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Alyssa W.
@scorpius69.bsky.social
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Alt account for more academia, photography/art, history, tennis & hoops. Studying International Relations at Harvard ES. Primary account is large & very heavy on politics: @alyssa667.bsky.social
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Alyssa W. @scorpius69.bsky.social · Jan 21
Credit: Lawrence Tribe
Printed in Germany c 2015
Statue of Liberty walking a tight rope above mountains
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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volts.wtf
This is how the economy works now. You kiss the ass of the top guy, he throws you favors. There is no ideology here, it's just mafia rules, the oldest rules in the book.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
random farmer to Trump on what his child said to him: "He said, 'Daddy, I don't want Santa Claus to come to our house for Christmas, I want President Trump.' I think you brought Christmas to farmers with this bridge payment."
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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vintageobscura.net
II S.M.F. - Death of a Klansman [US - West Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop] (1992) Insane beat.
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II S.M.F. - Death of a Klansman [US - West Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop] (1992) Insane beat.
youtu.be
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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theatlantic.com
This year’s Atlantic 10—our list of the best books of 2025—is an attempt to celebrate writing that “distinguishes itself as worth reading and remembering for years to come,” Emma Sarappo writes. But a short list can’t include all of our personal favorites.
Debate Your Favorite Books of the Year
No list can match everyone’s tastes. That’s a good thing.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think of this post about once a week.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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gettymuseum.bsky.social
The Getty community grieves the death of Frank Gehry, a true legend of architecture whose designs and brilliance have shaped Los Angeles and the world.

Through Gehry's archive, Getty will share his legacy for many years to come. Read our full message: gty.art/4awWKqD
Portrait of Frank Gehry
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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simonearth.bsky.social
RIP Frank Gehry www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/best...
31 Spectacular Buildings Designed by Frank Gehry
Discover these amazing buildings devised by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect over the past five decades
www.architecturaldigest.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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tobehuman.bsky.social
Bard College is one of my favorite places. The Center for Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, is so unusual, so unique. Like his work, hate it, it is very difficult to be indifferent. Getting people to talk about architecture is his legacy.
#Design
engineeringharmonics.com/projects/bar...
Bard College, Center for the Performing Arts |
Conception, planning and service designs of performance arts center sound, audio video,communications, and subtitle system with loudspeakers.
engineeringharmonics.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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bsrg1.bsky.social
Fuck, this one hurts, for me the greatest guitarist, a musician in the service of the band and the song, who played on and helped create a wild succession of the finest records ever made. RIP Steve Cropper.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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kklevine.bsky.social
Steve Cropper was one of the best guitar players for hitting a groove with just the perfect embellishment.

So many moments in “Time is Tight” just hit so right. youtu.be/nbBcXvKvB08?...
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Harriet Ebeling (1932-2014)
Oil on canvas geometric color composition in greens and yellows. Harriet Ebeling was a Swedish painter, sculptor, and textile artist. She was the daughter of the artist Allan Ebeling (1897-1975) and the sister of artist Marianne Ebeling (1930-1979). She is known for her color-sensitive geometric paintings and the Concretism movement.
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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oxfordclarion.bsky.social
Earth Trust at Wittenham Clumps is fundraising to help Oxfordshire wildlife thrive over winter, by caring for green spaces and the habitats that creatures depend on. For the next six days, donors have offered to match donations up to £10,000. Details 👇

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Help Winter Wildlife Thrive – Big Give
You can help Oxfordshire’s wildlife survive and thrive this winter. Together, we can care for green spaces and the habitats that creatures depend on. From hedgerows to nest in to woodlands that provid...
donate.biggive.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
Every Fox interview looks like two people fighting to see who can say the least true sentence the fastest.
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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rudepundit.bsky.social
Adios, Tom Stoppard, a titanic intellect who wrestled with great questions of philosophy and history with heartache and hilarity. Jumpers is still a devastating take on the reductive nature of modernity. We do not often get wiser in Stoppard. We merely keep going. Unless we don’t.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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robbotron.bsky.social
Rozencrantz & Guildernstern & Tom Stoppard Are Dead

Rest in peace to a postmodern genius.
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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designreviewed.com
Graphis Annual 1966|67. Cover design by Roger Excoffon designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr... #rogerexcoffon #illustration #painting #graphicdesign #animalillustration #graphis
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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jaywillis.net
Imagine getting ready for your daughter to come home from her freshman year of college for Thanksgiving, and the day of departure she goes MIA, and then 48 nightmarish hours later she calls you to tell her that ICE goons kidnapped her and shipped her to Honduras www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/m...
Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. "They wouldn't tell her why she was being detained. She didn't understand it at all," Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said. The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents' house and called her father.
November 29, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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adaspota.bsky.social
This Heat ~ 24 Track Loop
(from This Heat, 1979)
#NowPlaying #ThisHeat #MusicSky

@dvi-socialmode.bsky.social (heard this?)

Brilliant track from the debut of the progressively deviant UK collective This Heat, featuring Charles Hayward (Quiet Sun/801)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Te8...
Horizontal Hold
YouTube video by This Heat - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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whatabouttob.bsky.social
Go Muthafuckin Spurs Go
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
My 93 year old great aunt just said the words “a lady of the night”. The party is officially on.
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
miamidsa.org Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 14d
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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annesh.no
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM