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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · Jun 18

A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing

Something I had the honor to speak last week, to an auditorium full of Indigenous, Black and Brown, really a rainbow of environmental justice activists in Greensboro, NC.

(and yes, this also launches my newsletter, so please subscribe!)

A Reconciliation Ecologist's Testimony at a People's Hearing

Spoken in Greensboro, NC in June 2025

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2h

The longest federal government shutdown so far came during Trump’s first term - lasting 35 days.

As the Republicans continue to blame Democrats for the shutdown, remember that.

Shutting down the federal government is one of the Trump Party’s favorite moves.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Shutdown 'barreling toward' one of the longest ever, GOP leader says

Lawmakers on both sides braced for a longer shutdown as the Senate prepares for another vote Tuesday to reopen the government.

www.usatoday.com

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 8h

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 2h

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

The single greatest threat to our nation, our communities, and our children is ICE, and it’s not even close.

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 8h

Excited to be moderating a panel at the @statnews.com summit later this week on the upheaval at the NIH this year, and I have the honor of sharing the stage with three people who have helped me make sense of this moment

Going to thread some background reading, featuring our three speakers:

Flyer advertising talk at STAT summit, in various shades of teal. Called "featured session: Inside the upheaval at NIH" and including speakers Jeremy Berg, formerly of NIGMS, Eric Green who led NHGRI, and Mallory Harris of SciMap with moderator Anil Oza. October 15-16

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5h

"Local Florida Governments Sue DeSantis Over Laws That Block Climate Action" | Article in @cleantechnica.bsky.social by Carolyn Fortuna:

cleantechnica.com/2025/10/13/l...

Local Florida Governments Sue DeSantis Over Laws That Block Climate Action - CleanTechnica

Litigants counter that they're trying to protect their communities, but DeSantis government’s actions are stripping away those safeguards.

cleantechnica.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3h

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6h

If everybody who went to a pro Palestine protest sticks to this we could actually free Palestine

brettspets.bsky.social @brettspets.bsky.social · 7h

I will not vote for any candidate who is pro Israel period.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 2h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 6h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11h

this week for @coyotemedia.org: I went to war-ravaged Portland to find out whether it’s still possible to get a decent macchiato there www.coyotemedia.org/portland-a-w...

Portland, a ‘war zone?’ OK, sure. So how’s the food?

COYOTE’s war correspondent grabs brunch.

www.coyotemedia.org

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 11h

A crystal clear explanation from @paulwaldman.bsky.social of the GOP's thinking, both now, as it pertains to their government shutdown, and looking ahead to the next couple of years.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12h

These two things are true at the same time:

1. Republicans don't care about health care

2. They may still try to destroy Obamacare once and for all

Remember, they've got a reconciliation bill next year, with no filibuster.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Roland Kays @rolandkays.com · 15d

Can domestic buffalos stand up to jaguars in the Pantanal of Brazil? Join us as we set cameras to find out youtu.be/aN-pk-GEYTs?...

Buffalo vs Jaguar: What Really Happens in Brazil

YouTube video by Wild Animals

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 14h

ALL POWER TO THE FIRST NATIONS

FUCK COLUMBUS

FUCK CORTES

FUCK PIZARRO

ONE DAY THE PEOPLES OF TURTLE ISLAND WILL BE UNITED AGAIN IN HARMONY

LAND BACK!

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16h

Sigh. Guess it's that one day a year we have to utter that assholes name.

For Immediate Release
Italian-American Trade Unionists of America Condemn Columbus on Columbus Day

The ltalian-American Trade Unionists of America (IATUOA) has once again reaffirmed its condemnation of Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day.
"We only mention the son of a bitch's name once a year and it's when we announce that he's a son of a bitch on his name day," the IATUOA Executive Committee announced from a dark, smoke-filled room in the Italian-American Club of Shamokin, PA.

The IATUOA, founded on the principles of cultural solidarity through bargaining, mutual aid, shared dining experiences, and anti-imperialism, believes Columbus represents the antithesis of these core values. Based on his writing and contemporary accounts, Columbus was a greedy, self-indulgent strunz, a jerk-off that gleefully engaged in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous people for personal gain and fame.

Further, this fucking guy, supposedly Genoese, rarely spoke or wrote in Ligurian or any Italic language. What kind of "Italian" does that?

Italian-Americans deserve recognition and a holiday in the United States, but also deserve a figure worthy of their name. "If you're gonna name the fuckin' day Columbus Day, you might as well go-all in and make the fucking holiday Columbus/Mussolini Day to piss on a few more graves,"' the IATOUA Executive Committee further scoffed

As of this time,the IATUOA DaVinci Genealogy Caucus still questions the authenticity of Columbus' Italian ancestry. Based on this, and the organization's position that Columbus is "a piece of shit" the organization maintains its position that Italian-Americans (as well as indigenous people) deserve a holiday that truly recognizes our heritage and not one that celebrates a jackass.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12h

I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 9h

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 9h

Assuming its validity: This is not funny because it’s awful, but I am amazed by the idea that it would be great to interact with a 10-foot AI Martin Luther King and *ask him what he had for breakfast*. And ask him how his day is going! WHAT IN THE BORING-ASS DYSTOPIA ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10h

This seems fake but it's completely real: Audio of Seattle's current Mayor dreaming of a giant computer-simulated Martin Luther King, something the King family has explicitly asked people not to do.
Big thanks to Erica Barnett for being the only reporter in town covering these events so closely!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

The consensus among a particular set of people on here seems to be that Israel hated Biden and Harris and undermined them repeatedly so that a Republican would win and that's why the next Democrat should be even more pro-Israel

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

Some express skepticism that this is the case but here is former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch saying this more or less, that Israel will be able to regain its image and that the Democratic Party can maintain its stalwart pro-Israel stance so long as the GCC bails Israel out.

Eventually, an end to the war should mean an end to the worldwide focus on Israel’s conduct of it, said Ted Deutch, president of the American Jewish Committee. He said he eagerly awaited a point at which “the humanitarian situation gets better and the hostages are released, and Arab countries are investing in the future of Gaza.” Then, he said, “the conversation can be about what’s next, about what the region can look like, what Gaza can look like.”

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 11h

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 9h

Please give him something to do today.

Thank you.

Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning. I am shipping zines today. Get your order in. It’s a delight to read. There’s cartoons! www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...

Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.

www.mulebooks.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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