🍄✡️🔮Em Dash🔮✡️🍄
@mazeltav.bsky.social
DC-based singer┃Writer┃Русская┃Fascinated by all things security, technology, and diplomacy.
Searching Ya'akub online, there's just a handful of coverage. Thank you, @oliviamesser.bsky.social, for amplifying this piece from your pub.
We should be seeing more--TikToks, YouTube essays, live streams--about him. The alarm bell has been ringing; it's time to put a megaphone next to it.
We should be seeing more--TikToks, YouTube essays, live streams--about him. The alarm bell has been ringing; it's time to put a megaphone next to it.
A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked.
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
“Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...
When Storytelling Is Called ‘Terrorism’: How My Friend and Fellow Journalist Was Targeted by ICE
As a DACA recipient, Ya'akub Ira Vijandre’s arrest holds drastic implications for the state of free speech in America.
thebarbedwire.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Searching Ya'akub online, there's just a handful of coverage. Thank you, @oliviamesser.bsky.social, for amplifying this piece from your pub.
We should be seeing more--TikToks, YouTube essays, live streams--about him. The alarm bell has been ringing; it's time to put a megaphone next to it.
We should be seeing more--TikToks, YouTube essays, live streams--about him. The alarm bell has been ringing; it's time to put a megaphone next to it.
When you’re so online that the #Jet2holidays commercial audio is playing on repeat in your brain 🫠
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
When you’re so online that the #Jet2holidays commercial audio is playing on repeat in your brain 🫠
I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE has access to. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is exposed. #HandsOffMyData
dogequiz.newamerica.org/share/?share...
dogequiz.newamerica.org/share/?share...
Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?
The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans' data. Take New America's quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.
dogequiz.newamerica.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE has access to. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is exposed. #HandsOffMyData
dogequiz.newamerica.org/share/?share...
dogequiz.newamerica.org/share/?share...
Saving this post for Valentine’s Day next year
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as NYT loves reporting on the inner-workings of WaPo
June 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Saving this post for Valentine’s Day next year
This. Is. Batshit. “Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing ‘material support’ for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This. Is. Batshit. “Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing ‘material support’ for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties…” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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As a Jewish person, I am DISGUSTED that my identity is being used by the Trump administration to justify extorting the personal information of students. This is abhorrent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
Trump Threatens to Block Harvard From Enrolling International Students
The Trump administration said Harvard must share detailed records about its foreign students, an escalation in the administration’s fight against prominent American schools.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As a Jewish person, I am DISGUSTED that my identity is being used by the Trump administration to justify extorting the personal information of students. This is abhorrent. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
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Would be really fun if at the end of RFK Jr.'s Autism Fact Finding Mission (he will find the cause of all autism personally in six months) he blames something very different than vaccines. JPEG files cause autism, we gotta get rid of the JPEGs.
April 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Would be really fun if at the end of RFK Jr.'s Autism Fact Finding Mission (he will find the cause of all autism personally in six months) he blames something very different than vaccines. JPEG files cause autism, we gotta get rid of the JPEGs.
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Portrait of a heterochromic cat. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1908.
April 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Portrait of a heterochromic cat. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1908.
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awake but at what cost
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
awake but at what cost
My reaction to WAY too many things right now
April 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My reaction to WAY too many things right now
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the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
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Here are some nice mushrooms
April 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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Still reeling after last night’s #WhiteLotus season finale—best one yet, Mike White
a man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt has his hands folded in prayer in front of a max logo
Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt has his hands folded in prayer in front of a max logo
media.tenor.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Still reeling after last night’s #WhiteLotus season finale—best one yet, Mike White
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Just took it myself and it revealed 8/15 of my tracked personal data points exposed to the whims of #DOGE.
Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.
Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.
Welp this is terrifying. Just took a #DOGE data quiz created by my colleagues at @newamerica.org, and the results aren’t pretty. Shout out to @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social for bringing this tool to life. If you’re curious to take the quiz yourself: www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
April 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just took it myself and it revealed 8/15 of my tracked personal data points exposed to the whims of #DOGE.
Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.
Incredible tool. Reveals frightening truths about DOGE and what it can pull about us with no real oversight.
Welp this is terrifying. Just took a #DOGE data quiz created by my colleagues at @newamerica.org, and the results aren’t pretty. Shout out to @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social for bringing this tool to life. If you’re curious to take the quiz yourself: www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
April 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Welp this is terrifying. Just took a #DOGE data quiz created by my colleagues at @newamerica.org, and the results aren’t pretty. Shout out to @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social for bringing this tool to life. If you’re curious to take the quiz yourself: www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
Some days, I’m the opossum. Some days, I’m the cake. Lately, I’ve been both. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
‘Cake Bandit’ opossum hospitalized after indulging in an entire Costco cake | CNN
A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, got an unexpected houseguest this week – a hungry opossum gorging on the Tuxedo Chocolate Mousse Cake she recently bought from Costco.
amp.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Some days, I’m the opossum. Some days, I’m the cake. Lately, I’ve been both. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
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"A second Kendrick performance has ignited social media"
February 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
"A second Kendrick performance has ignited social media"
What. A. Blowout. 🤣
February 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What. A. Blowout. 🤣
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As a kid, I wanted to live in my favorite books. Joke’s on me—I basically manifested a dystopia. My bad.
February 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As a kid, I wanted to live in my favorite books. Joke’s on me—I basically manifested a dystopia. My bad.
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GRANDKID: what were the first Cybertrucks like?
ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment
THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers.
ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded
ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment
THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers.
ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded
February 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
GRANDKID: what were the first Cybertrucks like?
ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment
THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers.
ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded
ME: oh they sucked lol seeing one felt like punishment
THE ALL-SEEING PANEL ON THE WALL: twenty Patriot Points subtracted. Privileges rescinded: trousers.
ME: *donning petticoats* also they exploded
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January 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hello, world! Welcome to the Bluesky page featuring New America’s Technology and Democracy programs. Get the latest on our research, commentary, upcoming events, and more.
Be sure to follow, and stay tuned!
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