@marksrq1971.bsky.social
Former academic librarian.
NB: For safety, I block unknown follow requests (or just any accounts that seem sketchy, tbh.)
NB: For safety, I block unknown follow requests (or just any accounts that seem sketchy, tbh.)
They're bored of peace.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
White House announces Gaza ‘board of peace’ with Tony Blair, Jared Kushner and Marco Rubio
Body chaired by Trump tasked with overseeing reconstruction of Gaza and transitional administration
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
They're bored of peace.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It should be revoked. She's clearly using it as a transactional political tool. Disgusting.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Venezuela's Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during their meeting
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump.
apnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
It should be revoked. She's clearly using it as a transactional political tool. Disgusting.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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"Let her absence roar." With the unending graciousness of the Poet, Amanda Gorman has given you a phrase. Use this, don't co-opt others.
Let her absence roar, indeed.
Let her absence roar, indeed.
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"Let her absence roar." With the unending graciousness of the Poet, Amanda Gorman has given you a phrase. Use this, don't co-opt others.
Let her absence roar, indeed.
Let her absence roar, indeed.
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Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
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I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
January 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
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ICE is a "rogue organization" and it should be "disbanded," says Democratic Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social in an interview with me today, for 'Mehdi Unfiltered', reacting to the shocking killing in Minneapolis.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/joaquin-ca...
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/joaquin-ca...
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
ICE is a "rogue organization" and it should be "disbanded," says Democratic Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social in an interview with me today, for 'Mehdi Unfiltered', reacting to the shocking killing in Minneapolis.
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/joaquin-ca...
Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/joaquin-ca...
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good time to read this.
Marco Rubio is the Trump administration’s most formidable liar and is dead set on placing drug cartel bosses at the top of every Latin American government. Maureen Tkacik reports on Rubio’s long narco-terrorist history:
trib.al/1qSYY7J
trib.al/1qSYY7J
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
trib.al
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 AM
good time to read this.
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@timothysnyder.bsky.social reacts to Jack Smith's deposition youtu.be/JfULCl243F0?...
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 AM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social reacts to Jack Smith's deposition youtu.be/JfULCl243F0?...
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The “America” they want to bring back again is literally pre-1860s, complete with the old-timey racism, misogyny, diseases, and GDP. Expect the quality of life to follow.
Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are."
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The “America” they want to bring back again is literally pre-1860s, complete with the old-timey racism, misogyny, diseases, and GDP. Expect the quality of life to follow.
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I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
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Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
Ah, South Carolina: "too small to be a republic, too large to be an insane asylum."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nancy Mace escalated airport incident into ‘spectacle’, police investigation says
Republican congresswoman berated TSA personnel in October with profanity and insults, leaving facility employees ‘visibly upset’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ah, South Carolina: "too small to be a republic, too large to be an insane asylum."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Lawmakers could require the Court to consider the harm not just to the Trump administration, but to the administration’s targets.
You Need to Understand the Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ - OtherWords
The court’s MAGA majority has used a bureaucratic workaround to issue unsigned, unjustified rulings that often greenlight unlawful actions.
otherwords.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lawmakers could require the Court to consider the harm not just to the Trump administration, but to the administration’s targets.
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
