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Bex, if you can keep it

@bextraordinary.bsky.social

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🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia. Work: Criminal justice, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction. Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs. bextraordinarycreatures.com

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · Nov 12

-- I'm a criminal justice and public health scholar interested in the intersection of health and the criminal legal system, especially substance use, harm reduction, and reproductive justice. This year I left my tenured Assoc. Prof. position to work for a research & evaluation nonprofit. It's great!

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1h

well that's enough of my damn time on THAT

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Unfortunately I think there's a decent chunk who are fine with it, because they see legal practice as a set of games to be won, not a practice that upholds or remakes the social fabric. The weaselingest weasels are richly rewarded while the folks holding the line drown in debt.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 6h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 18h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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eloveart @eloveart.bsky.social · 5h

Gorgeous!

El / Bee @elsbee.bsky.social · 2d

day 9 - autumn from @strooooble.bsky.social

#StreamINK2025

Digital illustration of a young girl in a red coat kicking up a pile of leaves. In the background there is a row of trees with orange, yellow and red leaves.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 5h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 5h

It’s kind of maddening to think about how good Black folks have to be to get a sliver of opportunity. There are very few Black folks in academia but a full assault on the few that are here, by a white federal government that can’t even fire people correctly.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

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

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 19h

“Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing.” uh, damn

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Morris Column @morriscolumn.bsky.social · 18h

Boston, which has somehow managed to assemble in one place the most annoying aspects of the British class system, Southern racism and segregation, and the least erotic accent in the English language.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Bathsheba in Blue @bathshebablue.bsky.social · 22h

One of his posts says Dems don’t understand that paying the troops is popular … never mentioning that Dems sponsored a bill to pay the troops — but the GOP promptly blocked it.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Democratic troop pay bill blocked in House amid shutdown

GOP leaders are seeking to keep pressure on Democrats to reopen the whole government.

www.politico.com

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 22h

Marisha's Critical Role C4 character is my favorite. She's *killing* it.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d

You know your house build/design team is listening to you when you mention to them that you & your husband used to play World of Warcraft, then you get the renovation digital mockups and they've put WoW on the screens of the computers in the office. 🤩

A small section of a virtual model of a home office that shows a large desk with two chairs and four monitors, each showing World of Warcraft scenes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d

That's all with the FDM printer, which I think is the most accessible for beginners. I also have several resin printers, which are more of a pain in the ass to use but awesome for tiny, highly-detailed things like game miniatures and (in my case) tiny horns and other pieces for my models.

Bex, if you can keep it @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 1d

I make: little trinkets for my kids & their friends, yarn bowls, masks (printing a Halloween mask for my son right now), boxes and other storage things, cookie cutters and other tools for pottery, handy little tools (scrapers, painting supports, modular pieces)...

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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