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Keia Lee

@chicanarising.bsky.social
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yerbera, historian, word weaver, auntie +<•the border crossed us•>+ 🌿 biz: botanica quetzalli ✍🏽 chicana rising substack 🌀 patiloni collective

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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/08/2025
AG Bondi says a DOJ employee has been fired after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a wrapped Subway sandwich at a federal law enforcement officer in Washington, D.C. Following his arrest, the man allegedly told one of the arresting officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” wapo.st/3Uq59TN
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025
Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to our democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
uniteagainstbookbans.org
Join the movement.
We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/08/2025
CW: Sexual assault In multiple states, men have impersonated ICE agents to kidnap and assault women. This is one of many reasons we shouldn't have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Our elected officials can and must act now: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
lemon verbena in all her glory #queen #lemonverbena #herbsky #plantitabrujita #kitchenwitch #plantsky
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/08/2025
Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
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Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We hear a lot about immigration-heavy industries like agriculture & construction. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social writes about caregiving, one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation, where immigrants are at least 1/3 of the workforce & mass deportation might lead to a crisis of accessing care.
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Mass Deportations Are Worsening the Caregiving Crisis
The loss of staff in the direct care industry threatens the lives of the elderly and people with disabilities.
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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
From Cronicas Mexicanas: Maiz (corn, zea mays), Beans (phaseolus), Tomatos (solanum), Avocados (persea), Vanilla (vanilla), Chiles (capsicum), Squash (pepo), and Chocolate (theobroma).
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The Torontonian🍁🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇱 🇮🇱 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🏒⚽️ @thetorontonian.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
#CanadianNews - Manitoba premier is scorching US politicians 'attention-seekers' throwing a 'timber tantrum' over wildfire smoke, while their country is Second Highest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Polluter contributor to climate change! - via The Torontonian 🇨🇦🍁 #ClimateChange www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Axios @axios.com · 08/08/2025
JUST IN: Israel's Cabinet approves new plan to occupy Gaza City
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Israel's Cabinet approves new plan to occupy Gaza City
It's the first phase in an offensive that could include the occupation of the entire Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Xóchitl was detained by border patrol at the airport despite presenting a valid work authorization. She is a longtime organizer and needs help. There’s more info about what happened on this gofundme for her legal support. Please help out if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...
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Donate to Free Xóchitl: Support DACA recipient detained by ICE, organized by Lagartija del sol
Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a beloved community member, DACA r… Lagartija del sol needs your support for Free Xóchitl: Support DACA recipient detained by ICE
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Yes absolutely, this is what we discussed. How it is part of the mythos of the US and how it’s woven into society and also holds up the tenets of WS etc etc, you know :)
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Absolutely! I was chatting with some Indigenous youth about this recently. They were sharing about various hardships being experienced. I explained part of the void they were feeling was the loss of community replaced by rugged individualism. Things clicked in a big way for them after that.
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Daily bunny and the Kokitl 💛
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
😂😂😂 omg I had a dream a couple nights ago of Lion getting centipedes lol
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Whew been telling people this shit for the last several years .. the hyper individualism is the silent killer
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/08/2025
Trump's masked agents aren't keeping us safe-they're just terrorizing immigrant communities.

