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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 1m

first heard of climate warming in 1983 science class

“four other Earth systems — permafrost, the subpolar gyre and the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets — likely have a tipping point around 1.5°C.

“There is 60m [197 feet] sea level rise locked in Antarctic ice sheets alone,”

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 14m

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil.

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in…

news.mongabay.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

A few of my thoughts:

www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

There is a natural inclination, especially among Americans steeped in our culture of mass incarceration, to judge the propriety of a person’s punishment not based on what they’ve done, but on how deserving one believes they are of receiving justice. On its face, any 13-year-old kid that allegedly made threats and was found to be in possession of a knife should be afforded the rights of due process in the juvenile court system. But because this boy was born in another country, because he and his family were asylum-seekers (authorized to work legally in the US) and not American citizens, and regardless of any piece of his personal story or history that led him to this point, some believe he is not owed those same rights. This boy—this child— deserves to rot in a federal facility, they say, and to be dragged across state lines away from his home. And for some, his mere existence in this country is crime enough.
But it’s important to bust these myths. It’s crucial to remember, as so many speakers at the Everett City Council meeting reminded us, that all of our safety is intertwined. DHS and its many agencies are trying to turn neighbors against one another. But our neighbors are not our enemies—in fact, they are the ones most likely to protect us.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8m

Update— DHS Asst. Secretary Tricia McLaughlin just doxed the 13-year-old who was taken by ICE, sharing a copy of a police report on X with his full name and photo visible.

She’s trying to prove the disputed claim that he had a gun. I’ve reached out to the city. I will not be sharing the post here.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 11h

“It depends on where they come from and how they grew up—what their grandma and granddaddy told them. Because when you tell our story”—she brought her index finger to her chest—“you’re really shaking the foundation of other people’s stories.” -Janice Canaday

Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 4d

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 2h

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

nyti.ms

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 19m

Epstein had a rape palace in New Mexico

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 39m

Virginia Giuffre doesn’t name this politician. But the details are very specific; it’s someone who wasn’t a governor of a Western state in 2000-2001, but soon won election.

That has to be one of 3 men:
Brad Henry of OK, Dave Freudenthal of WY, or, uh…

Bill Richardson

bsky.app/profile/kaya...

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 44m

This is torture and the article explicitly calls it torture

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A.L. Kushner @alkushner.bsky.social · 24m

Large-scale evacuations underway from storm-battered Western Alaska villages www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Large-scale evacuations underway from storm-battered Western Alaska villages

The University of Alaska Anchorage will shelter 400 displaced residents in the Alaska Airlines Center arena with the help of the American Red Cross as soon as Wednesday evening, university officials s...

www.adn.com

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 22m

can we have healthcare please

Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 8h

Larry Ellison, the megabillionaire tech oligarch taking over CBS and TikTok, owns $2 billion in properties, including an entire island in Hawai'i, and a megayacht with another boat trailing to catch basketballs that bounce into the water.

From my @truthout.org profile: truthout.org/articles/fro...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

I’ve told this story before: during prospective student weekend at Harvard, I sat through a group of white & Asian Am. prospies talking about how all the Black & Latino admits were affirmative action cases. I was not the only Black or Latino person in the room with them.

Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 1h

💯 I defended affirmative action one day and woke up to stuffed monkeys hung by a noose in my dorm's bathroom. None of this is shocking or new.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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Tevita ‘Uhatafe @tevitauhatafe.bsky.social · 49m

Many Palestinian remains returned had their hands zip tied behind their backs. Israel didn’t even think about the optics of these bodies returning in that nature because the dehumanization is so strong.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 53m

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions.

Gaza medics find signs of torture on Palestinian bodies returned by Israel

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions.

bit.ly

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 41m

She completed her suicide. Jail them all.

“Epstein and Maxwell laughing at my underwear, which were dotted with tiny hearts. “How cute – she still wears little girl’s panties,” Epstein said. He reached for a vibrator, which he forced between my thighs, as Maxwell commanded me to pinch Epstein’s

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 47m

world’s largest oil reserve is to big a prize for the fossil war people

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 1h

feels like we have been building towards a war with Venezuela for literally my entire adult life.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 51m

i think you’ll be ok

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 1h

Those who were unable to enshrine voting rights into law when Democrats held the House, Senate, and White House are not the political leaders equipped to defend democracy.

They’ve already failed at it and are refusing to give up power.

And it starts with Schumer & Jeffries.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 5h

Watching this country get dismantled from the inside

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 1h

I believe singing Rod Steward's Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? with parody lyrics is protected speech.
"If you hate brown people, & you are a Nazi come on ICE leave Portland!"
Does he have a case for a civil lawsuit @thelisagraves.bsky.social? @nicolesandler.bsky.social
#AntiFascistFrog #Portland

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泣鬼虫A R T🌻🎸 @nakimushiart.bsky.social · 13h

Y’all if you in Florida, ICE is driving around the Black and Latino neighborhoods playing Ice Cream Truck music from their white vans, keep your children inside and safe this shit ain’t a joke.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

As someone who has been watching this show since episode 1, it is INCREDIBLE Corey Booker’s team let him go against JENNIFER. Oh my fucking God. They have NEVER seen her show lmao

I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a simple yes or no question.

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Andy Rose LPC @andyrose12.bsky.social · 1h

for some reason this video makes me very sad. he’s a man so he won’t get the Dixie Chicks treatment, but he’ll get abuse. i wish him well

he knows exactly how whiteness works to keep wp in line.

P R ∆ J | is making beats for a boring dumb bitch @prajxl.bsky.social · 2h

*adds Bryan Andrews to 'mildly decent white people' playlist*

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 6h

So many people of color who ever attended a majority white college or university or high school could tell you tales about their racist peers or instructors.

It is something we are/have been expected to endure.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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