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Adria Quiñones

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Award-winning Nuyorican kidlit writer. Published poet. Author of MI TIERRA, an early-reader-in-verse, available NOW from Reycraft!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025
Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the traditional wall of separation between the White House and the Justice Department.” Trump wants to be a dictator. We must stop him.
politico.com
Trump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him
The president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign.
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Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...
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Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert
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Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Relevant thread re: online privacy (with links!). #MOMSky
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
There's something about seeing it visually over time that chills the blood. It's hard to process that when we made the jump from 2022 to 2023, it still wasn't enough to convince people this was serious. Before Trump was re-inaugurated gender-affirming care was banned in more than 50% of the country.
The United States has experienced a long rise in anti-trans legislation. Now it's surging. shows 2015-2025
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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150K for 2024-26 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians." www.slj.com/story/Cost-L...
Graphic: "Our Laura Bush Planning grant for $150,000 for 2024-2026 is likely to cease without funding. It would have developed a model five-year strategic plan to restore school librarians to Philadelphia's 218 public schools—only 5 of which currently have any librarians."
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas
It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There he is.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country.” But we are not helpless — unless we act that way, as too many of us are sadly doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save America
The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/03/2025
House Republicans don’t have the votes to impeach any federal judges. The reality has prompted GOP hard-liners to back-channel with Trump allies on alternatives they could push across the House floor.
politico.com
It’s not just impeachments. Republicans are eyeing other ways to rein in federal judges.
GOP leaders are seeking a release valve for the fury building over recent court rulings.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/03/2025
What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!
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Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
-Layoffs through ‘volunteer retirement’ -Shipping costs increase -30 day notice -Reduction of services in rural areas -Closing of post offices in rural communities www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgDV...
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USPS announces workforce cuts of about 10,000 workers
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Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Author alert! Pls check, share with friends.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."
Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thread: the premise of the EOs aimed at Paul Weiss and other law firms is that it’s based on national security concerns. Yet nothing in the “settlement” had anything to do with addressing such concerns. It was extortion pure and simple.
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SedonaRocks🚫👑🇺🇦 @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over.
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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I'm helping organize nationwide #HandsOffUSPS teach-in events in late April/early May (exact date tbd very soon). We will need folks to #volunteer to host an event in their neighborhood/community. Resources will be provided - we just need people to spread the word & step up to host! Stay tuned! 💌📬
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
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Stephi Cham @stephicham.com · 16/03/2025
"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."
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I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day. how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that
800-word wall taken down, I've been writing more. "I won't get on tumbir/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal" used to be something ! said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn't cough up four pages in one sitting. I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it's something | say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can't stop now, because I'm enjoying myself, I'm having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn't been true of my original works since middle school.
And sometimes I think, "Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred." And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry f king Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good.
And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don't feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I've rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways.
Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 16/03/2025
"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is only going to get worse. Much, much worse.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
All, DOGE tried to visit the United States Institute of Peace with FBI agents (!) and were turned away. You know what a good call is right now, if you have Republican reps? Asking them how they're okay with the FBI being used like this.
Screenshot of a press release from the Untied States Institute of Peace, dated March 15th, 2025:

DOGE VISIT TO USIP:

On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, 2025, several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrived at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) unannounced accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by the Institute’s outside counsel who informed them of USIP’s private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency. Following that discussion, the DOGE representatives departed.
As an independent, non-profit organization established by Congress, USIP remains committed to the cooperation and comity with the Trump Administration it has exhibited in its work with seven administrations since its founding under President Ronald Reagan. This includes ensuring the responsible use of taxpayer funds, aggressively pursuing its ongoing efforts to modernize and make all aspects of its operations more efficient.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
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Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
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Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The opening of Hair: Unbraiding Identity! Uptown support, Uptown shine, Uptown vibes—it was everything!!!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We must fight antisemitism, but weaponizing the Office of Civil Rights investigations and threatening to withhold funding from colleges and universities smacks of modern-day McCarthyism. It does nothing to make Jewish students safer. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Education Dept. warns 60 colleges under investigations
The Education Department warned 60 colleges and universities that they could face “potential enforcement actions” if they don’t comply with federal civil rights law that protects students from discrim...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The cover-up… USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Plunderers of the earth close all environmental justife offices: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices (Gift Article)
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
3/ As a nation—and as a world—we watched the same tragedy unfold at the onset of the pandemic. Day after day. And it’s still playing out. The pandemic. The unprocessed grief. The trauma. Data and emotions, buried.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Please read and share. Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨
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Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Opening Thursday 3/13 at the NOMAA Gallery in Washington Heights, “Hair: Untangling Identity.” Honored to have my poem, Raices, included. www.nomaanyc.org/nomaa-events...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
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Mary Berk @mberk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Indeed, fascism is a one way street, and once our nation goes down that road, there’s no coming back. We cannot let that happen.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy. SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
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Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dear Trump Voters, Be careful what you wish for.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, / Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame. / I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat / Grinder to separate the song of the bird from the bone.” — Terrence Hayes
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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“I lock you in an…
I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame. I lock you in a form that is part music box, part meat Grinder to separate the song of the...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT. @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and I have spent the last few months reaching out to the people we ourselves turn to for clarity and hope. This anthology of twenty-six writers is a community in book form.
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No One is Coming to Save Us But Us.
Introducing "The People's Project."
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza. Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.
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Atlanta DSA @atldemsoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Before legislation comes up for a vote on Monday, write and call State Senator Elena Parent to tell her to vote NO on anti-trans bills SB 30 and SB 185! (404) 656-5109 Elena.Parent@senate.ga.gov Elena@ElenaParent.com
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Atlanta DSA @atldemsoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In a leaked recording, State Senator Elena Parent (D-42) said she’d vote for Republican transgender healthcare bans because trans rights are too “unpopular." "You can go right to heck. I don’t think I will lose re-election based on you screaming at me"
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Mikey Sandmel @mikeysandmel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Yup. Both are true. rosselliotbarkan.com/p/how-andrew...
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How Andrew Cuomo Screwed Democrats for Almost a Decade
Getting to Know the #Resistance Superstar of the Moment
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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