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Prism @prismreports.org · 2h

A Yemeni man fleeing persecution requested asylum in the U.S. ICE deported him as the Trump administration bombed Yemen, Kate Morrissey reports. Deported by the U.S., captured by the Houthi militia, & tortured in Mexico, there are few places left for Ali to turn.

Yemeni man captured by Houthis after deportation from US

Deported by the U.S., captured by the Houthi militia, and tortured in Mexico, there are few places left for Ali to turn

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2h

The need for something like this is obvious - Congress and administrative agencies don't understand high energy physics as well as physicists do, so physicists provide expertise to guide government support for research. But the Trump administration hates expertise, science, and basic research so

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4h

I know the gaslighting and hypocrisy are entirely intentional, but it's worth pointing out that these guys think that

A) marches with families and people in inflatable costumes are hateful and anti-American

and also

B) people who stormed the Capitol were just having a fun day out

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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WFIU/WTIU News @wfiuwtiunews.bsky.social · 2h

The Indiana University Media School fired its Director of Student Media Tuesday, one week after he says he was ordered by administrators to remove news from the Indiana Daily Student print edition. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social

IU fires leader of student media, including Indiana Daily Student

Editors at the Indiana Daily Student said Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush refused to tell students to remove news from an upcoming special print edition.

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Sinnamon Love @sinnamonlove.blacksky.app · Jul 11

In 2022, @/redcanarysong asked me to speak at a vigil for the 1 year anniversary of the Atlanta Massage Parlour shooting that took the lives of 8 people.

For the 1st time that speech appears in “We Are Each Others Liberation: Black and Asian Solidarities.”

I’m incredibly honored 🧡

bit.ly/3IBsoay

We Are Each Other's Liberation

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 6d

What can we learn from the political organisers who came before us?

Read an extract from the forthcoming collection, WE ARE EACH OTHER'S LIBERATION: BLACK AND ASIAN FEMINIST SOLIDARITIES, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (@haymarketbooks.org).

www.wasafiri.org/content/excl...

Exclusive Extract — We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

We're delighted to share an exclusive extract from the forthcoming collection, We Are Each Other's Liberation:

www.wasafiri.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 5d

Happy #BannedBooksWeek. If you love libraries and hate censorship, I'd encourage you to do more than just read a banned book this week. Here are a few ideas:
1. Get involved in your local public library board
2. Join or start a friends group
3. Organize a people's assembly for your public library

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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social · 5d

Kentucky attorney general pushing for EPA to repeal federal carbon emission regulations www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Kentucky attorney general pushing for EPA to repeal federal carbon emission regulations

In an 88-page letter to the EPA, Attorney General Russell Coleman is encouraging the agency to move forward with a proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding.

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: America has always been divided... historians have seen that... America was born out of violence. It doesnt take away from the ideals put forward in creation to acknowledge that. #PBS #AmericanRevolution

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: good stories with complexity, whether shakespeare or led by kevin costner (yellowstone) will appeal... made this film not for blue or red audience, but for an American audience. ... but could not have made this film w/o #PublicMedia #PBS #AmericanRevolution

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns on stories of ppl who didnt get portraits painted, teens, women, criminals, enslaved...
"Stories that come to us w barnacles of sentimentality & nostalgia deserve to be scraped off, told & become impt, when you know the extraordinary, violent & diverse story of #AmericanRevolution. #PBS

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Terry Gross: telling these stories that include voices of enslaved & women & indigenous might be called DEI; screening this at Smithsonian or NPS could get you canceled.
Ken Burns: i like to say DEI is "E Pluribus Unum" "A story is a story is a story." #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #PBS #FreshAir

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: good stories with complexity, whether shakespeare or led by kevin costner (yellowstone) will appeal... made this film not for blue or red audience, but for an American audience. ... but could not have made this film w/o #PublicMedia #PBS #AmericanRevolution

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Terry Gross: telling these stories that include voices of enslaved & women & indigenous might be called DEI; screening this at Smithsonian or NPS could get you canceled.
Ken Burns: i like to say DEI is "E Pluribus Unum" "A story is a story is a story." #AmericanRevolution #USHistory #PBS #FreshAir

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: freedom then defined around white me. W property and no debt, an assumption of manifest destiny and God given preference, but where does it say God given rights but only for white ppl?

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 5d

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

In intro to #PBS event, Pa. Rep. Brendan Boyle notes he is part of 1st gen to grow up w #PublicMedia... made me realize me too! I've been grateful for being a PBS kid, but didn't realize that childhood was unique to our generation in comparison to parents & grands & even our kids to an extent.

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: I often think of PBS is to communication as what the Declaration of Independence is to the country -- supporting a lifetime of learning... criticizes end of CPB and reallocation of $700M funding for public media as "short-sighted."

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Terry Gross notes "which side would I be on?" Not sure I'd want war in my backyard, to see men in my life die. Ken Burns notes what would I be willing to die for? Many ppl made these decisions. Last line in Declaration notes pledging lives & sacred honor to each other. #AmericanRevolution #freshAir

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: declaration of dependence post battle of long island/Bklyn loyalists signed... then when British devastated farms& fams, ppl shifted, so complex. Families divided. Notes Franklin's son formed terrorist org hunting Patriots, who hunted loyalists in turn. Was down & dirty, local & macro.

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

I remember learning about brothers against brothers in elementary school, historical fiction, and local museums in NYC & Brooklyn. Still frustrating so many Americans refuse to recognize this division & complex humanity & reality & history then as now. #AmericanRevolution #PBS

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: declaration of dependence post battle of long island/Bklyn loyalists signed... then when British devastated farms& fams, ppl shifted, so complex. Families divided. Notes Franklin's son formed terrorist org hunting Patriots, who hunted loyalists in turn. Was down & dirty, local & macro.

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ironically, American colonists reckoning w enslavement of African Americans didnt mean any recognition of Indigenous peoples' humanity. Jefferson and Declaration explicitly discussed need to expel "Indian savages" in push westward. #AmericanRevolution #PBS

Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: declaring independence brought on discourse about slavery and the enslaved publicly for 1st time anywhere. So by time #AmericanRevolution, Civil War & women's suffrage was already gonna happen, in essence. #FreshAir #PBS

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns noting Franklin's idea for a United States was modeled after Haudenoshonee and Iroquois Nation, which was destroyed by #AmericanRevolution. #PBS

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns: declaring independence brought on discourse about slavery and the enslaved publicly for 1st time anywhere. So by time #AmericanRevolution, Civil War & women's suffrage was already gonna happen, in essence. #FreshAir #PBS

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Heather J. Chin @heatherjchin.bsky.social · 5d

Ken Burns to Terry Gross: Washington was against keeping & recruiting Black soldiers who fought bravely in Lexington & Concord, eventually realized mistake... Terry notes W describing colonists as enslaved to British. Ken says "irony & hypocrisy not lost on anybody." #AmericanRevolution #PBS

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

A federal judge in Chicago blocked President Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Illinois.

“I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop,” said U.S. District Judge April M. Perry.

Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

www.washingtonpost.com

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