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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 · 25/08/2025

That is EXACTLY the clip that went through my mind when I read that trash comment.

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

I agree… I’m no activist but give me a toolkit and a charge to gather 5 people for conversation… heck, who can’t do that? Such a great intro to the topic & process of resistance - I’m going to assign these recordings to my students this fall.

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

Thanks for sharing the review and making me aware of your work. Super timely as I work on a dissertation that includes a focus on generational wealth accumulation by Anglo-Germans in San Antonio at the expense of tejanos and indigenos.

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

Another reason I’m so grateful to be in Colorado.

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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 · 18/05/2025

The people that make Beyonce-hating their identity are not doing so because of the music.

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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

Yes, it's not merely the individual, but the system that's propping them up. And so far, the mainstream elite are doing a great deal of propping.

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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 · 22/04/2025

Just the name “cabbage soup” is bringing back 1990s-era crash diet PTSD. Sad, because cabbage soup tastes really good.

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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

Thanks for calling attention to this. TX has long been home to one of the most inequitable school funding schemes in the nation. Abbott & cronies are finally succeeding at taking the game to the next level & won’t stop until education is only available to the wealthy & white.

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

I’m at a relatively liberal institution that tends to attract liberal students, and I’ve noticed similar trends among white male students (not so among women or students of color). What’s concerning to me is the WM students seem to believe they’re engaging in legitimate debate, not disinformation.

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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.

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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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Celeste Diaz Ferraro @celestedf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Great. Screwed when we graduated and hit the job market. 30 years of getting screwed in the labor market. Now screwed again as we just started putting our lives together and thinking about the inkling of a possibility of retiring before age 75. Who does GenX thank for all this?

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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

Why does it feel like private equity would be listed at the top of her list among sources of capital but *should* be at the bottom of the list among the parasites?

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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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