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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 7h
“These are systemic inequalities – problems so deep-rooted ⁠that, in fact, I’m glad that high-school students and young people in general are speaking up. I hear them, and I support them, and ‌I hope the people all over there will do the same.” ~ Victor Wembanyama
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NBA star Wembanyama to French students: ‘I hear you’
San ​Antonio Spurs player Victor Wembanyama offers solidarity to students protesting conditions in schools in France.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13h
So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.
Ruha’s title slide for “Reimagining Leadership” with a quote by Saidiya Hartman: “Care is the antidote to violence.”
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13h
So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13h
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h
Once again, Federal fascism is already here and people aren't "complying in advance," they are simply COMPLYING. Some people got mad when I said in late 2024 that most people are not brave which is why we need collective action. There's strength in numbers. Most people are not brave on their own.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 7h
🚨Sen. Gustavo Rivera caught two plain-clothed ICE agents who claimed to be investigating a shooting carried out by their colleagues in the Bronx. However, they appeared to conduct the investigation in highly illicit manners.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h
Read Schumer’s statement about ICE shooting a New Yorker with a small kid in the car and I keep coming back to this analogy
Senate Democrats' DHS
"Reforms" Shaping Up To Be Another Kneeling Kente Cloth
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"Body cams" vague demands of "accountability," but no attempt to cut DHS's obscene budget is a recipe for status quo maintenance.
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Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · 7h
We’ve gone from unscheduled state-sanctioned death by firing squad to scheduled executions by firing squad.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 7h
What are @wmata.com workers doing here??? Nothing?? WORSE???
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10h
Most people in the USA have been very willing to allow a great deal of state violence so long as they do not need to witness or experience it regularly. MAGA has used this to push the limit of how much violence the USA will tolerate. There is no reason to think the escalation will stop.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 8h
When members of the IRB that reviewed a study are resigning in protest because they recognize the unethical design of the study and the avoidable harm it will cause, maybe it is a sign to no proceed with said study. Great reporting in the guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 29/07/2026
new stickers just arrived at hq
Black stickers that say NO CLAUDES NO MASTERS
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Michelle @wmichellewho.blacksky.app · 8h
'His radio show, "Mambo in the Morning" on Poder 97.1 FM, has become a trusted source for entertainment and local news for the Latino community [and many of the rest of us]... "Johnny Mambo" was there from the beginning [2015 station founding].'
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He connects the Latino community through the airwaves
WXXI's Hispanic Heritage Month Series features Latino radio DJ and personality Johnny Mambo.
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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 8h
A Korean king ordered a bunch of linguists to come up with a written language to increase literacy due to the difficulty of chinese and they came up with one of the easiest to read languages in existence.
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StoriesbySammi🦋 @storiesbysammi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bureau of Land Management just approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to Nine Mile Canyon, UT, home to 10,000+ rock art images spanning 8,000 years. 47 historic sites sit in the blast zone. It's for oil tankers. Here's what's actually happening 🧵
The Bureau of Land Management approved blasting through 100-foot canyon walls at the entrance to the world's longest art gallery. So oil tankers can drive through it.

Nine Mile Canyon, Utah holds more than 10,000 cultural, historical and archaeological resources, including over 1,000 known rock art sites containing more than 10,000 individual images. People have used this canyon for at least 8,000 years.

The blasting happens in Gate Canyon, the entrance corridor into that gallery. Federal surveys have already found 47 historic sites along this one stretch of road alone. And it's not only the rock art. Threatened Mexican spotted owls use cliff habitat in the canyon, including areas near the proposed blasting. BLM did the minimum environmental review required and barreled ahead anyway, to move oil out of the Uinta Basin faster. Up to 1,000 vehicles a day, roughly half of them heavy tankers.

This isn't BLM's first swing at this road. Duchesne County tried the same realignment in 2015 and again in 2022. Both times, public opposition killed it. This time, BLM posted it quietly in March with no public notice, denied conservation groups' request to even weigh in, and approved it in April anyway.

It's the same playbook that just got this administration stopped at Big Bend National Park, except "stopped" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There, a judge halted construction October 2nd, but only after bulldozers had already torn through ground Park Service archaeologists hadn't finished studying. They found pottery and artifacts underneath that equipment they never got the chance to protect first. A win in court doesn't un-crush what's already crushed.

Three groups sued over Gate Canyon this week. But a lawsuit takes months. A blasting crew takes days.THE HISTORY OF THIS ROCK ART

This canyon isn't one culture's story. It's layers of different peoples writing onto the same walls and the same ground across thousands of years.

Its rock art spans the Archaic, Fremont, and Ute periods. The Fremont lived here roughly 950 to 1250 AD, farming corn, beans and squash using small irrigation systems off Nine Mile Creek. Their panels show daily life and belief, abstract designs, hunting scenes, animals, people. Later, Ute people added their own rock art to the canyon, layered right alongside the Fremont record, in a style archaeologists describe as more dynamic.

