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@uncommonwitch.bsky.social

Scholar, teacher, reader, writer, unrepentant wondermonger.

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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

12.12.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2402    πŸ” 1565    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 192
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As long as Spotify is taking money from ICE, they don’t need or deserve free advertising for Spotify Wrapped.

Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop (and be on the lookout for Fascism Wrapped in Los Angeles, Austin, and NYC): indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

12.12.2025 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 751    πŸ” 366    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 17

America is a mafia state running a protection racket in the interest of the boss, not the people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... bsky.app/profile/john...

12.12.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1391    πŸ” 435    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 18
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The US government is now a mafia organization.

11.12.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 18525    πŸ” 6819    πŸ’¬ 1881    πŸ“Œ 785

HAHAHA! Just seen a video of a Tesla robot grabbing its head and collapsing! It turns out it was mimicking its human operator removing their VR headset!!!

Anyone need more proof that Tesla is built on smoke and mirrors and is a stock pumping scam....?

11.12.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6643    πŸ” 1169    πŸ’¬ 194    πŸ“Œ 35
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Terry Lectureship: Nnedi Okorafor

Next year, I’m doing the Terry Lectureship at Yale in March/April. It’s a century-old series that’s hosted some truly heavyweight thinkers. Wild to be stepping onto that stage πŸ˜… philosophy.yale.edu/events/2026-...

11.12.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"

11.12.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9240    πŸ” 3543    πŸ’¬ 396    πŸ“Œ 211

⚠️ BREAKING:

Spain’s Catalonia Region Orders Immediate Mask Mandate Across All Hospitals, Clinics, and Nursing Homes amid a surge in flu cases

The flu is surging fast cases are up 2.5Γ— this week with very high transmission.

11.12.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

Calibri is β€œwoke” because it was selected in the Biden administration as easier for people with visual impairments to read.

OH NO
THAT MEANS ITS DEI

We live in the most stupid of times.

11.12.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 307    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1

they withheld food from people so they could force through healthcare cost increases they knew would kill people.

11.12.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This new Politico poll should stop us all in our tracks!

50% of Americans are struggling to afford groceries, let’s start there. Then add the fact that we have a president who thinks we’re lying about it.

I’m just waiting for the next poll that asks, β€œDoes the president care about people like me?”

10.12.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6682    πŸ” 2853    πŸ’¬ 378    πŸ“Œ 152

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:

- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

11.12.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4016    πŸ” 1963    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 56

My dad was a state judge and made me take the KERRY EDWARDS bumper sticker off my car in 2004 because the title was in his name.

11.12.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2201    πŸ” 452    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 4

Just a guess, but maybe they think you're worth the effort. Best wishes!

10.12.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a lovely essay about one of my favorite novels.

10.12.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
ZENNA HENDERSON
AVON
34579
$1.50
Creator of THE PEOPLE

The Anything Box
When you look inside you see another world

Between two hands a child holds a vast  alpine lake landscape.

ZENNA HENDERSON AVON 34579 $1.50 Creator of THE PEOPLE The Anything Box When you look inside you see another world Between two hands a child holds a vast alpine lake landscape.

10.12.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œWhy are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. β€œWhy aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. β€œWhy are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” β€œWhy is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

08.12.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2535    πŸ” 941    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 50

the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi

10.12.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4433    πŸ” 981    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 19
Terminal Surreal by Martha Silano getting the Bath Book Treatment

Terminal Surreal by Martha Silano getting the Bath Book Treatment

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PLEASURES,

thousands of ways to not be dissatisfied, to not embrace the terms of anxiety. One of them is to consider the length of a giraffe's tongue: twenty-one inches.
Another is to go in pursuit of blackberries only a person in a boat can reach. It's important to be responsive to tails and ears, to limbs that allow you, domestic cats, and gazelles
to lope toward Ladybug Espresso or a rat. Away from a charging hippo. It's better to light a sparkler than to whine, right?
It is better to thank your body for its heels, its ability to heal.
That although they are dreadlocked and devoted, you are not a Bergamasco sheepdog. To avoid
a sort of manic obsession with less-than, stare at the pinking clouds longer than seems appropriate. Way longer. To gloss your brain, revel in the long-ago-ness of your past, tocus mostly on the gigantic-peach present that really does take up most of the fridge. of envy, take a sniff, decide to pass.

Partial page of poem by Martha Silano
Pu listed by Acre Books

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PLEASURES, thousands of ways to not be dissatisfied, to not embrace the terms of anxiety. One of them is to consider the length of a giraffe's tongue: twenty-one inches. Another is to go in pursuit of blackberries only a person in a boat can reach. It's important to be responsive to tails and ears, to limbs that allow you, domestic cats, and gazelles to lope toward Ladybug Espresso or a rat. Away from a charging hippo. It's better to light a sparkler than to whine, right? It is better to thank your body for its heels, its ability to heal. That although they are dreadlocked and devoted, you are not a Bergamasco sheepdog. To avoid a sort of manic obsession with less-than, stare at the pinking clouds longer than seems appropriate. Way longer. To gloss your brain, revel in the long-ago-ness of your past, tocus mostly on the gigantic-peach present that really does take up most of the fridge. of envy, take a sniff, decide to pass. Partial page of poem by Martha Silano Pu listed by Acre Books

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PLEASURES,

thousands of ways to not be dissatisfied, to not embrace the terms
of anxiety.

Martha Silano
@acrebooks.bsky.social

10.12.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder: Rachel's recent live event with historian Timothy Snyder was recorded and will be played on MS NOW this Friday at 9pmET.

Here's Racel on that:

10.12.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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This.

08.12.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2695    πŸ” 764    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 46
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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

08.12.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9499    πŸ” 4871    πŸ’¬ 394    πŸ“Œ 255
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About 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits Legal advocates concerned over the prolonged detention of immigrant children in federal custody are sounding the alarm before the federal court. U.S.

ICE now admits that hundreds of children were held past the legal 20-day custody limit set to protect their safety.

Five were kept for 168 days.

Some faced unsafe conditions and went days without medical care.

This crosses a moral line.

09.12.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 20
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Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

09.12.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13829    πŸ” 4541    πŸ’¬ 330    πŸ“Œ 159
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Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discoveryβ€”all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game

Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.

It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

09.12.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2429    πŸ” 1201    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 82
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SCOTUS appears ready to give Trump greater firing powers, over sharp liberal warnings The Republican appointees are almost certain to overturn a 90-year precedent, as Trump wants. Pushing back, Sotomayor told DOJ: β€œYou’re asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Monday at SCOTUS went as the Republican appointees have been telegraphing: Humphrey’s Executor is all but certainly done for, giving Trump increased firing powers.

What was a bit surprising was how aggressively and directly the Democratic appointees fought back.

09.12.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3
FULL: Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces run for Texas Senate
YouTube video by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth FULL: Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces run for Texas Senate

Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for US Senate.
youtu.be/W-Pe1GifYLs?...

09.12.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 12646    πŸ” 2054    πŸ’¬ 405    πŸ“Œ 132
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

09.12.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9600    πŸ” 2552    πŸ’¬ 228    πŸ“Œ 116
Transnational Kleptocracy: What Happens After Trump, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Transnational Kleptocracy: What Happens After Trump, Sarah Kendzior

New interview on the old kleptocracy youtu.be/Hx2jh93_1Fs?...

09.12.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10
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EVERY MAGA ACCUSATION....

IS PROJECTION!!!

FUCK TRUMP!!

08.12.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 666    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 15

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