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Kristy Rawson
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PhD Cinema/Media Studies, artist, nonprofit worker, digital archivist, public history, Anti-zionist; Free Palestine, Black Lives Matter, /climate justice, community gardens, old-growth forests, X-CA X-Santa Fe X-A2,MI X-Chicago | Trinidad, CO
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Here's how Columbia Heights staffer Sandra Garzon described it:
“Everyone is afraid and it’s not only newcomers but also second and third generations. We have families that parents were born here. Their kids are second generation and they’re afraid to leave their homes.”
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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1 in 4 Columbia Heights students is currently learning virtually because they are too afraid to leave their homes.
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Seven children from this MN school district have been detained by ICE. 2 of them are still in ICE custody in TX. The district has lost track of how many parents have been taken. At just one elementary 26 parents have been detained by ICE

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘Time to speak up’: In Columbia Heights, school leaders stepped in to protect families as ICE surged
As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...
www.mprnews.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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A 16 year old San Antonio kid was essentially killed by a football coaching staff during an offseason workout.

Players were subjected to punishment drills and repeatedly noted the distress of their teammate, to no avail.

After he collapsed, the rest of the team was compelled to continue the drill.
February 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"
The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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remember when centrists would call you an insane person if you said jeff bezos ownership is going to run the washington post into the ground
For those of you keeping score at home, the actual cut to the Post newsroom was 45%, not the widely reported one third. Remaining journalists are a bit over 400, down from around 1100 four years ago and 580 when Bezos bought the place.
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Trump largely dismantled ICE’s civil rights oversight office. Now, as Congress clashes over Homeland Security funding, its fate hangs in the balance.
www.levernews.com/the-watchdog...
The Watchdog Designed To Keep ICE In Check Is Being Quietly Erased
Trump largely dismantled ICE’s civil rights oversight office. Now, as Congress clashes over Homeland Security funding, its fate hangs in the balance.
www.levernews.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.

In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:

"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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This devastating profile would be the end of Kristi Noem in an government capable of feeling a scintilla of shame.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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Handcuffing generations, thanks to Trump’s ignorance and grift, coupled with fossil fuel industry dollars.

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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This is some genuinely psycho shit...
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow.

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
February 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Looks like Barrett Brown just joined Bluesky:

@barrettbrownlol.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Barrett Brown, the author of the above piece, was a prominent member of the activist wing of the Anonymous movement 15 years ago.

He was targeted by the FBI, refused to flip, and was imprisoned.

Since his release, he has lived in exile outside the United States.
Barrett Brown - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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On the history of the use of the “pseudoconcept” of “conspiracy theory” to delegitimize inquiry into actual conspiracies and how those who publicly observe the latter are often targeted accordingly:
The Ur-“Conspiracy”: History of a Pseudoconcept by Barrett Brown
February 12, 2026 – “The problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering truth itself becomes unviable.”
www.theparisreview.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Called this one on Saturday.

GS just slammed the “go away” button.

Another frozen meatloaf dinner from the Obama WH will trouble us no more.
Boom. Also: "Ms. Ruemmler, in addition to being Goldman’s general counsel since 2021, was a partner and vice chair of the reputational risk committee." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...
Goldman’s Top Lawyer Departs Amid Revelations About Her Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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A lovely post -- I use "socio-technical" in virtually every grant application and either my co-authors or (even more likely) my grant folks always complain that it's jargony. But it's soooo useful to describe what we're doing as repositories & data stewards
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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“oh you want actual change? that sounds radical if you want that so badly why don’t you just run? Oh also aipack just endorsed your DNC aligned opponent with $60 million in dark money to call you Hamas and claim you’re a domestic terrorist supporter for saying genocide is bad”.
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Help 303 Indigenous Productions share their message—culture, community, and connection is medicine—at the 2026 NICWA Conference!
Eight young Native filmmakers from Denver are ready to share their story with the nation. Will you help get them there?
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I don't know that strokes can effect ideology, but paranoia––and, obviously. cognitive function––are definitely factors in the mix.

#Fetterman may or may not be gorked, but he has to go very soon. He is a huge liability. To the extent that the DNC is protecting him...let's put that to the test.
The fact his constituents aren’t protesting outside his office everyday demanding to see his brain scans and a report from a neurosurgeon is baffling to me. And I am not mocking his condition, I truly believe his stroke changed him and his brain chemistry. And they are hiding that information.
February 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
He is also going to vote the SAVE act. No surprise there.
February 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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If we learn nothing from this goofy ? It’s that being openly anti Black/ immigrant/ queer and thinking it won’t affect other things is a LIE
Fetterman only Senate Democrat to vote to keep Homeland Security funded
February 13, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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The US government closed down airspace over El Paso and shot down a fucking party balloon with lasers and somehow I’ve only seen like two memes from it. The hell are we doing here guys???
February 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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I often joked that Neil Gorsuch’s mom inspired my doctoral dissertation, and not in a good way. She’d be proud to see the ongoing incineration of environmental protections.
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM