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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti

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Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️‍⚧️ parent • 🐦‍⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏 Newsletter: https://reconciliationecology.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · Jun 18

A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing

Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.

(and yes, this also launches my newsletter, so please subscribe!)

A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing

Spoken in Greensboro, NC in June 2025

reconciliationecology.beehiiv.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 38m

Missouri Attorney General Subpoenas Planned Parenthood for Records of Abortion Patients

Missouri's attorney general has subpoenaed Planned Parenthood in an effort to obtain medical and other confidential records of abortion patients. Planned Parenthood Great Plains, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers and the ACLU of Missouri have said in response, “Politicians have no place in…

www.democracynow.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 38m

Trump Admin Reportedly Looking to Privatize $1.6 Trillion in Federal Student Loan Debt

Politico: Trump Admin Looking to Privatize $1.6 Trillion in Federal Student Loan Debt

Politico reports the Trump administration is considering options to privatize some $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. Officials with the Education Department and Treasury Department have reportedly been looking for private buyers to sell off a massive portion of…

www.democracynow.org

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

Some have said about Assassin's Creed games that "DEI kills art" but this might be a case where "anti-DEI" helped kill art.

Much more about the game and the context of the decision at the link.

Most of the story is paywalled, but you can sample reading it via a free trial.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 41m

How to tell a video is AI

www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell
www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

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Perfidia Cool Springs Galleria @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson, the third person in line to the presidency, doesn’t know if Trump is going to pay Air Traffic Controllers, or if Trump rapes teenagers, but he’s got opinions on the Super Bowl halftime show. And even those are terrible.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 5h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Philology, bitches!

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16h

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

i have heard so many more upsetting "pigs eating people" stories from this thread than i was expecting to receive

KCL655321 @kcl655321.bsky.social · 22h

Every time I drive my mom by this one farm, she always tells the story of a guy that wrecked his car late at night & got thrown into the hog pen. When they came across the wreck & went to find him the next morning, there wasn't much left of him.
They'll definitely partake on that sweet tangy flesh.

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Ridley LeDoux @ridleyal.bsky.social · 23h

Someone in #STS needs to study the social media exercise science crisis expeditiously if not sooner

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 7h

Wait. We were doing this much sinophobia for this many decades while being this dependent on Chinese soybean consumption the whole time???

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

This is fascist.

"Regular" prisons constantly and regularly ban books.

That's fascist, too.

New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.”
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

nysfocus.com

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 8h

non-black users using the blacksky.app handle is a bannable offense

BUT non-black users are welcome to join the blacksky SERVERS (not the blacksky feed) under either "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

source: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7h

this good thing is three weeks from today!

heisting student debt

with Kashana Cauley and The Debt Collective

interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11d

How will SCOTUS justify none of this applying to the next president? Easily: it never justified why it applied to Trump. No written opinions, no precedent to contradict.

It's an even cleaner perversion of the law for its special boy than "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances."

Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 11d

Excited to see how they Justify none of this applying to the next president

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: The Supreme Court greenlights Trump's "pocket rescission" of $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.

Kagan, joined by Sotomayor and Jackson, has a sharp dissent. She says this "result conflicts with the separation of powers." www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 7h

"Children were completely torn apart," another woman who had helped to organise the event told AFP news agency. She was not at the scene but attended funerals on Tuesday, and added that they were still "collecting body parts".

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Myanmar’s military government has bombed a protest, killing 24.

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 7h

I like to publish my posts in the middle of the night for maximum reach. But this is what I’ve been up to and how I think the pieces connect.

Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16h

What a wild year to be trying to think about networks and what they do to our brains. Thank you for coming along with me.

www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-...

A year into the wreckage and salvage

It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things...

www.wrecka.ge

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 20h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 20h

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16h

The more I read the responses by BlueSky's dev team, the more annoyed I am about the ways that they've squandered the promise of what this site could be.

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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled that someone finally made a documentary about the rail trail movement that treats that history for what it is: a fascinating and shockingly controversial story about the right to public space, which is every bit as epic as the battle against the highway movement (which sometimes overlaps).

The Shocking Untold History of America's Rails-to-Trails Movement — Streetsblog USA

Some of the fiercest battles for the future of public space in America have happened on abandoned railway corridors — and the battles aren't over yet.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 9h

It’s kinda hilarious how even with unequal exchange with the global south the capitalists are just so greedy that it doesn’t work. Oh well. Anyway

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 9h

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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