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Sara Koopman

@spaceforpeace.bsky.social
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Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Romulo Dias @romulobdias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ATENÇÃO | Essa fala vinda de alguém como a Simone Tebet tem que ser levada MUITO à sério: 💬 “Nós estamos diante da eleição mais importante da história das nossas vidas. Temos o risco de colocar a milícia do Rio de Janeiro na presidência da república.”
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Romulo Dias @romulobdias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANTE recado da jornalista Teresa Garcia principalmente aos indecisos: 💬 “Você não precisa gostar do Lula, só é necessário ter a clareza do tamanho do risco que a gente tá correndo”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9.
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michigan. Thanks to Donald Trump’s outrageous war in Iran, cosigned by Mike Rogers.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Michigan, we're having to skimp on staples at the grocery store like meat and peanut butter just so we can fill up our gas tank for $5 a gallon and pay our outrageous monopoly utility bills.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With 45 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Calling all yappers, Team Abdul needs you! Phonebank to onboard new volunteers: go.abdulforsenate.com/volunteer-on... Phonebank to contact voters: go.abdulforsenate.com/phonebank
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mike Rogers refuses to talk about gas, groceries, seeing a doctor, or our broken infrastructure. Mike Rogers only wants to talk about old culture wars fought by small people with smaller ideas and no solutions to our actual problems.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They do some of it by using b0ts to spread disinformation. This is why you shouldn't be following them(b0ts).
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One aspect of shared governance that isn't talked about much is the inherent imbalance of knowledge and expertise. Boards are meant to work together with faculty in part bc faculty know things boards don't, and vice versa Boards increasingly are taking total control but with key knowledge deficits
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I cannot overemphasize that Trump Jr is actively being bribed by a literal babystealer:
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every major nightly news show covered the breaking story about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr's wedding celebration — except CBS.
PBS NewsHour coverage: "Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin"ABC World News Tonight coverage: "Report: Oligarch Paid For Trump Jr. Wedding Parties"NBC Nightly News coverage: "Russian Oligarch Pays For Part of Trump Jr. Party"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Short-hop, BEV aircraft are coming. Heart Aerospace completes successful test flight of its experimental 15 passenger X-1 BEV aircraft (27 minutes; $5 worth of electricity for power). 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 www.travelpulse.com/news/airline...
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World's Largest Electric Aircraft Completes First Flight
Heart Aerospace has successfully completed the first flight of its X1 electric aircraft, advancing the development of the ES-30 hybrid-electric regional airliner amid rising jet fuel costs.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please reach out to elected vehicles in your city, town or state, and ask them when they plan to switch to electric vehicles. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Scott B. Silverman @scottbsilverman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Okay, all ye faithful... Raise your hands if you don't know what worshipping false gods means... Keep your hands up if you still don't get the story of the golden calf when an idol was favored over the commandments... Hands up? You're in a cult. Thank you for your attention to this madness.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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Jen Mapes @mapesgeog.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The question, then, is not whether Americans will forget parts of 9/11. They will. The more interesting question is what remains after that forgetting takes place." A question also for Kent State & other sites of tragedy- perhaps shared humanity is an answer for us, too. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With what could be called a manic religious statement, made by the person in waiting behind a visibly deteriorating US president, makes these words particularly chilling
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 31/08/2026
One of these two candidates if elected will vote to give the Egyptian junta 3 billion dollars of free weapons every single year and the other one is the Egyptian-American.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So our friends now are North Korea and Russia and our enemies are Canada and Denmark. Makes sense.
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🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 📎 @bandroll.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Center for Biological Diversity and other advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the approval of trifludimoxazin, a “forever chemical” pesticide, earlier this summer. #Blues www.courthousenews.com/epa-sued-ove...
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EPA sued over approval of ‘forever chemical’ pesticide
The agency approved trifludimoxazin for use on crops, including corn, wheat, oats, soybeans, oranges, apples, peanuts and almonds, earlier this summer.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨NEW from @propublica.org: over "the strongest possible" objection from the Minnesota federal prosecutor in charge of the case, senior Trump officials reportedly rejected civil rights charges against the ICE officer who shot a man and then lied about it. He'll be charged with false statements only.
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota had been preparing to charge Castro with deprivation of rights under color of law for the shooting of Sosa-Celis, according to several people familiar with the case. Those charges are similar to the ones leveled against Minneapolis police officers accused in George Floyd’s killing and can carry hefty prison sentences. 

Late on Tuesday, Matthew Evans, the assistant U.S. attorney in Minnesota in charge of the case, told lawyers for Sosa-Celis and other victims to prepare for Castro to be charged “only with False Statements,” according to an email that was reviewed by ProPublica. 

That charge would likely carry a far less severe punishment if he were convicted.

“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” Evans wrote in a remarkably candid account of internal deliberations. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So if I understand this correctly: Trump’s republicans are mad at Illinois because it elected some Democrats, so they stopped the only project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. Fantastic, I hope Republican voters notice.
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Trump administration halts work to prevent carp chaos in Great Lakes
The Trump administration halted work on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project in late July for "administrative review" without further explanation.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Happy back to school to all the students in Michigan! Have an incredible year. 🎒🧑‍🏫📚
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
63 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the first historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They understood that equal economic and voting rights were the path to ending racial inequality in America.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring (Gift Article)
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here's a fun one! There's a facility in the UK that generates electricity by burning wood shipped across the ocean from the U.S. and Canada. They want to put a data center on-site, which would be powered by American forests Burning wood is way more polluting even than burning natural gas
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Keir Starmer's Government Allows UK's Biggest Polluter to Power AI by Burning Wood
Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs accuse Drax of ‘sleight of hand’ as it sidesteps £460 million government subsidy conditions in order to power AI
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The rapid way in which this has just become an accepted daily feature of American politics, rather than an immediate presidency-ending scandal, is yet another reminder that @tompepinsky.com was right a decade ago, despite all the people who didn’t want to hear it then & still don’t now.
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Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable
Americans have an overly dramatic view what the end of democracy looks like.
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Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes. the answer is yes. climatetrace.org/news/austria...
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Austria and France banned short-haul flights to boost train travel and reduce emissions. Did it work?
Climate TRACE data point to encouraging outcomes, with much greater emissions reduction opportunity if such a shift were widely adopted globally.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Abdul, what is your plan to bridge the gap between the Black community and the Arab community?"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
reminder that this is what auto supply chains in North America currently look like. Random parts can cross the US/Canadian border half a dozen times www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AAG members -- please sign our letter to AAG Council in support of a membership vote on an academic boycott! www.jotform.com/form/2622151...
campaign update: urge aag council to let members vote on boycott! 

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
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Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
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