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Debra Marshall

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Immigrant, Sociologist, Disco Lover, Traveler, True Blue. Soon to retire (yay!). Living in Florida (boo!). It’s all gone horribly wrong.

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BELIEVE SURVIVORS. RELEASE THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN FILES IMPRISON THE PEDOPHILES PROTEST AT TRUMP TOWER
725 5TH AVE, NYC,INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 • I-2PM

BELIEVE SURVIVORS. RELEASE THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN FILES IMPRISON THE PEDOPHILES PROTEST AT TRUMP TOWER 725 5TH AVE, NYC,INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY SUNDAY, MARCH 8 • I-2PM

📣 Join us on International Women’s Day
⏰ Sunday, March 8, 1-2pm
🐖 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NYC

We will be protesting outside Trump Tower, calling attention to Trump's involvement in the Epstein case. We will stand in solidarity with Epstein SA survivors, and all SA survivors.

05.03.2026 12:56 👍 60 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 0
I Am An AI Hater I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

Read this. Read all the links in it as well. This humanities/social sci prof is telling you that it destroys our capacity for independent thinking and learning. It is less than useless in my fields. You are a rando without the knowledge adequate for judgement.

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

04.03.2026 18:40 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Bert the Blackbird is a legend

A wild bird that filled our life with joy. But he has gone

02.03.2026 23:29 👍 323 🔁 60 💬 28 📌 6
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Signs You May Work for a Failing College Professors identify “coaching opportunities” for each other. Newly appointed department chairs and administrators used to be chefs. People you repo...

"People interviewing you for the job you already have are not in your field, nor are they academic peers, and they will commend themselves for getting through certain questions they do not understand."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

03.03.2026 18:25 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
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‘I Just Stood Up’: The Stunning Arrest Of Aliya Rahman At The State Of The Union Rahman, who was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s guest, suspects her unprecedented punishment was related to her testifying to Congress about her brutal ICE detention in Minneapolis.

ICYMI: This is insane and is not getting enough attention IMO www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

02.03.2026 17:30 👍 646 🔁 312 💬 5 📌 17
All at once, everyone is anti-war from the comfort of American apartments. A country filled with people who do not know what it is like to have bombs dropped on them. Who have never had their internet cut during
protests so the world cannot see what is happening. Who have never lived under a regime where dissent can get you killed.
Where dancing can get you arrested. Where showing your hair can get you beaten.
Where tomorrow is never guaranteed.
And now those same voices are telling
Iranians how to feel.

All at once, everyone is anti-war from the comfort of American apartments. A country filled with people who do not know what it is like to have bombs dropped on them. Who have never had their internet cut during protests so the world cannot see what is happening. Who have never lived under a regime where dissent can get you killed. Where dancing can get you arrested. Where showing your hair can get you beaten. Where tomorrow is never guaranteed. And now those same voices are telling Iranians how to feel.

Yes, I am anti-war with Iran. I did not think that needed clarification. The only people who truly benefit from war are the billionaires who profit from it. But being anti-war does not require mourning a dictator.
The Iranian people have been desperate for years. A kind of desperation that no American can fully understand. The authoritarian control enforced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not just a human rights violation. It is a human rights catastrophe. A sustained system of repression designed to silence, imprison, torture, and kill its own population.

Yes, I am anti-war with Iran. I did not think that needed clarification. The only people who truly benefit from war are the billionaires who profit from it. But being anti-war does not require mourning a dictator. The Iranian people have been desperate for years. A kind of desperation that no American can fully understand. The authoritarian control enforced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not just a human rights violation. It is a human rights catastrophe. A sustained system of repression designed to silence, imprison, torture, and kill its own population.

I am not claiming bombs equal liberation.
But it is also not accurate to pretend that we are currently free and stable. We are already subjugated. Subjugated by our own regime.
When conversations fixate on hypothetical future chaos while refusing to acknowledge present oppression, they erase what is already happening to us.

I am not claiming bombs equal liberation. But it is also not accurate to pretend that we are currently free and stable. We are already subjugated. Subjugated by our own regime. When conversations fixate on hypothetical future chaos while refusing to acknowledge present oppression, they erase what is already happening to us.

But watching those deaths immediately weaponized to invalidate Iranian grief and Iranian relief is something else entirely.
Watching people who were silent when tens of thousands of Iranians were brutally killed suddenly find their voices now, and use those voices not to mourn universally, but to undermine Iranian pain, exposes a selective morality that is difficult to ignore.
How privileged you must be to betray your people when hundreds of children were killed today

But watching those deaths immediately weaponized to invalidate Iranian grief and Iranian relief is something else entirely. Watching people who were silent when tens of thousands of Iranians were brutally killed suddenly find their voices now, and use those voices not to mourn universally, but to undermine Iranian pain, exposes a selective morality that is difficult to ignore. How privileged you must be to betray your people when hundreds of children were killed today

Everyone should read this

“All at once, everyone is anti-war from the comfort of American apartments. A country filled with people who do not know what it is like to have bombs dropped on them. Who have never had their internet cut during protests so the world cannot see what is happening...”

