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AlexaR

@bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social
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Chicken lover, vegetarian, environmentalist, taiko player, architect, organization development professional, Unitarian Universalist, and aspiring backyard farmer. Probably neurodivergent: acquired, inherited, possibly both.

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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
We hit 3.5%, and that's great, but other key criteria are that protests have to be sustained. It's not just one Saturday afternoon to fix all this. We have to keep doing it.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
They buried the lede
Remorse was expressed more by those who did not vote (31%) and 3rd party voters (14%)
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Oh no, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in the neighborhood! He might... make pupusas? Oh, the horror! 🙄
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Add Stephen King's Running Man to this reading list. (Written under the Bachman pseudonym). And dont watch the movie version. It softens the ending.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is the race/question about everything right now.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Seeing generational criticism on substack. Not having it. I've worked w people from multiple gens & the idea that gen Z has a special deficit in critical thinking... lacks same. Also, bullying is a timeless tradition in the US. It's not new. STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 IT 👏 ABOUT 👏 A 👏 DEMOGRAPHIC 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Oh look, an actual leadership expert on how this new guy ain't. 🤔
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Quiet quitting" by DHS attorney due to hostile work environment? 🤔 (PSA "qq" in quotes because it is a disgusting anti-worker term blaming the worker for having an a-hole boss.)
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The acting FEMA head is misusing Organization Development theory to assert dominance. The conventional wisdom is that ~20% of people are early adopters, ~20% are set in their ways. The middle ~60% will go along with one or the other 20% based on the vibe of the change. The vibe here is effed.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Yay, debt bondage! We'll all get to sing 🎶I owe my soul to the company store🎶 (Sixteen Tons - look it up if you don't know.) American feudalism. Yay... <sob>
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Yes, we would. That's how it's supposed to work. People in power are always irritated at the idea that they have to follow the rules. But they do. That's a major way we prevent dictatorship. #nokings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
ICYMI: “Charles lies, people die!” @climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Accurate. ICE is shameful.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As a legal observer also trained in workplace practices for dealing with ICE, when I read the memo, I already knew all of it. Why? Because it's just a summary of existing law. There is nothing in there that isn't just the rules and procedures ICE is SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
As an American who is ethnically German, I fully support Germany's clapback.
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𝔾𝕣𝕖𝕘 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕤 @gbmusicmaster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My favorite passage from @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest essay. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
When Trump tried to bully Governor Mills over [trans athletes in sports] at a White House meeting in February, she told him, “See you in court.” Today she commented: “It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @mikethompson.house.gov @booker.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
WATCH: @abbyphillip.bsky.social patiently tries to get batya & scott jennings to understand their views about deporting people to foreign prisons without due process are un-American and anti-constitutional. (And they both know it) 🇺🇸
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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Death by a thousand cuts
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A majority of white people in America are willing to burn everything down rather than allow equal rights or a multicultural society to exist, basically most white Americans don't believe in America. (not a shock they're that way, but it's surprising how far they're willing to go w/self-immolation)
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is called human trafficking.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BuT wE nEeD hIgHeR biRtH raTeS, hErE'S $5k
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🗺️ 80% of the world’s intact forests are in debt-ridden tropical countries. Amazon: $978B debt Congo Basin: $43B SE Asia: $933B Debt relief is a climate and biodiversity solution. #DebtForNature #ClimateFinance
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Indivisible Acton Area ❌👑 @indactonma.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
🤬 The Republican House of Representatives passed legislation (HR1526) that would allow Trump to strip federal judges of the authority to issue nationwide injunctions blocking his illegal actions. 👉 Contact your Senators and tell them VOTE NO. ☎️ US Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
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PattiCakes ⚖️🔬♀️♿✊🏾🏳️‍🌈☮️🇺🇸🌎🌊 @warrior-patticakes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The governor of Oklahoma has called for the resignations of the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county after they were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters, and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope”
This is MAGA. This is who they really are when they think no one is listening.

Wake up, America!

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Oklahoma county leaders caught on audio talking about killing reporters, complaining they can no longer lynch Black people

"I am both appalled and disheartened to hear of the horrid comments made by officials in McCurtain County," Gov. Kevin Stitt said.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NEW PIECE: I've been working for a while on a piece on social security death notices and payment finality. Just as I was finalizing it, including with a new legal memo!- it was reported that DOGE declared four MILLION people dead. Read all about the issues here www.crisesnotes.com/the-crisis-a...
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The Crisis at Social Security Illustrates Elon Musk and DOGE’s Plan: Explode the Number and Severity of Improper Payments.
Subscribe Over the past month I needed a break to deal with organizational issues, including getting the Notes on the Crises Manhattan office(!) set up and needed time to continue a number of investi...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
One of the hardest things to make people realize is what didn't happen. "Implemented policies to date are likely to have reduced global emissions by several billion tons of CO2eq per year...."
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
ICE is toying with the lives of innocent students in order to make quotas on deportations. Outrageous, incompetent and cruel.
A post from Sasha Gusev (@SashaGusevPosts
) on X reads: "This has to be one of the craziest admissions from A JUDGE that I’ve ever seen in a court transcript. What the hell are we doing here?!" Below, an excerpt from a court transcript is shown, with lines 8-17 highlighted: "THE COURT: DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS KAFKAESQUE? I’VE GOT TWO EXPERIENCED IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ON BEHALF OF A CLIENT WHO IS MONTHS AWAY FROM GRADUATION, WHO HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG, WHO HAS BEEN TERMINATED FROM A SYSTEM THAT YOU ALL KEEP TELLING ME HAS NO EFFECT ON HIS IMMIGRATION STATUS, ALTHOUGH THAT CLEARLY IS BS. AND NOW, HIS TWO VERY EXPERIENCED LAWYERS CAN’T EVEN TELL HIM WHETHER OR NOT HE’S HERE LEGALLY, BECAUSE THE COURT CAN’T TELL HIM WHETHER OR NOT HE’S HERE LEGALLY, BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT’S COUNSEL CAN’T TELL HIM IF HE’S HERE LEGALLY."
A screenshot of a tweet by Dr. Émile P. Torres (@xriskology
) reads: "Four students at Case Western Reserve UNIVERSITY --- my university --- were told that their visas had been revoked and that they will need to leave the country, while the semester is still going. Now, turns out, they don’t! What a complete sh*tshow."
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I've been saying that since the Stern review on the economics of climate change - back in 2006. Scenarios that were then projected to be decades away from now are materialising now.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm an Americorps alum. This isn't right.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I wrote about China's climate policy. Did you know that China has enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world? Well, it has — because it's positioning itself as global hegemon for the climate-changed future. Trump's climate denial is only a stupid, tragic assist to that end. 🧵
A drawing of a wind turbine with a bald eagle perched on one blade and a Chinese dragon snaking up the column. Title: Trump's Climate Denial is a gift to China
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Especially appalling because he canned the black lung disease program at the CDC. gizmodo.com/coal-miners-...
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Coal Miners Sue Trump Admin After It Halts Black Lung Protections
Coal? Beautiful. Coal miner safety regulations? Not so beautiful.
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The loss of the land sink is bad and also a very important prompt to say: “nature-based solutions” for carbon removal are not available for carbon removal until we’ve restored the natural sinks. We don’t get to destroy something + then claim victory (and profit) from partially fixing it!
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The implied belief in this clip is that God made climate change and how dare humans try to change that. If you've read Dr. Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass, you know that it is just as (if not more) plausible to believe in a god that buried fossil fuels because he didn't want humans using them.
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Aashis Joshi @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
South Asia is already scorching. The world’s most populous region is extremely vulnerable to climate collapse, and unprecedented crop failures, unlivable conditions, and mass migrations are inevitable. But this reality is ignored in climate discussions here because it’s too grim.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
👇🏽🔑
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Political Styles of the Rich and Clueless
There are none so blind as those that will not see
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AlexaR @bawkbawkbagawk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It would help if we didn't do it for only 2 hours every two weeks.
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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Great insight from Sandoval-Moshenberg that Kristi Noem can apparently do photo ops at the gulag in El Salvador but not set free Abrego Garcia.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 07/04/2025
All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Reminder no. 871: Congress can stop this insanity any time it so chooses. Under the Constitution, *Congress*, not the President, has the power to tax and to impose tariffs. They gave it away. They can take it back. Call your Congress reps, especially if they are GOP. Tell them: ENOUGH!
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If they can illegally send anyone to an El Salvador prison illegally and not bring them back, they can illegally send you to an El Salvador prison and not bring you back. How can anyone defend this?
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