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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 8h

www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Bad Future, Volume One - A 50+ Page Comic of Dystopia Sci-fi

A new sci-fi cyberpunk anthology collecting visions of finding hope in a dark future.

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 8h

My friend @andynordvall.com has a kickstarter for his comic anthology BAD FUTURE VOLUME ONE, a "sci-fi cyberpunk anthology collecting visions of finding hope in a dark future."

I'm looking for hope in ALL the places right now so let's fund this thing so we can read it!!

Link in the comments :)

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 1d

As an American and an MIT parent, I take great joy, satisfaction, and comfort in this news. Thank you MIT, and thank you for your leadership, President Kornbluth.

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 4d

Unacceptable. In other words:
we must not accept this.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Cat Winters / C. E. Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight Portland, OR, members of @authorsabb.bsky.social gathered together to write postcards to librarians and school board members as part of Banned Books Week . . . but every week is a good week to take action to protect the freedom to read.

Photo by Makiia Lucier.

A postcard that says "Authors Against Book Bans, authorsagainstbookbans.com" is held in front of the camera. In the background, an author who's against book bans is filling out postcards at a table full of postcards and writing supplies. The author is wearing a blue shirt with blurry white writing.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 5d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6d

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 5d

This aged better than…any of us

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

18 months ago.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 5d

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 6d

I understand it and it is the definition of NOT OK

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

This is a fierce ruling against Trump from a judge he appointed.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 7d

For perspective on her politics, Judge Immergut was one of Ken Stars' attorneys investigating Bill Clinton, a US Attorney for GW Bush, and appointed to the federal bench by Trump

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 7d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 7d

NEWS

A federal judge nominated by President Trump in his first term, has blocked, for now, the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

Judge Immergut said that President Trump’s assessment of “war ravaged” Portland was “untethered from the facts” and “ignoring the facts on the ground.”

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 8d

Damn straight it was vindictive

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
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is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Mary Malhotra @mcmalhotra.bsky.social · 9d

The government punishing free speech is exactly, explicitly against the First Amendment.

If you are still supporting this Administration, please look up this case and then demand better, because this is officially unAmerican

ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d

Take the good news seriously too

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12d

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13d

Moldova 🇲🇩 👍

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