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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Multiple protestors very badly injured from rubber bullets at Delaney Hall and tear gas. The medic tent had to be abandoned because state police kept gassing it.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 30/05/2026

It's going to take a concerted effort on everyone's part over the weekend to keep the story on the conditions inside Delaney Hall rather than the clashes going on outside.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Meanwhile, 300 detainees remain on a hunger and labor strike after being beaten bloody and gassed on Thursday by the people Mikie Sherrill is coordinating with.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Red and pink flowers for April: Japanese Quince.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Okay. We have received another signal of spring.

A small blue flower rises above green pachysandra.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Forthcoming: scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Dispatch from Immigration Court Friday: bec ICE bloodied a respondent earlier in the week, everyone in 290 B-way & 26 Fed'l Plaza was tense beyond belief. Several judges had no cases, agents from various agencies swarmed both buildings. No detentions but many requests for immediate pretermission.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The faded red water tank out past the roofs of houses. The winter.sky.

In the foreground, bare trees partly lit, the tops of houses, a faded red water tower and a darkening evening sky.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Snow on the basement stairs 2:00 pm. Still snowing

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nor'easter blizzard at noon, still snowing.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Winter sky with moon and Plane tree

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025

Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This why she's named Shayna Punim!

Green-eyed grey-gold-and-white-furred kitten.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Uncle Isidore shares the warmth of his chair with Shayna Punim. Summer's just about finished.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Isidor is probably dreaming of a future without eyedrops.

Grey and white Tuxedo cat. Sleeping on the chair he and I share. He is probably dreaming of a future where there are no pesky eyedrops. This is Isidore.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/09/2025

Gotta say seeing governors competing to one up each other to see who can make vaccines most accessible is a refreshing change.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Here's my new study partner, SarahTheCat.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Summer: Limelight hydrangea in front of Starfish House.

White hydrangea flowers on big green bush in front of Starfish House.

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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Mandy Patinkin’s plea:

Mandy Patinkin:
"I am Mandy Patinkin. l am a Jew. I am an American. I am a human being. I am horrified by what Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are doing in Israel and Gaza. The killing of children, of civilians-this is unconscionable and unthinkable.
It is not antisemitic to say this. In fact, compassion for every person in Gaza, for every child, is a deeply Jewish value.
I have played the role of Inigo Montoya in 'The Princess Bride.' There's a line: 'I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I do not know what to do with the rest of my life.' We, as Jews, know what it means to be persecuted.
We know what it means to be hated. We must not become the thing we have suffered from.
Netanyahu's policies are making the world more dangerous for Jews everywhere. They are creating a generation of wounded and hurt kids who will understandably be very angry. This is not sustainable. This is not acceptable.
l urge my fellow Jews, and all people, to speak out. To demand a stop to this violence. To remember our values. To remember our humanity."

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

#CovidNotOver And today Covid started messing with me again. Two years or so since the first bout. So far annoying but not terrible. I think I will sleep.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

PLEASE DONATE! Since "America First" has proven to mean Everybody Last, funds to help support the rest of the world's medical crises have fallen drastically. give.doctorswithoutborders.org/campaign/678...

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Donate to MSF

Support our cause by donating to Doctors Without Borders.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Hot enough for you (as they say)?

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

In honour of National Indigenous History Month, we’ve compiled a list of recently published books that highlight the history, art, and literature of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada. buff.ly/JBu5gTn

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you criticize Israel by invoking “chosen people,” you’re not criticizing Israel; you’re criticizing Judaism. And you probably don’t know what it means. It’s a mistranslation of a covenantal obligation, not a claim of superiority.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah devised an alternate Molly Shah to take her place while she luxuriates at a private beach in the Caribbean.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Timeliness cleanse: Three cats resting on a blanket on couch on a seasonally uncharacteristically cool spring morning. On the left, a multicolored catbus, in the center, an orange cinnamon bun, and on the right, a grey & white tuxedo elderly gentleman cat.

Three cats resting on a blanket on couch on a seasonally uncharacteristically cool spring morning. On the left, a multicolored catbus, in the center, an orange cinnamon bun, and on the right, a grey & white tuxedo elderly gentleman cat.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Caturday: This is Speckle, my sister's cat.

Serious looking white and grey-tabby cat.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Read @everylibrary.bsky.social's statement here. www.everylibrary.org/trump_fires_...

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STATEMENT: President Trump Fires the Librarian of Congress and Now Congress Must Push Back

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is Sarah M. (M is for monster). She has appropriated the Basket of Scarves.

An extraordinarily cute tortoiseshell kitten resting in a basket of scarves atop a radiator.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On May 2, 2025, the Trump Administration released its FY2026 federal budget proposal. On page 39 he calls for the complete elimination of the only federal agency dedicated solely to supporting America’s libraries and museums. bit.ly/4cXcPFj via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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SIGN THE PETITION: Stand Against Trump's Budget Proposal to Defund IMLS.

Trump is more emboldened than ever to destroy library funding. We need you to take action today!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/05/2025

The COVID vaccines have been taken by billions of people, saved millions of lives, and are some of the most rigorously tested medical products in history. Someone who has zero experience in vaccine development should not be influencing the approval process. This will kill people.

Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters
The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Mazel tov! Not a moment too soon! 🤩😍🤗

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/04/2025

A new study by economists estimates that a 25% cut in science funding would result in a GDP decline similar in magnitude to the 2008 recession. They also estimate that a 75% cut to government science would trigger a larger GDP decline than in any recession since the Great Depression.

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José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thank you Greyhound!

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Hal Newman @bigmedicine.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Words to ponder on this morning-after-the-election. "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." - Jack Layton, August 2011 May the ghost of Jack inspire our leaders.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There it is, in a nutshell.

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