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Rana Emerson

@starfishncoffee.bsky.social
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Chaos Muppet. Rap Game Jo March. Loveable Curmudgeon. Educator. Yalie. Longhorn.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If you've experienced something similar or heard about something similar, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 18/01/2026
An investigation by @josephinelee.bsky.social found that 92% of private schools already enrolled in Texas’ voucher programs serving kids beyond kindergarten are religious. Many of these exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.
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Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate
The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
At this point, all I want from George RR Martin when it comes to the last book in The Song of Ice and Fire is justice for Arianne Martell after she was left COMPLETELY out of the TV series.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/01/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it. Here's a look at what Greenlanders think.
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In their words: Greenlanders talk about Trump's desire to own their Arctic island
U.S. President Donald Trump has turned Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it. The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Reporter: Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE Agent. Leavitt: Why was she killed? Reporter: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably Leavitt: You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter.
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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 25/11/2025
The late Shafiqah Hudson, aka @sassycrass.bsky.social, and @sotreu.blacksky.app were the ones who started #YourSlipIsShowing. I ask that you remember Shafiqah and Ra’il as the originators.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Incredible piece about protesters from different US cities who all have one thing in common: they lost an eye during a George Floyd protests in when police shot them with "less lethal" crowd-control weapons www.narratively.com/p/the-shot-i...
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The Shot-in-the-Eye Squad
As Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, the rubber bullets and tear gas canisters started to fly. This epidemic of “blinding by police” inspired our unlikely network of survivors.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Nightmarish. CBS News is now running straight state propaganda. They handed Hegseth all three segments and are now tweeting flattering sound bites.
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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The cackle I just released
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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
If anything, Trump’s election has forced real confrontation about the mythology about immigrants in this country. The mythology has been a useful tool in building collective power, but the mythology isn’t the truth. I look forward to more ppl communicating honestly about immigration.
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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
And when people love to use the argument that America was built my immigrants - which is not the real truth of this country - I like to remind them that nearly every nation in this hemisphere has its own migration histories that helped build those nations.
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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Latin America and the Caribbean are politically volatile right now in large part due to backlash against leftist and progressive politics, and strong anti-migration sentiment. People love to act like xenophobia is some uniquely American phenomenon but it’s not.
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Yes. Not enough conversation about this.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I can agree that this might be true, and also that this isn’t the end of the world. But people don’t just use it for this, but also for wedding vows and eulogies and apologies. And I read this story in that context, and maybe I shouldn’t have, but honestly the point, in that context, still stands.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/01/2026
Back in the aughts, comparing the actions of the bush administration to nazis was considered to be career destroying antisemitism
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 29/12/2025
I always wanted to be in Mother Jones one day. And for my debut it now says “Epidemiologist Gabrielle Perry says FUCK JON STEWART” 😂
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a green screen with a quote that says " you can 't achieve a goal without having it "
Alt: a green screen with a quote that says " you can 't achieve a goal without having it "
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Walking out of Costco and just randomly thought about how Beverly Cleary’s Ramona named her doll Chevrolet and Junie B. Jones named her doll Absorbine Jr. Made me smile.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas y’all! Wishing you and yours peace and love as I spend the day with family and British Cozy Crime.
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` isn 't that interesting '' written below him .
Alt: a close up of Mrs Marple 's face with the words `` isn 't that interesting '' written below him .
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Following CBS/60 Minutes banning an episode that investigated the orange felon’s criminal actions, Canadians have leaked that episode in direct defiance of CBS and their fascist censorship. I love Canada. 💙🇨🇦
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 19/12/2025
When I was writing my book, my editor suggested I use ChatGPT to fact check each chapter & convert my links to MLA format. I tried it & it literally made up fake links & fake authors. This scared me so bad and it’s why I hired a criminology graduate student to fact check for me
ALISINVENTING ACADEMIC PAPERS THAT DON'T EXIST-AND THEY'RE BEING CITED IN REAL JOURNALS
The proliteration of reterences to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today would have been the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth and I went to a 30th anniversary screening of Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) on Sunday night. I hadn’t seen it since I saw it in theaters 30 years ago in the middle of a snowstorm and a government shutdown in Washington DC.
Movie poster for the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...
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Albumism @albumism.com · 13/12/2025
Happy Birthday Morris Day! Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/MorrisDayHBD
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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 10/12/2025
Mero: she has a very long back. Desus Nice: Taylor Swift! Jimmy Fallon and Charlize Theron: HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!?!!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
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Mariah Scary 👻 🎃 • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 10/12/2025
When I say rap game Milhouse Van Houten…
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 10/12/2025
We been "waiting for the old folks to die so we can stop being racist" for every single one of my 53 years. It's almost like, they pass it down generationally or something.
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readingsumn.bsky.social @readingsumn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'Ol' boy' and 'ol' girl' do a LOT of heavy lifting and yet rarely require much explanation 😅
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/12/2025
In other news, the whole thing about Calibri v. TNR isn't about a font face, it's about the fact that Calibri is easier for people with some disabilities to read. They think any accommodation, however painless, should stop.
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
That Rolling Stone article claiming that Black women’s REAL and VALID critique of Taylor Swift’s white supremacist dog whistles in that album were driven by bots has Tree Paine’s machinations written all over it. This is a coordinated effort to discredit Black women. Don’t fall for it.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
RFK looking even more than usual like he has just feasted on still living human guts there
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/12/2025
"This is what it looks like when Supreme Court justices are completely unburdened by history," @pemalevy.bsky.social writes, "the logical conclusions of their own reasoning, and the real-world consequences of their own actions. And we are all along for the ride."
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SCOTUS's GOP justices are about to hand Trump way more power
The court's right-wing bloc sounds ready to axe independent federal agencies—and the precedents that guard them.
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Just as predicted: the misogynoir jumped right out as soon as Jasmine Crockett announced her Senate run. And it’s coming from both the right and the left.
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 08/12/2025
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 08/12/2025
For those asking, this is Lisa Taddeo writing in Airmail. She apparently helped write the book and also she was apparently assigned this piece by her editors.
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Rana Emerson @starfishncoffee.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/12/2025
We share the nativism and immigration restrictions with the 1920s, which also gave us eugenics and a resurgent KKK. This piece doesn't mention another key element we share with that period: Panic over the "demographic crisis" of falling birth rates, here and in Europe, which also boosted fascism.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 05/12/2025
I NEED THESE TABS!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
There is a difference between inheritance and action. I cannot help who my ancestors are, but I can make my own choices. That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; that so much of the mainstream media conveys this bigotry through tired, obfuscating euphemisms; that there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans. Immigration isn’t breaking our society. That’s a job Americans can do on their own.
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Snopes @snopes.com · 02/12/2025
FBI documents show the agency spent more than $850,000 on overtime pay for agents tasked with processing and redacting Epstein-related files. Here's how we confirmed the records are authentic:
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FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show
Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold sued the FBI and DOJ for the files as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.
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