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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Apr 18

THE PIZZA TREE!!

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Levi @rubeck.bsky.social · Apr 18

THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE PIZZA TREE (thanks to @dfontaine.bsky.social and @sturgidson.bsky.social for the inspo lol) 🌴🍕

Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · Apr 18

ICYMI: "But what a joy it is to just find something precious, unprompted, without even looking."

@rubeck.bsky.social stumbles upon Eternal Strands and savors his discovery:

The Savory Surprise of Eternal Strands - Unwinnable

One day it seemed to just descend, a videogame-ass videogame looking to do its thing and do it with style.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Apr 16

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · Apr 2

Having lived in northern Florida, FL01 is not a moderate district. It’s just not.
It was Gaetz’s district, it’s the Panhandle, there’s a documentary about how crazy folks are.

A 22% swing in 5 months is a tsunami.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · Mar 31

Momodou Taal left the United States. forwarding his statement from twitter:

I would like first to thank from the bottom of my heart every single individual and organization that supported me through this, particularly my fantastic legal team. Everything I have tried to do has been in service of affirming the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a lasting mark on me.

Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high. For those following this story: I decided to sue the Trump administration with the hope that it would offer reprieve for myself and other similarly situated persons. But Trump did not want me to have my day in court and sent ICE agents to my home and revoked my visa. We held out but our first motion was denied. We were due to submit a second briefing with the hope that I could stay out of detention whilst the lawsuit progressed.

For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in? We are already seeing the Trump administration exploiting the complicity of those who have remained silent on the Zionist genocide of Palestinians. The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US.

Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs. I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted. Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.

This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law.

It is surreal that we live in a world where you get into trouble for saying killing babies is wrong. Where those advocating for, and celebrating, endless massacres against Palestinians are able to, time and again, present themselves as victims while presenting those fighting against genocide as the oppressors. For months on end, we've had to listen to - ad nauseam - concerns regarding the safety of Zionist students when they are the same students who dox, monitor and collaborate with law enforcement to target students of color. If you have been led to think that your safety is only guaranteed by state kidnap, repression, deportation, the slaughter of children, and the suppression of the global majority, then let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror.

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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · Mar 31

Procès du RN: Marine Le Pen et les autres élus condamnés à une peine d'inéligibilité

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is going to destroy US higher ed unless people of conscience and courage call it out for what it is: a coordinated and deeply authoritarian attempt to punish any resistance to the genocide in Gaza www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe

An eyewitness said masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Mar 11

They start with trans folks and Free Palestine campus protestors and move on to anyone else they don’t like to make it so that everyone is too afraid to speak out. We can’t let this happen to anyone.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Mar 11

Fuck this.

They’re gonna be arresting all of us soon.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 11

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.

The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.

No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · Feb 19

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · Feb 18

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social · Jan 16

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Dec 6

Read the full Amnesty International report on genocide in Gaza:

www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...

www.amnesty.org

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Dec 4

in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Nov 26

Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due

The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Nov 25

www.thekitchn.com/recipe-ginge...

Recipe: Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust

We guarantee everyone will love it.

www.thekitchn.com

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Nov 24

Paddington 2

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Nov 16

I take Nurtec (preventive) and Ubrelvy as a rescue. I don’t really feel tired from Nurtec but if I do have a headache and take Ubrelvy, I feel utterly exhausted for 1-2 days after.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Nov 8

Sending you lots of love! I’m so very sorry for your loss.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Oct 12

Rug cleaning videos

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · Aug 15

fascism in Florida

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · Aug 13

Newborn twins killed in Gaza as father went to register birth

The twins were just four days old when their home was bombed in an Israeli air strike.

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Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social · Aug 13

I’m basically living for the return of Slow Horses now that the Olympics are over

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · Aug 13

New Slow Horses S4 trailer. Now with added Hugo Weaving.
Well worth getting an Apple subscription for a month in September just to watch all 4 seasons.
It’s damned entertaining and very funny as I’m sure the other 7 people who watch it will agree. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo27...

Slow Horses — Season 4 Official Trailer | Apple TV+

YouTube video by Apple TV

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · Aug 5

A great day has come, #BlueSkyStorians & #Battlegrounds #MilitaryHistory series fans! @tgpeterson.bsky.social's superb "Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency" is ready to order at @cornellupress.bsky.social's book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Jan 31

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the “great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving “are actually in famine.”

Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN

Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.

www.cnn.com

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