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@jenkarsten.bsky.social
Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program.

If you can read this, there's still time.
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.

#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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What happened to this RFK Jr.?
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades
Prisoners Face “Harrowing Human Right Violations” at Infamous ICE Jail in Florida Everglades
A new report by Amnesty International says that immigrants held at the ICE jail in Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a two-foot-high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time. The report also details “u...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Elon Musk could pay the salary of every single elementary school teacher or social worker in the US.

This only confirms what we already knew: Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay package is obscene.

Tax the damn rich.
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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It's officially #SpotifyWrapped season, so we're flipping the script by unwrapping Spotify. Tell them to drop ICE ads now!

Since Spotify won’t protect immigrant communities, we’re using their own celebration to hold them accountable. Cancel your subscription to get them to pull the plug on ICE
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Primary Hakeem Jeffries.
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Buy a book.

Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.

Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.
Dan Robinson (@bookmandan.bsky.social)
Retired. Interested in just about everything. Avid reader.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"I chose a crass serial rapist and adulterer, who calls women 'nasty' and 'piggy,' and took away by daughters' reproductive rights, over my daughters. So why are they displeased with me??? It must be all THEIR fault! I take no responsibility. NONE!"
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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25th Amendment now.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video:

“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is too much.
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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If the Soviet Union was a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, then the current United States is a parade of squirrels, hopped up on meth, inside a circle jerk. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Going to War With Venezuela
Seriously - why the fuck are we going to war with Venezuela?
michaelianblack.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Gift link!

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

By Tara Copp and Michelle Boorstein

The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Chuck Schumer and the corporate Dems aren’t just not up for this fight, they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything that will actually address the material conditions that gave rise to fascism.

More people are waking up to this and that’s hopeful, but that recognition is everything.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts.

And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.

Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A clarification
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Tonight was a huge win for democracy & a major blow to Trump's authoritarian rule

Voters chose Dem govs in VA & NJ, kept a Dem majority on PA’s top court, rejected an anti-voting measure in ME, chose an anti-Trump NYC mayor & are set to back fair maps in CA. Pro-democracy sweep.
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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A record number of voters cast ballots Tuesday in the New York City mayor’s race, a generational and ideological contest between a democratic socialist and former governor that will resonate across the nation.
https://to.pbs.org/43arIR9
Record turnout in New York City as Mamdani faces Cuomo in a generational battle for mayor
A record number of voters cast ballots Tuesday in the New York City mayor's race, a generational and ideological contest between a democratic socialist and former governor that will resonate across th...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:09 AM