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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 22h

In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she'd be lonely #1linewed

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 2d

It's officially #BannedBooksWeek. Support authors, your local indy or @bookshop.org, fight censorship & elevate important voices—especially traditionally marginalized or underrepresented writers. Use BBW25 at Bookshop for a discount on print books www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 4d

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 4d

#SundaySentence

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 8d

ARTICLE 25:
...The President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

25th Amendment

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d

Can't we just get healthcare

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 10d

I've watched that film 10x times -- as close to perfection as is possible to get.

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 16d

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

Big Lies

An interview with Mark Kurlansky

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 11d

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of the warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima: J. Robert Oppenheimer @vermontgmg.bsky.social #SundaySentence

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 16d

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

Big Lies

An interview with Mark Kurlansky

robinkirk.substack.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 18d

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from
two detainee rosters.
Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE's online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to "Call ICE for details" — a vague
notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 17d

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

www.rollingstone.com

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Chief Pro-Democracy Schadenfreude ❌👑 @retcw3.bsky.social · 20d

Great review from my friend (and Colombia-oriented inspiration) @robinkirk.bsky.social

“With current WH policies, a Democratic Party unsure of its direction, broadening billionaire-backed censorship and the emergence of technologies like AI, this may only worsen.”
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Shift Happens

TL;DR: a fiesty and timely history of labor for kids

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 20d

J. Albert Mann’s Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States has a sassy, irreverent point of view that kept me laughing, outraged, and profoundly grateful that Mann took on this project for kids #humanrights #labor #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/shift-happ...

Shift Happens

TL;DR: a fiesty and timely history of labor for kids

robinkirk.substack.com

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 21d

They were always going to have their Reichstag moment.

Yet most Dems are unprepared to meet the moment.

But we are not helpless. We can push back hard, boycott, speak out, demand the Dems shut down the govt, demand that they fight. Take to the streets, to the phones.

Do not bend the knee.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21d

Tonight's news makes clear that the legacy media is fully capitulating. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and pro-democracy.

It will never bow down. It will never give in. It will never compromise

Sign up now to support its work! hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21d

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 21d

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing #1linewed

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