Bernardo H. Motta
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Transforming journalism and communities. Journalism, Law, Environmental Justice, and Education. He/him. @bhmotta@journa.host
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R.I. judiciary commission members criticized for not revealing campaign contributions to ex-House speaker - The Boston Globe
More than half of the Judicial Nominating Commission members who voted to advance former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi’s bid to fill an opening on the Rhode Island Supreme Court have donated to hi...
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No matter what political party you belong to, Air Force Major Jason Watson is making important observations about this government.
Stop calling the $1.8 billion an “anti-weaponization fund.” Call it what it is: A bribe to proven domestic terrorists to strike again if needed.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoPresident Trump said on Saturday that he would revive a proposal for a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund that would compensate his supporters if the Senate fails to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, reigniting a dispute over the settlement.
The since deceased Senator Graham also welcomed this at the time iirc
Putin arrest warrant: Biden welcomes ICC's war crimes charges
The International Criminal Court accuses the Russian leader of unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children.
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💢 Pres. Trump clarifies that Secretary of State Rubio’s campaign to “bring the International Criminal Court to heel” is intended to protect Israeli PM Netanyahu and others facing ICC scrutiny. Speaking at Camp David, Rubio said: “The International Criminal Court has made themselves illegitimate...
Background: New York Times shared footage of an unaired documentary about how Senator Lindsey Graham worked with PM Netanyahu to convince bipartisan group of lawmakers to condemn the ICC after it issued warrants against Israeli leaders:
WISCONSIN: “We’ve been told doing better isn’t possible. That’s bullshit. All we need to do is fight together.” 💪🏽 @francescahongwi.bsky.social
"Mildred Pitts Walter, a Los Angeles schoolteacher who grew up in the Jim Crow South and wrote award-winning children’s books focusing on Black characters, filling a void in her students’ reading material, died on May 19 in Redwood City, Calif. She was 103." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Mildred Pitts Walter, Author of Books for Black Children, Dies at 103 (Gift Article)
Teaching kindergarten in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, she realized that her students were not represented in the books they read. So she wrote her own.
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Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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The London-based oil behemoth Shell reported that its net profit more than doubled in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2025 as the Iran war pushed up energy prices, causing pain for consumers around the world.
As the War on Iran Spikes Gas Prices, Shell’s Profits More Than Doubled
A Greenpeace UK campaigner said that “we’re running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers.”…
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Proud to be a unionized AAUP member!
AAUP@aaup.org · 6d agoThe AAUP is proud to endorse Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in the Michigan Democratic primary. Dr. El-Sayed is a fierce champion for debt-free & tuition-free higher education & will be an invaluable ally for academic freedom & higher education as a public good in Washington.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference - www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6d ago“A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.“ A watermark showed someone used OpenAI Tools.🙄
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This is an astute observation. Immigrants can’t win either way in the eyes of the nativists.
World Liberty Financial has finally broken into the mainstream. But the headlines are still telling one scandal at a time. The real story is the machine: Congress, a federal bank charter, sovereign dollars, a captured public company, tokenized assets & AI payments—all moving at once. Pay attention
The State of World Liberty Financial — July 29, 2026
The scandal has reached the mainstream. The machine underneath it still hasn’t.
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Cuts to the CDC have created a “perfect storm” in which the diarrhea-causing cyclospora parasite outbreak could go from a minor inconvenience to a national public health crisis within a matter of weeks. DOGE cut eight of the 11 jobs at the CDC lab specializing in cyclospora.
Disease Researchers Blame DOGE Cuts for Spiraling Cyclospora Outbreak
Public health agencies are struggling to mount an effective response with less resources and fewer staff.
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In this Review essay, Jonathan Malesic responds to critics who argue that humanities research should shrink or stop. His case: The work of reading, questioning, discussing, and publishing is not a distraction from teaching. It is part of what the humanities teach. https://chroni.cl/4c0FU3l
Opinion | The False Choice That Could Kill the Humanities
The tension between teaching and scholarship is not as acute as critics pretend.
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I just heard an ad from a progressive super PAC attacking a local progressive candidate because he openly disagrees with establishment democrats. What kind of 🐎 💩 is this? Apparently, one cannot be progressive if we disagree with other dems. That's not progressive, it's control.
Pentagon's official Iran war death toll no longer lists 4 troops killed during renewed fighting apnews.com/article/iran...
Pentagon's official Iran war death toll no longer lists 4 troops killed during renewed fighting
The four American troops killed during renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran in recent weeks are no longer listed as part of the Iran war death toll in the Pentagon’s official casualty count.
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Just the most clout chasing, game playing, morally bankrupt jackals imaginable. The fact that the media landscape has been populated with one creep after another like Chuck Todd is an indictment of the whole damn thing.
I see 216 traitors (that voted for this "merger") who should be charged with sedition and treason.
“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”
She has at least one nasty surrogate too www.threads.com/@amiraoutlou...
Amira Out Loud (@amiraoutloud) on Threads
I transcribed the video of the racist, anti-SWANA comments from Haley Stevens supporter Angie Smith, who currently serves on the Farmington School Board and endorsed Stevens earlier this year. Steven...
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Her posts about El-Sayed repeatedly invoke the “untrustworthy Arab” trope by misrepresenting his record. and it’s easy to say “yes but she’d say this about any opponent” but we all know it wouldn’t hit the same with someone named Dr. James Williams. She doesn’t care. Dogwhistler.
