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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 12h

The Canadian government's revamped border-infosec-migrant bill is out and it still bars asylum-seekers from getting a refugee hearing if they file a claim more than a year after first coming to Canada. (And the gov can still "cancel, suspend or vary" your immigration dox) www.parl.ca/DocumentView...

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-12 (45-1) - First Reading - Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act - Parliament of Canada

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 20h

Who becomes a scientist, what kind of work does she do, and why? Generations of women in China have explored these questions. For @madeinchinajournal.com, I trace their stories and the different answers their struggles and achievements reveal—on the purpose of science and the meaning of womanhood.

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal

In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...

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Dr. Suzanne Simard @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social · 1d

Dive into a conversation with the folks at Garrison Institute and I.

Sharing pioneering research on how forests function as interdependent communities linked by the "wood wide web," where older "mother trees" sustain younger ones.

Listen here: www.garrisoninstitute.org/podcast/suza...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 5d

🍄🧪🚨GLOW-IN-THE-DARK TREE SCIENCE🚨🧪🍄

Scientists have identified 125 species of bioluminescent fungi, and there are likely many more. One of the latest discoveries is a species that doesn't just glow on its own -- trees interlaced with its filaments also emit an ethereal greenish light (!!)

Glowing from Within - bioGraphic

With more scientists and artists turning their attention to bioluminescence, new information about glowing fungi is coming to light.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”

--Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014)

(blurry photo by me)

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @yangyangcheng.bsky.social for another wonderful piece and a window into a world many of us might have otherwise missed.

Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 4d

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished.
www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.

Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way | Rebecca Solnit

Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 23d

U.S. officials describe the Darién Gap as a hotbed of human trafficking and mortal peril. That’s not inaccurate, but it fails to account for just how much of that is America’s own fault.

The Path Is Made by Walking | Belén Fernández

In the Darién Gap, smugglers serve as de facto U.S. border guards.

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 23d

India's Prime Minister Modi made his first visit to Manipur in two years, since ethnic and insurgent violence erupted in the state. Tanushree Pandey recently explored how civilians are caught in the crossfire and the lines between combatants and noncombatants blur:

The Lines Blur Between Civilians and Combatants in India’s Manipur

Modi’s government has failed to contain the ethnic conflict in the northeastern state, which is surrounded by instability and flooded with advanced weapons

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David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Apropos, my letter in this month’s LRB concerning their recent piece.

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Aug 16

The origin of the word #Palestine - "old as literacy itself"

William Dalrymple (Historian & Author)

#FreePalestine

Via @stayfreeworld (Telegram)

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · Sep 1

At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. We join with more than 150 other media outlets across the world to condemn these crimes.

Read more: interc.pt/3HS71C2

A graphic over a black photo of Israel bombing Gaza that says, "At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli, army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Ultimately, he adds, rather than looking for new ways to clean up lost nets, “it would be much better to prevent ghost nets from being in the ocean in the first place.”

Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations to @clarewatson.bsky.social, whose Hakai Magazine story on an inventive scheme to cleaning up ghost fishing gear is going to be included in this year's anthology of Best Australian Science Writing:

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Using Trash to Track Other Trash | Hakai Magazine

An Australian organization is taking “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to heart with its ghost net clean-up program.

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nothing says "Handmaid's Tale" like banning Handmaid's Tale

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 29

So regressive & dystopian it feels like, um, The Handmaid’s Tale…👇

“…public school board is yanking more than 200 books from its library…”

“…including literary classics such as author Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’”

MAGA Alberta: edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto....

Edmonton Public removing more than 200 library books to comply with provincial rules

Edmonton's public school board is yanking more than 200 books from library shelves this year to comply with Alberta government rules.

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks for this; your wonderful Travel Writing Tribe was such a superlative journey through this landscape, from which I was pointed to so many inspiring writers (Kapka Kassabove currently) and Raban is one I still need to get to!

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Aug 27

Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.

Episode 3 | Typing Chinese | Made in China Journal

In 1947, the acclaimed Chinese writer and linguist Lin Yutang stunned the world with an invention: the first Chinese-language typewriter with a keyboard. Lin poured years of effort and his life’s savi...

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · Aug 26

“When it comes to covering the war in Gaza, the journalists doing this job are too often becoming the story, and by enduring the violence themselves they become entangled in the very narrative they are trying to cover.”

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hundreds of journalists have fallen covering the war in Gaza. Rayan El Amine reports on an egregious use of violence and the jolt to the region’s media, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

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The Unprecedented Killing of Journalists Is Affecting Coverage of Gaza

The region’s media has been jolted, as the losses themselves have become part of a conflict of narratives and Western voices have wavered

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anas al-Sharif was Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

The Courage and Death of Anas al-Sharif

The Palestinian journalist’s life was devoted to truth and dignity, and his death lays bare Israel’s impunity in Gaza

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mcgeetony.bsky.social @mcgeetony.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nate Chinen and Josh Jackson, discuss the phrase “Live at The Village Vanguard.” Why it carries its own currency in jazz, and the countless albums it has appeared on.

#Jazz
#Music
#JazzSky
#JazzMusic

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Listening at the Vanguard

"Live at the Village Vanguard" is one of the most familiar phrases in the jazz discography, a marker of place and a point of pride. But why? Together we’ve logged hundreds of hours in the club, so let...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Travel writers never go to the toilet... I left this out of the first draft, but C insisted I include it - so it's going in the book! Pushing the formal limits of the genre here...

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Ben Rempel @benrempel.bsky.social · Aug 12

Such a beautiful tribute to such a remarkable artist. Thank you!

Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · Aug 12

RIP Sheila Jordan, a jazz-vocal giant and an American original. Here is my tribute, on The Gig.

Sheila's Blues

Flowers for jazz-vocal giant Sheila Jordan, gone at 96

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