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Introvert. Curious about many things, certain of very few. Community is resistance. No kings. They/them.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
They are putting the exhibits back up about the people George Washington enslaved at the President’s House site at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia and someone is playing “Fight the Power” and “Celebration.” It feels like such a relief to see humanity, history & sanity prevail.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 12/01/2026
Every kid deserves the chance to play sports with their friends. On or off the playing field, we all have the same right to equality and dignity. Our freedom is more than a game. Learn more about our fight for trans student athletes at aclu.org/morethanagame-bpj
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Amazing list of ideas for recognizing Indigenous Peoples Month. Louise Erdrich, Rez Dogs, Dark Winds are all favs in our house, but now we have so much more to learn from and explore!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A good call in response to just about any situation.
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Temple University Beasley School of Law @templelaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Prof. Laura Little is a First Amendment scholar and expert on humor and the law. She offers her take on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and more in this Q&A with the Philadelphia Citizen. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/jimmy-kimmel...
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Jimmy Kimmel, Free Speech and our Tenuous Times
The free speech ramifications of the cancellation of late night TV's Jimmy Kimmel, from a Temple Law professor who studies comedy and the law
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hard pass. John Fetterman won't get my dollars or my votes ever again.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@piratet.bsky.social, I might need this!
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Important work from my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague and friend Sarah Katz.
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Kyle @kyleshivers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Immigrants are just as good and hardworking as every other American and I believe we’re stronger with them than without. We need to be saying this out loud, to everyone we know, every chance we get. We cannot let the media lazily presume all Americans agree with the fascists, because we don’t.
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Attorney General Jennifer Davenport @newjerseyoag.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Statement of Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin on the Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We could have had Tim Walz, y'all.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
PA peeps check this out!
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Won" a golf tournament at his own club, attended the Super Bowl on taxpayers' dime ... the blend of banality and evil is mind-numbing.
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Michael Samonek @samonek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.
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a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/03/2025
29 republicans joining democrats in Montana to kill anti-trans legislation because of brilliant speeches by Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell is the way. Newsom brining Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on his podcast to throw trans people under the bus is not.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
For anyone still not sure what to give up for Lent...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/03/2025
1. A Federal Judge has blocked Trump's under 19 trans care ban nationwide. In the decision, he slams the Government's reliance on the Cass Review, jeopardizes youth health, and likely violates several constitutional principles. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Judge Blocks Trump Trans Ban Nationwide, Slams Reliance On Cass Review
The ruling applies nationwide, and should allow hospitals that temporarily paused care to resume.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Resist, resist, resist! We have the right to piss!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/02/2025
SCOOP: In an email circulated today by the federal Department of the Interior, the Trump administration has issued a stop-work order for organizations providing legal services, funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, to unaccompanied minors entering the United States.
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Trump administration cuts off legal aid for youth facing deportation
The order will end legal support for at least 100,000 unaccompanied minors.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Reposting for alt text and account In case you’re unaware the American Medical Associations has a YouTube page, they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other out breaks since the CDC can not youtube.com/@americanmed...
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American Medical Association (AMA)
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...
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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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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/02/2025
Breaking news: Lambda Legal and ACLU are suing on behalf of PFLAG and GLMA to end Trump's illegal executive order banning trans care under 19 years old. The suit has been brought in Maryland. A similar suit was brought on behalf of PFLAG to end child abuse investigations in TX 3 years ago.
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Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care
President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I've been sitting with this post all day - lots of good, practical tips. I'm focused on building a "sustenance library" of books to read and share, swimming as a moving meditation, and seizing joy at every opportunity. You?
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/01/2025
For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about Trump's executive order attempting to push trans people back in the closet. In short: I am not afraid and I am not going back. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | It's impossible not to take Trump's 'defending women' order personally
The order is the most widespread government intrusion into the private lives of trans people since gay sex was legalized in 2003.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

ICIRR
ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
What to do if ICE tries to pick you up or knocks on your door
If ICE is at your door Do NOT open the door. Do not engage with agents. Call your emergency contact and record and take pictures.
3 Remain Silent
1. You have the right to remain silent except for your name and DOB.
2. Remain calm and show you "Know Your Rights" card
5 If Detained...
Don't sign any documents without legal counsel. You have the right to make a call. Memorize important phone numbers!
2 If you encounter ICE agents
Demand to see a warrant. If ICE agents force their way into your home take down their names, agent numbers and license plate numbers of their vehicles.
DO not sign
Do NOT sign any documents until you talk with a lawyer.
Prepare an Emergency Plan
Carefully choose responsible adults to take care of your children and help during an emergency. Keep important documents safe and secure.
Call the Family Support Hotline! Toll-free hotline offers help to Illinois families facing deportation.
1-855-435-7693
www.icirr.org/fsn
The hotline is staffed in English, Spanish, Polish, Arabic and Korean.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
NIJC: Legal deportation assistance - immigrantjustice.org PASO: Legal deportation assistance - pasoaction.org
OCAD: Deportation crisis resource - organizedcommunites.org
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Hey, y'all, my first troll! I feel like one of the cool kids at last.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak. The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership. We can do this. More:
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On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
What could go wrong?
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
For when your polycule organizes as an HOA.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I believe this storm is illegal to be viewed online in several of these states.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Thank you for your service, Mr. President. May our nation be worthy.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Concur. See also: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
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NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This is the holiday content I'm here for.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Solstice!
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CHRIS. @beardedchris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Real #PersonoftheYear
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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Don't be a scab.
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galaxylover.bsky.social @galaxylover.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
@humblyjay.bsky.social Be Kind ☺️
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Today on Substack I’m sharing 10 incredible businesses owned by Black women. More than the Amazons of the world, these businesses need our support. If you’re shopping today and this weekend, keep these businesses in mind for everything from snacks and jewelry to perfume to candles.
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Things that are 🔥🔥🔥: Black Friday edition
A list of incredible businesses owned by women of color for us to support
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My phone keeps replacing "wintry" with "winery" and I truly admire its optimism.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
It's like the biggest round of Darwin Awards ever.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Hit two of the four today, and the other two are on the list for this weekend. Grateful to live in a place where I can do all four over the course of an easy stroll!
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A must-read this morning from M. Gessen. Gift link.
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Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic
Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.
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Books11 @books11.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Highly recommend reading, following, and subscribing. Some deep wisdom here.
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