read this and fired all their political writers. Somebody needs to hire @leximcmenamin.com asap.

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The Center Cannot Hold @samalcoff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Let those people sleep. They earned it.

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