Reposted by Adria QuiñonesJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation 539260665652
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025It 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. 386188874965
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesMark 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.comTrump orders investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized himThe president signed executive orders targeting Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor, an escalation of his retribution campaign. 22757248
Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk Concert on @npr.org: come for the music, stay for anti-colonization messaging 🇵🇷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...youtube.comBad Bunny: Tiny Desk ConcertYouTube video by NPR Music 010
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesJenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Relevant thread re: online privacy (with links!). #MOMSky 01511
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This 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 10198832743
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 06/04/2025There'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. 231782653
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesKathy 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... 1104
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesScott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025nytimes.comA Second Child Dies of Measles in TexasIt 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. 613040
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesLaurence 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...nytimes.comOpinion | Democrats Can Stop Trump and Save AmericaThe 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. 1112481721
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesPolitico @politico.com · 21/03/2025House 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.comIt’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. 2814063
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/03/2025What 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! 8832461066
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesDr. 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...youtube.comUSPS announces workforce cuts of about 10,000 workersYouTube video by KVUE 041
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Tonight, 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..." 298123343242
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Thread: 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. 429291
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesSedonaRocks🚫👑🇺🇦 @sedonarocks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Paul Weiss didn't bend a knee, he bent over. 0135
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesDeborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I'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! 💌📬 610940
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/03/2025this 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 68110142923
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesStephi 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." 03310
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 16/03/2025"despite" is one way to say "in violation of," I guess 151765423
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This is only going to get worse. Much, much worse. 24174742266
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025All, 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. 418348
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025NEWS: 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...indivisible.orgIndivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside 902332398053
Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The opening of Hair: Unbraiding Identity! Uptown support, Uptown shine, Uptown vibes—it was everything!!! 010
Reposted by Adria Quiñonesjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution 1047324814869
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/03/2025We 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...insidehighered.comEducation Dept. warns 60 colleges under investigationsThe 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... 68227
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The 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.” 582177176334
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Plunderers of the earth close all environmental justife offices: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...nytimes.comE.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. 26845393
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesSean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 11/03/20253/ 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. 1234
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Please 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. 295111462967
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Thoughts 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. 7385571167
Reposted by Adria Quiñones California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨ 14525236314191
Adria Quiñones @adriaq.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Opening 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... 031
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025This 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 17958116011311
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesMary 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.” 3397
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025MEUSER: 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. 1480398967507
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesSaeed 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 Hayespoetryfoundation.orgAmerican 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... 530449
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I’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.open.substack.comNo One is Coming to Save Us But Us.Introducing "The People's Project." 231042167
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻 216136026135
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Israel 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. 391064472
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAtlanta DSA @atldemsoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Trans 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 273035711
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAtlanta DSA @atldemsoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025In 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" 60548801577
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesMikey Sandmel @mikeysandmel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Yup. Both are true. rosselliotbarkan.com/p/how-andrew...rosselliotbarkan.comHow Andrew Cuomo Screwed Democrats for Almost a DecadeGetting to Know the #Resistance Superstar of the Moment 021615
Reposted by Adria QuiñonesAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL. 57759429340878