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Eileen Clancy 🧿
@clancyny.bsky.social
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Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Feb 3
No Elon, No Coup, No Fascist Shiba Inu!
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kooegrp.bsky.social
“I am happy from the bottom of my heart to see others in the streets,” a young woman who took part in protests on Wed. “But I also know that we are economically fucked and things won’t get better anytime soon. We also have no easy way of winning against these bastards. It is hard to be hopeful.”
Iranians Have Had Enough
The demonstrations erupting across the Islamic Republic reflect deep economic and political discontent.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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knittingknots.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine
On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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bradradio.bsky.social
Ignoring convention, and, at times, the law, #Trump made vast changes. But by year’s end his popularity had sunk to historical lows, as Americans recoiled from his brutality extremism. Above all, they fretted about his failure to improve their economic well-being.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts (Gift Article)
Steven Rattner recaps the year of Trump in charts.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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tcanelle.bsky.social
And they can't seem to keep subscribers logged in when you want ti be. Anyway, gift link just in case.
www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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tony.xyz
Nick Shirley’s lies: just click play.
The Star Tribune’s truth: No reading unless you give us your email address, make a password, choose which newsletters you want to subscribe to, agree to arbitration, a class action waiver, and let us use your info to sell ads www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
Screenshot of Minnesota Star Tribune article showing the headline and then a paywall. (We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here's what we found. Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having "no children" invited reporters in to see for themselves. By Deena Winter and Jeffrey Meitrodt The Minnesota Star Tribune DECEMBER 31, 2025 AT 6:21PM + The Minnesota Star Tribune LAST CHANCE: 80% OFF PLUS get a free gift! $49 FOR 1 YEAR ($260) Subscribe Create an account to read this story LIMITED FREE ACCESS Register Already a subscriber? Log In ›)
January 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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www.startribune.com/inside-the-o...
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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January 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
I've been partnering with her almost 4 years now, and knew her from before the February 2022 invasion through her whale research (I interviewed her for a piece I was working on). I last met up with her in Warsaw a few months ago to deliver supplies. She's painfully honest and beyond dedicated.
January 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
For New Year's, talked to my friend Olga, who runs goods to the front lines from Kharkiv. She's moved everything from generators to a mobile hospital and ambulances. As seen in Mother Jones (below), CNN, NYT, and elsewhere. The work is staggeringly challenging. DM me if you would like to donate.
She was on the front lines of whale conservation. Now she's on the front lines of war.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended Olga Shpak's life—and a generation of science.
www.motherjones.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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drsepinwall.bsky.social
I got a Chicago Manual of Style tshirt belatedly for Hanukah, and it's making me very happy to wear today. 🤓😎🗃️ #CMS

chicagomanual.threadless.com/designs/clas...
classic logo (yellow) Women T-Shirt | The Chicago Manual of Style
Shop classic logo (yellow) – available on Women T-Shirt
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January 3, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Nobel Peace Prize worthy
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1h
Year-end tally of Trump admin combat actions in 2025:

—Yemen—1,000+ strikes*
—Somalia—140+ strikes, 1 ground raid**
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids***
—Iran—3 B-2 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
—Nigeria—1 set of TLAM strikes
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Venezuela—1 known CIA strike
wesleymorgan.bsky.social Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 8d
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike
January 3, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social
DHS wants mug shots, fingerprints, palm prints, iris & retina scans, voiceprints, & DNA samples from anyone "associated with" any applicant for US admission, residency, or citizenship:

papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/0...

Submit comments before midnight ET tonight:
www.regulations.gov/document/USC...
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
We have some great books coming out this month, including "P FKN R," by Bad Bunny Syllabus creators Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau. See all of January's #NewBooks on our blog! buff.ly/alCform
Cover of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors—red, white, and blue. The subtitle reads is highlighted in a black and yellow box. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it is in the lower half. The authors' names are displayed at the bottom in red and blue text.
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
Authors @naylandblake.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, and @margaretprice.bsky.social all have events in January. Perhaps you can make it to one!
buff.ly/KKvMEsd
Covers of P FKN R, My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio, Unruly Comparison, Crip Spacetime, and Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, arranged in a 2x3 grid. The words Author Events in January appear in the right corner.
December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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cinemiasma.bsky.social
Congratulations Jacob Engelberg! Love seeing this - a brilliant book (that had its origins from a brilliant Phd diss at King’s I had the pleasure to co-supervise w Rosalind Galt.) Bravo!
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 9h
We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform
Cover of Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg. The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cover. The title appears in a single line of white text across the center of the image, and the author's name in white text rotated ninety degrees along the bottom right-hand corner.
January 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform
Cover of Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg. The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cover. The title appears in a single line of white text across the center of the image, and the author's name in white text rotated ninety degrees along the bottom right-hand corner.
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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timwatson.bsky.social
The grotesque DHS post evokes not only the beach vacation that will follow the hard work of deportation, but also the expansionist phase of post-Reconstruction Florida, when white northerners and midwesterners could imagine themselves industriously settling the subtropical edge of the country.
January 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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timwatson.bsky.social
I shouldn't be spending more time thinking about this than the DHS staffer who image searched "palm trees surf vintage car", but as I'm researching C19/C20 Florida development history, it's hard to avoid the similarities.

Here's the cover of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami. Palm trees/ocean/car.
Front and back covers of a 1915 pamphlet promoting Miami, Florida. An orange, dark green, and white illustration showing a couple being driven in an open top car along a white road beside the ocean heading toward the vaguely Mediterranean buildings of a large Miami hotel, with palm trees in the distance and two enormous palm trees in the foreground. Image downloaded from the Historical Florida Brochures, Pamphlets, and Promotional Materials digital collection of University of Miami Libraries, https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/pamphlets/id/3873/rec/170.
January 2, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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rdrpharmacist.bsky.social
Ooh, “failsons from Cul-de-Sac County” is a new one!
michellegoldberg.bsky.social Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 9h
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I used to think X had no public utility but it is developing into some sort of monument to billionaire hubris. It's a living museum of paranoiac mania, a Grey Gardens situation.
January 2, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”
radosh.bsky.social Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 5h
Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6h
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story

www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS
betofaria.bsky.social Roberto Faria @betofaria.bsky.social · 4h
“Upside down calculator says ‘BOOBS’”
January 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
This is what happens when you appoint an editor in chief who thinks the opinion section is the main driver of a news site.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
News is not a “daily conversation.”

News is news.

If you want a daily conversation, go to your local coffee shop.
January 2, 2026 at 9:14 PM