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Shana Higgins

@shanah.bsky.social
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Librarian, baker, sometimes runner and fist-shaker, the opposite of loquacious.

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 5h
Here are the megadonors bankrolling California’s voter ID ballot measure Packaging magnate and Illinois businessman Richard Uhilein and venture capitalists Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are among the big spenders bankrolling California’s voter ID measure.
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Here are the megadonors bankrolling California’s voter ID ballot measure
Packaging magnate and Illinois businessman Richard Uhilein and venture capitalists Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are among the big spenders bankrolling California’s voter ID measure.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 5h
The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i should rephrase: incredible republican voters and leaders will not give a shit
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Before thousands in Florida’s Polk County, JD Vance said Florida’s Black candidate for Senate Angie Nixon doesn’t “belong in America.” “Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here,” Nixon responded. “This is my home."
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
hey everyone if your uni uses turnitin, ask them about this.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wrote about right wing sex positivity, and how the Republican Party’s shift from Christian slut shaming to pornographic vulgarity is less of a big shift than it may seem. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 22/09/2026
My department and college are searching for FOUR new tenure-track assistant professor colleagues! Please share, and application reviews begin October 15.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sending people back to a junta-led country where we have had to send diplomats to secure the release of detained Americans.
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US officials make rare trip to Myanmar to free former marine as isolated regime seeks greater recognition | CNN
US officials made a rare visit to Myanmar this week to secure the release of an American businessman who had been detained in the war-torn country since June.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
21 September 1942 | The first 400 three-tiered bunks were delivered to KL Auschwitz from the SS-WVHA warehouse in Oranienburg. They were later installed in the wooden barracks in Birkenau. Barracks for prisoners at Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/m0PGSIoCgKY
Interior view of a wooden barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau site (today's Memoria), showing rows of wooden bunks and supporting beams under a sloped roof. Light streams through the windows casting shadows on the floor.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026
I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.
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A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading
New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Put differently
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026
If you live in Arizona, please contact @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov and ask them what they are doing to help Ahmed, who lived in Arizona for 26 of his 30 years on earth.
A trim young Egyptian man with a goatee looking sharp in a navy blazer and pale pink tie, sitting on a wooden outdoor chair and gazing away from the camera, appearing deep in thought.
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David James Hudson @davidjameshudson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why the "It's okay to use it to get started" story about AI consumer products in research education bugs the hell out of me: 🧵
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2026
Anti-intellectualism is going to kill us all. Trusting experts isn't authoritarian. It's actually the opposite of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is when the government does whatever the fuck it wants regardless of what the data shows just because it can.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I had a thread about @sanders.senate.gov & Max Tegmark before seeing this one. Yudkowsky is an even more overt eugenicist, you don't have to do any digging to see that. He also has ZERO expertise in "AI" except for being a self described "genius" cult leader who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic.
Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSadners

Will AI become smarter than humans?

If so, is humanity in danger?

I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question. 

Here's what they had to say.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
this seems bad. unless you were rooting and hoping for a new Gilded Age, then everything is going according to plan
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I swear they want us to forget that most things worked as planned most the time very recently: air traffic, road traffic, the mail, and more!
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a Jewish person, I'm horrified by this. This is Holocaust-style imagery used to dehumanize an entire people. Anyone who can't call it a genocide is a coward and failing a basic test of morality and human decency.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 29/08/2026
The Supreme Court is increasingly relying on the shadow docket, which provides for little or no explanation of rulings. Congress must put an end to it. bit.ly/4gq1Vvr
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Dragging the Supreme Court Out of the Shadows
It’s time for Congress to put a stop to the unbriefed, unargued, unexplained rulings that account for a majority of the Court’s decisions.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I cannot understate how large of an effort US Republicans are making to foster MAGA-aligned groups and organizations across Europe. Millions of dollars of federal funding is flowing into the pockets of Europe’s fascists. Little reporting is being done on this aspect, but what exists speaks volumes.
desmog.com
Nigel Farage Has Spoken at 15 Trump-Linked Events Since 2024 Election
Nigel Farage has been accused of “toadying up to Donald Trump” for speaking at more than a dozen events linked to the U.S. president in the past two years. The Reform UK leader – who won a by-election...
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devviepuu.bsky.social @devviepuu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"You want to talk about moral panics? Here’s a fun fact for you: More cops have been arrested for stalking women using Flock cameras than there are trans athletes in sports. "
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/08/2026
It's going to be one of those Fridays
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump's Billionaire Boys Club: - Public Citizen
Report on billionaires in the Trump administration, their conflicts, and political donations.
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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Important upcoming webinar for library workers on 8/26: Anti-Trans Bias and the New Federal Paradigm: events.callacademy.org/event/anti-t...
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Anti-Trans Bias and the New Federal Paradigm | CALL Academy
Anti-transgender rhetoric has been spreading for many years, but the inauguration on January 20, 2025 marked a sea-change in the sociopolitical situation and information ecosystem around trans America...
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 14/08/2026
The United Mine Workers of America made an “urgent demand” of the federal government on Thursday for the “immediate, uncompromised” enforcement of previously approved policies and rules that would protect coal miners from incurable black lung disease, reports Caity Coyne.
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UMWA calls for ‘immediate’ enforcement of silica rule as black lung hits new high in WV, Appalachia
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Terrific, insightful Especially appreciate the looking beyond the comical aspects — a catering truck hahaha — to emphasize the serious implications of the whole chain of decisions From accepting the plane in the first place to who did — and who didn’t — get spirited out of Turkey with Trump
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.
Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Our students—and others in their AI-skeptical generation—are thoughtful moral agents who have used their capacity for critical reflection to arrive at compelling and deeply felt moral objections to using generative AI in their university work." #RefuseAI
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
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El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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CHIRLA @chirla-org.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
CHIRLA has received reports of immigration-related detentions at U.S. airports during domestic travel. ⚠️ Consult with a qualified immigration attorney before flying. Evaluate the risks of domestic air travel and, if possible, postpone nonessential travel until you've received legal advice.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 28/07/2026
65,765 people were in ICE detention as of July 11, in ICE's first data since April. Arrests hit a record 1,474 a day, and the largest group in custody has no criminal history at all. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wow.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Get a load of this.
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