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privatechand.bsky.social
AI is like every other extractive technology: built on the proletariat of the neocolonial economies of the global South. Do not look away.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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ancientjewreview.bsky.social
AJR's forum, "Secondary Scholarship," closes today with a reflection from Religious Studies scholar Elena Dugan, who shares how her journey to and through a private secondary boarding school has made her a "braver, more curious scholar." www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/1/...
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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brizzyc.bsky.social
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm." A must read.
February 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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rhaplord.bsky.social
Forgotten Cities of the Swahili Coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/forgotten-...
Forgotten Cities of the Swahili coast: A history of Pemba in the Medieval Indian Ocean World (ca. 600-1822 CE)
Journal of African Cities: chapter 19
www.africanhistoryextra.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!

This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.

Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
The young Muslim woman detained in a locked Whipple bathroom with three men said she never thought this could happen to her. She saw America as a land of opportunity after a childhood in a refugee camp. She hopes to become a nurse or a flight attendant. Her criminal record, she said, consists of one speeding ticket. With Whipple's holding facilities filled, the woman said, agents eventually moved her to another locked bathroom by herself. There was an air vent at the door's bottom. When she saw federal agents' footsteps, she banged for help. On her third night of detention, agents took in two new detainees: an African immigrant and her 7-month-old baby girl. She said the immigrant told her they had been detained as the mother took her baby to a doctor to be treated for influenza. "When the woman arrived, she was screaming and crying and yelling, 'My baby is already sick!' " she recalled. " 'I don't want my baby to die!' " The next morning, she said, the woman and baby were moved from the bathroom. It wasn't until her fourth day of detention when the young woman was allowed to use a phone at the facility. When she heard her mother's voice, she burst into tears. On the fifth day, agents drove her and two other recently released detainees to a light-rail station near Whipple. They took off her handcuffs and told her to call an Uber, even though she didn't have a phone. She borrowed one from another detainee. As they released her into the cold, she recalls their simple words: "You are good to go."
February 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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ziibiing.com
liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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ysl.bsky.social
“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”

— Miles Davis
January 31, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
ismipratima.bsky.social
Brad Neely walked so that Lin Manuel Miranda could crawl
jacobharr.is Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 6d
I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
George Washington
YouTube video by unvmebad86
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January 30, 2026 at 10:36 AM
ismipratima.bsky.social
Am I having a stroke or is David Brooks just getting multiple jobs today?
January 29, 2026 at 11:53 PM
ismipratima.bsky.social
Everyone then: Wow, I wish where I lived was more like Minneapolis.

Everyone now, after climbing over stupid icy snow banks for four straight days: Not like this.
January 29, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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A discussion about why Minnesota was so ready to reject ICE/CBP:

"Number one is the rigorous focus on agency-oriented organizing practice, a north star of building multiracial, democratic governing power. We have a majoritarian orientation — we want progressive and popular power."
Our Power Is Organized People
Creating a movement across generations, races, and faiths in Minnesota.
hammerandhope.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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normative.bsky.social
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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profchander.bsky.social
at my most pessimistic i think the greatest trick the devil ever played was getting us to think the point was to open up a space from which critique might be possible or whatever (at my most optimistic i think it's all we have)
January 29, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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jewishcurrents.bsky.social
"In the streets, in the schools, in the Signal threads, in all our places of healing and justice, we are as locusts."

A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis by Joey Glick:
Swarm Like Locusts
A dvar Torah from occupied Minneapolis
jewishcurrents.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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brucespringsteen.net
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
ismipratima.bsky.social
Well, that’s a wrap on this tropical girl’s first-ever experience shoveling snow. I’ve always managed to wait it out with public transit or cabin fever until the sun is on my side, but I had to suck it up this time. Within hours, I met three neighbors, one of whom helped me shovel out my car 🥹😭
January 28, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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donni.bsky.social
As a species, have we considered going back to the sea
January 19, 2026 at 5:36 AM
ismipratima.bsky.social
You are all welcome any time to gift me every one of these Jomon-era replica pieces made by Potted History (h/t @jenbaird.bsky.social)
potted-history.co.uk/collections/...
Jomon Culture
The replicas we have handcrafted for this collection were made as part of our work for the Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan exhibition.  The new exhibition celebrates the culture of ...
potted-history.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
ismipratima.bsky.social
They should invent a kind of society that just offers to help a mom flying alone with a toddler and an infant instead of waiting for her to ask for everything she needs.
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM