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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power

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Bookworm. I ♥: scifi/fantasy, little bit of everything movies & books. Sci & hist junkie. BE WARNED: New followers w/o posts/bios, just promoting yourself? Sorry, Blocked. No auto-followbacks. I re-post a lot, but not outrage news. Sometimes w/ OPINIONS.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · Jan 23

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.

"On January 22, 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau... numbers showed that the Hispanic population of the United States had increased by 4.7 percent since the last count, officially making Hispanics the largest minority group in the country."

A young Hispanic girl with a determined expression crouches against a green sidewalk metal lamp post. In her 2 hands she holds a sign that says in all-caps, "IT'S OUR AMERICAN DREAM TOO!"

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 4m

Oooh! This reminds me of the same thing happening to me c.2010 in my apt's parking lot overnight. I never keep anything valuable in my car, so all they got was a car adapter charger thing. AND they broke one of those annoying sm. triangle windows of the back door which was more expensive to replace!

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 1h

I knew a teen who went to the beach with his family, brought a knife to cut watermelon. Next day he forget it was in his backpack, went to school. School police caught it in the metal detector. Referred to immigration enforcement.

Happened under Obama. The current regime is amplifying OLD problems

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 8h

City officials said an Everett 13-year-old in ICE detention was arrested with only a knife, not a gun, which federal officials previously claimed.

Everett teen detained by ICE was in possession of a knife when arrested - The Boston Globe

An official from the Department of Homeland Security previously said that the teen was in possession of a gun when he was arrested.

trib.al

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 2h

Student journalism is some of the best journalism being done right now. You should read this story.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3h

This is disturbing and creepy for so many reasons, but it’s also bizarre how much of a push there is for people to ignore listening to their own bodies and instead outsource those decisions to flawed technology.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Monster C. Camacho 🧌💀🎃👻 @mc2x.bsky.social · 3h

So many big accounts on this site really need to take their getting-yelled-at-by-strangers kink elsewhere

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

Wait, I'm supposed to do what..?

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

I did Academic Decathlon instead. Made it to state a couple of times. Which was just a chance to goof off out of town bc we hadn't a prayer there. 😄

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

The joys of flopsweat.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

Fanny Cougar?

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

If the post's about a 1981 made-for-tv, then, yeah, it might've been regional? First I hear about it. 🤷‍♀️

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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OuttaMyCandyBowl @outtamylaine.bsky.social · 7h

Still fully bitter about whichever Dem insiders muzzled Tim Walz. He was right, it was working, and it was coalescing as a theme that would work across disparate liberal groups. What a huge failure of understanding modern political cultures.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h

this is really the key insight. it's why the best attacks against them highlight that these violent, sadistic racists are not really able to coexist in society - they aren't just offensive, they're deeply off-putting: weirdos, creeps, etc. bsky.app/profile/junl...

onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

these people know how extreme they are

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 7h

New: A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas' new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System's enforcement of a ban on overnight expression.

Federal judge temporarily blocks key parts of state law that limits campus protests

The law banned “expressive activity” on campuses from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., among other restrictions. “The Court cannot trust the universities to enforce their policies in a constitutional way,” the judg...

www.texastribune.org

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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 8h

really do genuinely feel that our local press needs to find a better word than clash for interactions between federal agents armed to the teeth with chemical munitions and actual guns and some neighbors who are yelling and maybe throwing found objects. not even delving into protests facing the same.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

They’ve heard the cries of the people and it’s that they love porno but wish it felt sadder and more lonely

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 7h

Machado’s record makes a mockery of the idea she is a committed champion of peace, promoter of democracy, or unifying figure.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nobel-peace-prize-venezeuala-war/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

How María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Could Lead to War

Machado’s record makes a mockery of the idea she is a committed champion of peace, promoter of democracy, or unifying figure.

www.thenation.com

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

So far in 2025 the U.S. has lost a total of 33,000 manufacturing jobs.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

They don't have to. 👇🏼

Screencap of New Mexico state legislature.
"Political Composition

There are currently 44 Democrats, 26 Republicans, and Others in the House of Representatives.

There are currently 26 Democrats, 16 Republicans, and Others in the Senate. "

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 8h

Once ranked last in child wellbeing, New Mexico is now leading the nation in early childhood care.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/childcare-for-all-progressivism-new-mexico/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It's Time for Others to Do the Same

The state is setting a powerful example with its first-in-the-nation plan. But the policy has support across the US.

www.thenation.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

The Loving County, Texas, controversy is quite a story. Chip Roy has been going on and on about it.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...

How out-of-towners are moving to ‘take over’ a rich West Texas county

On social media, Malcolm Tanner offers people a free "home" in remote Loving County, saying he plans to register new voters and sweep 2026 elections.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

Ken Paxton just filed for an injunction to prevent Malcom Tanner from letting people live on his property. What happened to Texas, a place where you could do what you wanted on your own property?
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

www.texasattorneygeneral.gov

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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · 8h

George Floyd should still be alive.

His death exposed what too many already knew: justice in America is not equally applied. That same injustice continues at our borders and in our streets.

We honor him by refusing to look away and standing against all systems that deny humanity.

The Source |The Source Magazine Remembers George Floyd On What Would've Been His 52nd Birthday

The Source Magazine Remembers George Floyd On What Would've Been His 52nd Birthday

thesource.com

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 14h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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