Lise M. Dyckman
@lisedyckman.bsky.social
Librarian (teaching health information literacy / critical thinking); country dance caller & choreographer; gardens & politics & housing & social history, oh my...
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Lise M. Dyckman
@lisedyckman.bsky.social
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Find your local California Rapid Response hotline | CCIJ
Find your local California Rapid Response Network and hotline to report immigration enforcement activity and keep our communities safe!
www.ccijustice.org
California peeps, here’s where to find local community ICE-defense organizations, including finding local phone numbers to report sightings of ICE presence / activity:
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
Public history for the win!
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Public history for the win!
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It absolutely tracks that these people would be the ones to bring in measles
D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide. n.pr/4r5Njny
March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns
D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
It absolutely tracks that these people would be the ones to bring in measles
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If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
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This is joyous
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 AM
This is joyous
Cheering for Bad Bunny after today’s generous performance? There are good reasons for that — but maybe use that energy to help out our folks innPuerto Rico, too.
Your periodic reminder that almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Puerto Rico faced a massive power outage. Why does this keep happening?
Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Cheering for Bad Bunny after today’s generous performance? There are good reasons for that — but maybe use that energy to help out our folks innPuerto Rico, too.
There’s an idea. Could MN hire those federal prosecutors who resigned because they can not bear to work for the fascists in order bolster immigrant defense - to work for abused, captured, kidnapped, terrorized people of MN?
bsky.app/profile/lase...
bsky.app/profile/lase...
Walz really needs to flip the script.
State agencies coordinating with ICE is absurd.
ICE should be coordinating with state agencies to assist in addressing their habeas corpus backlog.
Walz should hire all the Federal prosecutors who resigned to help do pro bono work for exfiltrated Minnesotans
State agencies coordinating with ICE is absurd.
ICE should be coordinating with state agencies to assist in addressing their habeas corpus backlog.
Walz should hire all the Federal prosecutors who resigned to help do pro bono work for exfiltrated Minnesotans
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
There’s an idea. Could MN hire those federal prosecutors who resigned because they can not bear to work for the fascists in order bolster immigrant defense - to work for abused, captured, kidnapped, terrorized people of MN?
bsky.app/profile/lase...
bsky.app/profile/lase...
Ballet dancers with footballs!
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Ballet dancers with footballs!
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
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Scum lords
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Scum lords
We should be asking not “do you use this thing?” but “how do you use this thing?” or “how do you accomplish that end result?”
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/
Our new paper:
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
We should be asking not “do you use this thing?” but “how do you use this thing?” or “how do you accomplish that end result?”
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
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Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
February 8, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Happy #SuperbOwl🦉 Sunday! This is one of my favorite examples from ancient Egypt, the letter "M". Share your favorite Superb Owls.
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
The nearest summary & most comprehensive condemnation (without expressing an opinion!) of this administration’s attempt to ethnically cleanse the US.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
The nearest summary & most comprehensive condemnation (without expressing an opinion!) of this administration’s attempt to ethnically cleanse the US.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Why IS the DoJ putting more energy into appealing judges’ decisions on Kilmar Abrego, Liam Ramos, et al than into prosecuting those involved in sex trafficking, Todd?
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) reacted to Trump personal attorney-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche discussing the DOJ's intention to appeal the judges decision releasing Liam Ramos.
"Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?" he posted
"Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?" he posted
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Why IS the DoJ putting more energy into appealing judges’ decisions on Kilmar Abrego, Liam Ramos, et al than into prosecuting those involved in sex trafficking, Todd?
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I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.
The aurora last night in Beaver, Alaska was just incredible. This is a real-time video (not sped up) of the crazy motion I saw. Also, look how BRIGHT it is, wow!
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
nbcnews.to
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Interesting strategy.
The state Attorney General brings suit against Big Oil for damaging the Michigan auto industry by blocking innovation (electric vehicles), just so they can hold on to their market hegemony.
www.exxonknews.org/p/americas-a...
The state Attorney General brings suit against Big Oil for damaging the Michigan auto industry by blocking innovation (electric vehicles), just so they can hold on to their market hegemony.
www.exxonknews.org/p/americas-a...
America’s auto state is suing Big Oil
The Trump administration failed to stop Michigan’s new antitrust lawsuit against oil companies.
www.exxonknews.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Interesting strategy.
The state Attorney General brings suit against Big Oil for damaging the Michigan auto industry by blocking innovation (electric vehicles), just so they can hold on to their market hegemony.
www.exxonknews.org/p/americas-a...
The state Attorney General brings suit against Big Oil for damaging the Michigan auto industry by blocking innovation (electric vehicles), just so they can hold on to their market hegemony.
www.exxonknews.org/p/americas-a...
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Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
Homelessness on the Rise in Finland - Y-Säätiö
Asunnottomien ihmisten määrä on kääntynyt kasvuun. Nyt asunnottomien määrä kasvoi Helsingissä, vaikka asunnottomia asutettiin vuoden aikana vaikuttava määrä.
ysaatio.fi
February 6, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
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There’s a phenomenon that parent coaches and therapists call “soiling the nest”. That’s when kids are coming of age, about to leave for college or independent living, and they start acting a fool at home. It’s a way of emotionally separating.
I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.
I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.
February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM
There’s a phenomenon that parent coaches and therapists call “soiling the nest”. That’s when kids are coming of age, about to leave for college or independent living, and they start acting a fool at home. It’s a way of emotionally separating.
I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.
I’m here to tell you that adults soil the nest, too.
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"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
www.publicnotice.co
February 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
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This story is so good
A small group of protestors assembled near an empty warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, in mid-January with one objective: to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from converting the building into an immigration detention center.
ICE Proposal to Hold 8,500 Immigrants in Mississippi Mega Warehouse Draws Local Opposition
An ICE plan to use a warehouse to hold 8,500 immigrants in Byhalia, Mississippi, has drawn opposition from residents and Sen. Roger Wicker.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 AM
This story is so good
Minneapolis police are now showing up with riot cops to stop peaceful potluck protests now. All in service to protecting fascist death squads.
Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors
Minneapolis police are fully pro fascist violence and against protestors
February 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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half a billion dollars per year for a single concentration camp. the dhs nazis are bleeding this country dry
ICE HAS PURCHASED A WAREHOUSE NEAR EL PASO, TX.
The cost of this warehouse was $123M. It will operate at an estimated cost of $620.5M per year. It removes $300K from the state’s annual tax revenue. It will hold up to 8,500 detainees.
The cost of this warehouse was $123M. It will operate at an estimated cost of $620.5M per year. It removes $300K from the state’s annual tax revenue. It will hold up to 8,500 detainees.
DHS buys El Paso warehouses for $123 million ICE mega detention center as deportation capacity expands nationwide
El Paso is a strategic location for the Trump administration because of Biggs Army Airfield, from which deportation flights have increasingly taken place. The mega facility is among several nationwide...
elpasomatters.org
February 7, 2026 at 9:11 PM
half a billion dollars per year for a single concentration camp. the dhs nazis are bleeding this country dry