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A.A.Northam
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Librarian | Aspiring Author | Disney Lover | Human Rights Lover | Hawaii 🌺
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🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.

Slava Ukraini!
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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All lies.
July 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is incredible! I hope that we can upscale and deploy this technology globally ASAP.
Well, this is downright amazing.

A team of scientists have 3D-printed a sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into clean drinking water using nothing but sunlight, in just a few hours.

scitechdaily.com/this-breakth... (via @kottke.org)

Affordable, *unpowered* desalination? That's huge!

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This Breakthrough Sponge Could Change How the World Gets Clean Water
Scientists have created a solar-powered sponge that transforms seawater into drinkable water using microscopic channels and sunlight alone. It works efficiently at any size and could revolutionize off...
scitechdaily.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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The Trump administration is dismantling work combating child exploitation and redirecting it to the work of committing child exploitation.

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July 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”

Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.
www.justsecurity.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Wait. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Medicaid recipients could replace immigrant farmworkers. Is she daft?

Does she have any idea why folks are on Medicaid? Or what’s involved in picking crops? My goodness.
July 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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"The misrepresentation of Zohran is almost unprecedented to me... He is not an antisemite."

@billdeblasionyc.bsky.social on how he challenges people who say Mamdani is antisemitic to provide proof & they never can, it's just what they heard.

My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/bill-de-bl...
July 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It is our land! It doesn’t belong in the hands of private and wealthy interests.
Our push to remove public land sales from the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” worked – but the threat is still alive and well.

This fight is far from over: www.propublica.org/article/utah...
July 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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On the eve of the Independence Day holiday, three Denver EPA workers are under investigation for signing the Declaration of Dissent. www.denverpost.com/2025/07/03/e...
EPA workers in Denver among 139 put on leave for signing ‘Declaration of Dissent’ letter
The “Declaration of Dissent” letter shows at least 13 current and retired Region 8 employees as signatories.
www.denverpost.com
July 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in
July 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I think people intuitively understand that stripping funding from public goods that sustain life and delivering it to death squads that kidnap people and destroy lives are the same project, but we should say so
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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origins......
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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"According to the new America First agenda, if you are not born in America, then you can be taken away, stripped of your humanity, have your head shaved, be beaten and be tortured." That's the country they aspire for us to be.

@timmiller.bsky.social with some rage:
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Happy 4th of July, Batman.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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It is just breathtaking to see how hard Trump's RepubliQans are willing to work to hurt as many Americans as possible. Their depraved indifference to quality of life is staggering.
June 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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It's happening. As some of us predicted. Dark times:
DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
www.npr.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Five of us staffers at our library have signed on to do the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do (or HRCYED) in addition to our normal Summer Reading Challenge. Is anyone else out there attempting HRCYED?? #booksky #hrcyed #bookchallenge #summerreading
June 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
All of these weak-ass organizations so easily taking a knee to a complete pile of human faeces. If all these people fold, America deserves to fall. Cowards, the whole lot of them.
"If it looks like CBS is prepared to cave and settle its lawsuit, we should see a massive public shaming campaign, including protests outside CBS headquarters. That’s our First Amendment rights, not just theirs, that CBS would be flushing down the toilet." www.thebulwark.com/p/how-far-wi...
How Far Will Trump Go in Attacking the Press?
The feared media cave-in hasn’t materialized yet. But stay tuned...
www.thebulwark.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM