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You can find me biking or out. Teams: Dolphins, Sharks, UHawaii. Count on me for bad puns and snarky responses. Image is me on grays peak Colorado.

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Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social · 2w ago

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ Attica Uprising—REVISITED 🧵 Fifty-five years ago today, the Attica Prison Uprising begins. For many, it is a story of resistance. We're going to do a deep dive and meet the men who led it. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/12/a...

Why ‘Attica Day’ Still Matters

For decades, New York prisoners have refused meals on Sept. 13 to mark the end of the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Inside a ritual in decline.

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Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 3w ago

I knew the data was alarming, but I didn’t understand just how alarming. We haven’t even broached the long-term effects of the pandemic yet. Healthy brain development x social, emotional, cognitive = good AI + Mark Zuckerberg et al., socials X pandemic / brain development = Lord help us #Pinks

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 3w ago

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1911: Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the California wilderness. He was the last known surviving member of the Yahi people, who were wiped out by state-sponsored genocide, disease and starvation. /1

The man known as Ishi. Ishi is remembered by those who knew him as a man of extraordinary gentleness, quiet dignity and dry humor. He showed no bitterness or malice toward the society that had destroyed his people. Dr. Saxton Pope, Ishi’s close friend and physician, wrote that Ishi possessed a natural, unteachable nobility. Though early newspapers patronizingly framed him as a stoic, unblinking “wild man,” Ishi was actually highly expressive and loved to laugh. He was also particular about personal hygiene and environmental order, a reflection of traditional Yahi spiritual practices regarding purity. Perhaps the most staggering aspect of Ishi’s personality was his lack of hatred. He had witnessed the violent slaughter of his entire world, yet he chose to meet his new life with curiosity and empathy. He didn’t survive through bitterness. He survived through a profound, stoic peace, remaining anchored in his identity until the day he died. Photo credit: Online Archive of California.
Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4w ago

Before last year, there were no US measles deaths in a decade, and now we have had 5 deaths in two years. Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but will lose that status this year. This is an abject failure of public health leadership.

Chart: Annual US measles cases
Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social · 4w ago

#ResistanceRoots Tye Leung Schulze was born on this day in 1887 in San Francisco. She became the first Chinese American woman to vote in a U.S. election and the first to be employed by the federal government. She dedicated her life to serving the Chinese community that had once ostracized her. /1

Tye Leung Schulze. She was a fearless trailblazer who cracked open the doors of American democracy and public service for Asian American women. Standing barely four feet tall, she spent her entire life stepping into rooms built for people twice her size, using her voice to dismantle racial and gender barriers. As the first Chinese American woman to pass the federal civil service exam and the first to vote in a U.S. election, she shattered the myth that Asian American women were passive outsiders. Her marriage to Charles Schulze was a radical act of love that challenged California’s systemic white supremacy. Her most enduring legacy is found on the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown. For more than 60 years, she was a community anchor. She gave a voice to the voiceless, proving that the true measure of a citizen is how fiercely they protect the vulnerable. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library.
Jack Mirkinson@jackmirkinson.bsky.social · last mo.

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Did you know that Puerto Rico became a U.S. laboratory for reproductive control, sterilization, eugenics—and the birth‑control pill? It's true. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory digpodcast.org/2019/05/12/c...

Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

In 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to en…

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: On Alaska’s Adak Island, it costs more than $340,000 per year to provide hundreds of buildings — all but a few of them empty — with internet access no one uses. The money being wasted is yours. With @adn.com

On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet

U.S. phone customers pay more than $340,000 a year for an Anchorage company to keep homes and buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island wired for obsolete internet service. All but a few of them sit empty.

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PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2mo ago

In recent years, there has been attention on how reading has changed among kids. A new story in The Atlantic is casting a broader spotlight, raising similar questions for the overall population. https://to.pbs.org/4yqeHRe

'Post-literate age': Why fewer Americans are reading for pleasure

In recent years, there has been attention and worries about how reading has changed among kids. Those concerns include the nature of what kids are reading and how many fewer books are part of their ed...

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

This post is mainly for white folks to consider. I want to share something that may help you understand the reaction from Black folks who immediately looked at the Nolan Wells story and thought, “Something is foul here.” This isn’t proof that foul play occurred. It’s context. 🧵

PWHL@thepwhl.com · 3mo ago

School? Out. Summer Camps? IN! Join us at one of our 30+ hockey summer camps in July and August, taking place across the U.S. and in Canada in partnership with UPS Canada. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3SMxDcU PWHL Camps + Clinics ➡️ bit.ly/44aH1JL

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