Karen Borchgrevink
itsmekb.bsky.social
Karen Borchgrevink
@itsmekb.bsky.social
Founder & Executive Director of Data Reframed - https://datareframed.org 🇵🇸 Freedom and self-determination for Palestine!
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“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social

1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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MAIHT3k newsletter:

The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
Resistance Isn't Denialism
By Emily I've recently noticed a new tactic on the part of AI boosters to attempt to erase the work of people who are resisting the project of "AI" and...
buttondown.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities.

lithub.com/you-can-help...
You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.
Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza, after Israel’s war and genocide destroyed nearly all existing libraries, schools, and universities. The two men, Omar Ha…
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December 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It’s a day to acknowledge sumud صمود
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Not great
August 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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📷 Drop Site News speaks with Professor Rashid Khalidi, leading historian of Palestine and the modern Middle East.

Topics include:

▪️ U.S.-Israeli famine strategy in Gaza
▪️ Global complicity in genocide
▪️ Why he won’t teach at Columbia this fall

www.dropsitenews.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: Genocide Complicity: From Columbia to the White House
Drop Site News on Substack
www.dropsitenews.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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The wording of “top-down” ideological bias is apt here…”top-down” bias is put in place to balance “bottom-up” bias.
E.g., If something coming up from the bottom leans to the left, you lean it to the right at the top to make it straight.
New: Trump's AI Action Plan continues the crusade against “woke” AI, recommending that federal procurement guidelines are updated so that only AI companies that “ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias” are given contracts. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation
The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.
www.wired.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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DAILY MEMO: ICE is Getting Busy and Bolder Despite Restraining Orders and More

@eltragon.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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🎥 “Europe will never punish its favorite child,” Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, Mouin Rabbani, told Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous during this morning’s livestream.
July 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🩸on their hands!
32 years old Palestinian Raheel Muhammad Rasras, died at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis today due to malnutrition caused by famine and Israeli siege.
July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being called to “stop funding the systems that don’t serve us,” and focus on small independent vendors instead.

lataco.com/home-depot-b...
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA.

While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.

What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
June 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Mahmoud Khalil is free.
June 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Trump's World Cup task force — part of Homeland Security — is also overseeing the Club World Cup tournament at the Rose Bowl starting Sunday fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-world-cup/usa-2025

We need more reporting on what's about to happen in Pasadena. Because here's what's happening in Miami
Questions raised about ICE and CBP agents at Club World Cup games
The FIFA Club World Cup kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium, with InterMiami playing a team from Egypt. The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE and CBP personnel would be at the gam...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Out & about this morning and it seems important to stand firm on this bottom line: ICE out of LA! No to deportations. No to a land of “Whites Only.”
#StopICE
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza
May 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri was detained by masked ICE agents a month ago for committing no crime.

Writing exclusively for The New Arab, his Palestinian wife, Mapheze Ahmad Yousef, calls for his release 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/im-b...
May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Israel has killed at least 62 Palestinians today alone in Gaza.

37 of them were killed in Gaza City, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The death toll continues to rise.
April 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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As someone from a lower caste, why India is out of the question for us if we have to leave the U.S. 🫠
Yet again starting a series where I post how Islamophobic and casteist India is. Anyway someone asked my parents for recommendation about renting in their building and the order of questions was

1. Are there any Muslims in this building?
2. Is anyone here from <expletive for Dalit person>?
3. Rent?
April 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM