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he/him 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽 🇵🇸 Radicalized University social scientist collecting, curating and utilizing population data across subject areas. Sometimes demographer. Well-being indicators enthusiast. Union proud!

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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
100% this!👇
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.
DHS tweet:
"GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!"
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE has begun Trump's shooting war against the citizens of the United States.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“This is about plunder and power.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
If you don’t already follow these folks, you should right now.
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Doors are open for a limited time! I’ll show you how to paint stunning landscapes just like this through easy to follow step-by-step videos. Join me in the Landscape Painting Studio to learn my unique process.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…” Lawless.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/12/2025
What would Mississippi look like if we stopped talking around the problems and started building solutions together? Tonight at 6 p.m. CT, join us for an honest, hopeful conversation about safety, systems and support for our people, especially our kids. givebutter.com/mfpvip
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/12/2025
Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son was pulled over by ICE and forced to prove he is an American. Two options: 1) ICE deliberately targeted him. 2) ICE is stopping all non-White people without any probable cause and forcing them to prove they are citizens. Hard to say which option is scarier.
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EDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit the power of the Federal Government, not the American People. #Truth
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/12/2025
The VA already slashed 30,000 jobs earlier this year as part of an agency-wide reorganization.
forbes.com
Veterans Affairs Cutting As Many As 35,000 Jobs By End Of Year, Report Says
The VA already slashed 30,000 jobs earlier this year as part of an agency-wide reorganization.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We are heartbroken by the attack at Bondi Beach that targeted the Jewish community during a Hanukkah celebration, as families gathered to mark a sacred holiday. Now and always, we condemn this act of antisemitic violence, and violence in all its forms.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a #Nobel Prize (#Physics). AND #OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM
Black-and-white photograph of Marie Curie in her Paris laboratory. She stands in a long dark dress with a high collar, carefully holding a glass round-bottom flask, surrounded by early 20th-century scientific equipment including a large glass carboy on the bench behind her. The two-time Nobel laureate is captured mid-experiment, focused and composed.Black-and-white photograph of Irène Joliot-Curie in a white lab coat at the Radium Institute. Marie Curie’s daughter and 1935 Nobel Chemistry co-winner stands at a workbench lined with beakers, test tubes, and glassware, her expression serious and concentrated amid the tools of radioactivity research.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I am think this is a valid rabbit hole to explore.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/12/2025
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The World Health Organization reports that 73 million abortions occur worldwide each year. 6 out of 10 unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 of all pregnancies end in abortion. The new WHO fact sheet is here: www.who.int/news-room/fa...
theweek.in
How dangerous are unsafe abortions? WHO report paints a grim picture
A WHO report reveals that 73 million abortions occur annually, with unsafe procedures causing severe physical complications, mental trauma, and major public health burdens
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Memories of a fast fading fall in #vermont
A fall woodland.  Leaves of orange yellow red and brown cover the ground next to a well traveled mountain bike path.  Green fern bunches still stand tall among the leaves. On a smaller yellow birch tree in the foreground, trail markers in blue and red point the way. Above the markers, a custom carved and painted wooden sign presents the image of a mouse doing a wheelie on a mountain bike, with a trailer attached behind and a large piece of cheese in the trailer.  This image represents the trail name, cheddar shredder.  Cheers. A fall image typical in vermont.  A large pile of firewood sits dumped in a driveway.  Several cords worth of good, seasoned wood, harvested from the surrounding forest. Behind the woodpile sits a large woodshed.  It is newly built and sturdy. Old telephone poles have been cut down to size and sunk into the ground for the corners.  A large cattle skull of some sort, perhaps Scottish highland, adorns the top of the shed, some 15 feet above the ground. Behind the shed a dense northeast forest, adorned with fall colors awaits winter.
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Walter @walter1964.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Unless we get rid of Senate, Filibuster, Citizens United and gerrymandering calling America democracy is fucking lie, it's insane that companies have human rights while human rights are taken from us each new administration, fascism didn't start with Trump, he just used tools given to him
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
December 9, 2025
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 9, 2025
When G.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/12/2025
Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/12/2025
I feel this in my bones… THE AMERICAN WORKER IS ALL OF US. Black, white, Latino, Asian, Native, immigrant, union or not. Not the “working class” stereotype. We built this country. We keep it running. Stop dividing. Start recognizing. I have a lot to say open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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The American Worker
Is all of us
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
JFC. The weakening of America continues.
Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
🚨 I am getting a flood of messages from panicked 
@DeptVetAffairs
 employees that there is a bloodbath unfolding as 
@SecVetAffairs
 has quietly issued personnel guidance cutting THOUSANDS of jobs. Heavily hit is mental health and suicide prevention providers! They are gutting the VA and veterans healthcare while we aren't looking! Word is they are even gutting the brand new clinic in Fredericksburg, VA that Collins has been claiming credit for building. This is the privatization they've always dreamed of and veterans are going to pay for it! 
@RepVindman
 #veterans
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/12/2025
Last night, the @dailybeanspod.com donated $10K to the Stonewall Inn Gives Back initiative. We will continue to loudly support communities this administration puts in harm’s way.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/12/2025
Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery. Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Some winter in #vermont #xc #crosscountry #skiing
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
We humans are fatally flawed.
apnews.com
As Russia's Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes
The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses committed by Africa Corps, a new military unit under Russia's direct command.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/12/2025
NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 05/12/2025
Letter: Utah’s Republican legislators and the entire Utah congressional delegation should reflect on the example set by Greg Walker, a Republican state senator in Indiana.
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Letter: Behold Sen. Greg Walker — a Republican state legislator who has a spine
Letter: Behold Sen. Greg Walker — a Republican state legislator who has a spine
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/12/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hakeem Jeffries will never lead the Dems where they need to go in order to help the people. He will choose restoration over reform because he has been groomed by the Establishment. I wish people could finally accept this.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
Sabrina Carpenter replies to WH video: This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Londoners ‘take back’ bridge following white nationalist rally in same spot #London #Ontario Roughly 30 men stood on the Wortley Road overpass holding a “remigration now” sign on Nov. 23 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Londoners ‘take back’ bridge following white nationalist rally in same spot | CBC News
Dozens of Londoners gathered on the Wortley Road overpass Sunday afternoon to spread a message of "community." Their party is in response to a demonstration on Nov. 23, where roughly 30 masked men sto...
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
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Radio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 02/12/2025
Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds.
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Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds 
Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production.
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NowIsTheTime @vtmichael.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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