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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 3m

PSA: I saw a post on Instagram that said if you add -ai to the end of your Google search, it actually gives you search results WITHOUT the Google's AI results. I didn't think it would work but it does! 👇🏼

Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 53m

Just taught this in class today. Watching with interest. #treaty #auspol #vicpol

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1h

Marcia Langton on the bill that quietly goes further than what she had hoped the 2023 Voice referendum could achieve.

“This historic document outlines the terms for the first Australian experiment in shared sovereignty and Indigenous self-determination.” satpa.pe/qpd8chG

How Victoria’s Treaty could change Australia

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 1h

Still one of my Top 5 favourite shows. Still (re)watching 25 years later. #GilmoreGirls

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

"Gilmore Girls" debuted 25 years ago. Still, every year, many fans make a TV pilgrimage to the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, as the weather cools and the leaves begin to change.

Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Became a Fall Tradition

The show debuted 25 years ago this week. Many fans still make an annual TV pilgrimage to Stars Hollow as the weather cools and the leaves start to change.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

NEW: This year, Texas handed the keys to its congressional map over to Washington. The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified Wednesday he received directions only from the White House, as well as requests from the Texas GOP congressional delegation.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 7h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 1d

Alaska
Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness
Ambler Road project, approved in Trump’s first term but blocked by Biden, would harm Native tribes and wildlife

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness

Ambler Road project, approved in Trump’s first term but blocked by Biden, would harm Native tribes and wildlife

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 1d

I love all of these birds (except the bin chicken they terrorise my cats & eat their food—it's a daily drama!) but I voted for the bush stone curlew. I've been following an Insta account that follows a family of them in Brisbane & they are so funny! #birdoftheyear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll

From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australian government officials are investigating whether a coal mining company is putting threatened greater gliders and koalas at risk by illegally clearing bushland in central Queensland without approval under federal law. The revelation came in a fiery Senate estimates hearing in which the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young criticised the Albanese government for not doing more to stop the clearing and described environment department bureaucrats as “weak” – an allegation she later withdrew. Continue reading...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

😬 awkward

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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant podcast on #JillyCooper & her books. Journalist Kat Brown began a Jilly Cooper book club with fellow Jillyites—who will go into extended mourning. I call her books "trashy" novels—but only compared to say, Galsworthy. Jilly's character studies & plots are superb. youtu.be/-DINLJ2TmVc?...

The Jilly Cooper Book Club • Episode #15

YouTube video by The Book Club Review Podcast

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

Very good news but this court has a tendency to give with one hand and take with the other. I dread to think what decisions the justices will hand down next! #SCOTUS

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court just denied Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal with no noted dissents: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no—not #JillyCooper too! She was the author of my most favourite trashy novels (Riders & Rivals). Just last week I was watching an old @bbcarchive.bsky.social interview from the 70s where she was being skewered by a group of young people—she handled herself with poise & humility. RIP dear Jilly!!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Listen to “The Headlines,” which brings you the biggest stories of the day from the New York Times reporters who are covering them, all in about 10 minutes.

Supreme Court Starts Consequential Term, and Illinois Governor Warns of ‘Trump’s Invasion’

Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

There is a legal distinction, but Miller never studied or practiced law. The supremacy clause also doesn’t make the federal government all powerful- we have a federalist system, which Republicans used to believe in. Now they believe in wielding power, gangsterism, and thuggery.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

This discussion yesterday with @rgoodlaw.bsky.social on the Trump Administration’s extraordinary use the military at home and abroad is even more relevant today. As is our consideration of whether some within the executive, and the courts and Congress, will resist.
www.youtube.com/live/UqVNDP1...

America’s Lawless Wars—From Chicago to Caracas (w/ Ryan Goodman)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Slate @slate.com · 2d

“What this court is doing is reaching out and grabbing disputes—that it doesn't need to hear—for the purpose of checking off items on its agenda, which happens to be very much aligned with Donald Trump's agenda.” slate.trib.al/pyVUtwz

When You’re a Justice They Let You Do It

That sound you hear is law professors across America rending their clothing.

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

As we are witnessing, the US hasn't moved far from its communitarian roots—the veneer of nationhood is perilously thin. After 249 years one wonders how much longer it will take. #USA #USDemocracy

Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

Rewatched @kenlburns.bsky.social 'Country Music' (Directors Cut) & 'Jazz'. Without a doubt my favourite music is American (Carter Family, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan etc) as are many of my favourite writers—but what a strangely defective country. All the bandaids over the years coming off. #USA

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 2d

Finally able to do much needed housework after being laid up for nearly 6 days (suspected food poisoning on top of either exhaustion or a virus—inconclusive). I wouldn't say I was "high energy" but definitely in the mood for #TheDoors & some Jimbo magic youtu.be/91vU3kHtnoU?...

The Doors - L.A. Woman (Remastered) [Full Album]

YouTube video by The Doors

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