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Chelsea D Chamberlain
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Historian of modern US disability and childhood.
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adamrothman.bsky.social
"a colossal makeshift tent encampment on the Mexican border"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
A homicide ruling would almost certainly draw attention to Camp East Montana, a colossal makeshift tent encampment on the Mexican border where migrants have reported substandard conditions and physical abuse, and ICE’s own inspectors have cited dozens of violations of federal detention standards.
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
Excellent news
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 15h
BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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cethompson.bsky.social
I think we need a Carrie A. Nation for online gambling.
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d
as prevalent as online gambling is, do you know a single person thats made money? enough to take a vacation?
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d
All these Draft Kings and Fan Duel ads should be required to disclose that if you consistently win your bets you’ll get kicked off their platforms.
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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jamellebouie.net
“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 1d
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM
cdchambs.bsky.social
absolutely wild how a classroom being too warm can kill the vibes. Literally said today, "Take responsibility for your own consciousness by dressing in layers." 😂
January 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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banditelli.org
Run the gif.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
CBP agent demands ID from a woman on the street in Minneapolis and says, “We’re doing an immigration check. We’re doing a citizen check.”

She refuses to comply and says she is a US citizen. The agent then threatens her with “federal charges.” She responds, “I belong here.”

AND THEN CBP LEAVES:
gaykwon.bsky.social Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 3d
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
I'm going to get a good grade at meetings, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve
soren.bsky.social Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 3d
Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history
January 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
cdchambs.bsky.social
another first day of the semester means another day learning that many, many 18-year-olds have not been taught that a room's number indicates what floor of a building it is on...
January 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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braak.bsky.social
if anything we were actually maybe a little too quick to surrender to the forces of Protein.
January 12, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
What’s this old thing
Constitution of the United States Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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drdragases.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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fourfiveandseven.bsky.social
gotta be some use for this at some point
ms rachel and mayor mamdani pantomiming crying
January 9, 2026 at 8:54 PM
cdchambs.bsky.social
a lot is bad in the world, but this at least is wonderful
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6d
This morning, Ms. Rachel and I visited District 2 Pre-K Center, where we sang and read with the wonderful students and educators. We also discussed universal childcare - and how we're making it happen for NYC!
Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel sitting together in an early childhood education center. Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel crossing their arms while singing with a group of children. A little girl hugs an orange fuzzy stuffed animal. Mayor Mamdani and Ms. Rachel stand with a group of kids.
January 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
cdchambs.bsky.social
didn't think I could love my husband more, but then I witnessed him negotiating with our toddler about bringing a raw onion on their evening walk
January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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fiveburger.bsky.social
HCAO and AG are asking for evidence for the murder of renee good www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...
Submission Portal: HCAO and MNAGO announce joint effort to collect and preserve evidence to support investigation into killing of Renee Nicole Good
Hennepin County Attorney’s Office and Minnesota Attorney General’s Office announces effort to collect and preserve evidence to support investigation (release January 2026)
www.hennepinattorney.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social
Tired I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin
cdchambs.bsky.social Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 8d
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
gonebabygone.bsky.social Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8d
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
cdchambs.bsky.social
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
gonebabygone.bsky.social Cape Cod Demon Hunter @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8d
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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phylan.website
post from crushingbort reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response? klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are “bananas” for small business
January 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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tamu-aaup.bsky.social
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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andrewpaul.bsky.social
welp.
What a year, huh? Lemon, it’s January 3rd
January 3, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM