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Alicia @xoaliciarose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I dipped my toe into advocacy with Amnesty International and their work against the health penalty when I was a young high schooler, nearly 3 decades ago. I hoped that knowing the reality of the death penalty would sway public opinion. I see now that so many know and simply don’t care.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15/05/2026
This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots
“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Really helpful new data @centeronbudget.bsky.social @joannalefebvre.bsky.social extends what researchers have known since the early 00’s Most voucher users were never in public school. These are subsidies for existing choices. And add new costs for states.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Only Republicans Invited to Intellectual Freedom Event
The Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa hosted an opening event last December—but only invited Republicans, The Gazette in Cedar Rapids reported Sunday.
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Alicia @xoaliciarose.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The state of Iowa has a population of 3.19 million.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Please share and sign if you agree with my open letter calling for Botstein’s immediate resignation katemanne.substack.com/p/an-open-le...
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An Open Letter to the College President Who Maintained Close Ties with Epstein
If you agree with my general sentiments here, please comment below—just “signed” or “seconded” is sufficient.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mood in minneapolis right now
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)
Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow.

“A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis”

via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/01/2026
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 08/01/2026
Elle Simone Scott, a chef, food stylist, and cookbook author who was the first Black woman to join the cast of “America’s Test Kitchen,” has died.
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Elle Simone Scott, culinary trailblazer, has died - The Boston Globe
Scott was diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after she started working at America’s Test Kitchen and became an advocate and educator, working to increase awareness of the disease.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 10/10/2025
"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2025
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time. Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense. 🧵
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I’ve thought about what the US would look like if signs like this commemorating SA and DV were posted where these harms had occurred. There would be no place without a sign.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantlyHer proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Retailers warned that raising wages would "force" them to raise prices and to use automated checkout. Fed min wage remained flat, but they raised prices & used automated checkout anyway. Result: Workers got even poorer as customer service plummeted while prices & profits soared.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 21/08/2025
The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.
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The Wage Gap Between CEOs And Workers Is Widening—And This Popular Company Is The Biggest Offender
The CEOs of the country's lowest-paying large companies made $17.2 million on average last year. Their workers made $35,570.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 11/08/2025
Steep year-over-year drop in car and air travel solidifies steep economic losses for U.S. tourism this year.
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Canadian Car Visits To U.S. Plunge 37% In July—Seattle, Portland, Detroit Hit Hardest
Steep year-over-year drop in car and air travel solidifies steep economic losses for U.S. tourism this year.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It's funny to be in love with something for more than twenty years and the love never fades. Will always love seeing true tailors at work. Unfortunately these sorts of small shops continue to disappear. IG soulsofitaly
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds
Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New post: Tom Walton highlights medical research that found a correlation between nitrate-contaminated public drinking water and rising rates of cancer. This science deserves more attention in Iowa. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/07/14/n...
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Nitrate-contaminated water linked to higher cancer rates
Tom Walton: Medical research has found a correlation between nitrate-contaminated public drinking water and rising rates of cancer.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I can't stress enough how wrong and disingenuous the most recent wave of COVID revisionism is. The *only period* when Democratic counties had higher death rates was April-May 2020. From June 2020 onwards, Republican laxity and denialism were the most powerful force driving deaths.
Chart showing higher death rates in Republican counties starting in June 2020
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/06/2025
"The immigration detention system has become a testing ground for authoritarianism." - @silkys13.bsky.social
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
According to this chart we are currently experiencing the lowest rate of COVID deaths since March 14, 2020. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
Chart showing 267 weekly deaths from COVID on May 3, 2025. On March 14, 2020 there were 60.
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Alicia @xoaliciarose.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
May we never normalize being ruled by people who lead from the position that life on earth is merely a prequel. I don’t consent to joining a death cult.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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Alicia @xoaliciarose.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Unfortunately the National dems have all but abandoned Iowa. Our citizens are ready for a change, our governor is not running for reelection. Hopefully we can get some positive energy and investment into this state.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.
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Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Brand new updated details on how the tax bill enriches rich people, advantages private schools over all other charities, hurts public schools, creates a tax shelter and hurts states. With state by state numbers!
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House Tax Bill Enlists the Wealthy to Spread Private School Vouchers
The House tax plan cuts charitable giving tax incentives for donors to most nonprofit groups while roughly tripling the incentive available to donors to groups that fund private K-12 school vouchers. ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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