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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
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Striking cover of a painting of Dessalines for the book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jaques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" by Julia Gaffield

Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/

Batteries are coming to Europe. Earlier this year Europe’s largest battery storage site went live at Blackhillock, Scotland.

The facility has a capacity of 300MW/600MWh.

Much larger batteries are under development: A huge 1 GW / 4 GWh system is being constructed in Jänschwalde, Germany.

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Hey you guys, @lataco.bsky.social has been doing ESSENTIAL work covering ICE raids and the ways in which they are tearing at the fabric of our communities. Now they are having a membership drive. If you want to support their work, pitch in here:
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Posted in March. Still true today.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Empezando bien
la semana 😁
Ánimo con el lunes, cieletes 😘

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Editor’s note: City & State’s groundbreaking coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s rise Our magazine will continue to be ahead of the curve reporting on campaigns and elections.

I am very proud of @cityandstateny.bsky.social's coverage of Zohran's remarkable campaign. I broke the news he was exploring a run (3 months before he announced). And when he was polling at just 2%, our publisher wrote a prescient column suggesting he could actually win.

LAND BACK:

ICE Flight Monitor: September 2025 Report | Human Rights First Executive Summary Since taking office on January 20, 2025, the Trump administration has pursued an unprecedented mass deportation agenda. U.S. officials have adopted a range of new tactics to achieve…

ICE FLIGHT MONITOR: SEPTEMBER 2025 REPORT

The ICE Flight Monitor responds to this lawlessness and lack of information by using publicly available aviation data to monitor and document flights conducted by ICE.

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What a queen

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

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@theguardian.com #ICE

Una reciente imagen satelital captó al extremo sur de Sudamérica libre de nubes (inusual), permitiendo apreciar a detalle los contrastes climáticos entre #Chile y #Argentina.

Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.

For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.

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Listening to a @replsimon.bsky.social town hall, and one person named Miriam is asking if there's a way she could be connected to someone on SNAP to pay for their groceries 😍

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"Anjali Enjeti has written a moving and brilliant autobiography of her vote that intersects with the history of the right to vote, speaking all the while to the subtext of the times: that bound up in our votes are our lives, and what we mean to each other, our future and our past, our possibilities. I found a renewed commitment to democracy. I want this book everywhere." Black book cover with purple ballot box and white ballot with the title Ballot, Anjali Enjeti, and Bloomsbury.

What a dream endorsement for Ballot from Alexander Chee, one of my favorite writers!

You can pre-order Ballot, anywhere books are sold! bookshop.org/p/books/ball...

Atlanta, we did it! 🎉

Last night, our grassroots campaign won in a landslide, with 64% of the vote in a crowded field. I’m so proud to become the first Democratic Socialist elected to Atlanta City Council, and to win with the backing of such a broad progressive coalition of (1/6)

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

This person took this when they called the race

The joy on Flatbush is palpable. People hooting, banging on pans, high fiving. Three young women crossing the avenue saying, “Cars are through! We’re taking the BUS!!!” #VoteZohran

Ruwa Romman for Governor of Georgia Ruwa Romman is a Georgia State Representative who is running for Governor because we deserve a state that we can afford, and where we belong regardless of our income. Born in Jordan and the granddaugh...

Send your friends who feel all hopeful tonight the link to @ruwaromman.bsky.social's campaign for Georgia governor. Let's get some of this New York energy down South

www.ruwaforgeorgia.com

As of 11 p.m., with 12 of 13 precincts reporting, @samformarietta.bsky.social , a 24-year-old IT systems engineer, was leading 78-year-old incumbent Marietta, Ga. Mayor Steve “Thunder” Tumlin, by 48 votes.

Tumlin generated backlash when he vetoed making Juneteenth a holiday in the N Atlanta suburb