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Amy Franco

@thomaspoptart.bsky.social
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Midwestern Isthmian 🇵🇦 en PDX. Coyote, bird, and bat enthusiast Board Secretary of Pueblo Unido PDX Mujer del maíz 🌽 🌱

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things are going great
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 19/09/2026
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Rotating view from the top of the Shedd Aquarium where Chicago meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-18 22:36:09 CDT (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: fox32chicago.com // Current Temp in Chicago: 71 F | 21 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: ESE at 9 mph | 15 kph // Humidity: 76%
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A few photos from the city as dangerous levels of wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota blanket the area Thursday afternoon in Chicago.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Still gay 🌈 (arrived ten minutes faster than the Google Maps walk estimate)
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Girls want one thing and it’s to drizzle achiote oil into pollo guisado whilst Brujas plays in the background
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 10/07/2026
Officials at the U.S. Forest Service are proposing new management plans for eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains that include potentially tripling the amount of logging across 5.5 million acres in the next decade. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Public invited to comment on plan to possibly triple logging in eastern Oregon national forests • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The U.S. Forest Service’s updates to the Blue Mountain Forest Plan would allow more logging in the name of wildfire prevention.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
wrote about law imitating sports imitating law imitating ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Different Corrupt Judicial Body Than Usual Grants Emergency Petition From Donald Trump
Finally, a shadow docket decision that is GOOD for the United States.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/06/2026
Hey, how could the parking meter deal that fucked over the city at the end of the Daley administration get worse I wonder...
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 23/06/2026
Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪
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Overdue Grant Renewals at NIH and AHRQ – Grant Witness
The government’s delays renewing in-progress research are leaving researchers in limbo.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
World Cup vibes in Gresham ayer
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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
did you guys know they still allowed good news
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Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report
The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/06/2026
Iris, the oldest wild osprey in the world who lives here in Missoula, had her first egg hatch and now we have a baby osprey on the cam! Yay! www.youtube.com/live/-qvYCbv...
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Hellgate Ospreys Nest Cam | Cornell Lab | University of Montana
YouTube video by Cornell Lab Bird Cams
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Panamá is in Group L so please keep us in your thoughts in this trying time
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Let’s go Moroccooooo 🇲🇦🤞🧿
Mamdani wearing a custom nyc pigeon jersey, deep in conversation TV showing the World Cup game of Brasil v Morocco
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oregon police have continued to shake the trust of immigrant rights advocates as immigration detentions appear to rise. A recent lawsuit alleges Oregon State Police have violated sanctuary laws and new trends reported by PIRC may indicate new issues.
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Concerns Rising About Oregon Police Cooperation with ICE
Oregon State Police face a lawsuit for alleged cooperation with ICE as immigration detentions increase
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Work 15 hours just to buy ONE box of tampons as an incarcerated person. America.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
When DHS and ICE are eventually dismantled, part of that process has to be destroying all this data.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Difficult to remember but I feel like it had to have been sample size fragrance from CB I Hate Perfume because I used to spend a LOT of time poring over the website
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is a substantial power grab by OMB. Comment period starts tomorrow. Here are two relevant excerpts. 1/3
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I love and am unbelievably proud of my friends, who are so smart and trying to do such good and important work, yet am constantly enraged that our government is doing everything possible — often in the pettiest and dumbest ways — to get in the way of or even stop that work.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/05/2026
all of a sudden, the detainees inside Delaney Hall began flashing lights, and the crowd outside screamed to them. “We love you!”
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yes they were always settler-colonial institutions in need of serious reimagination led by labor. No it isn't good that rich morons are burning them down
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Into this cinematic new album from RaiNao 🌴🌕🌊💫🌺
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Sean Hecker @sean-hecker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 24/05/2026
During the immigration raids in Minneapolis, Robert Rice (White Earth Ojibwe), the owner of Pow Wow Grounds, gave away thousands of pieces of hot fry bread to protestors and activists, keeping demonstrators warm and fed at a time of upheaval.
