@cristinasiegel.bsky.social
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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CALIFORNIA: THE BIGGEST ECONOMY, THE BIGGEST TARGET.
The 4th largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK or India. Tech, film, food, energy — it drives the nation.
Trump hates that California proves progressive policies work. That diversity creates strength. That innovation beats grievance.
The 4th largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK or India. Tech, film, food, energy — it drives the nation.
Trump hates that California proves progressive policies work. That diversity creates strength. That innovation beats grievance.
October 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
CALIFORNIA: THE BIGGEST ECONOMY, THE BIGGEST TARGET.
The 4th largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK or India. Tech, film, food, energy — it drives the nation.
Trump hates that California proves progressive policies work. That diversity creates strength. That innovation beats grievance.
The 4th largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK or India. Tech, film, food, energy — it drives the nation.
Trump hates that California proves progressive policies work. That diversity creates strength. That innovation beats grievance.
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Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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Yep, it’s the food stamps.
October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yep, it’s the food stamps.
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The day after Donald Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, Israel struck more homes in Gaza City, reportedly killing dozens, including a three-month-old baby. In a new essay, @mosababutoha.bsky.social shares what’s happening to people he knows in Gaza.
There is No Peace in Gaza
Since President Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, people I know have continued to be killed. One described torture during a year in Israeli custody.
www.newyorker.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The day after Donald Trump announced his plan for a ceasefire, Israel struck more homes in Gaza City, reportedly killing dozens, including a three-month-old baby. In a new essay, @mosababutoha.bsky.social shares what’s happening to people he knows in Gaza.
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Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.
With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.
With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.
Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast
‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It’s not offshore wind that’s killing whales.
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies
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The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
September 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
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Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
lithub.com
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...
Solidarity from the Camino de Santiago en España! No Kings!!
June 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Solidarity from the Camino de Santiago en España! No Kings!!
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So good to have a biologist making this case. This is one of the more outrageous Trump deportations--this is a remarkable scientist, just the kind of person any nation would be lucky to have
🧵 🧪 This is my 3rd thread on the incarceration of computational scientist and microscopist Kesenii Petrova, and it’s intended for journalists covering the story. I want to say more about the frogs she’s accused of smuggling. Other biologists please chime in.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Harvard scientist facing deportation is charged with smuggling
Federal prosecutors allege Kseniia Petrova violated customs law by failing to declare preserved frog embryos in her luggage, in a case that's raised questions over her detention.
www.nbcnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
So good to have a biologist making this case. This is one of the more outrageous Trump deportations--this is a remarkable scientist, just the kind of person any nation would be lucky to have
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Jeff Bezos once grieved Jamal Khashoggi’s killing—now he’s in business with the man who orchestrated the savage murder, in a deal that lays bare his true colors, @passantino.bsky.social writes for the Saturday edition of @status.news.
Read the piece here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
Read the piece here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
Jeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBS
Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi—now he's making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, revealing more about his values than any vigil ever could.
www.status.news
May 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Jeff Bezos once grieved Jamal Khashoggi’s killing—now he’s in business with the man who orchestrated the savage murder, in a deal that lays bare his true colors, @passantino.bsky.social writes for the Saturday edition of @status.news.
Read the piece here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
Read the piece here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
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Fascinating.
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.
arstechnica.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Fascinating.
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Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin'
'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.
calmatters.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: ‘You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin’
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
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This, as the Department of Education, now on life support, will use its remaining power and staff to begin collecting on student loans paused since the pandemic.
April 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This, as the Department of Education, now on life support, will use its remaining power and staff to begin collecting on student loans paused since the pandemic.
This is case where I say, thank you hackers! 🙌
April 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is case where I say, thank you hackers! 🙌
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CA Border Patrol claimed it's attack on the Central Valley farm working community in Kern County was targeting criminals.
Turns out that wasn’t true, they were just profiling farm workers.
We must confront this injustice head on!
Turns out that wasn’t true, they were just profiling farm workers.
We must confront this injustice head on!
April 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
CA Border Patrol claimed it's attack on the Central Valley farm working community in Kern County was targeting criminals.
Turns out that wasn’t true, they were just profiling farm workers.
We must confront this injustice head on!
Turns out that wasn’t true, they were just profiling farm workers.
We must confront this injustice head on!
While political madness ensues, spring wildflowers are blooming, birds are migrating across continents and beauty abounds.
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
While political madness ensues, spring wildflowers are blooming, birds are migrating across continents and beauty abounds.
Complete and utter travesty. While the regime creates fake emergency problems and then responds with economy tanking and civil liberty destroying “solutions”, those researching and solving our actual climate crisis are removed.
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Complete and utter travesty. While the regime creates fake emergency problems and then responds with economy tanking and civil liberty destroying “solutions”, those researching and solving our actual climate crisis are removed.
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Can this finally put an end to the idea that Republicans are fiscally responsible?
April 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Can this finally put an end to the idea that Republicans are fiscally responsible?