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Dr. Karen Carr

@quatrus.bsky.social

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anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Land back. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · Nov 15

My most recent book that has actually been published is Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming (Reaktion 2022). (available here: a.co/d/7rCKdSL)

Shifting Currents explores centuries-old global tensions around race, class, and power through people's changing experiences with swimming.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 13h

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 18h

I, for one, welcome our new frog overlords 🐸

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A federal judge has ordered that ICE cannot use rubber bullets or other “less lethal ammo” directly on protesters at the Broadview ICE facility.

Good.

Now arrest and charge the agents who shot the priest in the head and the woman in her car.

Stop letting them get away with it.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 17h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 1d

The AntiFrogs are multiplying

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 13h

And are the antifa terrorists in the room with us right now?

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder as it is clear most of the population doesn't understand this.

BNEF: Renewables Are Becoming Cheaper than Natural Gas in Southeast Asia

Despite the large number of benefits, many countries in Southeast Asia are planning to expand their use of natural gas.

energytracker.asia

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Rob Roy (he/him) @robertroy.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate needs only to vote to end the filibuster (50% required), then vote on the Continuing Resolution. Shut down ends. The GOP has the power, but they just are not using it.

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 1d

i have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

bitch

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 16h

Abolish #ICE

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16h

NEW: Last night, the Senate passed a bill that reauthorizes addiction treatment and housing services for recently incarcerated people.

This is a crucial step toward ensuring people coming out of prison have the support they need.

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 17h

so is the 9th circuit court just sitting around feeding each other frozen yogurt with extra long handled spoons or are they planning on issuing a ruling on portland sometime this century

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 18h

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 1d

Here's hoping there will actually be consequences to some of the treasonous behavior.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 20h

From Michael De Adder. @dribrats.bsky.social

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21h

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 23h

"Pumpkin spice" is just cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. It exists because it's such a warming and comforting combination that it can make PUMPKIN taste edible. What's not to like? You don't like feeling cozy?

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 22h

This is a REAL big deal. Apartments near transit, statewide. I'm thrilled to say that a good chunk of my book is now out of date.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 23h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 1d

in the later american empire, power was contested between two rival sporting factions, the reds and the blues

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Judge rules ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’ www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/f...

Federal judge in Chicago finds ICE repeatedly violated consent decree over ‘warrantless arrests’

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring ICE to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022…

www.chicagotribune.com

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