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Anne Hilborn
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Working to conserve California's wildlife. Intense fondness for cheetahs, gore, poop, and dead things. Pics are mine unless stated. She/her

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d
bonus tracked pelican diving in front of a sunset with ~ORANGE SPLASH BABEEYY!!!!~

I'm gonna go take a nap. or just straight up sleep. im very tired. love each other. be venomous to our enemies. together 🥰

also remember to not buy starbucks through the duration of @sbworkersunited.org' ULP strike!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d
www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...
OU professor reportedly detained by ICE at Will Rogers airport
The professor is reportedly an H-1B visa holder, which would allow him to legally work at OU.
www.oklahoman.com

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Rachel Schwartz @raschwartz.bsky.social · 3d
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed company that provided aid to Gaza, said Monday it would shutter operations.
US-backed aid company in Gaza shutters operations
The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.
bit.ly

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Carson Leigh Brown @carsonleigh.bsky.social · 3d
an oldie but goodie www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

(relatedly, teen vogue's recent anti-union firings will make this type of work more difficult)

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Colleen Theisen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 5d
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 5d
Afternoon light in the mid-boreal upland ecozone 😊 🌿
A wide, snow-dusted trail disappears around a corner. The trail is lined by tall, thin white-barked aspen trees and dark green spruce. The sky overhead is grey but lit from indirect sunlight.

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 5d
On my drive back to New York from giving a book talk at Bowdoin College, I stopped briefly at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,where I stumbled on this remarkable history. A sharp reminder that slavery permeated the American experience,even where least expected. www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/l...

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 5d
📍 SACRAMENTO, CA

Lavender Angels were out tonight distributing last-minute flyers in support of tomorrow’s vigil for Alvin Prasad, put together by his daughter Andrea Prasad.

Alvin was recently hospitalized in a coma after being viciously beaten in a brazen hate crime in Lavender Heights.
a poster on a post reads “lavender angers bash back.” With a rainbow background. Two arms are holding each other by the wrist. An image shows a sign post with a flyer on it. Text reads, “candlelight vigil in honor of Alvin Prasad. A call to end violence against our LGBTQIA+ community.” A bookstore has two posters flyered on the glass by the front door. One flyer reads “candlelight vigil in honor of Alvin Prasad.” The other is a rainbow flyer with the text “lavender angels bash back.” It shows two arms gripping each other by the wrist. CANDELIGHT VIGIL in honor of ALVIN PRASAD A CALL TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST OUR LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY SACRAMENTO CITY HALL, tomorrow Saturday, 11/22/2025 7PM 915 I st, Sacramento CA

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com

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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 5d
“You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield,” the incredulous driver said on the recorded 911 call. “It absolutely shattered my windshield.”

The dispatcher calmly responded, “OK. I do believe you, honestly,” then laughed.
Motorist in North Carolina tells 911: 'I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield'
A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when a cat carcass crashed into her windshield. The incident happened along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
apnews.com

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 5d
Watching polar bears spar will never get old. #mammals 🌿

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 7d
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social System Reverses Decision to End Incentives for Postdoc Program Hires https://bit.ly/49ZWrVa

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
The UC Berkeley campus sits empty on July 22, 2020, in Berkeley, Calif.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 7d
And I'm just very tired. Many of my trans friends are similarly struggling. If you are cis and have spare funds, please help out your trans friends.

As a group, we're more likely to be underemployed, to have significant debt burdens, and we're all very tired.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 7d
Gaines' coach at Kentucky reportedly sexually assaulted multiple women but she's not out here talking about protecting those women. She's only interested in a fucked up discriminatory boogeyman. This is made very clear in this episode.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d
Even as SNAP benefits are restored, food banks and pantries around the nation continue to feel the strain with no reprieve in sight. n.pr/4oOIUEl
Food banks, already strained, brace for prolonged demand
Even as SNAP benefits are restored, food banks and pantries around the nation continue to feel the strain with no reprieve in sight.
n.pr

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d
Autumn Leaf 2
Watercolour, approximately 75 × 127 mm.

A fiery bit of visual comfort now that winter is abruptly come.
Watercolour painting of an autumn leaf, in fiery red and gold; redder for most of the leaf's lower half, with dark rust spots scattered all over.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 7d
I thought I was disappointed in my tenured colleagues before but now I am really angry. ICE Actions Mean our UNC students
are afraid to come to class or headed home to help affected families. It's time to SPEAK UP and instead I hear a resounding SILENCE

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 7d
I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph. "The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"

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Anne Hilborn @annewhilborn.bsky.social · 7d
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
getthebagcoach.bsky.social Maybe:…… @getthebagcoach.bsky.social · 7d
Bring back Movie Soundtracks that were great……

Waiting to Exhale
Boomerang
Boyz N The Hood

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Maybe:…… @getthebagcoach.bsky.social · 7d
Bring back Movie Soundtracks that were great……

Waiting to Exhale
Boomerang
Boyz N The Hood

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8d
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8d
Earlier this year, Trump fired a Democrat on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission without cause, an unprecedented move.

13 Dems just voted to advance Trump's pick to fill the vacancy.

Coons
Duckworth
Heinrich
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Ossoff
Padilla
Warner
Warnock
Welch
Whitehouse

Reposted by Cathy N. Davidson, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Anne Hilborn

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 9d
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.

ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 9d
Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.
Drawing of a very shiny praying mantis. It has chunky, shiny forearms and is mostly green and red. A close up of the drawing, showing the metallic shine on the mantis' green and blue forearm.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 9d
The same journalist who watched Israel and the US kill 245 Palestinian journalists without objection? The same journalists who watched Sam Husseini get dragged out by security for asking Blinken about the genocide? Those journalists?
Sam Husseini gets dragged out by security

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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 10d
Our PhD job market candidates continues UCSB’s proud tradition in environmental and resource economics.

Here are our students on the market this year (in alphabetical order).

#econsky

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 10d
I'm not kidding. This is not photoshopped! Rock #squirrel filled to the BRIM.

"What? Who, me?"
Picture of a rock squirrel on a bird-feeding platform made of a saguaro skeleton that was struck by lightning at our place. He sits to right of a quail seed-block, cheeks CRAMMED to at least 10xs their size. Comical! Blue skies and train trestle in background.

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Anne Hilborn @annewhilborn.bsky.social · 10d
I took one to our union training meeting this weekend
corsiaq.bsky.social Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 10d
4/ Consider a CR Box. It is highly effective at removing respiratory aerosol particles across a wide range of particle sizes that convey viruses, and the additional mixing added to rooms can cause rapid dispersion of respiratory plumes when in close contact with those infected.
A do-it-yourself air cleaner constructed with walls that are themselves air filters configured and held together with yellow and blue duct tape and powered by a box fan sits on a table in a classroom. A window in the background shows a courtyard with picnic tables, trees, and grass.