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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1h

the way I screamed in my office
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2h

and it works.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2h

I had the latest version of Zotero--updated like two weeks ago-- so I restarted everything and it didn't work. So I am uninstalling and reinstalling to see if that works.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2h

I really don't know why Zotero web extension decided to not function this week. Pfffft.

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mara @maraganger.bsky.social · 1d

shoutout the ULTRA HARD 7 and DIRTY BARRY 8 posters from mezzo forte

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4h

The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health.

It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-health-d...

A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates

It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 4h

They really don’t want to have to deal with this guy

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 7h

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20h

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22h

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 15h

always so grateful for @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's principled clarity... if you don't already read Law Dork, you really must!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

some words

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 16h

let it goooo let it goooo 🎶

Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 17h

They used the words but managed to use the worst photo, kudos

Low angle to give the appearance of dominance but also to highlight the labial neck folds and barely there comb-over, good work

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18h

We win by winning.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 17h

Biosecurity (in the late 90s) was the cynical play to get hawks concerned about public health, imo — and, well, based upon my review of soft policy docs and grey literature from that era

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 19h

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” includes a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” written about a deportation flight crash that killed 28 migrant farm workers in 1948.

🎶 They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves 🎶

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs on vinyl

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

People don't need more evidence to conclude he's a white supremacist. Evidence isn't the issue here. The problem is convincing people that white supremacy is a threat rather than something they can elide and quietly benefit from without actually saying they like it.

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 21h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 23h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 18h

I was recently talking to someone about how long this show has been on …

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 19h

People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.

It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.

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NBZ PS @f-rima25.ooguy.com · 5d

My baby RIMA 💔
💔 She was born in a tent, under bombs.
Never saw a cradle, never touched a home.
Now she starves, while the world scrolls on
🥀 Her tiny legs bend from hunger.
No milk. No bread. No peace.
Just fear, fire, and silence.
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🔗 Pay.Pal: bit.ly/4oPYj88

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

Yet … hahaha

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

I’d been thinking about this story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/u...

A Stranger Shattered Their Lives. At First, They Didn’t Know Why.

www.nytimes.com

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