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amy 🍉

@violetsakinacy.bsky.social
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Feminist bookworm. F1 fan (LH44). Posts range from foreign policy geekery, politics, snark, cats & the occasional Arabic vocab word.

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amy 🍉 @violetsakinacy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Israeli escalation is so significant that at first when I saw the headline— “Israel strikes Hamas in Doha”— I thought it was a metaphorical, negotiating screed, not a literal air strike.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
In the end, we’re going to have to make some choices about what R1 universities are: institutions of higher learning, pure inquiry, and broad-based research or money machines that blow in the wind with donors and the latest trends. Only one path is viable long term, in my opinion.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.
Black and white photograph showing an Aerial perspective of crowd boarding buses in front of Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, California, 1942.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
this is weird. this is weird, right?
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The best part about watching Bari Weiss’ idiot progeny come on this platform is watching them get absolutely shellacked for printing hasbara. FP is effectively the modern Def Stürmer, and for CBS to even consider buying this rag is a travesty
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amy 🍉 @violetsakinacy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Which is ironically true: they were calorie-limited by Israeli’s blockade for years. www.emro.who.int/emhj-volume-...
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Nutrient intakes and adequacy among preschool children under blockade in Gaza City, Palestine
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Crawford @cr-wford.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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amy 🍉 @violetsakinacy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Their poor health is an admission of guilt! What do you think starvation does to the body? This is like a victim of a death march succumbing to exposure, and blaming them for not wearing a coat.
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Scott 📎😷 free Link defund/abolish 12 Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 @smenor.phd · 16/08/2025
I’m not saying that you never get to come back after you fuck up but bad actions need to have consequences and if you cause horrible pain and misery you shouldn’t get to just make some tweets and promise to gerrymander and have people suck you off for it en masse. Please have some fucking standards
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
watching the US flicker and dissolve like a defeated JRPG boss creature
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I think the EU should consider funding a Voice of Democracy program to broadcast pro-democracy content into the US...
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Why are we talking about Rahm Emanuel as if he doesn't have a well-established executive record of fecklessness & unfitness? We do not have to settle for bandying about the idea of Rahm Emanuel, for we are already cursed with the fact of him.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
There’s a brand of political thinker (call them “normie optimists”) that reflexively treats this all as ephemeral. “Just wait for the midterms. Focus on the right messaging and win those swing districts.” I just want to stare at them and say “Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime judgeship.”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Breaking: Children Starving To Death In Gaza Were Actually Already Pretty Hungry Before This Started. Exclusive To The New York Times
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I've had people tell me that we with a straight face that we can't say Anne Frank was murdered, because she probably died of typhus, not in the gas chambers.
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amy 🍉 @violetsakinacy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I don’t understand why a brand would self-own like this. It’s giving Assistant to the Regional Manager.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
theonion.com
‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Jesus Christ we’re not rehabilitating the Kims, we’re not doing Monarchy is Good But From the Left Now
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.
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amy 🍉 @violetsakinacy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Reading a book on art symbolism published in the 50’s; it opens with this review by a 12 yr old (authors wanted the subject accessible to kids). It stuck out bc how many kids that age under this current education system/AI rot can write and analyze like this? I’ve see flat out illiteracy recently.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 22/06/2025
Wondering if this shirt is still available
Tulsi Gabbard selling a shirt that says No War With Iran
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I feel like having the Pope and the AntiChrist be American at the same time is a little bit much.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/05/2025
This is actually rather comforting
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
House was a wild show looking back. It was like: HOUSE: I will shoot the patient in the head. THE VILLAIN: I do not think we should let a belligerent drug addict with a firearm execute the patient. *BLAM* PATIENT: I’m cured! CUDDY: Dammit, House, you’re a loose cannon but you get results!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025
the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Asylum seekers, legal residents and applicants with dates in an immigration court are NOT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. Being a non-citizen does NOT make someone undocumented.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/04/2025
Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Where did Pope Francis go wrong with America's right-wing Catholic bloggers? For one thing, his celibacy was voluntary.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where?
The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Right-wing American Catholics *really* do not get how much right-wing American Evangelicals hate them.
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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 15/04/2025
living through the rise of fascism lets me know how much of it occurs just because people don’t want to appear alarmist
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025
I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
what kind of shithole party boos Zelensky and cheers the Tate brothers
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
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