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Symone P. Harris
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Wannabe film producer currently in book publishing | Once misquoted by The Guardian
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So good
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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The Epstein Files continue to be a sports story.
January 31, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Not the same but reminds me of when NYPD descended on the apartment of a BLM activist—using drones & counterterrorism cops with long guns in a building across the street & detectives pounding on his door—all because he yelled into a megaphone near a cop during a demo and she claimed it hurt her ear.
two sources with knowledge of the situation tell @zeteo.com some officials in Trump’s DOJ actually explored if certain instances of anti-ICE activists blowing whistles in Minnesota could be used as evidence in criminal prosecutions of those who “obstruct” operations... zeteo.com/p/don-lemon-...
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 AM
- Black & Asian Relations in America
- Interviewing refugee communities
- Writing the memoir
- Slum Cinema
- Portuguese

Heck, let me look through my old schedules and find these courses, cause some of really informed my thinking today even though it’s been nearly 15 years since I’ve graduated.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Islamic Studies
2. Introduction to Rock Music
3. African Music
4. Arabic 101
5. Southern Politics
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1) Epistemology
2) Euripides
3) History of Rock Music
4) Dead Sea Scrolls & Apocrypha
5) Twentieth Century US Political History with @rauchway.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Oxman's lab received $125,000 in donations: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
January 31, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Speculation that ICE will start focusing on Springfield, OH due to lapse in protected status for Haitian asylees by Feb. 3.

- Surge in ICE is speculative (leaning likely) based on expiry
- Exact start of activity is unknown but would last at least 30 days
www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springf...
Springfield braces for 30-day targeted ICE surge after Haitian TPS ends
Editor’s Note: Springfield City School District Superintendent Bob Hill responded to this story with a statement saying the district is preparing for possible immigration enforcement actions, but has ...
www.springfieldnewssun.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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The Trump administration’s funding cuts are going to generate crime (in this case by cutting a critical reentry program), while proclaiming themselves law-and-order.
When formerly incarcerated people are able to obtain work, it tends to be a low-paying position, keeping them well below the poverty line. “The No. 1 contributor to recidivism is poverty,” says a spokesperson for the Prison Policy Initiative.
Budget Cuts Threaten Oregon Program for Helping People Get Jobs After Prison
The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.
boltsmag.org
January 31, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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With 16 dead from the winter storm, Mississippi is bracing for an even colder weekend of freezing temperatures as 80,000 remain without power and many remain without running water.

The latest from Illan Ireland: www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippis...
Mississippi’s Fern Death Toll Rises to 16 as State Fights Outages, Water System Failures
As Mississippi heads into an even colder weekend, the death toll from Winter Storm Fern rose to 16 on Friday and over 79,000 remained without power.
www.mississippifreepress.org
January 31, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Skip Melania. Read my @avclub.com review of the recent documentary on Leni Riefenstahl instead!

www.avclub.com/riefenstahl-...
Riefenstahl makes for a timely portrait of a monster "just following orders"
The damning documentary about the Nazi propagandist, Riefenstahl shows how easy it is to roll over for a flashy fascist.
www.avclub.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Closest historical corollary to this moment is not the middle twentieth century but the late 19th.
What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act
Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.
www.newyorker.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Sports officials say a Canadian coach manipulated the point system used by athletes to qualify for the Olympics. His move cost American sled racer Katie Uhlaender her trip to the Milan Cortina Games. n.pr/3ZN8uPb
How American Katie Uhlaender was denied Olympic bid by Canadian coach's point scheme
Sports officials say a Canadian coach manipulated the point system used by athletes to qualify for the Olympics. His move cost American sled racer Katie Uhlaender her trip to the Milan Cortina Games.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Harvard Crimson doing fantastic work ONCE AGAIN.
January 30, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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lfg
BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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The twin cities are under siege. Every tenant needs a union. We are launching a twin cities-wide tenant union. Organize your neighbors. Join the Union NOW.
linktr.ee
January 30, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I unintentionally listened to two podcast episodes on romantasy this week from a non-romance book podcasts. Let me just hurry up and read some books this subgenre.

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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Yes, romance is political too.
Podcast Episode · It's Been a Minute · 01/28/2026 · 21m
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January 30, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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Trump’s reported Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh isn’t just a former central banker.

He’s married into the family of Ronald Lauder – longtime Trump ally, donor, and occasional policy whisperer, including on Greenland.

It’s a small room.
January 30, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague

www.reuters.com/world/early-...
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in.

*Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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NEW: Rep. Salman Bhojani said lawmakers were denied entry to Prairieland Detention Center, where Leqaa Kordia has been running “a high fever for several days” due to what he called inhumane conditions.

In May, her cousin said she had already lost 50 lbs.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/30/t...
Texas Democrats Demand Release of ‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia, Compare ICE Facility to ‘Internment Camps’
State Rep. Salman Bhojani said the 33-year-old is living in inhumane conditions and has been running “a high fever for several days.”
thebarbedwire.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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The only reason to demand a census not count people is because you want those people to not be seen as people
NEW: Missouri sued the U.S. Census Bureau to stop it from counting undocumented immigrants in the decennial census count — a change that, if implemented, could greatly decrease political representation and even affect major election outcomes.
New GOP scheme to rig presidential elections: Missouri sues to exclude undocumented from census
“Foreign trespassers should not control the direction of this nation,” Hanaway said in a social media post announcing the lawsuit.
www.democracydocket.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back.

It took 25 years but they have it now.

This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support
Support Independent Journalism | GF
www.georgiafort.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM