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Your weird, old English teacher - the one with the snacks. I like public schools, my stinky children, and city walking (in the direction of food). Help my class: tinyurl.com/Belldonors

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.
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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access reut.rs/4zm5Mjp
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US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access
Three Republican-led US states are testing a novel legal argument as they seek to stem the flow of abortion pills to residents who can still obtain them from out-of-state providers despite their abortion bans.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If we really wanted to prepare students for the future, we wouldn’t be teaching them how to use the products of the richest men in the world, whose stated and obvious motives work against their future health, happiness, and prosperity.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If we really wanted to prepare students for the future, we would be teaching them all how to protect the environment, fight climate change, and work on adaptation. We would be teaching them how to protect and participate in democracy and about economic systems under which they could thrive.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What’s that again about AI and students‘ futures?
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump is basically claiming that he pardoned a crook who didn't deserve it for purely political resasons. This alone is worthy of impeachment and removal; overall, Trump's abuse of power pardons are easy calls for legitimate impeachment and removal. Whether he brags about it or not.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.
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alexandra @aliemalie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What the fuck?
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 07/10/2026
The repeal of key climate standards means more toxic emissions, worsening climate outcomes, and a direct assault on public health. SCOTUS must take steps toward ending climate violence, which targets working people already hit hardest by pollution and neglect. It’s unacceptable and unsafe. Period.
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New Supreme Court term begins with justices stumped by climate change case
The justices heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy liable for the impacts of climate change.
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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 05/10/2026
We spoke to @thenationalnews.com about the environmental consequences of the Israeli-US war against #Iran, oil spills aside, international attention and interest has been unusually short lived by the standards of recent conflicts www.thenationalnews.com/news/gulf/20...
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Gulf nations urged to tackle 'unprecedented' environmental damage from Iran war | The National
Efforts to safeguard mangroves, seagrass and corals are needed, scientists say
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remember when Nvidia's Jensen Huang said people need to adapt to AI's dangers the way we did to the dangers of cars by changing how kids were raised? Just as fears of AI Armageddon are meant to distract with panic, calls for adaptation are calls for adoption and accommodation instead of regulation.
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We Reshaped the Landscape for Cars, Not People. Will We Do the Same for AI?
On a gobsmacking interview with Nvidia's CEO
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WATCH: "Public Dollars, Public Priorities" Lindsey Patrick Wright (TN Senate Candidate in Wilson & Davidson County) says Gov. Lee & TN Republicans are only concerned with privatizing everything - schools, roads, etc - and making the rich richer.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 21/09/2026
Elon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mistake.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED. www.wired.com/story/women-...
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We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This century, test scores became the sole measure by which pols, pundits, & journalists judged the success of public schools. This helpful overview by @joshcowenmi.bsky.social gets at how this belittles their varied impact -- and is likely depressing trust in an institution that provides so much.
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What else do public schools do?
Many school districts offer fee-for-service programs. Many engage in broad community-building work. Locally elected school boards oversee it all, and that sets this work apart.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 18/09/2026
ICE has lost count of how many of its detainees have suffered miscarriages, The Guardian reports:
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Far-right frenzy as conservative's damning exposé ties Nazi-aligned network to White House www.rawstory.com/erick-ericks...
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Far-right frenzy as conservative's damning exposé ties Nazi-aligned network to White House
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson is naming the white men he says are pulling the right toward white nationalism and dictatorship, and he says some of them are close to Vice President JD Vance.I...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 18/09/2026
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard died Tuesday at age 81. Here's a curated roundup of books with ties to Whatcom County, starting with Dillard's “The Living.”
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author with ties to Bellingham dies at 81 | Cascadia Daily News
Annie Dillard wrote 'The Living' about early Bellingham settlers. Here are other books with ties to Whatcom County
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh hell no www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Exclusive | The FAA’s $875 Million Plan to Use AI to Ease Air-Traffic Woes
The air-traffic tool is expected to debut in the Washington, D.C., area as soon as Monday.
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Change in Abstract
Before: Newly unsealed court documents show Microsoft employees discussing whether OpenAI was involved in the “largest theft of labor in human history.”
After: Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is bleak. And at the same time, totally preventable with policy that prioritizes the public interest and public service roles of media. Ack.
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pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
I'm fascinated by how Ossof seems to have suddenly overcome the "if you just tell the public what Republicans are actually doing, they think you're a panic mongering liar" problem.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent, disturbing reporting from Sarah Kliff. Seems like, among other horrifying things, this lawsuit abuser left a placenta in a woman and then charged her twice to remove it.
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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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apartments designated as affordable are sitting empty as the poorest of the poor in the U.S. cannot afford them
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The poorest in the U.S. can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty
“I just keep trying to swim uphill,” says Mathew Davis, 49, of the few hundred dollars he earns a month.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
A question we could face ourselves: what might we do differently, if we accepted that the police are not failing to protect the public, but telling us who they believe is worthy of protection?
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 04/09/2026
It's been educational to learn how much damage a president can do simply through executive overreach. Back in social studies class, they spun us a fairytale about having a real government with checks and balances and a neutral judiciary and whatnot
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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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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 03/09/2026
Working people are tired of hearing about “record profits” while fighting for scraps & struggling to make ends meet. …Especially after the inflation-causing price gouging from these corporations. …Especially after these same corporations received tariff refund checks after it was promised to workers
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Bob Burgess @bobburgess.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What was it like aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln? -Sailors ran an underground economy as stocks ran low. -Energy drinks that cost $3 at the ship store were being resold for $5 to $10. -A 40-day stretch the Wi-Fi went out, severing all ties to families back home. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Weary US Sailors Lay Bare War’s Strain During Thailand Shore Leave
A brief respite for the USS Abraham Lincoln’s exhausted crew underscores the challenges of fighting a Middle East war while maintaining readiness in the Pacific.
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Judiciary Act of 1789 established the 1st Supreme Court, with 6 Justices, we were meant to adapt and grow: “the supreme court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice and 5 associate justices"
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Why does the Supreme Court have nine Justices?
Next Monday night, President Donald Trump will announce his nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy as the Supreme Court’s ninth Justice. So why are there nine seats on the Court, and who set that preceden...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/09/2026
A UN report says the world will likely exceed 1.5°C of warming within years, but rapid emissions cuts and carbon removal could limit the peak, shorten the overshoot and bring temperatures back down later this century.
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UN Report Says Earth Will Overshoot 1.5C Warming, Emission Cuts Can Limit Damage
The report said the overshoot is not a point of no return, and that steps can be taken to ensure it is only temporary.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is such an important story.👇 Opponents of President Donald Trump’s dangerous executive order restricting mail voting say there’s a simple motivation behind the scheme: Democrats vote by mail more than Republicans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats use mail voting more than Republicans. That’s why Trump is attacking it
In 2024, 37% of Democrats reported voting by mail compared to 24% of Republicans, according to the MIT Election Data and Science Lab.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One of those things you were pretty sure was true but now you have causal quantiative evidence in the American Economic Review: business schools trained CEOs to pay workers less in pursuit of maximizing shareholder value www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTUdxQRKA/ Israel attacking kindergartens is now “defending itself?” Not on this planet. Fucking monsters
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Israeli forces raided a kindergarten in Gaza, trapping some 200 Palestinian children under gunfire. Their teachers tried to calm them, saying it was fireworks. #Gaza #Children #Israel #Kingergarten #P...
TikTok video by AJ+
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICYMI — REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “It’s been a year since Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act… and the government continues to withhold over 3 million files. That’s why we’ve introduced (the sequel).” He then names names. 👀
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says: no. amnesty.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 02/09/2026
Today, thousands of Haitians are in chains because Donald Trump decided their lives are a crime. There is no excuse for treating our neighbors with such contempt. The Senate must take the long overdue step of passing our legislation to restore TPS for Haiti. My full statement:
Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Pressley and Clarke Condemn Deportation and Dehumanization of Haitian Nationals (1/2)

