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Anitra Freeman

@anitrafree.bsky.social
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Reader/Writer/Rabblerouser/Raging Granny Part of organizing efforts of homeless & formerly homeless people in Seattle Omnivorous bookworm Ally 🏳️‍🌈 ADD/BD2 My banner is part of the Day of the Dead ofrenda we created for homeless people who died unsheltered

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm watching the Fremont Neighborhood Council mayoral debate from earlier this week, and so far Bruce Harrell has said his opponent Katie Wilson "knows nothing about public safety," doesn't "understand that we have a {police] union contract," and "was a defunder" of the police.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If Harrell wins, we have no hope. He said so!
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#Seattle #elections Make Harrell a one-term mayor!
thestranger.com
The Stranger Endorses Katie Wilson for Mayor
Bruce Harrell had his chance.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#digital divide #equity
publicola.com
Dozens of Digital Literacy Groups Funded Through a Statewide Grant Haven't Been Paid Since January. The State Says It Isn't to Blame. - PubliCola
As a state program to improve digital equity shuts down, the group that distributes state funds to dozens of small…
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
SHARE/WHEEL #homeless #encampment Tent City 4 moves 5/17. Our next site was suddenly blocked by red tape. @ericacbarnett.bsky.social reports.
publicola.com
Last-Minute Rug Pull Leaves Lake City's Sanctioned Encampment, Tent City 4, With Nowhere to Go - PubliCola
By Erica C. Barnett Back in February, SHARE and WHEEL—the shelter providers and homeless advocacy groups that have run self-managed…
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For #Easter : Rise Again
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Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter
YouTube video by MinistryofStabbing
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
And still no consequences #hegseth #politics #but-her-emails
reuters.com
Defense chief Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details.
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Be:Seattle @beseattleorg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
💥Get your tickets now!💥 Housing justice isn’t just about rent—it’s about power, dignity, and tearing down a system that creates scarcity to keep us in line. Join us 4/12 for a panel + fundraiser with to build tenant power with Be:Seattle! 🎟️ Tickets: beseattle.org/April12
Flyer for an event titled “Housing Justice Is…” with the subtitle “A panel and fundraiser to build tenant power with Be:Seattle.” The event is sponsored by Seattle Democratic Socialists of America. The flyer features five headshots of participants: Tracy Rosenthal (keynote speaker and panelist, highlighted with a red border), Renaissance (moderator), Amy Sundberg (panelist), Julissa Sánchez (panelist), and Tye Reed (panelist). Tracy Rosenthal is labeled as co-author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. Event details are at the bottom: “Sat. April 12th from 12–2 PM at El Centro de La Raza.” Tickets are available at beseattle.org/April12 with a suggested donation of $20–250. The background is black with white grunge textures and bold white text.
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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 10/04/2025
Why is Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell displacing so many homeless people? While I can’t read his mind, the data suggests a clear pattern. To learn more, read my most recent post on Gossip Guy: gossipguy.net/seattle-swep...
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Burien NonDriver @washingtonrenter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ways to support @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Seattle Mayor 1. Register asap for ur local LD & Vote to endorse Wilson at an upcoming mtg 2. Pass a resolution with your union 3. Give democracy vouchers 4. Sign up to volunteer 5. Give funds www.wilsonforseattle.com
wilsonforseattle.com
Home | Elect Katie Wilson
I love this city and I know that we can solve our most pressing problems and accomplish great things together. We don’t have to settle for half measures. But we need to take initiative. We need to be ...
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Washington State Department of Social and Health Services @wadshs.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
To read the full story, visit DSHS stocks Narcan dispensers in offices through partnerships with DOH, King County dshswa.medium.com/dshs-stocks-...
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DSHS stocks Narcan dispensers in offices through partnerships with DOH, King County
DSHS stocks Narcan dispensers in offices through partnerships with DOH, King County
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qwickening @qwickening.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Washingtonians / Seattlittes - Fuse has three really great starter packs! #waleg #washingtonstate #seattle
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
SHARE & WHEEL #homeless organizing efforts are calling on #Seattle to create 500 new shelter beds in 2025. We are holding a Shelter Summit on Friday, April 11, at noon at Trinity Episcopal Parish, 609 8th Ave, Seattle. Join us to plan ACTION!
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Call for 500
SHARE and WHEEL homeless organizing efforts are calling the city of Seattle to create 500 new shelter beds in 2025.
Join us!
Shelter Summit 
12pm Friday April 11
Trinity Episcopal Parish 
609 Eighth Ave Seattle WA
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#booksky #sff More books I have to check out! Anybody else like weird sff?
bookriot.com
What Did I Just Read?: 5 Great Weird SFF Books
"I won't lie, I didn't understand what was going on a lot of the time, but I loved every second of it."
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
But her emails!
politico.com
Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Sad news, explaining why no new books from one of my favorite & most prolific light #sff authors. #booksky
booknotification.com
Jerry Boyd, Beloved Author of the Bob and Nikki Series, Passes Away - Book Notification
Jerry Boyd, author of the "Bob and Nikki" series, has unexpectedly passed away. His humour and well-crafted characters will not be forgotten.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
2nd serious #nonfiction book in awhile is What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, by Elizabeth Catte. Catte doesn't just eviscerate J.D. Vance; she counters a long history of exploitative Poverty Porn & documents the powers that abuse the region & the people who stand against them. #booksky
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Elizabeth Catte
A line of trees on a yellow background; below them is a line of human silhouettes, upside down like a reflection of the trees, on a red background
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Julius Kim @juliuskim.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This, right here..
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I didn't realize how long it had been since I last posted until listifications told me I was added to an inactive members list. Good news: Wes is back home, health crisis over. I am getting more active. Currently reading: Autocracy Inc. www.theguardian.com/books/articl... #booksky #nonfiction
Autocracy Inc 
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World 
Anne Applebaum 
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#project2025 underweigh #autocracy
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#booksky #sff #fantasy and of course #Discworld – if you are boycotting Harry Potter, here are nine great series alternatives. Three that I haven't read yet!
collider.com
10 Fantasy Book Series That Are Perfect From Start to Finish
Fantasy is huge in literature, and series like The Chronicles of Narnia and His Dark Materials are among the best, most thoughtful, and satisfying.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/02/2025
Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for more than 110,000 refugees, including thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. “We feel betrayed,” said one Afghan American soldier. With @texastribune.org
propub.li
These Soldiers Risked Their Lives Serving in Afghanistan. Now They Plead With Trump to Let Their Sister Into the U.S.
Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for thousands of Afghans, including those who worked with the U.S. military and their relatives. Two brothers hope answers come quickly…
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
More DOGE mistakes #doge
nytimes.com
DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes (Gift Article)
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#booksky #sff Ny favorite, most prolific light-reading authors. I can usually count on at least one having something new out when I need it. Amanda Lee Kristen Painter Jerry Boyd Steve Higgs G. A. Aiken Lindsay Buroker Arden Powell Rachel Aaron Delemhach Jenny Schwartz Rachel Rener Yours?
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"An NPR analysis of several public data sources, including USASpending.gov and the Federal Procurement Data System, finds errors, omissions and lingering questions about the accuracy and scale of the massive savings claimed by DOGE in recent days." Surprise Surprise
npr.org
Musk claims DOGE is saving taxpayers billions, but the data is unclear
President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have touted billions in terminated contracts deemed wasteful, but there's little transparency about how savings are tracked.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Recommended Reading! Free! #resistance
justcollapse.org
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended up…
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The "receipts" are up. Lots of gobblygook. NOT transparency.
doge.gov
DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Democracy is fragile. You have to fight for every bit, every law, every safeguard, every institution, every story. You must know how dangerous it is to suffer even the tiniest cut. This is why I say to us all: we must hold the line."
How to Stand Up to a Dictator 
The Fight for Our Future 
Maria Ressa
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
#tariffs #economy While Trump voters cheer the dismantling of federal government, these are the real results of their vote.
alreporter.com
Could Trump tariffs disrupt Alabama auto manufacturing?
The president of a trade group warned Sunday that Trump's tariffs would cause plant shutdowns in Canada and the U.S., specifically for Toyota and Honda.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Trump obeying a court order! For now
usatoday.com
Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump
The Trump administration has agreed to pause its campaign of layoffs and funding cuts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Washington State Senator Patty Murray speaks up about federal firings. These are ILLEGAL, Patty! You can ACT! #WA #Washington #WashingtonState #DOGE #Autocracy
kimatv.com
Trump administration layoffs impact Washington state services
The Trump administration's recent directive for mass layoffs across government agencies is having significant repercussions on services in Washington state.
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Rorial @queerlyhere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
As of now, 17 states are suing the Fed Gov for the 'right' to discontinue school access to #disabled students. Worse, they are using their cruel hatred of #trans kids to do it. This is the opposite of #disabilityjustice The states listed on the bill are #Texas, #Alaska, #Alabama, #Arkansas, /1
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Ecolove notes by Bird and Moon Comics #valentines
Our love is like a bog: built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to a small group of people 

