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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 9h

Am I the only one who sees sad faces on the potatoes?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

If Dems are in control, why are they airing this on the airport TVs?
www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 10h

I still remember when @schatz.bsky.social seemed like one of the good ones.

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 9d

The ADL cares about Jews the way Columbia cares about students.

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 9d

I mean you are not far off.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Um, so RFK Jr. thinks it’s better if you’re circumcised . . . late? True, you won’t be given Tylenol then—you’ll be put on a propofol drip!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

And on US censorship: “When They Came for Culture”

drive.google.com

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

Read all about it—

How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel

As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.

www.thenation.com

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

She seems to be back already? Or at least, her account is here.

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

So true. Maybe I will write one for you.

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

I grew up with the still-living @thedanrather.bsky.social, who was always my favorite of the three big network anchors. You could tell he actually cared about the stories he was reporting.

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

I am still so confused about this language. Why should we care if people get sick, if people die? If these kinds of comments have you nodding your head in approval, you just might be a piece of shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sean Duffy on polls showing Republicans losing the shutdown: "I haven't seen the polling to which you refer ... why are we so concerned about illegals' healthcare? Why is that an issue? We should care about Americans."

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

Seems he said this in August!

Mamdani, Skeptical of Casinos, Won’t Try to Block Them in New York City

www.nytimes.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

BREAKING: Israel deports 171 Gaza Sumud Flotilla activists, including Greta Thunberg.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/erhxpu

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 8d

Oyoun, an arts space in Berlin, lost its state funding and building when it held an event hosted by . . . Jüdische Stimme. A shiva.

Louna Sbou, Oyoun’s co-founder and artistic director, is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Her ship was intercepted by the IDF.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 10d

“In Germany, fascism repeats itself: first as antisemitism, then as anti-antisemitism.” So writes @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social in this feature exploring Germany’s crackdown on Palestine solidarity. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

How Germany Silenced Its Artists to Support Israel

As Israel intensified its genocide in Gaza, Germany ramped up its long-simmering war on dissent, silencing Palestine solidarity while bolstering its own far right.

www.thenation.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

Other states need to begin intentional punishment of the hostile Texas government, including cancelling state government contracts with Texas companies and interfering with their commerce such as by imposing onerous Texas-company-specific certifications and licensing.

Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4d

This is both true and also we need to note how eager Texas has shown itself to be to send its own NG into blue states to try and forcibly occupy them. The Texas GOP is a source of evil in this country snd the next Dem administration needs to go about breaking them as an R power center.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 5d

okay but its kinda funny that every time Trump is like "I'm going to war with America's cities!" it just kinda falls apart and a judge dunks on him for being a criminal moron

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 5d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 5d

That’s great and I would love those examples. But by and large, by far, they did not.

Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 5d

Ackman said he was a Dem before the campus protests. Rosenbury—ack, sorry, maybe that was a poor example. I’m sure there are many better ones. More important is that Dem electeds didn’t stand up for the protesters. You don’t agree that the anti-antisemitism campaign quickly revealed its true aim?

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 5d

If the line were a person it would look like Bill Ackman. Or, less extremely, Barnard prez Laura Rosenbury, who disciplined pro-Palestine students and then after Kirk’s death wrote a NYT op-ed valorizing “difficult speech” on campus. (Wow, my phone autocorrected that to “vaporizing” . . . )

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about this a bit here. But it was for a (German) contemporary art magazine, so the political explanations are a bit abridged.

drive.google.com

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Nikki Columbus @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social · 5d

Student protesters were accused of antisemitism, which was the excuse to crush protests, while pro-Israel rallies on campuses had far-right antisemitic figures. Columbia & alums aided arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. It wasn’t the start of alliance between the right & pro-Israel groups, but it was a leap.

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