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Nancy R. Curtis

@oponiak.bsky.social

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Rebuilding will be a slow process. Seasonal avatars for a while. she/her/Ms. Academic STEM librarian. Meningioma survivor, ~14h craniotomy @MGH. Opinions only.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · Feb 2

We’re basically accelerating the historic trajectory of England: from center of a global empire to a much-diminished country grappling w/ social & economic fallout from Brexit.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 2h

Now all I can think of are drag queen froggies, which I’m sure would really give them the vapors 😆.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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American Oversight @weareoversight.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration is trying every card in the deck to avoid transparency. We’re using public records requests and litigation to fight back.

Here's this week's newsletter:
americanoversight.org/opposition-f...

Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight

As the DOJ refuses the prompt release of a memo clearing the Qatari jet ‘gift,’ Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, argues against erasing this context and the…

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

One of my personal heroes is Bryan Stevenson, an absolutely amazing lawyer and person whom I've always wanted to be like.

Stevenson wrote in his brilliant book Just Mercy that "Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done."

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 2h

Ann Coulter majored in history.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 2h

🤷‍♀️ As trashy as “The Destroyer” novels of
my youth were, the authors got 1 thing right: work from multiple vantage points when you take on an opponent.

Who knows how bad ICE would be if folks weren’t using classic organizing, the courts, *&* improvised snark, among other tactics?

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Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 3h

She also uses
Her blank verse posts
To belittle her fellow Portlanders
Because protest
Should be very serious
Because as we know
The media these days
Is all about
Covering dignified behavior
And nothing else

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 13h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 12h

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 3h

Typical and expected TACO tactic.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h

Trump on Tomahawks for Ukraine:

Well, I don't know. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you about Tomahawks. Do they want to have tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so.
I think I might speak to Russia about that, in all fairness.

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 3h

Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 1d

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 9h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 4h

Green economic populism fights fascism by rooting green progress in working class life

—make modern, green housing affordable to all, instead of yelling at immigrants

—build free tranist & EV chargers everywhere, instead of yelling at immigrants

—unionize green economy, instead of elevating Elon

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21h

The curse of knowledge is a hell of a thing. If you want to talk to ordinary Americans like you're in a graduate semiotics course, you lose. And, btw, the actual beltway dem thing to do is to accept the bad frame and disavow antifa, instead of saying, "i'm proudly anti-fascist. why aren't you?"

Omg. Seriously. Who cares? Let's not do the normal Democratic Party thing and start splitting hairs on something that literally does not matter.
It's the same damn thing. If people don't like the term ANTIFA they were never going to warm up to Anti Fascist. Smh

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 5h

My take from last night...

The administration operates with equal parts malice and incompetence, but the incompetence ends up being a form of malice, so on balance, it’s mostly malice towards all and charity for none.

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With Malice Toward All and Charity for None: Oct. 10-11 CDC (Un)Firing Edition

A post interpreting the Friday night firing of more than 1,000 CDC experts only to have some of these layoffs termed an ‘error’ & reversed on Saturday night.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 4h

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One