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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Gorgeous day to celebrate our neighborhood state park, Liberty State Park, with a 5k. Billionaires and golf course owners can kick rocks, this park belongs to the people.

Morning in Liberty State Park. In the foreground is the Hudson River, in the background is the Statue of Liberty with the sun rising and clouds.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We got each other an awesome used record player for our 25th wedding anniversary, & we pick up records wherever we go. This just became my favorite. It's so beautiful, pops and all. Swoon.

Album cover GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE The Chilites
Greens, yellows and purple clouds with a picture of the Chilites.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got this error message on our window air conditioning unit, which seemed appropriate.

A window air conditioning unit has an error message in lights that says FL

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is my baby Seamus after his grandma put a sun hat on him. He hated it almost as much as he hates swimming.

A tan chihuahua mix wears a light blue sun hat

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying on my wig for Halloween. Gonna need some styling.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hey hey hey @duquannsweeney.bsky.social photo book... Dignity, Beauty and Everything in Between by Duquann Sweeney Gorgeous 💚

Dignity, Beauty and Everything in Between
Green cover with white print and a cut out of various size circles on the cover with photos Duquann has taken inside

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This one joined us for coffee on the cedar river in Florida while visiting my mom. It was surprising how chill it was. Just walked right up to us.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today I was looking at shower curtains and on Amazon used the search term "black history shower curtain" and got this disgusting promoted item pushed... reported it which was not easy to figure out how to do. Our country is just drowning in anti-Blackness.

On Amazon I searched black history shower curtain and a promoted item was pushed for a shower curtain of a gorilla sitting on a toilet reading a newspaper

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

God I'm gonna miss this. Waking up in a row house to my neighbor leaf blowing trash at 6:45am in Jersey City just doesn't have the same feel.

A woman sits on a dock on the cedar river with her feet up on a rope. The sun rises behind trees covered in Spanish moss. The cedar River in Jacksonville Florida rolls by.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Jax come on you gotta support this women's basketball team. It's a really affordable, fun night out. Great crowd vibes. And bonus after the Waves win you exit the stadium to the smell of coffee.

The Jacksonville Waves women's basketball team plays the Savannah team in the first season of the upshot southern league. The stadium needs more fans.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Enjoying sunrise on the cedar river wondering how many gators are out here with me.

The sun is just beginning to rise on a river with large trees and Spanish moss meeting the purple sky

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really really needed to shout "fight the power" with @chuckdpe.bsky.social

Chuck D from public enemy at met life stadium in NEW JERSEY

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Mutual Aid Network NJ is organizing a free market for families impacted by detention & deportation. We need goods and funds. You can drop off donations in Jersey City at the Communipaw Library branch or donate $$$ via Venmo. Until we free them all.

MUTUALAIDNETWORKNJ
Free community market
For families impacted by detention and deportation
Accepting donations til august 15th
Collecting diapers, formula, baby furniture, strollers, school supplies, toys, groceries. Venmo MUTUALAIDNETWORK

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‼️New Jersey, and anyone wanting to support families of detainees at Delaney and those who have recently been deported... please support the Mutual Aid Network of NJ. Can vouch for the work being done helping families pay rent, get groceries, clothing drives, etc.

Help Mothers impacted by detention and deportations. Every donation counts! Most people taken are their family's main income earner. Mothers are left in financial crisis overnight. They are facing housing and food insecurity. Please help them during this difficult time! All donations go to RENT & GROCERIES
Donate Now Venmo
@mutualaidnetwork
Illustration of a woman hugging a child, a bag of groceries, a house.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A small setback today in my plan to swim in the Hudson. I watched a fisherman pull a small shark from the Hudson River in Liberty State Park. Thinking it's a dogfish shark. Add it to the list of concerns which include high fecal matter counts and corporate pollution.

A fisherman pulls a small shark out of the water in Liberty State Park.

A fisherman holds a small shark in his hands that he caught in the Hudson River

A man fishing caught a small grey shark with a smooth underbelly and fins. It is against pavers on the water walkway in Liberty state park

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Teared up seeing this place where kids are encouraged to give up their pacifiers to a fairy who will look after them, in Dungloe Ireland 😭

A sign hanging from a tree with pacifiers reads "The Dummy Tree
Boys and girls do not fear
It's not an ogre that lives here
But a little me, a dummy fairy
I'm your special friend who will
Look after your dummies to the end
Dummy fairies xoxo

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Swam in Ballymastocker and walked around Fanad lighthouse. Perfect Ireland day.

Ballymastocker beach - sands, waves, hill in background

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Had a really gorgeous day on Arranmore Island. Rode my first e-bike. Still prefer my old school beach cruiser but definitely helped on the hills. For the first time I didn't want to swim here. The water looked too rough.

Beautiful cliff looking out into the water off arranmore island in Ireland. Gravel path, green grass and moss, rocky slope down to the sea.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

While in the US we have kids being murdered with assault weapons and the govt shooting random immigrants, Ireland (#5 safest country for reasons) is stopping drunk guys with compound bows.

Donegal Daily News
"Duncan was charged with being in possession of a compound bow and arrows which had a blade or were sharply pointed. The accused was also charged with being intoxicated in a public place on the same date. The offences are alleged to have occurred at Donegal Livestock Mart.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's interesting to see the map of where beating kids in school is still legal. it is directly related.

A map shows where corporal punishment is legal in schools still by color coding. It's mostly the South where it's still legal.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Today was Narin/Portnoo. Best yet of Ireland swimming. 360 incredible views. Seven sisters to far to the right behind us not pictured, slight right jut out with sheep grazing, in front a Caribbean like blue water, left a green hill and town w/church overlooking the water. Incredible.

Standing on the sand facing Portnoo beach. To the left is a village on a hill overlooking the beach with houses and a church. Beach goers sit in the sand.

A Sandy beach with a small hill in the distance with grazing sheep

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've reached the 14th of July 1789, the day of the Vainquers de la Bastille in France...

Christopher Hibbert's The French Revolution. The cover of the book has red with white writing. There is a scene of smoke and dead/fighting men

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It all seems made up. This one is the boat strand in Carrickfin. Go past the tiniest airport and turn left at the cows. you can wade in or jump from the pier.

A beach with blue water and small row boats, and a green rocky cliff

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I need to write down all the secrets about swimming in natural bodies of water in Ireland. Gartan Lough is warmer and gorgeous views. You have to park at the St Colmcille heritage center. Walk back toward the wooden shack, follow the path. Get in between the ropes/buoys.

You see the head of a woman swimming in Gartan Lough in Ireland. Mountains in the background

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Seamus in the Poisoned Glen. Ireland is surprisingly tick-filled, but most don't carry diseases and Seamus' flea and tick medication is working great.

A tan chihuahua mix 13lb dog stands on a bridge by a stream that runs through the Poisoned Glen in Ireland.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Up next... a theme emerges 👀

Christopher Hibbert THE FRENCH REVOLUTION a book is held up in front of a fireplace

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Picked up this book of first-hand accounts of Filipino revolution in the 80s in Siopa Leabhair, an incredible little used bookstore in Ireland. It's a bunch of moms and nuns and uncles who got radicalized & took down Marcos. Beautiful.

A book is held up. Nine Letters: The Story of the 1986 Filipino Revolution by Cynthia S. Baron and Melba M. Suazo. Cream cover with red and black writing and a black and white picture of tanks against thousands upon thousands of ordinary brave Filipino people

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Seamus found a pub he likes in Dungloe

A tan chihuahua mix leans his head on the bar. He's wearing a greenish blue sweatshirt with a yellow raincoat over it.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We need a dog t-shirt that says "I pooped on Mount Errigal"

A tan chihuahua mix wearing a yellow rain coat looks back at its mom impatiently on the hike up Mount Errigal in Ireland

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"The state clings to its legacy of slavery, even as it purports to seek distance from those legacies, because it has no alternate material. Because the dragon cannot slay itself." Camonghne Felix

A picture of the book
Let The Poets Govern
A declaration of freedom by
Camonghne Felix
Cover of dark green with yellow writing

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is a bevy of swans in Sligo. And I just happened to also catch down front a giant fish jumping out of the water. Northwest Ireland is magic always.

In a River in Sligo Ireland there are more than 20 swans floating, and a very big fish jumping out of the water. In the background are homes with river views.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Love my UNF hat. 100% have worn in NYC.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Ok finally NJ Monitor sent some content geared specifically to me

An enewsletter from New Jersey Monitor with the subject Bad Cops

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How did I not know THE CENSUS was used to put Japanese Americans in concentration camps.

Book cover black with white writing a snake and a jar of poison and a document "A Short History of The World in 50 Lies" by Natasha Tidd

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Every year I do a 5k to make sure I still can. This year, just like me, Liberty State Park celebrates its 50th year in existence. Every year some billionaire tries to steal a piece of it for profit, and we save it for the people. It was a hot and beautiful day to run in my neighborhood 💚

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

And this is an ongoing project for families whose loved ones have been detained/deported. You can email to join or donate, until together we find a way to abolish immigration detention.

ICE WATCH MUTUAL AID TEN FAMILIES PROJECT
Each month we provide care packages to ten families whose loved ones have been detained or deported. Clothes, rental assistance, household goods, groceries. Community project by a northern NJ mutual aid collective. QR codes to donate or email to get involved.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

But sure we can open the windows and let the particulates and fumes from the turnpike in on a bad air quality day.

Plants sit on a windowsill next to an open window that overlooks a turnpike in a school that is more than 120 years old in New Jersey

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

my IG ads are wild - don't see a lot of t-shirts with the words "Jesus" AND "cum" together

An Instagram ad for clothing. A blue t shirt says "squirters fuck better", a black t shirt says "Jesus spoke to me. He told me I need to stop making hot girls cum and focus on myself" and red shorts that say "fuck me like the government"

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I put together this doc, docs.google.com/document/d/1... and also we have this ten families project

ICE WATCH MUTUAL AID TEN FAMILIES PROJECT QR codes to send an email to join the mutual aid network or to donate via Venmo @mutualaidnetwork We provide care packages for ten families a month whose loved ones have been kidnapped/detained/deported

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Tomorrow noon 33 Washington Street there is a protest at the AG office in Newark. Pushing the strikers' demands and concrete things the gov +AG have the power to do now.

This is how gov Mikie Sherrill "turned down the temperature" so we're going to turn up the noise. Time to remind Mikie and her AG to meet the demands of detained at Delaney hall hunger strikers and stop brutalizing protestors in the name of public safety SOL JC, CLIMATE REVOLUTION NJ, NORTH NJ DSA

Let's go remind them of the strikers' demands 1. An immediate in person
Meeting with gov Mikie Sherrill at Delaney hall to directly observe conditions and hear testimony from detained individuals 2. Immediate release of vulnerable detainees including elderly, pregnant, young ppl, and those with serious medical conditions 3. Meaningful review of immigration cases and habeas filings 4. An end to coercive pressure to sign deportation or voluntary departure docs 5. restore visitation for units 2a and 2b at Delaney

And of everything they have the power to do right now 1. Arrest and prosecute the private individuals who run Delaney hall. 2. Enforce the immigrant trust directive and executive order 12 3. Follow through on the safe communities act 4. Secure pro bono legal representation for detainees including through DDDL 5. Hold a meeting with the hunger strikers today 6. Release and provide restitution for protestors arrested
Tuesday June 2 12pm office of attorney general 33 Washington st Newark NJ

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

There is a project here in northern New Jersey to support families whose loved ones have been kidnapped and put in detention. You can send an email to get involved or donate via Venmo. This is mutual aid, not charity. We take care of each other until everyone is free.

ICE WATCH MUTUAL AID
TEN FAMILIES PROJECT
donate or volunteer to coordinate care packages
Join ten families project. Each month, families who have had a loved one detained/deported will be provided care packages that include clothes, grocery gift cards, monetary donations, items such as diapers, strollers etc QR CODES to email to get involved or Venmo. Venmo is @mutualaidnetwork and put ten families project in the notes

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Someone is settling into second sleep ❤️

A tan chihuahua mix dog curls up in a half circle on a grey couch against a blue pillow.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

For Mother's Day, please consider sending money for moms to see their loved ones who have been kidnapped and taken to Delaney hall. When you go and talk to the families, the stories of how separation has affected their lives is heartbreaking. Families belong together.

HELP FAMILIES IMPACTED BY 🧊 SEE EACH OTHER. Delaney Hall is the largest detention center on the east coast. Families come to Delaney to see their loved ones. For most these are the last moments they will spend together in person for a very long time. Transportation is often a barrier. No car, traveling with small children, live far away. Please support families visit with their loved ones. Donations will help pay for rideshares. Venmo @MutualAidNetwork ever visit matters

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My IG thinks I'm 25 years younger and completely unconcerned with comfort or decent tacos.

A young woman in black lacy lingerie is leaning on a taco stand advertising $1.50 taco wednesdays

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

thought about this a lot reading Captive Revolution. Revolution and freedom happens everyday in little ways in even the darkest places and times.

Orange book with black stripes CAPTIVE REVOLUTION Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System by Nahla Abdo

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Friday I'll be at NJCU for a lunch & learn with some of my Jersey City favs. Open to JC community.

El Centro MAY DAY lunch and learn with Build More Unity and SOL JC. Join us for panels on the importance of this revolutionary holiday, community building, and lunch.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Finished this book today, and it really challenged me...my ideas about childhood and parenting. Great get from my local anarchist bookstore, Stelton Distro.

Trust kids! Stories on youth autonomy and confronting adult supremacy. Edited by Carla joy Bergman

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tonight hundreds have gathered for public accountability in Jersey City on funding our public schools, and investment in Bayfront and other affordable housing. Jersey City Together is a sister org to EBC (East Brooklyn Congregations). Listen->Organize->Act

Hundreds have gathered in a church on Ocean Ave in Jersey City as part of a public action of Jersey City Together.

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