Kolson Schlosser

Kolson Schlosser

@kolslaw.bsky.social

Interested in climate, labor, and literature. NTT prof in geography & environmental studies. Dogs are my favorite people.

226 Followers 364 Following 76 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

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How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

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2 weeks ago

So who’s gonna primary Fetterman?

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3 weeks ago
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US sanctions, power cuts, climate crisis: why Cuba is betting on renewables — Guardian US With Trump blocking Venezuelan oil imports and old power plants breaking down, the island – with Chinese help – is turning to solar and wind to bolster its fragile energy system

apple.news/ApywAOPlqS56...

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1 month ago
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ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content Podcast Episode · Galaxy Brain · 01/23/2026 · 49m

Worth a listen

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1 month ago
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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: A federal tool meant to find noncitizens on voter rolls is consistently marking citizens as noncitizens, especially if they were born outside the U.S., causing chaos as election clerks try not to disenfranchise voters, @zachdespart.bsky.social and I found. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/save...

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1 month ago
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

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1 month ago

Best part of the Super Bowl is gonna be the right coming unglued over bad bunny

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1 month ago

Trump knows his base is waning over Epstein. The Obama pics are to get them to come to his defense again.

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1 month ago

I’ve had students take authoritarian positions out of sheer political naïveté before, but nothing like this.

Absolutely repulsive

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1 month ago

A little bit of Billy Bob Thornton?

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1 month ago

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money.

And he was still threatening to kill someone.

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1 month ago

Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':

—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)

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1 month ago

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.

He's got to go.

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He wants nothing to do with this snow bullshit. Won’t move an inch 😂

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The billionaires buying elections and paying off politicians, telling you the real threat is a .0001% voter fraud rate and immigrants who aren’t legally allowed to vote, are the existential threat to our country.

They want you to blame immigrants so you don’t blame them.

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1 month ago
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Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’

Trump's goons are now demanding lists of Jews. Spoiler alert: it's about antisemitism, but not in the way you might think. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

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1 month ago

It would be so cool if the Democrats overall took this approach instead of pretending like she's some kind of crazy outlier.

The *normie* position on this is defunding ICE.

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2 months ago

Idk about you guys but wine mom gangs sound pretty awesome to me

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2 months ago
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Trump’s Venezuela Actions Are About More Than Oil Venezuela’s heavy crude is expensive to extract, it will take years of sustained investment to meaningfully lift output, and it may not even be profitable at current prices. The current aggression is ...

jacobin.com/2026/01/trum...

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2 months ago
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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work.

One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

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2 months ago

Reality goes down hard

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2 months ago

This week I start prepping 2 (of my 4) spring classes: Climate Justice and Geography of Natural Resources

Anybody know any current events that might be related? lol

Srsly, readings/vids/podcast related to Venezuelan would be appreciated

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2 months ago

What it was always about

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2 months ago

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

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2 months ago

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

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2 months ago
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OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

what a shocking turn of events
who could’ve seen this coming

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2 months ago

Nirvana called.

They suggested you smell like teen spirit.

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3 months ago

Because republicans believe in states’ rights

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