Reposted by Atena O. DannerG @gpatrick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is too funny. You know possums are know for playing dead. With a mirror, they can even scare themselves into it. 38935144
Reposted by Atena O. DannerAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.socialdoi.orgFlock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatusDangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)... 4176156
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Thanks for sharing, Kelly! We can all try to take care of each other. 040
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Tonight (Wednesday, 7/8) at sunset, vigil and altar-build for Nolan Wells and all that we carry. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” —James Baldwin 261
Reposted by Atena O. DannerPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org. Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”truthout.orgEveryone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE JailThe uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE. 1319157
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Creative Reflections: Reading, Writing, Listening & Talking 6/12/26blog.atenadannercreative.comCreative Reflections: Reading, Writing, Listening & Talking 6/12/26Hey loves - it's been a minute! I hope you've been doing okay. Today was a 12 hours on Zoom kind of day. But the day got progressively more fulfilling, which is pretty awesome. This format gathers… 000
Reposted by Atena O. DannerShani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026hyperallergic.com/danielle-mck...hyperallergic.comDanielle Mckinney's Portraits of Black Women at RestEach figure in her paintings luxuriates in the dreaminess of space belonging to her and her alone. 13612
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It is also MATERNAL Mental Health Awareness Month. UUANI’s Exec Director Natasha Walker has been touring UU congregations across IL and on Mothers Day delivered this poignant reflection about ‘Mothering Madness’ and the crisis of unsupported parenting in the US.uuani.orgFor Mental Health Awareness Month: Mothering Madness — UUANI“We were told we could have it all. My prototype was Claire Huxtable—elegant, successful, and effortlessly managing a household of rambunctious, brilliant, and well behaved children. But the reality… 020
Reposted by Atena O. DannerAnat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"A vote for me is a vote to abolish ICE." "A vote for me is a vote to close the camps where tens of thousands of people the regime abducted are captive without trial." "A vote for me is a vote to lower your healthcare premiums." "A vote for me is a vote to stop killing school kids abroad." 324366
Reposted by Atena O. DannerAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/05/2026More of this, please. Thinking also remains sine qua non of good {sociologizing, coding, software engineering, ...} 313040
Reposted by Atena O. DannerGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/05/2026My friend Sama'a is trying to find food and milk for her young children, and every day it is both scarcer and more expensive. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/1575...chuffed.orgHelp Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their dLying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning. 473116
Reposted by Atena O. DannerHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/05/2026This year, we‘re celebrating 25 years of publishing books for changing the world! 🌻 We’re so grateful to @ollycostello.bsky.social for this beautiful new illustration. Another world is possible if we fight for it. 214452
Reposted by Atena O. DannerDaniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026All that caterwauling over students peacefully setting up tents on lawns meanwhile it's the admin actually committing the violence. 16826
Reposted by Atena O. DannerClaudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026@gulabjammin.bsky.social 💕 075
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2026“Lucy Parsons will have her revenge on Chicago” My 2nd favorite sign! 010
Reposted by Atena O. DannerAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Stranded delivery robot along the May Day march in Chicago. 614128
Reposted by Atena O. DannerIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 15/04/2026“That’s because we fucking joined this union. This never would have happened had we not banded together for a whole year.” @thomasbirm.bsky.social reports how tenants won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord. inthesetimes.com/article/kent... 12411
Reposted by Atena O. DannerTruthout @truthout.org · 15/04/2026In Gaza, the effects of war do not end when the bombing stops. A silent health crisis is emerging among pregnant women and their children. Since the start of Israel’s assault, maternity wards have reported alarming increases in miscarriages, premature births, and rare congenital disabilities.truthout.orgWar Pollutants May Be Poisoning a Generation of Mothers and Their Babies in GazaThe impact of war goes beyond immediate destruction, quietly shaping the health of future generations. 23839
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Senators will vote on two historic resolutions to block US bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Use this tool to call your Senators and urge them to block the $660 million weapons shipment. Make a call here: www.imeupolicyproject.org/stop-deliver...imeupolicyproject.orgTAKE ACTION: Call Your Senators to Stop Arming Israel — IMEU Policy ProjectSenators will vote on two historic resolutions to block US bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Call them now and urge them to vote YES. 000
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I feel like now would be a GREAT time to collectively admit that talented men’s careers are not worth more than the lives/souls of the women who actually make their work possible. “But his work…!” Is a self-fulfilling prophesy that we ourselves breathe life into. We can change that story. 030
