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Bitterzoose

Teacher, editor, translator, alarmed about where we're headed #EduSky

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The answer is always no, because the ask from the Trump Administration will always be poorly reasoned, often poorly lawyered, sometimes illegal, and usually anti-constitutional. Your agreement places other institutions at risk, and you will end up like the restaurant owner in Goodfellas.

Greg Sargent

"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

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While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screenThe actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zoneswww.thetimes.com
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John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...www.propublica.org
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“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
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Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon

Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glassesThe activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recordingwww.thetimes.com
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Great take from @sulliview.bsky.social about the cowardly Washington press corps sucking up to Trump. When Trump subpoenaed Times reporters to coerce revealing sources, the dinner should have been canceled in protest. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents DinnerAnd why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trumpopen.substack.com
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If these guys were actually students of history they’d know Europe tried this type of shit all of the time and it always lasted like six months. A good rule of thumb if you think of some outlandish solution to democracy that benefits the rich the inbred French aristocrats probably tried it already.

Rachel Gilmore

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

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Another reminder, since no one in Congress appears to care: These strikes are a campaign of unlawful murders, and the Administration hasn't offered any plausible argument to the contrary. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.www.washingtonpost.com
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A Polish-born woman in Des Plaines who “had done everything right” has been in ICE custody for the past year. Green Card for 20 years, sought citizenship. “And it didn’t matter.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/27/i...

Illinois woman with green card has been detained by ICE for 12 months. Her daughters plead for her release.ICE arrested Beata Siemionkowicz, a Poland native and green card holder of more than two decades, last year while she was gardening in her daughter’s backyard in Des Plaines.www.chicagotribune.com
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How did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP

Source of false Buttigieg allegation appeared ‘mentally unstable,’ records showThe Michigan attorney general’s office is investigating how the accusation that prompted the ex-Cabinet secretary's separation from his 4-year-old twins was handled.www.washingtonpost.com
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around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump SpeakNo comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.ballsandstrikes.orgCatherine Rampell

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

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We’re pushing a month since Elon Musk was quoting from The Turner Diaries, and every single mainstream news and political figure has maintained an active account on his platform, enriching him.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

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