01.03.2026 20:33 👍 45 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 3
The Eiffel Tower on a drizzly November day

The Eiffel Tower on a drizzly November day

28.02.2026 00:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

24.02.2026 13:34 👍 2962 🔁 1254 💬 159 📌 109

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

21.02.2026 16:32 👍 13764 🔁 3501 💬 895 📌 188
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The Heritage Foundation's Plan to Keep Women Uneducated, Pregnant and Subservient The Heritage Foundation published "Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years." Goodbye women's rights.

Contemporary US pronatalism, of which the Heritage Foundation is the most powerful player, is blatantly sexist and racist and fueled by Christian Nationalism.

This isn’t an exaggeration - it’s explicitly spelled out in their plan to “save America by saving the family.”

21.02.2026 14:46 👍 53 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0
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I joined working families & veterans today at IBEW Local 728 to talk about the issues impacting them in Florida. Unions are the backbone of our middle class — and when I'm the Senate, I'll fight for higher wages, good benefits, and safe working conditions. Thanks for having me!

20.02.2026 23:21 👍 303 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 0
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Tickets for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour are on sale starting today and tomorrow!

For more information, please visit BruceSpringsteen.net/Tour.

20.02.2026 22:39 👍 654 🔁 136 💬 57 📌 8
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A heist in broad daylight

19.02.2026 19:27 👍 5262 🔁 2490 💬 765 📌 436
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

This can’t be shared too much. Trump & his FCC crony are censoring who talk show hosts can invite as their guests-James Talarico on Colbert. Corp media—is selling out our 1A rights to curry favor w/a corrupt regime. This is dangerous when censoring comes from the top! We must stand against this!

17.02.2026 16:42 👍 542 🔁 338 💬 14 📌 12

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

14.02.2026 21:00 👍 17516 🔁 6069 💬 474 📌 207
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Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

12.02.2026 23:13 👍 318 🔁 93 💬 9 📌 10

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

08.02.2026 14:28 👍 4080 🔁 1508 💬 147 📌 223
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What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

06.02.2026 15:00 👍 572 🔁 170 💬 12 📌 28

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files.

What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable?

We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

06.02.2026 17:28 👍 6082 🔁 1605 💬 290 📌 88
Black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair, wearing a collared shirt, softly smiling. The image conveys a vintage, nostalgic feel.

Black and white portrait of a woman with wavy hair, wearing a collared shirt, softly smiling. The image conveys a vintage, nostalgic feel.

Women challenged the Holocaust in ways that don’t always look heroic or defiant at first glance. Irene Gut Opdyke’s courage unfolded inside a Nazi officer’s home, where survival required making difficult decisions, and where no choice came without consequence.

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05.02.2026 19:07 👍 38 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 4
image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
please share!

04.02.2026 19:51 👍 646 🔁 253 💬 23 📌 16

Rightwashing.

03.02.2026 23:29 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

03.02.2026 23:09 👍 5850 🔁 2585 💬 263 📌 236
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What Democrats want :: What Chuck Schumer says Democrats want

03.02.2026 23:24 👍 241 🔁 90 💬 21 📌 8
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

03.02.2026 22:10 👍 25670 🔁 12021 💬 1000 📌 1095
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Marimar Martinez talks about being shot by CBP: “My arms, legs, and chest were all wrapped in bandages. I had 7 bullet holes in my body. I remember the agents rushing the nurses to finish up so they could take me with them.”

03.02.2026 21:09 👍 1620 🔁 768 💬 39 📌 34
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Letters: Cut Florida utilities’ power | Airport name change may cost you | GOP rigging the game A bill calling for transparency in the Florida Public Service Commission governing the utilities is worthy of passage.

Letters: Cut Florida utilities’ power | Airport name change may cost you | GOP rigging the game trib.al/UMcJOOU

03.02.2026 10:57 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

01.02.2026 15:55 👍 3637 🔁 1815 💬 115 📌 151
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Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

01.02.2026 16:05 👍 8195 🔁 3474 💬 241 📌 141

I think it was Shirley, Shirley, Shirley Bo-ber-ley Bo-na-na fanna Fo-fer-ley Fee-fi-mo-mer-ley Shirley 😊

31.01.2026 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1