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Caroline Sharkey

@caroline-sharkey.bsky.social
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PhD, LICSW - Social work professor & researcher in urban collective efficacy w/young people using #YPAR #digitalstorytelling #sociallyengagedart to amplify young voices, change systems & mitigate trauma. Dismantling curriculum violence. Opinions my own.

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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
You can’t make this shit up. Naming a building after yourself in the name of peace you have never embodied, forged, or effectively impacted in a program you unlawfully defunded and dismantled (and are currently pending Congressional legal actions after being sued for unconstitutionality) is bonkers.
washingtonpost.com
White House renames building the ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’
The change comes as Trump’s administration has touted his peace deals and ahead of a signing of a deal between the leaders from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo this week.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The autocrat is a piece of shit. We know this, he proves it every day, and here just another example of his racist, xenophobic vitriol while his minions bang desks and laugh in encouragement.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the U.S.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I’m no economist, but I am a researcher and methinks DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce is hardly a place to rely on economic data… We are soooooooooo fucked
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I don’t think it is a question at this point. Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Yeah, we were kind of just hoping people could still have Medicaid…
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m in a red state at a teaching social action institute and I have to say, the faculty around me are having some very familiar conversations that I had when living in GA. I can’t express enough how grateful I am that these are not the same realities I have to face to the same extent anymore.
media.tenor.com
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Solidarity to Portland, where the autocrat’s full flex is an attempt to stifle democracy
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Reading the new this week has really made me want to get bone-crushingly wrecked on Tylenol. Cuz I read on Reddit that it crushes bones so it must be true, it’s like, research.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
There were 2 mass shootings at unhoused encampments in Minnesota on homelessness activist Hamoudi Sabri’s property. This happened not long after Fox News host Brian Kilmeade recently encouraged of “involuntary lethal injection” for homeless individuals around the country, stating: “Just kill ‘em.”
theguardian.com
Minneapolis police say more than a dozen hurt in homeless encampment shootings
Police chief says ‘here we are again in the aftermath of a mass shooting’ after incidents in two separate locations
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Autocratic Playbook lesson 2.1: control the media by eliminating free speech - Ppretend the Constitution is about protecting your power and not the people’s. President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses When Hosts Criticize Him
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
While a lot of people are having long discourses about condemning violence despite whether they agree with a person, I just want to remind us to condemn genocide. Perhaps we can all agree on that.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
As a researcher who centers gun violence in their work, I’m never surprised when the public conversation about violence involves humanizing its impact seems to only happen when a conservative figure is the victim. When it’s kids, Black, immigrant, or trans* folx the narrative is somewhat different.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Autocrats use propagandized pop culture to sell their monstrous acts of abuse. But it doesn't help if you missed the point of the movie used as a power pump & point to the fact that this is about the horrors of American imperialism & the unraveling of morality. The Autocrat is a moron and a monster.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/08/2025
Trump's speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse. Thousands of federal staffers working on mental health-related issues have been purged by Trump’s government.
motherjones.com
Trump's mental health plan: Defund, incarcerate, disappear
His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Gaza is officially under famine and Israel denies it. Autocracy involves blatant lies to normalize oppressive political maneuvers. It’s in the Autocratic Guidebook 101. History is clocking this genocide and the monstrous forces that perpetuated it.
nytimes.com
Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
What in the white nationalism is this shit?!?! The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...
nytimes.com
The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The genocide of Palestinians is fully embraced by US autocracy. This administration is full of monsters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign
Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
More terrorizing of people by federal officials, willing to lie to cover their asses despite video evidence showing the opposite of what they claim. Gestapo tactics are the new norm.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/08/2025
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
pbump.net
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The facist grip gets a little more traction. Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
So this guy gets a felony charge and may see timenin prison but J6 insurrectionists walk free. SMDH. And for the love all things proper, it’s a Subway sandwich…not a hoagie. Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
In case you questioned the active facial in our government, here’s one of many reminders today
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
What dystopian nightmare are we living???? As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...
nytimes.com
As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Dershowitz is a prick and a bully. Assuming thst a vendor is targeting his identity as justificatiom for their refusal to serve him rather than what they have stated, clearly, is a discomfort serving the attorney of a convicted rapist and sex trafficker and an felon oligarch. GTFOH!!
independent.co.uk
Dershowitz again denied pierogi as Martha’s Vineyard residents chant ‘time to go’
‘I am very surprised that you’re here because of the things that you’ve been saying about us and the business online,’ the pierogi vendor told Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The autocracy’s ravaging of higher education, including policies, admissions, & funding, is having huge impacts on community colleges. Programs are being shuttered & assistance is waning. As a proud graduate of community college, I am proof that these schools provide amazing opportunities. Wake up!
