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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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cafiffle.bsky.social
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
dream-beam.bsky.social
Had a nice chat with Pino & Blake about their lovely new record…

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Looking for Left Turns: TP in Conversation with Pino Palladino and Blake Mills — Test Pressing
Records that have been touched by Pino Palladino's fingers include D'Angelo's Voodoo, Gary Numan's I, Assassin, Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun, and Phil Collins's ...But Seriously. Yes, that's Pino's fretle...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"I believe in traditional gender roles, which have served us well for generations. I expect my husband to be the breadwinner, while I take care of the home, and his first wife wails and paces the floors in the night from somewhere above our heads."
I Believe That Marriage Should Be Between a Man, a Woman, and His Mentally Ill Wife Who Lives In the Attic
Call me old fashioned, but I believe in traditional values, the ones we’ve stood on for centuries. That children are the future. That family comes ...
buff.ly
September 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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dennisgoris.bsky.social
I miss the old brand #CDC
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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404media.co
The Trump administration is making buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

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Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield
Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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theraygun.bsky.social
Hate it or loathe it, RA's come up with the goods here. Nice words from Harvey and Lizzie. And yes, I can safely say, I was there on.soundcloud.com/ZC19U3jCvIsL...
RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall
Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. The rarest of rare for RA.1000: this one's special. When mulling which direction to go in
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August 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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katebevan.com
this is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read, and while I accept that people have different tastes, it baffles me that something so badly written and so grotesque in its prurience has ever been hailed as some kind of great work of literature. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
What our obsession with Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life ...
How did this 730-page novel concerned with horrific abuse become the book of our times?
observer.co.uk
August 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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npr.org
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
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July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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lukemcgee.bsky.social
More normal behaviour from the peace lover

Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’

www.thetimes.com/article/d14c...
Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’
WhatsApp is to be banned and replaced with Max, which incorporates permanent snooping tech and will be installed on all digital devices sold in Russia
www.thetimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Did you know that Christo and Jeanne Claude wrapped a Snoopy doghouse for the Charles M. Schulz Museum? Thread!
Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse wrapped in tarpaulin, polyethylene, and ropes. Photo by Brennan Spark, courtesy of the Schulz Museum.
July 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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bdralyuk.bsky.social
The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
How an Exiled Russian Noble Became a Great American Songwriter
His story spans everything from Belarus to Balanchine to Bacharach
www.honest-broker.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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henrymance.ft.com
Gregg Wallace?
henrymance.ft.com Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Jul 9
Who wants the job getting advertisers to endorse Adolf Hitler?
alexpartridge87.bsky.social Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · Jul 9
Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of social media website X dot com, she announces on her account there
July 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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brianlyman.bsky.social
Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”
June 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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jamellebouie.net
still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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michaelluo.bsky.social
An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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henrymance.ft.com
"Humanity rises and falls as one." *CRASH*
falconryfinance.bsky.social UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · Jun 5
Interview with Harvard's 2025 valedictorian, a Chinese national, while two American men fight over nothing in the background
June 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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jwmueller-pu.bsky.social
A truly great filmmaker. As the article says, a world is disappearing with him.
May 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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madar.bsky.social
Truly an abomination, to the point where I don’t even see how their political calculus supports it
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 14
The Trump administration intends to deport a Harvard scientist back to Russia, government lawyers told a federal judge on Wednesday. The scientist fled the country in 2022 and fears she will be arrested there over her protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia
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May 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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rachelcinema.bsky.social
Enlever une infrastructure routière pour redonner l'accès aux espaces aux humains - et leur offrir un accès à la nature.

Ce qui n'était qu'un transit automobile est devenu un lieu de socialisation, d'évasion au quotidien, de beauté et de déambulation.
April 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u
The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump
[FREE TO READ] Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?
on.ft.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM