Reposted by Daisy Patton Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17hI LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1234581277
Reposted by Daisy Patton Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The regime doesn’t want disabled people to vote. 1 in 4 people in the US has a disability. This admin is cutting healthcare & social supports. Talking about us as “useless eaters”. Making it clear they only value the economically active. Disabled people won’t vote for eugenicist fascists:propublica.orgThis White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans VoteA new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr... 3214102
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Check this post out from @matthewcort.land, there's some options that might help! Good luck ❤️ shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/vaccin... 100
Reposted by Daisy Patton lauren benet @laurenbenet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Something I learned just this week: "only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the U.S., but the U.S. confines ONE-QUARTER of the world’s incarcerated women and girls." www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women... 111252
Reposted by Daisy Patton Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When mask bans were first being enacted, disabled people warned they marked a return to Ugly Laws. They were a crucial step towards eliminating us from public life. They were designed to make us hide away, unable to safely exist in public. Disabled people are the canaries in the coal mine. 4379105
Reposted by Daisy Patton Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026"An unstated but underlying cause of [Walker's] death was the conservative legal movement’s creation of an environment in which doctors are reluctant to provide even life-saving abortion care, lest they be prosecuted for doing so." 110140
Reposted by Daisy Patton Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you haven't yet gotten involved in your local ICE watch group, the need remains massive. Protecting immigrant communities is a long-term commitment, but as Lex notes, volunteer organizations are stretched really thin. If you're in Massachusetts, and can safely do so, please consider joining LUCE. 1155
Reposted by Daisy Patton Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/10/2026The "antisemitism isn't systemic" argument falls apart when you grasp the security costs borne by American Jews in just about every aspect of communal life. Nazis walking into synagogues with AR-15s are animated by the same Great Replacement Theory espoused by our Christian nationalist electeds. 731661
Reposted by Daisy Patton Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 293112764097
Reposted by Daisy Patton october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People w Long COVID are stigmatized & ignored throughout society. In prison, it's a situation of almost total silence. Despite very high COVID infection rates, there's no talk abt Long COVID cases. That's a result of the way prisons treat medical needs in general. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/29/i...thesicktimes.orgI interviewed five people with Long COVID in prison. They are invisible in the system. - The Sick TimesWhile there are no data sources on Long COVID in prison, experts suspect rates of the disease may be higher there than in the general population. They face high reinfection risks and poor access to me... 314769
Reposted by Daisy Patton Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The Pentagon is sending a third aircraft-carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East, according to U.S. officials, adding 9,000 to 10,000 more troops to the region" The Trump regime is surging ahead with an unnecessary, endless war in the Middle East.wsj.comU.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle EastThe deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms. 1238
Reposted by Daisy Patton Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For nearly two months, Palestinians in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood had access to water at any time — a welcome sense of stability in the depths of a genocidal war. On Aug. 24, that stability was disrupted by an Israeli airstrike that destroyed the newly built water desalination plant.unicornriot.ninjaIsrael Bombs Newly Built Water Desalination Plant in Gaza - UNICORN RIOTIsraeli airstrikes destroyed a newly built water desalination plant in Gaza City on Aug. 24, 2026, see the video here. 27648
Reposted by Daisy Patton Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE) 151354244
Reposted by Daisy Patton Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Is there a defense fund? A defense committee? Anything else we can do to support this brave and beautiful human being? 133166
Reposted by Daisy Patton Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026REBUILD would definitely accept $50,000! 23816
Reposted by Daisy Patton Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is very moving. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comPrison Letters: the teenager writing letters to jailed climate activists – documentaryA teenager struggling with climate anxiety searches for hope in an unexpected place – writing letters to imprisoned activists. Max, 14, is on a quest to understand the human stories behind direct acti... 217058
Reposted by Daisy Patton kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]pitchfork.comStevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder 8484167
Reposted by Daisy Patton Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Help Crips for eSims for Gaza keep supporting Palestinians on the ground! 💖 0815
Reposted by Daisy Patton Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society. 24990213
Reposted by Daisy Patton Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The poltical pressure to capitulate on PPE is immense: on every individual who wears masks, on every event that requires it, on every social group that maintains it as a norm. The goal is to wipe every trace of what we remind them of from awareness. To mask is a regular practice in resistance. 018746
Reposted by Daisy Patton Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026again, one has to ask, why are there boatloads of money to attack, undermine, and criticize the academic humanities but so little money to do actual humanities research in the academy? www.thecarobtrust.org/the-prizethecarobtrust.orgThe Prize | The Carob TrustRevitalizing core American principles and institutions. 172
Reposted by Daisy Patton Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don’t even know what to say anymore. The only thing Covid conscious people are trying to do, truly, is not get sick. That we’ve become the country’s newest freak show is predictable given the pandemic, but truly despicable on a base human level. 14840186
Reposted by Daisy Patton Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2679004636
Reposted by Daisy Patton Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just gonna say in 24 hours I have not seen a single apology at any level by anyone who used the article as an excuse to bash Covid cautious people or queer people as a whole. I have not seen a word from people who gleefully referred to disabled people as “wreckers”. Not one single oops. 1230687
Reposted by Daisy Patton Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 25/09/2026Please contribute here, if able!🙏🏾 chuffed.org/project/crip...chuffed.orgCrips for eSims for GazaCrips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 087
Reposted by Daisy Patton Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...yorku.caThe Alchemy LectureThe Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in... 25834
Reposted by Daisy Patton Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hi all! I am starting a new series on the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., photographing participants and eventually turning those photos into paintings. I'll be in California in October and if you're interested, I'd love to share more about the project! #art 032
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It almost feels like a perpetual cycle of hot takes that distract from what's going on around us, while also causing real harm and solidifying bs opinions at the same time 🥴 0102
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hi all! I am starting a new series on the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., photographing participants and eventually turning those photos into paintings. I'll be in California in October and if you're interested, I'd love to share more about the project! #art 032
Reposted by Daisy Patton Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026Since this got fast traction - I just retweeted something else that says the 11k number is a DHS number - folks on the ground say the number is more like 4k. Important to get right. 011814
Reposted by Daisy Patton Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Maybe y’all should seriously consider the process that brought you into near full-alignment with fascists on the subject of public health. 031379
Reposted by Daisy Patton Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What was this, the second time in a month that leftists gleefully joined in on a harassment campaign initiated by reactionaries against covid cautious people? Seems like that indicates a critical absence in awareness and analysis. Maybe y’all should fix that. And your hearts too. 5509140
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh man Greenfield used to have a wonderful tracker I would use (I go to a hospital there). I guess it stopped October last year, which is just really great! 😒 But we have the tools right?? Guess these new vaccines are for a phantom?? I'm just so tired. greenfield-ma.gov/departments/...greenfield-ma.govWelcome to City of Greenfield, MA 130
Reposted by Daisy Patton 🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123495254
Reposted by Daisy Patton Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And finally, people who mask, are often disabled, immunocompromised or chronically ill, are allowed to socialize. We are allowed to meet our friends out and not risk our lives. That’s what you told us to do, right? Get on with life? Not live in fear? 117618
Reposted by Daisy Patton Brian Gawalt @brian.gawalt.com · 24/09/2026i try to stay mum on elections i can't vote in, but if you're in massachusetts, take it from me in california: you really really really don't want top-two primaries. vote no on 3. 44119
Reposted by Daisy Patton tru @thetrudz.photo · 18/09/2026🩵 Hi. I really could use some immediate support as I’m dealing with major income loss + ongoing health issues. A lot has changed for artists + finding other work has been tough thus far. tysm. • thetrudz.com/shop • patreon.com/thetrudz • cash.me/$thetrudz • paypal.me/thetrudz • venmo.com/u/thetrudz 04786
Reposted by Daisy Patton Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396442564
Reposted by Daisy Patton Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026good reminder to take a beat before you react to a viral story, especially ones where the people you're supposed to hate after reading it are the same people ben shapiro and libsoftiktok are trying to get you worked up about. 25717
Reposted by Daisy Patton Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Y’all call yourselves allies and then point and laugh at people who have been TRAUMATIZED by society as a whole. Where do you want us to go? We can’t even try to exist together outside the borders of your majority? This is why I say American society is eugenicist. 4980114
Reposted by Daisy Patton Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy. 12748741145
Reposted by Daisy Patton Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.buymeacoffee.comSupport Chantal!Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan... 12307381
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Seeing the vitriol towards disabled folks and others who mask is honestly both heartbreaking and terrifying. I'm about to go for my first big trip since 2020 and I'm very worried about harassment etc while gone. Plus I know folks who went to Last Ditch and it's a huge bummer it's being spun this way 0886
Reposted by Daisy Patton Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing. 332942908
Reposted by Daisy Patton Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s so cute to see everyone having fun with this,you might enjoy the other story about Covid this morning, about a young mom with long covid who killed herself, possibly partially because her husband describes it as her being “obsessed” with her health and “refusing” to get out of bed. Funny, yeah? 271070300
Reposted by Daisy Patton Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is the article to share with all your healthy friends and family to help them understand what’s going on. #LongCovid #ME 312867
Daisy Patton @daisypatton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I have friends who attended who were gutted when they changed the policy—they liked attending since the spaces that still mask and take into account disabled folks and actually do accessibility have plummeted. It's so frustrating all around. Saw someone else say who masks in 2026? Ugh 0120
Reposted by Daisy Patton Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 22/09/2026The discourse is going to be bad I'll just say that covid is still a thing, immunocompromised people still exist despite this country's best efforts, and this is what happens when, instead of systemic clean air interventions, you do the equivalent of a boil water order for air 523765
Reposted by Daisy Patton ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026your regular reminder that all is not well for those of us living in red states that women are still bleeding out in parking lots and dying because they can’t access abortion care we deserve not to die 2370135