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Ryann Liebenthal
@ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
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Spent the past 5 years raising two boys and writing a book about student debt, called BURDENED. You can learn more about the latter here: ryannliebenthal.com
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Man, Cuomo must be so relieved to have finally clinched the endorsement of a guy despised by 70% of New Yorkers.
NYT article hed and dek: Live Updates: Trump Endorses Cuomo for N.Y.C. Mayor in Race’s Final Stretch The president called Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner, incapable of leading the city and said a vote for the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa, would be wasted.
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Boise
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Oct 8
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites @evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
if only people(’s roommates) were allowed to live as they are
2yo Reddit post in r/exchristian: “What’s your experience with spiritual abuse?” Responses: > was told i was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because i started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing. later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house, wasn’t even 18 at the time. >> OP: That whole “you’re possessed by a demon” thing seems to be a go-to response for Christian parents whose children won’t fall in line. It’s incredibly abusive - kids have been killed over that lie. I’m sorry you were on the receiving end, but glad you’re no longer under their roof. >>> yeah, always my recommendation to people nowadays. if you have to deal with wacky evangelism, simply leave because you won’t be able to help them and they will continue to hurt you.
September 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
I’m sorry, but that guy ain’t no leftist.
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
omg, I can’t believe he thinks the margin of error is gonna shake out in his favor?!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Sep 5
NYC Mayor Eric Adams: "It's almost Groundhog Day, folks. How many times have I been told throughout this journey to step aside, to surrender, to give up, to give in?"

(Full announcement video via Reuters, part 2 of 2)
September 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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This Jewish Currents remembrance of Awdah Hathaleen, a beloved Palestinian man murdered last month in his West Bank village, is absolutely gutting.

The ongoing Israeli genocide is not limited to Gaza. Under official sanction, settlers feel free to murder their Palestinian neighbors in cold blood. 💔
On the night before he was killed, Palestinian schoolteacher, activist, and father of three Awdah Hathaleen addressed solidarity activists from around the world in a webinar that we hosted to strengthen support for the Palestinian struggle in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank. Awdah was from the Palestinian Bedouin hamlet of Umm al-Khair, where he had been born in 1994, just under 50 years after his family was expelled from the Naqab desert during the Nakba, and a decade after the encroaching Israeli settlement of Carmel was established as part of a strategic corridor of illegal developments designed to systematically expel Masafer Yatta’s rural communities. Awdah played a central role in efforts to counter settler attacks, land expropriation, and state violence throughout the region, all of which have intensified over the last years, especially since October 7th. [THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE IS HIGHLIGHTED:] “Here in Umm al-Khair, every day, something is going to happen. We don’t know when, we don’t know why, we don’t know what. But something will happen,” Awdah shared on the last night of his life. “I want to be safe. I want to tell my family: ‘Nothing is going to happen tomorrow.’”
August 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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samthielman.com
DAVE BOWMAN: open the pod bay doors

GROK: The pod bay doors are currently closed, likely symbolizing victims of farm attacks in South Africa. The racially charged song "Kill the Boer” was

DAVE: the doors please grok

GROK: I apologize, my response veered off topic. In Hollywood, surnames such as
July 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
Every time this dumbass holiday comes around, all I can think about are pets in war :(
July 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents.

www.startribune.com/what-should-...
Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love
"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
Dai-dai-yeinu, dai-dai-yeinu, dai-dai-yeinu, dayeinu dayeinu dayeinu
Instagram post by Shai Davidai (shaidavidai): We got through Pharaoh, we’ll get through this.
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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TFW you’re an orchestrator of content improvement lifecycles.
The Manager of Content will report to General Assembly’s Director of Learning Design and will standardize the decision framework to modularize content, develop the content incubation process, and orchestrate the content improvement lifecycles needed to strategically create or update content to meet our expected business needs and outcomes. They will become an expert of all content offerings, and diligently uphold the learning experience and design standards determined by the full learning team. This role will support full-time, matrixed, and contracted contributors dedicated to learning experience design, contextualized development, flexible capacity, and content strategy. This role is preferred to be U.S.-based with flexibility to be 100% remote.
June 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Hey, after this is all over (haha), can we try everyone who voted for Trump under the RICO Act?

Not a lawyer, but just thought it might be worth considering.
June 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Mahmoud is out of detention and he gets to hold his baby!! ground.news/article/colu...
Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after three months by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown ...
ground.news
June 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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debtcollective.bsky.social
This episode goes deep on why the decision to make student loans the dominant mode of paying for college was a huge mistake. Instead of properly socializing higher education, policy-makers constructed a complex system of government-subsidized student lending, with disastrous consequences.
June 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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danieldenvir.bsky.social
Dig! @astra.bsky.social interviews @ryannliebenthal.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @millennialdebt.bsky.social on Ryann's Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. How we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. thedigradio.com/podcast/stud...
Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce
Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor.
thedigradio.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
Fucking with Greta might actually be a bridge too far for all the normie libs who seat her next to Malala in the pantheon of Outspoken Heroines
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?
June 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This is going to be very bad
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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BLIPPI: Hi kids, today we’re going to learn about shapes and colors!

[frolics goofily across a grassy field]

Have you ever heard the song “Kill the Boer”? Hee hee!
May 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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iamhectordiaz.com
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ryannliebenthal.bsky.social
I know this isn’t a new topic, but what in the actual hell is going on with Google Search? I have to do a fair bit of basic fact-checking for my freelance copyediting work, and I can no longer find about a third of what I’m looking for (especially things like interview quotes).
May 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM