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Nancy R. Curtis

@oponiak.bsky.social

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Rebuilding will be a slow process. Seasonal avatars for a while. she/her/Ms. Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · Feb 2

We’re basically accelerating the historic trajectory of England: from center of a global empire to a much-diminished country grappling w/ social & economic fallout from Brexit.

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thegrovedigger.bsky.social @thegrovedigger.bsky.social · 5h

This is what our National Guard is SUPPOSED to be doing. Helping people, not terrorizing them.

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 10h

updates for kipnuk, kwig, and kong

20 ppl are missing in kwig 🥺

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Meghan @msbishop.bsky.social · 10h

Just sent to my contacts at DOI Indian Affairs. The guy who handled emergency management for Indian Affairs took deferred resignation and his last day was September 30. 😢

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 10h

updates for kipnuk, kwig, and kong

20 ppl are missing in kwig 🥺

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Marilyn 🇨🇦 @mlauriat.bsky.social · 5h

www.rawstory.com/ice-raids-ch...

‘Step Up and Speak Out’: Chicago Pastors Lead the Charge Against ICE Detentions

As demonstrations against an immigration detention facility in Broadview, Illinois have ramped up in recent weeks, several local priests have joined in the protests to call attention to what they say ...

www.rawstory.com

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 6h

Hear that, Pam Bondi! Trump wants you to arrest whoever was president on January 6, 2021!

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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thegrovedigger.bsky.social @thegrovedigger.bsky.social · 5h

Ha, great, so this is like Mark Meadows crying about voter fraud

Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 14h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Moodles @moodlesmix.bsky.social · 8h

He's really scrambling to get revenge on every last person who ever opposed him before he drops dead.

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Elizabeth Le Fen @fenbeast.bsky.social · 8h

The minute Trump takes that long walk, Miller and Vance will be at each other’s throats. Vance has the legal right to assume power but Miller is de facto the acting dictator at this point, & the thug army answers to him.

I wish I thought the only people who’d get hurt by the fallout would be them.

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James A. Robichaux @jamesrobichaux.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it increasingly looks like they are jockeying to position themselves advantageously in a post-Trump world.

This seems to be true even for Republican members of Congress.

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KLo @klogoldman.bsky.social · 9h

I think it motivates everyone around him too. They're trying to speed things up and implement the level of control they want before he dies. As of now they don't have it and they just don't have the numbers of people they need to do it.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

There are a lot of people on the app who don’t know how to organize, and then when someone who DOES know how to organize says “organizing what you’re suggesting is extremely difficult,” will turn around and insult you for telling them the truth.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 5h

It’s hilarious how something simple like “people are sharing Amazon links to buy the same costumes” gets filtered through these conspiratorial grifters’ minds and becomes “They are highly organized.”

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 8h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 8h

Now all I can think of are drag queen froggies, which I’m sure would really give them the vapors 😆.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump administration is trying every card in the deck to avoid transparency. We’re using public records requests and litigation to fight back.

Here's this week's newsletter:
americanoversight.org/opposition-f...

Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight

As the DOJ refuses the prompt release of a memo clearing the Qatari jet ‘gift,’ Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, argues against erasing this context and the…

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 9h

One of my personal heroes is Bryan Stevenson, an absolutely amazing lawyer and person whom I've always wanted to be like.

Stevenson wrote in his brilliant book Just Mercy that "Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done."

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 8h

Ann Coulter majored in history.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 8h

🤷‍♀️ As trashy as “The Destroyer” novels of
my youth were, the authors got 1 thing right: work from multiple vantage points when you take on an opponent.

Who knows how bad ICE would be if folks weren’t using classic organizing, the courts, *&* improvised snark, among other tactics?

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 8h

She also uses
Her blank verse posts
To belittle her fellow Portlanders
Because protest
Should be very serious
Because as we know
The media these days
Is all about
Covering dignified behavior
And nothing else

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 19h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 17h

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