Alison Auld
@aauld.bsky.social
Former CP journalist now writing about academic research and innovation; freelancer with special interest in marine life and climate
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Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
Interesting idea
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What's next for St. Theresa's Church in Halifax
The church, which stood in Halifax for nearly a century, is being torn down. John Stevens, the project lead, tells Amy Smith about future plans for the site.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Interesting idea
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A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family
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November 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher Raluca Bejan releases new report on Canada's implementation of the international group's guidelines on decent working conditions for migrant workers
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Open work permits, better housing needed for temporary foreign workers in Canada: Report
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) has released a new report with recommendations for how Canada can improve the working conditions of temporary foreign workers in Ontario, Alberta and Queb...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher Raluca Bejan releases new report on Canada's implementation of the international group's guidelines on decent working conditions for migrant workers
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In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
In March, the American government deported more than 200 Venezuelan men from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. The New York Times interviewed 40 of the men who were imprisoned. They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
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Lots of people rightly criticizing the gutter racism here but I also want to point out how contemptibly cowardly this idea is.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Lots of people rightly criticizing the gutter racism here but I also want to point out how contemptibly cowardly this idea is.
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ICE is telling Dem lawmakers they can’t visit detention centers during the shutdown — citing no money or staff to support visits, says our @kyledcheney.bsky.social.
Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv
Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv
October 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ICE is telling Dem lawmakers they can’t visit detention centers during the shutdown — citing no money or staff to support visits, says our @kyledcheney.bsky.social.
Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv
Read the exclusive story on how the Trump administration is using the shutdown to limit oversight: ow.ly/fL0b50XjLWv
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher listens to ambient noise in the deep ocean to track dangerous ocean acidification | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification
Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions
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October 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@dalhousieu.bsky.social researcher listens to ambient noise in the deep ocean to track dangerous ocean acidification | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
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A federal jury this week found a private company that runs detention centers liable for the 2015 death of an inmate in Louisiana and awarded the man’s family $42.75 million in damages.
Jury Awards $42 Million in Death of Inmate at Private Jail in Louisiana
Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A federal jury this week found a private company that runs detention centers liable for the 2015 death of an inmate in Louisiana and awarded the man’s family $42.75 million in damages.
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US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens reut.rs/475Anqo
US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens
The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens reut.rs/475Anqo
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it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
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During the Second World War, Jewish doctors—who were themselves going hungry—studied starving people in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their findings inform what doctors expect to see after starvation in Gaza. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
During the Second World War, Jewish doctors—who were themselves going hungry—studied starving people in the Warsaw Ghetto. Their findings inform what doctors expect to see after starvation in Gaza. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
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👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
👀 someone calling out big law firm complicity and cowardice
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The White House is openly complaining that Trump didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a churlish response since they Nobel's just endorsed Trump's rush to war against Venezuela www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The Nobel Peace Prize Just Surrendered to Trump
Trump is mad he didn't win. But by honoring María Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has endorsed his war against Venezuela—and continued Europe's MAGA groveling.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The White House is openly complaining that Trump didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a churlish response since they Nobel's just endorsed Trump's rush to war against Venezuela www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
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Breaking News: The energy giant behind a nearly finished wind farm off Rhode Island sued the Trump administration for halting the $6 billion project.
Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm
The Danish company behind Revolution Wind, a $6 billion project off Rhode Island, said the federal government had unlawfully halted work on the wind farm.
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September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Breaking News: The energy giant behind a nearly finished wind farm off Rhode Island sued the Trump administration for halting the $6 billion project.