Our love is like a slime mold: collaborative, complex, at times disturbing to behold 

Our love is like limestone: layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way 

Our live is like a ring-billed gull: abundant,  found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries

Our love is like a horseshoe crab: tough, timeless, unrelated to the true crabs

Our love is like the phosphorus cycle: important, really hard to draw
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 11/02/2025
Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it. So we moved over to blue sky. Help us build another great following right here where the skies are clear and the water is fine ;-) Please do Follow Retweet & repeat
Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Washington State special election: Preliminary results looking good for Seattle social housing Prop 1A, school funding & Burien minimum wage #Seattle
king5.com
LIVE Washington state's Feb. 11 special election (updated) | king5.com
Track results from the November 5 general election in Washington state. Key races on the ballot include Washington governor, state attorney general, and public lands commissioner, as well as incumbent...
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Tony Michaels @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
*Tap-Tap* Is this thing on? 🎙️
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
theguardian.com
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
While other media accounts have detailed several key moments in the blitzkrieg on USAID, this article provides new details about what Trump and Musk’s lieutenants did, what they said and the objections that those within the government raised along the way.
propublica.org
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law
ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”
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💙🇺🇸DWally🇺🇸💙 @dkwally.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Seattle: Opponents of Prop 1A claim that it isn't good for homeless people. Homeless people disagree.
publicola.com
Social Housing Is a Homelessness Solution - PubliCola
By SHARE and WHEEL Homelessness is a housing problem. More affordable housing means less homelessness. It’s really that simple. SHARE…
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Embroidery helps, though
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Seattle: Prop 1A is all about building social housing. Prop 1B is all about protecting big business from a progressive tax. Vote YES for Prop 1A!
thestranger.com
The Call Is Coming From Outside the House
Who’s funding the 1B campaign?
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 06/02/2025
Do you have republican reps? Now is the time to call. They only need to flip 3 to keep Musk out of your most sensitive data. Right now he may have access not only to your SSN and tax records, but also potentially whatever bank accounts you use to pay taxes/receive refunds.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth
By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the  Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.
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Anitra Freeman @anitrafree.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ceasefire in Gaza does not mean peace...
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/02/2025
When Musk talks about destroying the “deep state,” what he really means (among other things) is that he hopes to destroy any and all mechanisms of transparency and accountability that might restrain him.
newrepublic.com
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?
The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?
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