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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@instats.bsky.social I’m a doc student at UT San Antonio (we are members of CARMA, not InStats) and would like to purchase a subscription but cannot afford the annual subscription fee all at once. Can I pay monthly?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that “Democrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

These are the things we need to be remembering and celebrating during Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Tylenol causes autism? FCC threatens media firms & violates the 1st Amendment? Drug smugglers merit being fired on as an act of war? Deploy the military to quell nonexistent domestic crime?

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Block & build. I love that these trainings are as much about building and strengthening community as about blocking authoritarians. We can only build a better democracy together.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant

Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Legit question for folks who may have insight (i.e., not bait for anti-MAGA likes). I served as civilian support of US military for 5 yrs & most folks I met/worked with would be appalled by Trump's use of military as a prop. What is going on inside the Pentagon??? Where is the pushback?

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It was absolutely part of @npr.org “we have to save our funding even if we completely lose our soul in the process” efforts. I listened to those two idiots and couldn’t believe there was hardly any pushback in their disinformation. Then platforming Bannon & Rufo too? Wtf. NPR doesn’t need my $$$.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Despite Trump's EO opposing "anti-Christian bias", Cap Police arrested Poor People's Campaign chair, Rev. William Barber. @antheabutler.bsky.social noted “Seems like this administration only wants Christians who are supporters of Trump to have access to pray in the Capitol and express their faith.”

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Rev. William Barber Arrested in Capitol Rotunda After Praying Against Republican-Led Budget

Prominent pastor and anti-poverty activist the Rev. William Barber and two others were arrested while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Monday (April 28), an action he said would be part of a rec...

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

In the wake of Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump regime, AAC&U issued a statement from 180 higher ed leaders across the US. 20 minutes later www.aacu.org is down. Coincidence?

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2025

Federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. ➡️ Reach out here: propublica.org/tips

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How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

And another instance: US citizen arrested and held without charges for 10 days for "walking while brown," with CBP claiming they picked him up in Mexico, when in fact he was visiting Tucson AZ with his family from Albuquerque NM. Reporting by Arizona Public Media @azpm.bsky.social

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U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We have to be prepared to strike, which means learning from and listening to the people who have been doing the work. Join us for our first mutual aid info sessions, starting tomorrow at 4pm ET. Check out our first couple of guests: @remorahousedc.bsky.social & @foundseed.bsky.social!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

More evidence that US citizens are not safe in this assault on democracy. Two American citizens detained while driving home. Of note: "CBP insists that the incident was routine...that can 'apply for any traveler'.” Expect to see "detentions" of US citizens become routine under this corrupt regime.

truthout.org

New England Couple Detained “for Several Hours” at Canada-US Border Despite Being Citizens

Border Patrol agents kept the couple in separate cells, and demanded to go through the husband’s emails.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was just the test case - how much can they get away with? Now ICE, at the behest of the entire apparatus hijacking our democracy, is illegally holding a US-born citizen for "driving while brown." Don't think it wouldn't happen to you. Reporting by @suzgamboa.bsky.social

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U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

He hates the military. We are just props.

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pyro @pyrolytic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As your neighbours start to feel the impact of this the correct move is not to be a smug asshole. The correct move is to show compassion and help them like you would others and also educate them about why progressive policy is better. Also, fuck both parties.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/02/2025

Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.

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Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data

Elon Musk’s DOGE henchmen are helping him make his most terrifying power grab yet.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So the man who can’t pay his own contractors is in control of the US Treasury’s payment system? Grift upon grift upon grift.

Headline from the San Antonio Express-News noting that 29 contractors for SpaceX claim they have not been paid $5.5 million for at least two months. Article by Brandon Lingle, dated February 3,2025.

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Emily Thorson @emilythorson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The sparse news coverage that exists of the Billionaire's Coup is, frankly, incomprehensible to a lay audience. "Treasury payment system" is meaningless jargon to most people. Tell people in plain language "Here is what Trump and Musk are doing, and here is how it affects Americans."

