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Kate Clancy
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Labor organizer. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation. Out 8/26: PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End. Settler, queer. 🍉
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Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota
Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...
chuffed.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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“One of the things that I don’t think is getting talked enough about outside of Minnesota,” she said after a pause, “is how much this feels like ethnic cleansing. People are so afraid to go out and participate in public life regardless of their citizenship status. This isn’t about immigration.”
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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In a new preprint, we combine modeling with school-level vaccine data to contextualize the risk of 'breakthrough infections' and impacts on the ongoing US measles outbreak. #idsky #episky

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Interpreting Breakthrough Infections Given Assortative Mixing of Partially Vaccinated Populations
Declining vaccine coverage across the United States has increased the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Even when vaccines have low primary failure rates, conventional epidemic theory...
www.medrxiv.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
Here is the child’s drawing.
January 27, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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I thought his former job was haunting the woods of Appalachia as a boogeyman for all the local children
If Miller is forced out of the Administration because of his defamation of Pretti he can always return to his former job, eating small rodents live.
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Not sure who is making Greg Bovino’s travel arrangements out of Minnesota but heads up babies in laps don’t need to buy their own seat
January 26, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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you will be *shocked* to learn that the author of the piece is a raving transphobe herself. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic....
Louise Perry vs. transgender people – Transgender Map
www.transgendermap.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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"Federal immigration agents have murdered one of our own..."
January 26, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Doctors without Borders is very likely going to give up the names of Palestinians working with them in order to stay in Isreal. That decision is rooted in the difference between solidarity and charity.
Doctors Without Borders have effectively signed death warrants.
January 26, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Begging you not to let Wael’s Tarabishi’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.

He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.

ICE took his dad away.

Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.

He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
Family of Arlington man detained by ICE calls for release to attend son's funeral
Maher Tarabishi, a Jordanian national, was detained by ICE in October. His 30-year-old-son, Wael, died over the weekend from complications related to a rare genetic disorder. Family of Arlington man d...
www.keranews.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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This hit so fucking hard today.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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because this is what that should actually look like & you don’t have the goddamn nerve www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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one of the most significant indicators of maturity and personal power to me is the two-sided clarity of BOTH 1) being graciously able admit when you were wrong, and own it, and 2) also having the capacity to refuse to abandon your own side when you are falsely maligned
my fav @prisonculture.bsky.social cut is not “let this radicalize you,” nor “hope is a discipline,” but her observation that most people, regardless of their values, will do anything to avoid losing face. being willing to risk that is a quality i will spend the rest of my life cultivating.
January 26, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
Tho I will say, in his defense, he's not the first person to be confused by how quickly the romance authors & readers can whip up finely tuned logistics out of nothing. 😂
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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I cofounded a pro-choice group to protest Beverly Hills interfering in an abortion clinic’s opening in the city and let me tell you, every married woman showed up without their husbands or sons. Same with the repro rights fundraising group I’m in. Women of all ages whose husbands are at home.
January 26, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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cannot even count how many friends I've made because I asked "is there anything I can do to help clean up?"
January 26, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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is the cure for male loneliness showing up early and setting up chairs?
A lot of the Male Loneliness Epidemic can be traced back to the fact that most cis dudes don’t participate in communal logistics.
I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll."

time.com/7357635/more...
Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30,000: Local Officials
According to two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health who spoke with TIME.
time.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.

no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM