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Mary Feeney
@mkfeeney.bsky.social
4.7K followers 320 following 870 posts

Professor, traveller, cyclist, skater, science policy junkie. Reluctant Phoenician. Interested in all things public sector

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 16h
Cutting funding to educate and support children with disabilities so we can bail out Trump’s buddies who invested unwisely in Argentina
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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 17h
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 17h
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 1d
The animal rescues are overflowing with dogs and cats. Many are offering free or very reduced adoption fees bc they are overwhelmed. Is this the economic canary in the coal mine for middle and working class families - dropping a pet bc they can’t afford basics like utilities and groceries?
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 1d
They control all three branches of government, yet somehow believe they are not responsible for government performance
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d
Petty garbage www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN
Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
www.cnn.com
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 1d
Petty garbage www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN
Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
www.cnn.com
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The Anxious Activist @theanxiousactivist.bsky.social · 2d
Ugh. I just heard about a different solar project being cancelled last night. Imagine being such a petty anti-intellectual tyrant that you’d rather make nearly 3,000 people continue living without electricity than let them install solar panels and battery storage.
A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
www.npr.org
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 2d
In addition to this being a brilliant response, does it not occur to Shapiro that asking AI to produce a scene transition isn't going to produce anything novel or creative? The 10 ideas AI generates are drawn by averaging 100s of existing scene transitions (including poorly done transitions)
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 3d
I am doing a panel intro today. I really don't want to recite their bio - everyone already has the bio (from the program & website). I now do 1-2 lines from the bio & then note a recent, relevant publication. If the audience is really interested in the panelist, go read / cite their work!
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 5d
We did a cute promo for library card month with Tempe Public Library and Arizona Roller Derby. Their head librarian is a former skater and our league boasts quite a few librarians (academic, public, & symphony based). Derby + library are a natural pairing!

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 6d
Excellent thread on doing the right thing / being an ethical and moral actor in complex times.
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 6d
I was once a person who wanted to do good but harmed instead. I was once a person who wanted to do good but did not because I feared the personal consequences.

I think a lot of people struggle with pragmatism on one hand and leading an ethical life with integrity on the other.
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Chiral @c-hiral.bsky.social · 6d
I'm sorry but the more I think about it the more bothered I am about this whole concept of choosing whether or not you can be a good person is it different for other people do you just get to choose whether you're flexible uncertain things how can you live that way?
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 6d
I was once a person who wanted to do good but harmed instead. I was once a person who wanted to do good but did not because I feared the personal consequences.

I think a lot of people struggle with pragmatism on one hand and leading an ethical life with integrity on the other.
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Chiral @c-hiral.bsky.social · 6d
I'm sorry but the more I think about it the more bothered I am about this whole concept of choosing whether or not you can be a good person is it different for other people do you just get to choose whether you're flexible uncertain things how can you live that way?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 7d
Each week I remind students that printing the readings & highlighting + taking notes on the page will help them learn, remember, and better engage in discussion. A few have taken this approach - hard to discern if their performance is better for it or high performers took my advice
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 8d
I tried to order $35 in small fan parts today, the shipping was over $100
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 11d
these people are just wildly unprofessional...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 11d
For years republicans have shut down government or held it hostage for months at a time w/continuing resolutions. Today GOP controls all three branches & Dems are lined up to take the blame for a "potential" shut down caused by GOP incompetence & self destruction. Dem leadership is so bad at this!
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Save NSF @savensf.bsky.social · 11d
🚨 The White House's FY 2026 proposed budget cuts to NSF would lead to expected economic losses of ~$11 billion.

Learn more about this data from the Science and Community Impacts Mapping Project in Save NSF's most recent newsletter: mailchi.mp/savensf/prop...
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 13d
PHX Mercury 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 13d
Because everyone knows the first place an immigrant goes in Chicago is the architectural boat tour!
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aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 14d
ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago
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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 14d
@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly.
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Chart titled 'Quality of Social Science Disciplines inversely correlated with change since 2008', showing that Criminology and Psychology have increased , economics is steady, and Polisci, anthro, IR, and Sociology are all down 30-40%
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aaron adair @aaroninchicago.bsky.social · 14d
ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?

#Chicago
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 15d
If Comey is the Radical Left, where does that leave the rest of us?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Q: Now that Comey has been indicted, who is the next person on your list?

TRUMP: It's not a list, but I think they'll be others. I mean, they're corrupt. These were corrupt radical left Democrats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d
Q: Now that Comey has been indicted, who is the next person on your list?

TRUMP: It's not a list, but I think they'll be others. I mean, they're corrupt. These were corrupt radical left Democrats.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16d
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.
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