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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 23

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 31

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

The Sooknanan Monologue

The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend until Judge Sooknanan entered an order to stop it.

www.muellershewrote.com

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · Mar 20

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Mar 2

It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024.

What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.

Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚

Library display based on artwork from Dev the Pineapple.
A smiling Mychal, illustrated, with books and sunflowers.
Text quote reads, "Library kids are going to save the world"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD @wunpini.bsky.social · Feb 25

"We don’t have the luxury of silence—we are called to find strategies that balance risk with the recognition of our power. Together, we commit to the relentless pursuit of critical analysis, justice, and collective liberation."
liberateyourresearch.com/resisting-th...

Resisting the Urge to Disappear - Liberate Your Research

spillaneh

liberateyourresearch.com

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Taco the Cat @tacothecat.bsky.social · Feb 24

It seems there was a dinner at the WH where a military choir serenaded the orange turd and his guest with a rendition of One Day More from Les Miserables, and the ignorant fools loved it. This is what happens when you don’t read. People mock you to your face. 😹

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 17

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Feb 17

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for
Black youth.
"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · Feb 18

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 18

I don't know how to tell you this, but if we're relying on me to find my car keys at the bottom of my purse before the serial killer catches up with us - we're dead.

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 14

Do you want a pat on the back when you should have been voting no on all of them? When you should be pushing back against a fascist coup? You and your colleagues are not doing anything you were elected to do.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · Feb 13

If you are married to someone who has ADHD and you don't, here's a phrase that might help you with your spouse: "Map it out for me."

This is what I say to my wife when she goes from one thing to a seeming non sequitur. In her mind, there is a relationship.

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nacholib.bsky.social @nacholib.bsky.social · Feb 12

Brah...
Very true

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 13

Papers are due next week. One of their sources is a hand written journal. Most didn't have their first draft today. Why? They can't read cursive, so they decided not to do it. I write on the whiteboard in cursive. I guess this explains why they don't take notes.

Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 13

It's a bop.

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 11

Does anyone else's coworker keep trying to take credit for your work? Eartha Kitt is always pretending my work is her own under the "If I touch it, it's mine" doctrine of feline productivity.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Feb 6

"We reject the premise that it is 'anti-American' or 'subversive' to learn the full history of the United States with its rich and dramatic contradictions, challenges, and conflicts alongside its achievements, innovations, and opportunities." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling”

The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.”

www.historians.org

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 5

It's question potential jurors for a trial or, I think it's also used to determine whether witnesses are competent to guve testimony. I'm less sure about that last one.

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Feb 3

Jamies: Have a good day.
Me: I will have a good day punching Nazis.
Jamie: I'm serious. Stay safe.
Me: I will stay safe while seriously punching Nazis.
Jamie: *sigh*

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Dr. Marcemallow 🇲🇽🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🏳️‍⚧️ @marcemallowphd.bsky.social · Jan 31

I full throated FUCK YOU to NSF Dir Sethuraman Panchanathan. By following Trump’s orders you are doing NAZI shit! Read this article on how 1933 German Universities did the same thing: trading the lives of their most vulnerable scientists in exchange for funding! www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

Excerpt from linked article on how the nazi party held research funding hostage in exchange for the university professor’s compliance. The highlighted portion reads: “the [Nazi] commissar [assured] the scholars that indeed there would be plenty of funding for “racially pure science.”

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Ellen Rafshoon @paynesgray.bsky.social · Jan 30

Academic freedom is still a thing. Our reference to terms widely accepted in scholarship violates our 1st amendment rights.

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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · Jan 30

This is a shocking surrender to tyrannical thought control. It is unlawful for Trump to use federal funds or any other coercive mechanism to compel universities to give up their First Amendment rights or those of their staff & students.

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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · Jan 30

GA Tech complying in advance. Apparently "justice" is a bad word. "Equality," too. #UGA & the entire #Georgia university system.

@academic-chatter.bsky.social #GATECH #academicsky @aaup.bsky.social #GAPol #Edusky #HigherEd

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein @crtcltheology.bsky.social · Jan 31

This is horrifying. #academicsky

Maurice is a bold rebranding of Maurice Meilleur+ @mauricemeilleur.bsky.social · Jan 30

We’ve been informed by our governor that the Trump administration’s executive orders last week with regard to DEI and now A are considered part of state as well as federal law. (No, as far as I know the state legislature has not passed any measures to this effect.) 4/

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Shana Haines @idasentme.bsky.social · Jan 30

They've been jumping through hoops justifying and explaining everything away. Gaslighting the rest of us as if we haven't heard what we've heard or seen what we've seen.

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