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How Fry Bread Fed Minneapolis During the ICE Raids
At a Twin Cities coffee shop, the Native American community nourished protestors with an Indigenous symbol of resilience.
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The four-week-old critically endangered American Red Wolf pups continue to thrive. The nine wiggly pups are growing more confident each day, venturing farther outside their den with their attentive parents, Fiddle and Violet, always nearby. They will remain behind the scenes at our off-site facility
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/05/2026
“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.
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Everyone In Conversation Under Different Impression As To Which Horrific News Being Discussed
HENDERSON, NV—Solemnly nodding in agreement as they took turns speaking, each person engaged in an intense dinner conversation at a local restaurant Tuesday was reportedly under an entirely different ...
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It’s glute day and I’ve had palta with every meal, real Calle 13 hours over here 🥑🍑
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Josh Cozart @joshcozartwx.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
PHOTOS: Local photographer captures stunning images of Columbia River Gorge thunderstorm www.koin.com/news/oregon/...
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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A coyote walks along railroad tracks near Ping Tom Memorial Park Tuesday in Chicago.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
One of the cooks at Güero was kidnapped by ICE on Friday morning. gofund.me/d15b85dcd
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Donate to Help Bring Poni Home, organized by Ben Skiba
Early Friday morning, May 8th, Jose “Poni” Gongora Poot was forcefully abducted from his car by ICE age… Ben Skiba needs your support for Help Bring Poni Home
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Kaliko Castille @wizkaliko.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My colleague and brother Cayle Tern passed away last week and it’s been really rough for our team as we try to imagine a world without his passionate voice right beside ours advocating for immigrant justice. It was surreal having to write this. www.apanoactionfund.org/blog/honorin...
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Honoring Cayle Tern
May 08, 2026
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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Coastal metropolis
Chicago skyline viewed from north with lake and geese in foreground
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I make incredible faculty photos. I’m probably already a vendor at your university. Calllll me.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Images that make u want to listen to DJ Rashad
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Eep! There are still a few spots left in our Cascades Pika Watch trainings! www.oregonzoo.org/wildlife/cas...
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Cascades Pika Watch
Cascades Pika Watch volunteers conduct 1-2 monthly sitting surveys to track and log pika presence in the Gorge and across the region.
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program…former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers.”
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 05/05/2026
The more data that's available, the more important sourcing discipline becomes. If you're using any of these tools for a story, I'm happy to talk through what the numbers do and don't show. Full News: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed... Detention Report: detentionreports.com
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More immigration data is available than ever. Journalists should proceed with caution. - Poynter
New tracking sites make it easier to follow immigration and enforcement, but journalists still need to verify what they find
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
it’s sad because skeletons are objectively cool and a skeleton dress should be cool but this one is not cool
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
Latrice Johnson and Lamont Hopewell
“When we look back at rally photos, we were always side by side.” Lamont and Latrice deliver looks, but they met delivering packages. As former Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers, they met organizing with the Teamsters for fair pay and better working conditions. Latrice will tell you she doesn’t like public speaking, but she commands the crowd at union rallies. As a mother and Amazon worker, she joined the Teamsters to make more money for her family, and has been organizing ever since. 

Lamont was a Teamsters member through UPS before joining Amazon — only to find tough working conditions, low pay, and virtually no benefits. Lamont’s message to CEOs: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. "If your kid worked at Amazon, what type of benefits would you want them to have?" 
The packages Amazon drivers deliver make New York’s industries run — from high fashion to small businesses. 
Lamont and Latrice have since left Amazon. Their fight to deliver justice isn’t over.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
the hunger games of it all
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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Yseult in Harris Reed Demi-Couture for the 2026 #MetGala.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
OOH I WAS WONDERING WHAT THEY’D WEAR
Janelle Monáe in a dress like AstroTurf entwined with circuitry
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Amy Franco @thomaspoptart.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This looks like she borrowed Cassie’s hideous bridesmaid dresses from Euphoria
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Ghoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026
Bring back the ancient knowledge
Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.
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