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bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

Historian of self-determination, US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, development, Univ. Connecticut, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG

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In Cambodia, Our Journalists Put Nike’s Claims About Factory Conditions to the Test, a column by @propublica.org Northwest Editor Steve Suo

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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#SHAFR2025 is only three weeks away! We thought we’d highlight some of the programming co-chairs @drjsarkar.bsky.social and Aileen Teague dreamed up!

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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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Every day new brings massacres. Luring starving Gazans to Israeli controlled aid stations only to open fire on and massacre them. @raskin.house.gov and @vanhollen.senate.gov what are you doing to hold Israel to account for these US-supported and funded killings?

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This would include the tribal colleges in Connecticut. Just devastating and utterly racist. This while Linda McMahon is threatening New York State with education funding cuts unless they restore racist indigenous mascots. www.propublica.org/article/trib...

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@nsarchive.bsky.social with an invaluable set of declassified documents concerning US relations with Greenland during the Cold War. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

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This is not true. I have, for example, no empathy for Donald Trump and Elon Musk and lots for the victims of their criminality.

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

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It's @dieworkwear.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social! A fascinating and funny conversation on the politics, history, economics, and style of Western menswear. Guest hosted by my dear friend @dennismhogan.bsky.social. thedigradio.com/podcast/mens...

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If you live in New York and have a baby in a stroller in the subway 99% of the time some complete stranger will just pick up the front end of your stroller or whatever - usually without saying a word - and walk up the stairs with you, put the stroller down, nod, and walk off. Just terrifying.

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Ok, Bill Burr is awesome.

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Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

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Tim Scott: we are going to gut your healthcare, food stamps, school funding, ability to attend college, and every public service, but you will be able to invest your meager funds in crypto, until it gets stolen in a scam, because we have eliminated regulations and enforcement.

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