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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Framing matters. Position issues/events in terms of who caused them. But also stop using the terminology of oligarchs and colonizers DEI rollback --> Segregation Pro-life --> Anti-abortion Illegals --> Assylum seekers, refugees, immigrants Stop using market terms to describe government services

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Everyone interested in small business, entrepreneurship, policy (and sane takes on all the above) please follow Rep. Markey & the Senate Small Biz/Ent cmte.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Heartfelt piece on complexities of Latinidad. I worked for the Hispanic political mktg pioneer whose genius was in having us- Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, all of us- be seen as one people. 40 yrs later we’re undone by a charlatan who exploited us as individuals. @jeanguerre.bsky.social

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Opinion | Trumpism Took My Father From Me. I Think I Can Get Him Back.

Politicians and pundits have turned the word “Latino” into a blunt object.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is an excellent and important thread 🧵 So many who are feeling surprise/shocked into paralysis this week are used to being comfortable bystanders, not organizers. But what we need now is connection, organization, & ACTION. Here are some concrete suggestions that anyone can put into action.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What shall we make of this MLK day?

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Congressional GOP and the Supreme Court have truly created a monster: Trump knows he faces zero accountability from impeachment or prosecution, and now doesn’t even have to face voters again. It’s going to be kleptocracy on an unprecedented scale.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m a proud member of the PhD Project, which recruits underrepresented minorities into PhD programs to become faculty & I wouldn’t have chosen this path if not for PhD Project’s training, mentoring & support network. 8 universities have now pulled out. 1/

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Texas A&M won’t attend conference after Rufo, Abbott posts

The national conservative activist wrote on social media that a student recruiting conference violates the state’s DEI ban because it excludes whites and Asians. Governor Abbott then threatened to fir...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

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Police use facial recognition as it was never intended: As a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without further evidence
Confident in unproven facial recognition technology, sometimes investigators skip steps, and at least eight Americans have been wrongfully arrested, a Washington Post investigation found.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My husband just got a new prescription to manage his blood pressure; Walgreens quoted $500/mo - unless he gets prior authorization, after which it will be $3/mo. 1) he’s a 100% disabled vet, 2) gets all his healthcare from the VA, 3) a VA doc prescribed the rx. What is going on? It’s not only UH.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

On the importance of practice in management academia, and the importance of theory that draws from practice. You might enjoy this quote, @nicholaspoggioli.com. I wish this wasn’t still an issue in our field.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I am all in favor of #UBI and think it is a needed support in a radically transforming economy, but don’t see how a government captured by tech and corporate interests will ever enact such a tax to fund UBI. What kind of #lobbying is currently being done to advocate for such taxes? Anyone?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So thrilled to find @tracesoftexas.bsky.social on bsky! No more facebook needed for ToT’s great images of TX history. Side note: super grateful ToT introduced me to Russell Lee, Depression-era photographer @Farm Svc Bureau, whose work illustrates my dissertation on SATX entrepreneurial history❤️

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

How can it possibly be time to go back to work? It’s a winter wonderland out there in my backyard! ❄️☃️

Photo displays a steeply sloped backyard covered with snow, trees flocked with snow in the background, and a green house with a snow covered roof on the left.

Photo displays a panoramic scene of historic red brick buildings in Old Colorado City in Colorado Springs, topped with snow and set against bare trees and snow-covered foothills rising up behind them. Behind the foothills is a higher ridge of snow-streaked mountains shrouded in blue-gray clouds.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hope for the first, expect the second. convo courtesy of @robpilk.com and @pumpkinpal.bsky.social

Screen shot of two posts in a bsky thread, commenting on the current political situation in the United States.

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no electorate has ever been about to Find Out quite as hard as ours is right now

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I have every expectation it will find creative ways to learn the wrong lessons and blame the wrong people

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JD Shadel @jdshadel.com · 06/01/2025

Fellow journos covering "AI": Please don't do their PR for them! "Virtual employees" is a harmful anthropomorphism in that it (a) is false; (b) confuses readers about the emerging technology and inaccurately lends human attributes like agency, accountability, etc.; and (c) harms humans in real jobs.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hmmm. I think he may misunderstand where the real threat is coming from. Can I interest anyone in a copy of this resistance manual that was oh-so-handy in fighting authoritarianism in WWII? Has anyone updated it for the 21st century yet? Asking for a friend. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The dogs were very good again this year. (I'm not crying... you're crying!) #tellyourdogisaidhi

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