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Abel (he/they)

@ajq9.bsky.social
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queer neurodivergent leftist special interests include music, urbanism/public transit, geology, collective liberation + abolitionist movements

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/11/2025
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure. To call this despicable is an understatement.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Trump is now telling states to “UNDO” food assistance He’s literally taking food from hungry Americans as he throws Gatsby parties with giant seafood towers
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Epstein coverup continues
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 31/08/2025
“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.
newyorker.com
James Baldwin’s Lesson for Teachers in a Time of Turmoil
Rigorous lessons are not mutually exclusive from culturally and politically relevant ones.
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 15/07/2025
The worst thing for me as an autistic person is implied & inferred meanings. Like, if I ask you a question, that's not a demand. It's a question. If I say how I'm feeling, I mean those words and not the extra words you added in your head. People wonder why I write like I do, why I'm so precise...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.
organizingmythoughts.org
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Columbia cancelled my class on race and media. I decided to build my own school instead. 500+ students. And more than 3,100 in the waitlist. Class starts tomorrow. We MOVE✊🏾 karenattiah.substack.com/p/sunday-not...
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
So…bringing back indentured servitude, a form of enslavement? For the crime of being poor? The callous incoherence.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
he's right and he's right to say it
screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
ICE memo leaked to me sheds light on who exactly it's arresting in Los Angeles - data it hasn't been willing to disclose: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
kenklippenstein.com
Exclusive: Leaked ICE Data
One out of every three “illegals” detained have no criminal history
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/06/2025
WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/05/2025
One of the best policies NYC has implemented in recent times
What's Changed Since Congestion
Pricing Started in New York
Cars on the street
Fewer
Traffic speeds
Faster
Peak commute times
Faster still
Local buses
Faster, less delayed
Traffic outside the zone
Not worse
New Jersey commutes
Faster
Transit ridership
Up, up, up
Yellow taxi trips
Up
Citi Bike trips
Up in and out of the zone
Car crash injuries
Down
Parking violations
Down
Traffic noise complaints
Down
Fire response times
Slightly down
School bus delays
Fewer
Visitors to the zone
Up
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Indivisible North County, San Diego @indivisible-ncsd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I was actually just talking about the fact that a service needs to exist so that we the people can be alerted to US gestapo activity in their vicinity. A few hours later I see an announcement from @50501movement.bsky.social with exactly that. Please sign up and share this resource far & wide!
stopice.net
Stop ICE Raids Alert Network
Send & receive emergency alerts for ICE raids and activity in your area
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/04/2025
RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism. 1. It’s not a disease 2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Do this folks. Do. This. 202-224-3121.
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Abel (he/they) @ajq9.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Easy way to urge the Senate to block this awful bill: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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🦋 ~Bindi~ 🦋 @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🙆‍♀️ oh well. them's the breaks...
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 13/03/2025
Though a certain ~boycott~ ends tomorrow, indie bookshops need our support all year long. We're not going anywhere 💓
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SCOOP—Emails obtained by Prem Thakker and Zeteo show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote he feared ICE "might come to my home."
zeteo.com
SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Imo this is the more informative framing of today's development - Israel is limiting access to potable water in Gaza
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
thebetter.news
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/02/2025
"One of the purposeful consequences of overwhelm is that we see ourselves as the people politics happens to as opposed to being active participants in doing politics or shaping our political reality."
inthesetimes.com
In the Face of Overwhelm
We owe it to each other to resist attempts to disorient, divide and distract us from the reality of government takeover by the billionaire Right.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/02/2025
With an anti-science conspiracy theorist leading the US Department of Health and Human Services, preventative action is critical to protecting your health and the health of your community. A good place to start would be getting back into the practice of regularly wearing a mask.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
nytimes.com
Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads (Gift Article)
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...
salon.com
Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon
"Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025
“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?” — Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This. Is. Amazing. Finally, an ebook alternative for Amazon, but for independent bookstores. This is amazing for readers who want to be more intentional about where you're spending your money. 📖 #BookSky
npr.org
Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform that exclusively supports local bookstores
Indie bookstores miss out on millions of e-book sales to big companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org's new platform could help them turn a new page.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025
remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards
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Emily (normal NY version) @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision.
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own.
I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh.
His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other.
I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone.
David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
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Abel (he/they) @ajq9.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My top 4: Ravenna - Where Butterflies Go in the Rain Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal Michelle - Songs About You Specifically
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The nytimes actually has a good op-ed
nytimes.com
Opinion | I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit. (Gift Article)
Shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at health insurance companies.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The solution to the NRA buying politicians isn’t to stop the NRA itself, it’s to stop allowing ALL groups that at dark money groups from being able to buy politicians. This is bigger than red v. blue, campaign finance is an issue within both major political parties.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/12/2024
Please take a moment to repost our Truthout folks starter pack and help us grow our community on Bluesky!
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇
propublica.org
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
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Abel (he/they) @ajq9.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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two men standing next to each other with the words " every day once a day give yourself a present "
ALT: two men standing next to each other with the words " every day once a day give yourself a present "
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
honestly criminal that the (deserved) Charli XCX surge to superstardom has not been coupled with a popularity boost for Rina Sawayama www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekau...
youtube.com
Rina Sawayama - This Hell (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by RinaSawayamaVEVO
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marie @lookingatmay.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
i’m an album girly playlists are cool but listening to an entire album in order, the way the artist intended? that’s where it’s at for me personally
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Nancy Mace’s former communications director who has spoken out against her before and basically fled her office because Mace is just a horrible, awful person.
An image of two tweets from a verified account named Natalie Johnson (@nataliejohnsonn).
	1.	The first tweet reads:
“‘Protecting women’ in Congress would be introducing a bill to bar Matt Gaetz, a sexual predator with an affinity for underage girls, from ever walking those halls again, rather than dropping a messaging bill that’s sole goal is getting on TV.”
	2.	The second tweet reads:
“Tweeting 262 times about a bill that applies to like .00000001% of Congress in 36 hours is definitely about protecting women. It’s certainly not just a ploy for media attention.”
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Grapie Deltaco @grapiedeltaco.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In ~2016, officials found UnitedHealth using algorithms to identify providers it determined were giving too much therapy. It scrutinized cases & cut off reimbursements. This program is now illegal in 3 states. That hasn't stopped United from policing mental healthcare with arbitrary thresholds.
propublica.org
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/11/2024
Gained a lot of new followers so I wanted to share this again. It's a LGBTQ news starter pack. If there's someone not on here who you think I should add, let me know below! go.bsky.app/DVtrFQR
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Abel (he/they) @ajq9.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Abel (he/they) @ajq9.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’ve been using storygraph for the past year and it’s by far the better reading app
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