PROPORTION OF IMMIGRANTS TAKEN BY ICE, BY CRIMINAL RECORD

7% violent convictions
28% no violent convictions
65% no convictions

ICE isn't going after criminals. It's breaking up families.
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
My Boys 🦁🐺 One had a long morning walk in the bosque, the other a busy day of catching flies #petsofbluesky #catsofbluesky #dogsofbluesky
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
On @marketplace.org's Make Me Smart, ALA President @samhelmick.bsky.social explains how attacks on federal funding, book bans, and the shift to digital are threatening the future of public libraries and why it matters to every community. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #UniteAgainstBookBans
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Public libraries on the line
Funding cuts aren’t the only thing libraries are up against.
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Chicano Arts & Media Institute (ChAMI) @chicanoartsmedia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy Chicano Heritage Month! | August holds a very special significance for Chicanos that has nothing to do with the synthetic and Eurocentric “hi-spanic” & “latin” labels. We kick things off with this wonderful piece – “Spiritual Warrior” by New Mexico artist, Pola Lopez. #Chicana #Chicanx #Arts
Happy Chicano Heritage Month, August 2025. Art: Pola Lopez, Spiritual Warrior, acrylic on canvas, 30” x 48”, 2011.
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Sunny’s & Corn #bloomscrolling #garden #gardensofbluesky #maize #glasscorn
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Why it matters: America's most elite institutions have largely succumbed to the Trump administration's cultural crackdown, opting to pay up — often to the tune of tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — rather than fight back. Data from @axios.com
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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Wow so sad to see that Canada's Bill C5 passed and that Carney could harm Indigenous peoples this way. Also sad to see how some Natives can't see the threat and others have seen it too late. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/maj...
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Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why it alarms its critics
OTTAWA - Parliament has passed controversial major projects legislation that Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada needs to shore up its economy in the face of a trade war with
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/07/2025
As ICE raids escalate and Trump doubles down on authoritarian tactics, this is the critical moment to build the opposition we need to fight back. We want to train you (and a million Americans) on the tools to lead a local resistance movement against Trump’s regime: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Politico @politico.com · 26/07/2025
"As ICE transforms into a massive, un-uniformed, masked domestic army ... there’s reason to believe it could backfire," writes @joshuamzeitz in his analysis. Explore the historical backlash to militarized forces in civilian life and what it could mean for 2025 👇
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ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.
Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with their aims.
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Chicano Arts & Media Institute (ChAMI) @chicanoartsmedia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Escuchen raza - The root of our problems is settler-colonialism & white supremacy. Gerald Horne's book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century (2020), is a great read on the matter. #Chicano #Resistance
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. 
https://monthlyreview.org/product/the-dawning-of-the-apocalypse/
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Mahalo nui loa, thank you very much, to @tomkualiiphotography for letting us repost this breathtaking shot of white-tailed tropicbirds, koaʻe kea, soaring against lava fountains of the 28th eruption of #KīlaueaVolcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP. Peleʻs Koaʻe kea canvas. #TomKualiiPhotography #HVNP
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 18/07/2025
In a new column for Source's commentary section, immigration lawyer Allegra Love says she'll be watching local officials to hear their plans for protecting communities from ICE.
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ICE is the real danger to community — not immigrants • Source New Mexico
New Mexico-based immigration lawyer Allegra Love says local officials need to come up with ways to protect communities from ICE.
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Anything for Selenas 💜✨🌕
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Find me on Substack 💛💚✨🌿🤲🏽 In my latest writing I share some poetry, give updates on the botánica, La Raza Unida events, suggested reading and a glimpse into my life since moving. #substack #chicanarising #genteofbluesky #writing #writers #rebirth #healing
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Death, Rebirth & Revolution
Yes, I Am Still Here ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
⚡️JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social barred from a Secretary Noem event at NASHVILLE AIRPORT, in his own district🤔 He says he wanted to ask where hundreds grabbed by ICE in the Nashville raids are, has never been kept from an airport event. FULL Hill stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0cw...
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The cutest! And right? Haha
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Someone thinks they are very sneaky #catsofbluesky #catsky #catlife
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 17/07/2025
Long-time climate journalist Laura Paskus writes for Source's commentary section about the drying Rio Grande and what we might owe New Mexico's rivers and non-human inhabitants.
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New Mexico’s rivers need their waters • Source New Mexico
Longtime climate journalist Laura Paskus defends New Mexico's rivers and the non-human world around them as the Middle Rio Grande dries.
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Love mi hermana JD! 💛✊🏽🌿✨
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How I'm Staying Safe - tech, privacy, communication, mutual aid, plan b, & prepping.
A Resource Guide: part one
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A lil garden love! Teaching these kiddos how to grow their own food ✊🏽🌿✨ #gardensofbluesky #sunflower #plantsofbluesky #caterpillar #corn #maiz #newmexico
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Dang! Sad I missed this 😭
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Keia Lee @chicanarising.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Hell yes 🙌🏽 ✊🏽❤️‍🔥
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