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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

During the AIDS epidemic, gay rights activists in San Francisco transformed an SRO into a center for holistic care & community. The residential hotel, which accepted people no matter their ability to pay or their degree of sickness, became a refuge for queer kinship. The latest, from Stathis Yeros:

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Life and Death at San Francisco's Ambassador Hotel

During the AIDS epidemic, San Francisco activists transformed a downtown residential hotel into a center for medical care, community life, and queer kinship.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.

The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

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Dani Dupree Stan Account @bohobabe449.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's about damn time. Keep up the pressure on their asses and don't let up.

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Postcards for America @postcards4usa.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Meanwhile, somewhere in New Jersey… I love the Visibility Brigade. Musk raided the Treasury Musk stole your tax data Musk has your SS# Stop Musk Coup

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Murkowski says call volume to the Senate is now 40x higher than normal:

A facebook post from Lisa Murkowski: I want to thank Alaskans who have been reaching out to my offices in D.C. and across Alaska. The U.S. Senate phone system has been receiving around 1,600 calls each minute, compared to the 40 calls per minute we usually receive, which has disrupted our call systems. Thank you for your patience as my staff works to review your messages and share them with me. We’re all working to get this issue resolved as quickly as possible.

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/02/2025

Hospitals that are cutting off care to trans people under nineteen are the very definition of "complying in advance"—some, as I report in this story, even claiming, incorrectly, that Trump has "prohibited" gender-affirming care. He has not. They are caving. More here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

But the order is only that—a promise, not a law. “President Trump’s Executive Order has not made it illegal to prescribe puberty-blockers or hormones to transgender people under the age of nineteen,” Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project, said via email Monday. “What the executive order is attempting to do is coerce institutions and providers to stop providing the treatment they believe is medically necessary for their patients by threatening all federal funding to an institution that treats transgender patients under nineteen with gender affirming medical care.”

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Diana Teeter @dianateeterart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

There’s a strong crowd here, I’d say 1-2,000 people. Cynthia Nixon, whose son is trans, just spoke. Event is protesting NYU Langone cancelling appointments for trans patients, following Trump White House order. hellgatenyc.com/nyu-langone-...

Picture of protest crowd, trans pride flags

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.

Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress.

This needs to stop NOW!

Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen?

Elon Musk Reply: Yes!

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Ariel Aberg-Riger @arielabergriger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

When brilliant educators get inspired by America Redux and collage the book into their notes the way I collaged the archives into the book—I just love this so much!

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Ariel Aberg-Riger @arielabergriger.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hiiiiiii. Brand new here and still getting set up, but wanted to say that if you're in Boston at #ncte24 this weekend there is a RAD America Redux poster at the @harpercollins.bsky.social booth. Go get it! So bummed I can't be there with you all 😭

Image of an open book surrounded by collaged historical images that says in handwritten lettering: "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."—James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers, 1963 from the book America Redux

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