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Sarah Unruh

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Former Biology professor trained in Library and Information Sciences

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NO, NYC PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE NOT "FULLY FUNDED" despite what the influencers on social media are regurgitating. Our libraries remain UNDER-FUNDED. Library workers need to be paid MORE MONEY, we need more funds for collections, we need more funds for programming & for capital expenses.
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At Thursday’s Minneapolis City Council meeting, we passed a resolution calling on Hennepin County Sheriff Witt and the University of MN to terminate their Flock Safety cameras with a 9-4 vote. 1/ kstp.com/kstp-news/lo...
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Minneapolis City Council resolution calls on U of M, Hennepin County to ditch Flock cameras
A resolution passed Thursday by the Minneapolis City Council urges the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the University of Minnesota to cancel their contracts with Flock Safety.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So grateful to @jcollins.bsky.social for this interview. It was an especially raw conversation, coming just a day after I learned that Maurice had died. "They are working and working and working some more, and it still isn't enough... There are so many languishing in a manufactured invisibility."
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‘There is No Place for Us’ tests America's promise that hard work brings security
The Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction narrative “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America” follows five families around Atlanta as they seek to keep a roof over their heads and their ...
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.
The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” The @USFWS's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, as revealed by Nesvik's memo, is the perfect blend of evil and stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The details make it clear that the University of Michigan is fully collaborating with fascists because it sees a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy a labor movement. Lots of universities would be willing to do this given the invitation. I expect they will.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Never not relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIsX...
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GoFundMe CEO: We Could Use A Few Fun Ones
YouTube video by Dropout
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
true story: i went to mizzou for work last year and was chatting with the shuttle driver to the airport. he told me his nephews went to KU and he never forgave them “because of the rivalry.” i nodded, thinking sports/forgetting the history. then he adds “you know, because of the civil war.” me: 🫪
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished. Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
Manuscript of forthcoming book Just Beneath the Soil: World War II Through the Eyes of Its Last Witnesses
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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 09/09/2026
one thing organizing for a long time teaches you is that the boss fighting a union is almost never about money, it is almost always about control and power.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don’t want to be too mean about Labor Day but people should know the history!! www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...
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Labor Day Is a Government Scam
Even if the holiday wasn’t always intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE In 1903, Mother Jones marched an army of exploited children to Teddy Roosevelt's summer home. They had missing fingers, crushed hands, hollow chests. He refused to see them. But intense public sympathy, and organizing were stirred. www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
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Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’
Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And too few know about the Black women who worked as Pullman Company maids who were back then called "handmaidens." They did eveything porters did and more.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And they say it’s hard to find new music.
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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“With the latest two casualties, the boat bombing campaign launched nearly a year ago by President Donald Trump’s administration has now claimed the lives of at least 223 people” www.commondreams.org/news/southco...
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'Lawless Killing Spree at Sea Resumes' as US Announces Fresh Boat Bombings | Common Dreams
US military resumes deadly boat-bombing campaign in the Pacific Ocean, sparking fresh accusations of murder.
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
Today Nurse Hammam & his family survived an Israeli bombing in Gaza, but they lost their tent & are now homeless, sleeping on the streets with nothing. They urgently appeal for your help to buy a tent,, food,costing $350. Every donation could be a lifeline for them chuffed.org/project/1844...
Picture of Hammam and his mother conforting Aboodpicture of a bombing
Pivture of Hammam in ICU
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/08/2026
Sean Grayson murdered Sonya Massey in her own home. He died in prison this week, less than a year into his sentence. Grayson himself had two DUIs, a misconduct discharge, and a 110mph chase on his record—and kept his badge anyway. More from Let's Address Illinois State Director Dylan Blaha:
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Police Officer Who Murdered Springfield Woman Dies in Prison
Sonya Massey’s killer died of cancer less than a year into his sentence
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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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If nothing else, if you’ve been depressed about the state of things, you deserve to attend one of these data center rallies. It’s like political amphetemine.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
LowerEd won by eating HigherEd.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One group of people already using the Compliant Technologies shock gloves are public school resource officers in 29 Omaha-area schools. Omaha PD said yesterday that officers have used the gloves twice on students.
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OPD says its school resource officers have shock gloves at 29 schools and they've been used twice on students
OPD says shock gloves have been delivered to school resource officers at 29 Omaha area schools and used twice on students.
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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
Israeli settlers seized the water supply from a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank earlier this summer, preventing Palestinian farmers from growing crops in order to fill a swimming pool.
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Israeli Settlers Cut Off Palestinian Farmers’ Water to Fill a Swimming Pool
Marketed as a tourist site for Israelis only, the pool has the explicit backing of the Israeli government.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
A new documentary American Doctor tells the story of 3 U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza along with local medical staff who risk their lives on a daily basis to care for the sick and wounded. Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023.
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Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
it's very dangerous to speak the truth in politics if you've got rent to pay
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“But it’s not just that the plaintiffs incorporate the land and river into their spiritual ceremonies—they consider the land and river to be living beings and relatives in their own right, and that acknowledgment is at the center of how they worship and recognize divinity” 🔥 by @candicequestions.com
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Episode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.
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Three Cups of Tea - If Books Could Kill
In 1993, a desperate man stumbled into a remote village in the foothills of the Karakoram mountains. After the residents nursed him back to health, he placed his hands on the village elder's shoulders...
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 05/08/2026
The biggest mass funeral in Gaza was held this week for 112 people (including 44 children) that were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in 2023. Their bodies were only recently recovered from the rubble in an operation that spanned across two weeks.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The original Red Scare in the U.S. was as much about destroying Black radicals & controlling Jewish dissidents as it was about the Soviet Union. I have read so much about the history.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/07/2026
Happening now in Chicago: community members and activists are in the La Villita/Little Village neighborhood to demonstrate against continued ICE violence in across the country. In just the last two weeks, ICE agents have killed 2 men. A 3rd died running from agents, and a 4th died in ICE custody.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Today's delight: www.instagram.com/reel/Da5uZJ9...
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Dim on Instagram: "Is this the end of an era 😟"
273K likes, 7,627 comments - hellodimeji on July 17, 2026: "Is this the end of an era 😟".
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Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 18/07/2026
fuck ice
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/07/2026
Memphis is under siege from the federal government. This is hideous.
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Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis
Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 02/07/2026
Hell yeah we are
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Asheville bookstore sues SC Corrections for destroying their books
Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago
A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
St. Louis is required by state law to spend 22 percent of its general revenue on policing! Where are the state legislators introducing bills requiring that 22 percent gets spent on libraries and parks?
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
An international panel of jurors found Israel and Western governments guilty of genocide, ecocide, and forced starvation in Gaza.
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Prosecutors at International Tribunal on Palestine Accuse Israel of Ecocide
Prosecutors at the International People’s Tribunal on Palestine decried Israel’s destruction of farms and water sources.
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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
MARINE ECOLOGIST MONA
KHALIL HAS PASSED AWAY
AFTER SUSTAINING INJURIES IN AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKEMona and a turtle in Lebanon
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