Atena O. Danner @atenaoyadi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I wonder - is @united.com making their Asheville agents run between check-in and the gates so they can work both desks. I hope not, but I’ve never had to wait for 30 mins because no one was there. Is United Airlines struggling? Not mad at the agents; this is SYSTEMIC. Everywhere is understaffed. 011
Reposted by Atena O. DannerDeesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024“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.” Your quarterly reminder that James Baldwin did not say this…snopes.comJames Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?James Baldwin has a few talented intellectual heirs. 25319
Reposted by Atena O. DannerTruthout @truthout.org · 19/03/2026Libraries are spaces where people can gather without spending money, learn together, and build the kind of shared intellectual life that authoritarianism seeks to destroy.truthout.orgWhy Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba. 17238
Reposted by Atena O. DannerKrystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 03/01/2026If able, please consider supporting Rochelle, a beloved local Black nonbinary disabled friend, artist, and dedicated community member, who is desperately trying to move forward after the end of an abusive relationship, with limited family support, health challenges, debt, etc! 🙏🏾 gofund.me/71a5933e2gofund.meDonate to Invisibly Disabled Black Non-Binary Artist Needing Support, organized by Rochelle RichardsonI am an Invisibly Disabled, Neurodivergent, Non-Binary Black … Rochelle Richardson needs your support for Invisibly Disabled Black Non-Binary Artist Needing Support 01930
Reposted by Atena O. Dannerandré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Props to @rosasparks.bsky.social for this nuanced, gracious treatment of Sinners & the Black Midwest in @reactorsff.bsky.social Freedom to move throughout the cosmos reactormag.com/beyond-afrof...reactormag.comBeyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor"Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills 25731
Reposted by Atena O. Danner🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026. Immigrants kidnapped and hit with decades worth of legal fees ( the majority of immigrants deported being Indigenous and Black immigrants over represented) And it being mostly underreported outside of local The function of a system is what it does 02315
Reposted by Atena O. DannerNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/03/2026100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like. 2852121803
Reposted by Atena O. DannerBoston Bugsy @bostonbugsy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026"Activists" do you mean concerned neighbors? "Violent clashes" do you mean attacks by police, who came armed and ready to commit violence against unarmed citizens? 0142
Reposted by Atena O. DannerCal @skyquake.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Hundreds of neighbors putting their bodies in the way of state violence, you mean. 0644
Reposted by Atena O. DannerBen @ben-223.bsky.social · 12/03/2026"Activists who tried to impede" or just people trying to help one another and their community from violent people with "badges" and facemasks that like to kill people... Fixed it 0783
Reposted by Atena O. DannerNothing @nothingofvalue.bsky.social · 12/03/2026“Federal and local law enforcement use state sanctioned violence against public trying to protect their community.” 112111
Reposted by Atena O. DannerI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026They’re concerned about their career consequences for coming out against the rampant misogyny aimed towards them now, after directly working to have thousands of women pushed from the workforce. Those women already affected, their targets, are never in the frame of these discussions. 213333
Reposted by Atena O. DannerMaryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth 131286519
Reposted by Atena O. DannerMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.pbs.orgIn first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocraticWhile other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema... 12832501437
Reposted by Atena O. DannerGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/03/2026no nazi shit No Nazi Shit NO NAZI SHIT NO FUCKING NAZI SHIT 91528284
Reposted by Atena O. DannerSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...baltimorebeat.comYoung Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the cityCHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School) CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work... 10870219
Reposted by Atena O. DannerHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/02/2026Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma... 2237106
Reposted by Atena O. DannerNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations. 10154871222
Reposted by Atena O. DannerShannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026There are reports of at least two measles cases at the DIlley Detention Center, an ICE facility that holds children and parents. This thread is to provide some important context. First, how many people are in there right now… 210241
Reposted by Atena O. DannerJane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.) Today, we’re launching something special we’ve been working on, & we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing: our official logo! #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social 5217138
Reposted by Atena O. DannerWorkshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025chuffed.org/project/1491...chuffed.orgRETURN HOME x The Sameer Project"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season... 12525
Reposted by Atena O. DannerKrystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21/12/2025"The best way to do collaborative...collective care is to ask, How are we backing each other up? How are we encouraging each other to take the breaks we need...? How do we make sure the goals of our work are covered so that nobody has to burn themselves out because they’re politically committed?" 🫂 174