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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 19h

Would you like a little good news? The immigrant childrens detention center I've protested at myriad times (Also at its landlords house) has closed and will now be a project to house the unhoused.

As much as I'd love to take credit, it's apparently because SW Key no longer gets $$ from Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Houston Announces New $16 Million Low-Barrier Homeless 'Super Hub'

The City of Houston is spending $16 million to turn a former migrant shelter into a homeless “super hub”—a facility officials say will streamline access to services, but critics warn will damage the c...

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 22h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17h

Some Americans think making America weaker, poorer, more chaotic, less reliable, with fewer friends, worse relationships with democracies, and damaging international institutions America set up and benefited from is good.

Not sarcasm. I think they’re very wrong, but they’re getting what they want.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 7h

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 17h

He's such an eloquent speaker. I imagine his former students absolutely adored him.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 18h

A lot of folks are talking about accountability for the people who chose to work for ICE. Another reason that’s so important? The state empowering ICE agents to act with such violence and hate means a whole lot of genies are out of the bottle now. 1/2

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17h

The more I talk to people the more I hear stories about how much harder everything is getting. Check on your people if you can. ❤️

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

Unprecedented corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 19h

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 19h

Love pumpkin cookies...but with chocolate chips added to the recipe.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 23h

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 1d

Violence to a young girl...the worst of men...

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected. n.pr/48scGty

Smithsonian museums and National Zoo set to close as shutdown takes its toll

The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Terri Langford @tlangford.bsky.social · 2d

Texas youth camp owners say cost of implementing new safety requirements will cripple them www.texastribune.org/2025/10/10/t... via @texastribune.org

Texas youth camp owners say cost of implementing new safety requirements will cripple them

During a Friday state hearing, parents of July 4 flood victims said camps should prioritize the safety even if costs are high.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 1d

Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the removal of all rainbow sidewalks in Texas.

TikToker Kim Abrahamson Moore responded to the news with this pic of her driveway.

#LoveIsLove #Resist

Kim Abrahamson Moore's driveway with beautiful trees, a dog, and a rainbow sidewalk.

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo Calls on U.S. Bishops to stand up for migrants rights
my latest...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 1d

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Lizonthego @lizonthego.bsky.social · 1d

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 1d

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 2d

We are so unprepared. Kennedy is going to bungle this so badly.

Glad I got my vaccine already, at least.

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Japan reports spike in flu cases, surpassing 'epidemic' threshold, 135 schools shut

4,030 cases detected in the week starting September 22, up 957 from the prior week

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Marlo Garnsworthy @icebird.bsky.social · 2d

As a birder this breaks my heart. As a citizen of this extraordinary planet, this breaks my soul.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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