Nancy Cooper Frank
@ncooperfrank.bsky.social
Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia Also: Abolish ICE. Living with cancer.
“While all are innocent of any crime that would be punishable by death in the U.S. criminal justice system, some appear to be innocent of any wrongdoing at all.” - Washington Office on Latin America
Killing Spree: Extrajudicial executions in the U.S. boat strikes campaign - WOLA
WOLA's new report, "Killing Spree," examines the U.S. military's extrajudicial boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which have killed 221 people since Sept. 2025.
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Oregon wildfires are bringing dangerous air quality to the Portland metro area. Experts share steps to seal your home, adjust HVAC systems, and filter smoke particles.
What to do right now to protect your Portland home from dangerous wildfire smoke
Oregon wildfires are bringing dangerous air quality to the Portland metro area. Experts share steps to seal your home, adjust HVAC systems, and filter smoke particles.
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"Rena" sent this from Moses Lake WA where she is weeding carrots for a non-union company. She shared: The air is bad. See my cell phone. The AQI is 166, which is unhealthy. We start at 4am. We'll work 7-8 hrs & earn minimum wage. #WeFeedYou
The Soviet animated version is set on Dec 31 2026, but it is also very much worth experiencing (thank you to @rblemberg.bsky.social who showed it to me!) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... Possibly even more terrifying than the original story.
Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]
YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл
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Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 2d agoToday is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
Archaeology news! Researchers in Sardis (Turkey) have found a 5th century BCE statue of a young man, which was later cut in two and reused face down as part of the pavement of a Roman road! It is suspected to belong to the Lydian culture and still has fragments of its original polychromy!
A wife speaks out after her husband was one of several people detained by ICE during what they thought was going to be a routine immigration check-in. @cgcarroll.bsky.social reports. www.timesunion.com/news/article...
ICE detentions at Malta office leave families waiting, legal challenges mounting
A couple was alarmed when immigration officials scheduled a check-in at the local field office on a Sunday. Several community members were detained that day.
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This is great work. As someone who was told as a child (repeatedly) that there was no such thing as a woman scientist, I take this personally
Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2d agoExcellent article from the Smithsonian: "Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That' The historian has devoted her career to bringing to light the ingenious accomplishments of those who have been forgotten #MatildaEffect
ICE killed, another, man. Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies The detainee had an extensive medical history, incl epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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Having people on here who talk about stuff other than politics is *desperately* needed, and that has nothing to do with a political bubble in the way that this was -- I think intentionally disingeunously -- framed to piss people on here off
August is Women in Translation Month: one of the writers Harriet Murav & I translated for our new book is Rivka Rubin--a Soviet Yiddish author now published in English for the 1st time. We have two stories of hers in the book; here's an excerpt from "That Kind of Day.” @stanfordpress.bsky.social 1/2
ABC News reported that it obtained documents showing Ameaka had a work authorization permit until 2029 and had a pending asylum case. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
ICE detains John Hopkins researcher at airport in 'extremely distressing' case
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was released from ICE detention after she was detained at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Tuesday
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It's all literature in translation, all the time, playlisted by language (and publisher, and topic!), on our channel--read aloud by the translators themselves! #readtheworld #readwomen #booksky #bookstagram #worldlit #witmonth www.youtube.com/@Translators...
Translators Aloud
TRANSLATORS ALOUD: THE VOICE OF TRANSLATED LITERATURE A place for translators to read their own work; a positive space for sharing great literature, read aloud by the translators themselves. For sub...
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Genuinely, the vast majority of American voters believe that only laziness or criminal intent could be stopping the average immigrant from obtaining US citizenship. The truth is that becoming a US citizen takes years upon years of work and requires navigating a baroque bureaucratic nightmare.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d agoI remember a family member of mine saying “isn’t it like going to the DMV?”
Ophthalmologist Dr. Agatha Aboe led the medical campaign in Ghana to eliminate trachoma (leading infectious cause of preventable blindness globally). It worked. Ghana became the 1st country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate the disease, 2018. Now she's helping other countries do it. #WomenInSTEM
Pages from a Tamra Maeo, a treatise on cats, from 19th-century Thailand, with poems explaining which breeds are the most auspicious (British Library)
Ancient little guys of the day! These prehistoric baby bottles in the shape of little creatures were found were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves in Vösendorf (Austria). Actually, a study was conducted on these bottles around 2019 and they found traces of ruminant milk!
Blue Ash, Ohio 8/2 “I came to bear witness to the great wrong that's being done to people who came here for a better life and had the rug pulled out from under them... It doesn't make humanitarian sense. It doesn't make economic sense. It's purely for ideology.” www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...
Hundreds show support for Haitians attending ICE meetings in Cincinnati
People gathered outside the Cincinnati ICE field office Sunday for a vigil and to show solidarity with Haitian immigrants being summoned to meetings with federal officials.
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OLIYA SCOOTERCASTER@scootercaster.com · 3d agoHaitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.
Are you a fan of the Netflix series Transatlantic? Anna Seghers was one of those German exiles the US Government especially didn't want to help due to her political views. (She did receive help from Varian Fry in Marseille and made it to Mexico). Her novel Transit is based on her experiences.
I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...
University of Maryland pharmacy instructor detained in Dallas
Federal officials detained an instructor from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy last week.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 6d agoAmeaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...
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Some years ago a good friend asked me to paint a trompe l’œil mouse hole at his cottage. I may have gotten carried away. Several more mouse metro stations planned, and possibly a Wuppertal-style monorail on a ceiling beam…
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. July was a bit of a whirlwind, and not just because of the pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
„Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world“ (Anthropic).
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo agoText mining before the age of LLM training.
And if you'd like to know more about fortune-telling in Ancient #Egypt, get yourself a copy of this book! 🏺🗃️ Ideally from an independent bookseller, or your local library – but it's also on A*@z@n, with loads of rave reviews to boot. 💙📚 #Egyptology
Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-on Guide
In the ancient world the magicians of Egypt were considered the best. But was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Whether you needed a love charm, a chat with your dead wife, or t...
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Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last wk.Ancient Egyptians worshipped a fortune-telling, sacred bull 🐂 A clip from our new episode of You’re Dead To Me about Pharaoh Akhenaten & his wife Queen Nefertiti, featuring Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price and comedian Sikisa Watch on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds
DHS is spending billions on domestic surveillance and data tools capable of targeting anyone, with little oversight or transparency. Congress must investigate how these powerful technologies are bought and used. bit.ly/4wx8EZO
DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools
Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.
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