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Digital content editor at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Health Sciences Library by day, nonprofit entrepreneur by night.

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A sign reads, "Your new enemy! Palantir ... Surveillance against you"

A sign reads, "Your new enemy! Palantir ... Surveillance against you"

A sign reads, "ICE Out for Good"

A sign reads, "ICE Out for Good"

A sign containing instructions on what to do if you encounter ICE.

A sign containing instructions on what to do if you encounter ICE.

Someone is papering my neighborhood in Brooklyn with anti-ICE and anti-Palantir material.

02.03.2026 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

02.03.2026 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1470    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 2

This is a widely accepted norm journalists are taught to convince themselves they believe in, but it's not at all obvious why a publication should have to publish an op-ed merely because it represents the president's point of view. That's a media market and branding decision major papers have made.

02.03.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1440    πŸ” 224    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 8
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First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

02.03.2026 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3112    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 26
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"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."

US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.

Full statement at the link:

www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

02.03.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2988    πŸ” 1207    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 40

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

02.03.2026 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2504    πŸ” 579    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 26

Am thinking this is the correct take on this.

02.03.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that was my first thought too.

02.03.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

maybe he's saying this?

bsky.app/profile/alwa...

02.03.2026 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

02.03.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2801    πŸ” 688    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 10
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The billionaires’ kids will pay no price. But American kids have already died for a war of vanity and choice. A war that will result in hardline leadership remaining in Iran and no meaningful impact on their nuclear program. A likely moral and strategic disaster.

01.03.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1903    πŸ” 620    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 29

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

01.03.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2773    πŸ” 624    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 14

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

01.03.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2226    πŸ” 1006    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 61
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Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was β€˜longtime fan’ of his show Weeks before Graham Platner promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in a now-deleted social media post on Thursday, the controversial Maine Senate candidate appeared on a popular YouTube show whos...

At a certain point you just cannot keep extending someone the benefit of the doubt. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

01.03.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1235    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 111

Spanish PM Pedro SΓ‘nchez: β€œToday more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

01.03.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2979    πŸ” 994    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 96
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US military says three of its troops killed in first Iran operation casualties Three U.S. service members have been killed and another five have been seriously wounded, in the first casualties of the unfolding U.S. operations against Iran, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

Reports indicate at least 100 children have already been killed in strikes on schools. That is unconscionable.

Three U.S. service members are dead as a result of this entirely preventable war of choice.

The blood of these service members, these children, and every civilian rests in Trump’s hands.

01.03.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7077    πŸ” 2385    πŸ’¬ 416    πŸ“Œ 131

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

01.03.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 10850    πŸ” 3333    πŸ’¬ 368    πŸ“Œ 95

yes thanks for telling me, a queer Black Jewish woman who lives in a red state, that the world is messed up. i hadn't noticed

01.03.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

01.03.2026 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 693    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 16

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

01.03.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4729    πŸ” 924    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 46

As we kick off Women's History Month, Donald Trump is hell-bent on eroding the advancements that generations of women have made.

We're making it clear to the President that we won't go back in time in Illinois β€” we're fighting for a future that moves us forward.

01.03.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1977    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 8

Also bombed Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Nigeria. Not to mention boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.

02.03.2026 03:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@tommysiegel.bsky.social

01.03.2026 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

America Christian Nationalists woke up this morning pondering, "Who Would Jesus Bomb?"

01.03.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2981    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 16
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They think this takes his focus away from Greenland and are happy to have Iran suffer instead of them. ("Look, sir! New shiny object for your fixation!") What they underestimate is that he'll soon lose focus on Iran, especially if they "deal," but Greenland has been in his sights for years.

02.03.2026 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep

01.03.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3242    πŸ” 706    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 31

What’s the place below the abyss?

01.03.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 438    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 3

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top.

just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

01.03.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2396    πŸ” 466    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 11

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

01.03.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7451    πŸ” 1977    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 28