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Immigrant NYer amplifying smart people for the algorithms. Co-founder, STROIKA, Inc. - building better connected & more resilient anti-authoritarian movements globally.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
1/ This is the private prison that Shane Bauer spent four months undercover at. That was before it started being used as an immigration concentration camp, but conditions and medical care were already horrific: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
as a constant-yet-fluctuating disaster, which for most people mostly happens in the news, but if you work in a related field it's changed everything, and at any time the effects can randomly devastate someone you know or somewhere you live, this presidential administration is weirdly like COVID
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 28/02/2026
A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 27/02/2026
On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W
Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026
“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)
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Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday
Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
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Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco
The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 04/02/2026
Oh. So they do understand why Black people want police to lose qualified immunity. It's amazing how much clarity people suddenly have now that the children being harmed are not mostly Black.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A speech on sovereignty everyone should hear.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/06/2025
The solution to newspapers being owned by shits is not in fact to refuse to read daily news That won’t save us
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
part of the reason people don't want the history of this period taught or understood is to make this illegible to people. it's easy to swallow thought ending cliches about which venerated figure was a "man of their times" if you remain studiously unaware of what their times actually were
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
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Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’
When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
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Just Call Me Frank @justcallmefrank.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
At this point having to watch the USA go into a war it shouldn't is now a tradition passed down through generations in this country.
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When @scaachi.bsky.social tells you the internet isn't fun even for HER anymore, it's time to get off the internet. slate.com/technology/2...
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The Internet As We Knew It Is Over. The Only Thing Left Is to Go Outside
We used to have fun online. Not anymore.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One of the worst parts of getting older is seeing how little we have learned and how quickly we forget The same mistakes, over and over, in the exact same way
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 17/06/2025
Lots of people are in an abusive relationship with the NYT, and I just want to say to them: they're constantly gaslighting and negging you. Once in a while they'll do something nice and you latch onto that hoping they've changed, but they haven't and they won't. You deserve better. Time to move on.
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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Art imitates life. Closely. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state
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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE. The Matrix is older than ICE. Legally Blonde is older than ICE. We're not talking about a venerable American institution. We're talking about post-9/11 Patriot Act overreach. Claw that power back. Destroy ICE.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/06/2025
The folks hollering about “family values” are out here tearing families apart with unlawful ICE raids, militarized police, & the weaponization of government. All while ripping away food & healthcare from working-class families. Are the family values in the room with us?
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
They fight against reparations for Black Americans but they have $135 million to spend on a whim to deploy military members to a U.S. city.
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
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Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
There are so many horrific things happening all at once in this Trump regime that it feels impossible to address or resist it all. My heart is heavy.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The real, ideological enemy isn't MAGA or ICE or Israel or Russia or etc etc etc. It's dehumanization. It's the idea that some groups of people do not deserve human rights and must be purged Anyone who follows these assholes into that cesspit has already lost
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Multiple people set on fire in what FBI calls ‘targeted terrorist attack’ on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
“It was like this fireball … it’s almost like it was a gun of fire,” one witness said of the Sunday afternoon attack outside the Boulder County Historic Courthouse.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”
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The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far
The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 25/05/2025
George Floyd should be alive today. He should be raising his daughter, living his life. 5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags. His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.” Let’s stop failing her, and him. Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin. He should still be alive.
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Eric Chenoweth @ericdchenoweth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
An important article from @justsecurity.org by journalists who saw a nascent free press overpowered by 2 repressive regimes. @tatyanastroika.bsky.social & Roman Badanin advise on what needs to be done to fight back against Trump's repression & intimidation so this precious freedom endures here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS. Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!” Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A @reuters.com investigation identified 11 judges whose families faced threats after they ruled against President Trump. Many have come after billionaire Elon Musk attacked them on his social media platform. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2025
that single sentence is going to drive me insane
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Golden Age of Corruption
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19/04/2025
An important message.
Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"
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