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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

An ice storm in Fayetteville AR in 2009. We got up to ~2" of ice in parts of the area. Some were without power for more than a week. The craziest thing about it was hearing very large tree branches break and fall. fayettevilleflyer.com/2019/01/28/r...

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Remembering the 2009 ice storm in Fayetteville

This past weekend was the 10-year anniversary of the ice storm that ground the city to a halt.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I want to support public broadcasting but NPR plays the "Nice Polite Republicans" bit way too much, they structure everything around it so that readers are led to believe problems caused or made worse by Republicans are acts of god and forces of nature.

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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Only peripherally relevant, but this is such a good gif.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All

In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/01/2026

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 10/01/2026

NEW: These are ICE agents removing evidence from the shooter's home. They are not DOJ, they are Jonathan Ross's friends and coworkers, not DOJ. This agent removing Ross's personal computer was reported yesterday Jan 9 for boxing in a volunteer and telling them "I'll dedicate my next arrest to you"

Face shot closeup of ICE agent removing a PC from Ross's home

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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

My lab is recruiting PhD students for fall 2026. Please reach out if interested!

The Language Processing Lab at the University of Arkansas is recruiting a PhD student to start in the fall of 2026. Our lab examines the basic cognitive processes involved in understanding written text, mostly fiction while being read by skilled adult readers, with an emphasis on reference comprehension, inferences, and negation, among other topics. We use multiple behavioral methods, including priming tasks, reaction time, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking. The University of Arkansas PhD program has a growing group of cognitive psychologists, with several labs in the department investigating memory, creativity, and other aspects of cognition. Funding is through teaching and research assistantships. The university also has generous fellowships available for competitive applicants.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/11/2025

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

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Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law

Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means! Lots of fresh info in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/10/2025

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

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Susan E. Brennan @susanelise.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The #NSFGRFP solicitation is out. Deadlines are pushed to Nov. 10, 12, 13, 14. However, 2ND-YEAR GRADUATE STUDENTS ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE. This is unfair to those who delayed applying or who withdrew last year due to missing letters (please contact me if this is you). www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/09/2025

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

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Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

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Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

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Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2025

They're going to keep going until they get trans people killed. They want trans people murdered en mass.

A screenshot of a repost by Elon Musk of a tweet from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog). The tweet reads: “Transgenderism is a death cult. The largest, most well funded, and deranged death cult that this country has ever seen.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Putin is an authoritarian who won his last election with 87% of the vote and murdered his main political rival.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2025

Well, it's Fustilarian Friday again and the NIH director does not disappoint with his new Statement of NIH Priorities. Despite a cover letter promising that his has made it his lifelong mission to resists any form of political influence on science, the document includes this abomination.

Ensuring evidence-based health care for children and teenagers identifying as transgender:

The state of the scientific literature regarding optimal care and support approaches for children and teenagers identifying as transgender and those diagnosed with gender dysphoria is described in the recent HHS review of treatment for pediatric gender dysphoria
. In accordance with these data, there are clearly more promising avenues of research that can be taken to improve the health of these populations than to conduct studies that involve the use of puberty suppression, hormone therapy, or surgical intervention to treat gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence in minors. By contrast, research that aims to identify and treat the harms these therapies and procedures have potentially caused to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, or gender incongruence, and how to best address the needs of these individuals so that they may live long, healthy lives is more promising.

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

DC police are using excessive force against Black people

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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I spent about 1/3 of my waking hours as a kid across the street at the Irving Park Y and had no idea that this building had an interesting history. My excuse is that I was a kid. Thanks for posting this!

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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Same. It's so weirdly calming.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/08/2025

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard. Don't print lies in the newspaper

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

He's promising to protect the integrity of the data by firing statisticians who follow established methods of data collection and processing whenever those methods yield numbers that don't please the boss.

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Bill Levine @whlevine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Needed to last night. The lavatories didn't work. Way to go, American. Enjoy the social media chuckles.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Forget about what year it is. What century is it? nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

Nashville Banner: Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/07/2025

In Arkansas, organizers working on ballot initiatives already face a mountain of technical rules to satisfy — down to the color of ink that notaries must use on petitions. The state this spring made the obstacle course even tougher. boltsmag.org/new-rul...

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“It Just Feels Like Death”: Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives

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WIRED @wired.com · 15/07/2025

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

we are so cooked

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) writes he "can't help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role" in the Texas floods.
One of Florida's highest-ranking officials is implementing policy based on beliefs not commensurate with reality.
In fact, a rudimentary middle school science education would be sufficient to explain why these conspiracy theories hold absolutely no merit whatsoever, and are as outlandish as they are apocryphal.
Many may consider it deeply concerning that such a high-ranking government official is subscribing to wild ideas from the Land of Make-believe.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash
untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities
and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual
assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal
resources Congress intended. The majority apparently
deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very
real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not
support such an inequitable result.
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The President must take care that the laws are faithfully
executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule
undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such
abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Yet another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of government issued on the shadow docket with not even a single word of explanation.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Here we go again: Over an acerbic dissenting opinion by Justice Sotomayor (joined in full by Justices Kagan and Jackson), #SCOTUS, with no explanation, grants a stay in the Department of Education RIFs case—effectively clearing the way for the Trump administration to dismantle much of the agency:

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the conservative majority wouldn’t let Biden halt a single border program, in a case where plaintiffs did not have standing and the actions were clearly lawful (as they later affirmed!), but did let Trump kill an entire Department via clearly unlawful actions.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

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