The road through this canyon has its own history too. It was built in 1886 by Buffalo Soldiers, Black cavalrymen of the U.S. 9th Cavalry, to supply Fort Duchesne on the frontier. For 25 years it carried stagecoaches, mail and freight into the Uintah Basin.Nine Mile Canyon rock art in Utah
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A girl in my grade got her period in a very public way while wearing white shorts, and instead of humiliating her, all the girls rallied around her and escorted her to the bathrooms. Later, we hassled anyone who tried to make fun of her. I felt so bad for little Carrietta.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Anyone else shoot someone six times, they’re going to jail at least until the police can figure out a narrative of what’s happened.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/10/2026
Klan ass federal government
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OMG OMG OMG AHHHHHHH people.com/crazy-rich-a...
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Sequel TV Series in the Works with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng and Michelle Yeoh
HBO has officially greenlit an eight-episode ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ sequel series, with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng and Michelle Yeoh returning to reprise their roles. The series will pick ...
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I expect these conversations will be similar to what we're having in lower and secondary schools, so if you're headed into that field, check this out. #TLSky
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/10/2026
I got accidentally mayoed for the first time in a while. It was an Italian sandwich bought from a pizzeria. I went back today and ordered a chicken parm, and asked if the chicken parm had mayo on it and they said no it has a pesto aioli and 1. that's wrong 2. WHY DO YOU NOT SAY SO
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
E2 better open with Amber Midthunder filing a mandated reporting incident with local police after witnessing the shower attack. All of the girls who filmed it also likely violated school policies and are eligible for expulsion.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I suspect that I'm going to struggle as a high school.educator watching the new Carrie because only 1 ep in and I'm already flummoxed. How are these teachers not noticing this extremely obvious bullying? Why do none of these kids at this fairly well resources school have laptops?
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m pretty sure the 8th amendment applies to broadcasting an execution as a form of entertainment.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026
@advocate.nyc.gov says those of us with more privilege have to step up for our immigrant neighbors. also fuck anyone who supports this evil.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of evitability.
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EXCLUSIVE: AI surveillance startup Flock Safety to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say
Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered ​surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces...
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Chuck🏳️‍🌈 @mooney039.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s kind of awesome that Florida state will kill the “protect college sports act” because they literally cannot go one more second being awful at every sport that matters in the ACC They’d much rather go 3-9 in the B1G instead
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here's what we know about the ICE shooting in Marble Hill, protesters are gathered outside NYP The Allen Hosptial, where the man who was shot was thought to have been taken. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/08/f...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the funniest thing here is it's not even his main point. it's just a casual backhand as he thumps him for supporting data centers.
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Phil McKenna @mckennapr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can the U.S. move quickly enough to rebuild its electric grid before the next crisis? An excellent, deep dive on transmission capacity, bottlenecks and interconnection queues by @kendrawrites.com atmos.earth/climate-solu...
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The Clean Energy Transition Has a Grid Problem. Here’s How to Fix It. | Atmos
The question is no longer whether the system must be rebuilt—it is whether the country can rebuild it before the next crisis.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
This is why I bring up the fact we make jails and prisons into spaces for our entertainment. The titillation is the specter of someone being raped and/or stabbed and it’s a source of content across prestige, mainstream, and less formal entertainment.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
This is why I want to emphasize that this type of behavior is seen or called for throughout US history.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Life as a brown person in the U.S.
Being brown in Trump's America means having to send messages like this to my children. 

You kiddos know what to do in case ICE pulls you over?
"I'm a U.S. Citizen, am I being detained or am i free to go". I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights. do not concent to search or questioning. I do not answer questions.
You'll have to repeat it several times
Record yourselvesWith the ICE surge happening all over I worry about my children getting harassed by these goons. My children are citizens, but ICE doesn't care. It's a scary time for all of us. And if you say "if they're legal you have nothing to worry about" then I can only conclude that you're willfully ignorant and nott paying attention to the horrors that citizens and immigrants are experiencing. Citizens have been shot, over 500 detained, some even deported. Many have been lost in the system for months until a lawyer proves their citizenship. There is no due process for people of color in America when facing ICE. You don't have any idea the mental stress we are living with. I worry about everyone, but I worry most about our children.
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can Bluesky do something to make sure public executions don't go in anyone's feed?
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/10/2026
🧵3/ Research later confirmed HIV was circulating in the US years before Dugas was infected. "Patient zero" can imply blame and turn someone living with an infection into a scapegoat. Taylor knows a thing or two about the power of a narrative. This one has real victims. Words matter. 💙
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/10/2026
🧵2/ In the 1980s, Canadian flight attendant Gaëtan Dugas was labeled "Patient O" (for "Outside California") during an AIDS investigation. The O became a zero, and he was wrongly portrayed as the man who brought HIV to the US. He was vilified. And the story was false.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/10/2026
The Texas Tribune reports on the local officials in Texas who have continued to use Flock cameras, after the governor froze funding for them:
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Flock is keeping state-funded cameras on in Texas
Some local officials have suggested they expect Abbott will reinstate funding for the surveillance cameras, which are politically unpopular, after the election.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/10/2026
Imagine being proud of this shit. What's next, a DOD OnlyFans trained on the detainees at Gitmo?
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...
A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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A. Chill @atchill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Related: Lynching Postcards - TRUTH IN PHOTOGRAPHY share.google/4LktXLpGxV6r...
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Lynching Postcards
After the Civil War, photographs of lynchings , usually made by unidentified photographers, were published as postcards, often inscribed with racist texts or poems, to be distributed, collected, or...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
oof.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
So no, I don’t think we should have a special day of mourning where we don’t have to acknowledge our own guilt. I think we need to remember both what was done to us and what we did.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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