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Siobhan Connally

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Don’t tell me what to do. I’m from here: exiledintoyland.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Weeza
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Extraordinary.
Liz Phair in concert at The Egg Albany 9/24/26.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Headline, subhed, and photo: Real government officials are going to engage with Iran. 5¶¶ in: Did we say "aides"? I'm sorry, we meant Trump's flunky son-in-law and his developer buddy, but we won't tell you Witkoff's just his developer buddy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but that there were no breakthroughs.


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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a dark suit with a blue tie as he addresses members of the media.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media in New York Wednesday. He said that as part of any negotiations Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz must be addressed.Credit...Pool photo by Yuki IwamuraEdward Wong
By Edward Wong
Reporting from New York during the United Nations General Assembly

Sept. 23, 2026

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that U.S. negotiators had tried to jump start diplomacy with Iran on its nuclear program through talks on the side of a United Nations summit the previous day.

The flurry of diplomacy came as Iran’s partners, the Houthis, pressed forward with their offensive in the region, widening a second front in a conflict that began when the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February.

Mr. Rubio said that the Americans involved in the talks, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, were carrying out President Trump’s orders to continue a dialogue with Iran that prioritized persuading the country to end nuclear development involving enriching uranium.

Mr. Rubio added that Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, which occurred as a result of the war, must also be addressed.

Mr. Witkoff is a special envoy for Mr. Trump, while Mr. Kushner is a businessman who is the president’s son-in-law and has no government position.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Deep dives like this really put into perspective what Chief Justice Rehnquist was doing in 2000 when he resurrected the Court’s precedents of the 1870s and 1880s, writing that their authors “had intimate knowledge and familiarity with the events surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19/09/2026
I don’t think it takes an effort to see the Klan hood and the hanging imagery. I think it takes an effort not to see them.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)
When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is absolutely true. Stories that came out of editorial board meetings were press releases.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
In 1971, SCOTUS said a neutral policy can still be discrimination if it disproportionately harms Black workers. Under Trump, the EEOC has abandoned this disparate impact liability standard, the DOJ has attacked it, and “reverse discrimination” claims may get easier. New Baby Boom! Lawyered. Out now.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
im not much of a stan for news outlets but every time propublica releases one of its banger investigations, i think "the fuck are the rest of them doing?" signing book deals and preparing for the correspondent's dinner mostly, tbh
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To paraphrase Matt Bernstein, he refused to to pick a side, and in doing so, picked a side.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026
This has got to be the move. You've got to start calling it out, explicitly, every time it happens. Make them embarrassed to do it.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“The country’s response to the worst terror attack in our history was to launch a global war of hysteria that consisted of rage-bombing two countries, destabilizing an entire region, and seeding a police state that has now been fully weaponized by an authoritarian regime against its own citizens.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We could never get to Trump without George W Bush laying the groundwork. Trump isn’t an aberration, he’s just the latest model of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tv scene change. Guy, sitting on couch in figure four. Just sitting there not moving. Me: this is an odd, extension of motionlessness. Quite an artistic choice. Husband returns from kitchen picks up remote control: *resumes play.* Doh!!
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.” #RadioFreeAmerica #politics apnews.com/article/glor...
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Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92
Gloria Steinem, the most visible symbol and potent voice of the U.S. women's movement in the '60s and '70s and a fierce advocate for feminist causes for the rest of her life, has died at 92.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Omg. Too young. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a...
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70 (Gift Article)
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Job title. #wronganswersonly
Pitbull puppy wearing a purple bow tie looking into the camera.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just learned my son pronounces Ewan McGregor’s name EE-wan.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that time Dolly Parton took a pretty ho-hum alt-rock song and was like "this is really gospel music" and not only was she right, she actually made it way better? I do www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUD...
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Dolly Parton - Shine (Official)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Honestly now would be an amazing time for all of us to donate what we can to her flagship charity, The Imagination Library. imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the Supreme Court has had a Republican majority for longer than I have been alive (I am 51 years old) and only court expansion would immediately end the MAGA right's hold on the court and its use of the court to destroy democracy.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Seems like they most certainly did. They put the cameras on private property so they would be out of reach of public disclosure: The cameras should be removed.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I was disappointed in most of the discussion (WAMC RT) on this topic. Every panelist voiced concerns about online radicalization and praise for police (safer sorry tautology) without even wondering if police are the ones online coaching mentally ill people into incriminating themselves.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
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Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state
“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hard to read but allows for hope: time.com/article/2026...
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ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back
An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Disappointing news for Columbia County; Sheriff’s dept bought Flock cameras without permission and located them on private property to avoid telling people.
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Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a letter sent Wednesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters plan to hire Peters to replace his current assistant in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California senators call for ‘maximum oversight’ over conspiracist Tina Peters’ new election job
In a letter sent to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis’ plan to hire Peters.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This post makes me wonder if humor or insight will ever return to NPR. I did not expect Trump to ruin those folks, too.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
none of the people calling ossoff sexist think women are biologically capable of flying planes
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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
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The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The commutation — I had assumed was in good faith — seemed plausible to me. But the GOP has no good left in them at all. I should never assume. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows (Gift Article)
The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Friendly exclamation points.” … and other useless tools.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Contrary to the talking points you are fed, shifting money from police to social services is enormously popular across all components of the income distribution:
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
Thats why the collapse of our public health system is so intrinsically linked to the public not understanding abolition in criminal justice reform spaces. They dont understand PREVENTION. They dont understand population health as opposed to the uplifting of the individual.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Senate Democrats still think that Senate Republicans who voted to install Trump’s corruption crony as the head of our Department of Justice are still their good friends and colleagues.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Become and remain eternally suspicious of ANY rag trying to push this story.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/08/2026
in July, bystander video of another police killing in broad daylight went viral. 6 years since 2020's movement to defund and abolish police, killings have risen—now including Corey Ruiz. organizers place his killing in a long backlash to it, which began immediately: police budgets went up by 2022
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Killing of Corey Ruiz revives calls to shift power from police to communities
Community organizers demand systemic changes after police killed a 38-year-old Black man in Wisconsin
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Republicans wouldn’t let the CDC track and study gun violence in the U.S. Yet, they are now mandating the CDC track abortions.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
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North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”
The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wherein the nation’s adherence to healthcare swirls the drain: newrepublic.com/post/214078/...
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Trump’s New CDC Director Promised Dystopian New Abortion Policy
Dr. Erica Schwartz claimed “abortion surveillance” was key to the CDC’s mission.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A refusal to accept "I don't want to talk to you" from other people as a valid stance that should be respected remains undefeated as the most reliable red flag a guy online can wave
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Just rewatch High Fidelity for the first time since it appeared in the theater in 1995. It holds up too well, sadly.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What stage of capitalism is this?
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Make immigration and naturalization a SERVICE again.
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Siobhan Connally @toyfoto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It’s not just ICE, it’s policing in general. They follow no rules or statutes they don’t create and they investigate themselves with predictable outcomes. Crime is down but jail cells are full. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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As ICE cooperation ban nears, some New York law enforcement agencies prepare to defy it
The state has given local law enforcement agencies until Aug. 25 to end ICE partnerships. Not everyone plans to.
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