nytimes.com
How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Gov. Kemp reversed gun control laws & has long been criticized for Georgia’s dismal mental health services. So when I read this statement, I personally want to punch him in the face “Twice this week, deranged criminals have targeted innocent Georgians,” Mr. Kemp, a Republican, said in the statement
nytimes.com
Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
So basically they are going to look up how many black people were admitted in a given university and decide whether it’s too many. We all know they aren’t going to look at thousands of schools, so this is really about the Ivies…again.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In the past week my student loan payment doubled & the plan that gave me only 5 more years before forgiveness was ended. I took out student loans to become a social worker in community mental health & crisis services. I research & treat people impacted by mass shootings, genocide, & trauma. (1/3)
ice.gov
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Palki Sharma Upadhyay is fierce and one of the brightest voices in journalism. I love listening to her delivering the truth youtu.be/gO_OE5G-R_E?...
youtu.be
Why Trump Should Never Win the Nobel Peace Prize | Vantage With Palki Sharma
YouTube video by Firstpost
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just in case you were uncertain that this is an oligarch building an autocracy. wapo.st/4fhuFEl
wapo.st
Trump plans $200M overhaul of East Wing in significant change to White House
The project to construct a massive ballroom fulfills a wish for Trump, who has long disliked the tent pitched on the lawn to accommodate large-scale events.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 29/07/2025
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
newyorker.com
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Last time I checked the federal administration’s agenda - being anti DEI, Black, POC, LGBTQAI2+, woman, immigrant, and social justice - is not a set of statewide standards to be applied automatically to state unis. Despite conditional funding and other messy dynamics, we still have academic freedom.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
All’a yiz, this is Poseidon telling us to stay out! How people get on a cruise ship has always baffled me and now I’m convinced never to get on one!! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8kRkjEA/
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VIDEO SHOWS CHAOS ABOARD ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE CAUGHT IN STORM#news #breakingnews #foryou #fyp #tiktoknews
TikTok video by news
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
May I live my life such that when I day, people don’t laugh or celebrate.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just in case we forgot this country loves getting in the way of any reasonable gun policy to protect lives. Appeals Court Blocks California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Buyers www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
nytimes.com
Appeals Court Blocks California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Buyers
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
For someone who is really tremendous at being a totally misogynistic and racist fuck up, the oligarch is particularly grumpy about being caught being a misogynistic fuck up. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
politico.com
‘POTUS is clearly furious’: White House is frustrated by all-consuming Epstein coverage
Officials and allies close to the White House detail the mood inside an administration haunted by a notorious sex offender who died by suicide nearly six years ago.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/07/2025
The Justice Department has cut $820 million in grants to small organizations around the country that work on promoting public safety. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
brennancenter.org
Trump Defunds Effective Crime-Prevention Policies
Misguided budget cuts could reverse encouraging crime trends.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I decided when I was young that if I didn’t marry Prince or Cyndi Lauper, I would marry Malcolm Jamal Warner. He was a treasure. Despite the horrors of the show’s namesake that we learned about years later, we grew up with these Theo and his siblings and wished they were our own. RIP.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
For anyone not yet following @rachelwells1.bsky.social this is what tremendous reporting looks like.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
As my father always said about the oligarch, grifters gonna grift
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Please donate anything you can to support the family of Vance Mims III, a young person shot while walking with his cousin and friends after the July 4th fireworks show in Albany, NY. gofund.me/d89f1bdc
gofund.me
Donate to Support Vance's Fight for Recovery, organized by Sarah Wilson
On July 4, our beloved nephew, cousin, son, and friend, Vance , was tragically injure… Sarah Wilson needs your support for Support Vance's Fight for Recovery
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My heart and head hurt from the sheer volume of horrible things I juggled today. Knowing that a young person died tonight for nothing more than walking in a crowd, wrong place/wrong time, because we can’t get over our social preference for guns over people stings a little more than usual.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I am sickened. This country is broken. Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The oligarch is working hard to be a true autocrat. Another example, he’s threatening to strip US born citizens he doesn’t like because they tell the truth. Autocrats hate the truth.
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Caroline Sharkey @caroline-sharkey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
In a performative attempt to flex autocratic power Kristi Noem took a break from SWAT gear fashion shows to insist that she personally has to review all expenditures over $100k for FEMA. The result was a nonrenewal of the understaffed call center’s contract and thousands of of ignored calls for help
nytimes.com
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
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