“Today, thousands of Haitians are in chains because Donald Trump decided their lives are a crime. They broke no laws, yet that did not stop the Trump Administration from forcing them into the grips of Haiti's violent gangs and instability.

“The Trump Administration has declared Haiti unsafe to travel to, and in recent days alone, gang massacres have left dozens dead, more have been kidnapped, and some of the Haitians this administration deported have already been killed.Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Pressley and Clarke Condemn Deportation and Dehumanization of Haitian Nationals (2/2)

"The American people are sickened by the suffering and blatant targeting this administration has inflicted upon thousands of Haitian nationals, who contribute to our communities and whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was unjustly taken away. Instead of listening to the American people, the Trump Administration has doubled down on its cruelty. There is no excuse for treating our neighbors with such contempt.
 
"The deportations of Haitian TPS holders may have only started weeks ago, but the vicious dehumanization of their communities began long before. Cruelty to Haitians is a policy choice.

“Congress has the power to stop it. We call upon the Senate to immediately take the long overdue step of passing our legislation to restore TPS for Haiti. The lives of Haitians and Americans alike are at stake.”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/09/2026
It breaks my heart that it wasn't the ankle monitor that broke him—it was the way his college classmates treated him for having to wear It. Which says so much about the kinds of hatefulness that permeate American culture and that made it possible for MAGA to gain so much power.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
uh www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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H Mac @hmac.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Or, they could just admit their error and stop digging.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 30/08/2026
I really wish the CDC hadn't laid off all but one of its rabies staff because I bet there are going to be some clinician questions
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