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Margaret "Grits" Helme

@gritshelme.bsky.social
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Knitter, librarian, ecosocialist degrowth enthusiast, she/they

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 14/06/2025
You absolutely can care about and fight for Palestine and trans rights and racial justice and environmental justice and land back and abolition and reparations and intersectional feminism and economic justice and healthcare and housing and education for everyone. It's actually all the same fight.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/06/2025
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Covid study shows another reason to get vaccinated: Protecting the kidneys
Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed medical records of more than 3,000 patients who had been hospitalized for Covid between 2020 and 2022.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“The line of reasoning is maddening, seemingly designed to scramble and demobilize support for the people of Los Angeles. Accept the terms of the debate, and you end up in a bizarre argument about how much violence from which armed agents of the law is acceptable.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/06/2025
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...
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What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/06/2025
A friend asked me what the deal was with the Trump administration and Haiti and I said that racists have never forgiven Haiti for the temerity of freeing itself and illustrating that their supremacy was a lie, and everything since then has been about "proving" it can't govern itself.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
the fact that we don’t have @aoc.bsky.social running messaging for the democratic party tells you everything that’s wrong with the democratic party
princess Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on the hellsite “Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening be some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special”

and elon musk’s sahara-thirsty ass replied “Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy” 

then she retorted “I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok” and left no trace of the murder
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Binyamin Appelbaum @bcappelbaum.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It feels like a sip of water in a desert, but it's nice to see that something is working: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This appears to be a significant step forward for global climate litigation. One of Australia's main energy firms has been forced to make a whole series of clarifications about greenwashing claims.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
your energy actually is finite and spending time fighting about the former president while the current president is putting this country in a wood chipper seems like a bad use of it
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
At today's March on Washington for Gaza, little kids' shoes and sandals ran down Pennsylvania Ave to represent the 17,400 Palestinian children that "the US has paid for Israel to murder." 📸s from the demonstration (1)
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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If low density areas of the city resist upzones, I think it’s time we stop distributing city resources based on geography instead do it per capita so that areas that are denser get more resources: more local schools, more library hours, lifeguards & parks staff, sidewalks, nicer street lighting…
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) on Wednesday rolled out the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act, which would ban 'special' government employees like Musk from having federal contracts."
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New Democratic bill targets Elon Musk
Rep. Mark Pocan's ELON MUSK Act takes aim at the billionaire's federal contracts.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025
Speaking as an agender: So weird for cis people to be like “I don’t get it” when you guys are like also very attached to your internal sense of sex and gender Like what’s not to get? Not being an asshole, is what it looks like
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
There's a lot going on, too much, but now reddit has bent the knee by shutting down *checks the most absurd notes on the most absurd coup in history* r/WhitePeopleTwitter www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies
The tech billionaire had complained that some Reddit users were advocating violence against his staff.
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I mean, what did USAID ever do to Elon Musk??? Oh. the.ink/p/usaid-foug...
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USAID fought apartheid. Musk is killing it
The makings of an unelected coup
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I note that www.glad.org is providing legal services here. They have a donate button at the top right of their website.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 30/01/2025
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tesla just announced that sales fell in Q4, and its shares dropped ~4%. Nota bene ⤵️
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Democratic administrations and university administrators spent the last fifteen months telling us that armed enforcement officers abducting people from campuses was good and commendable, and now the Trump administration will cash that check.
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Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Trans people exist, have always existed, and will loved and valued, no matter what their government tells them. (Also, I’m a part of the government, and I’m here to tell you I love you + I won’t stop fighting for you no matter what!)
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Israel released 90 hostages in Gaza then took 90 new hostages in the West Bank. This is what Israel does and this is the vile colonial violence it’s founded on, beyond any kind of reform
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
But every minute you focus on that horror when you are *not* actively doing something to evade or improve or ameliorate the situation (receiving chemo, taking Zofran, listening to the doctor, etc.), you are WASTING WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR WILD PRECIOUS LIFE.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 20/01/2025
“Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime and it is not enough.”
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I don't want to sift through gofundme appeals. I want to pay progressive taxes and fund a safety net for everyone.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer
photo from President Jimmy Carter’s funeral showing many dignitaries but hiding the tangerine tyrant behind a pillar
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB
Tweet from Jason Hickel on Jan 6 2022 saying: "The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightened narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not."
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The strategic imperative is clear: nothing less than the total defeat of the organized political interests of oil, gas, and coal producers is necessary to make any other climate justice goals even a remote possibility.
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Climate, State, and Utopia - Boston Review
The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A key takeaway: in order to confront the growing housing safety & affordability crisis, we need to understand our fates as shared, and reimagine a home insurance system that reduces risk and provides equitable & fair protection. climateandcommunity.org/research/sha... #SharedFates 9/9
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Shared Fates - Climate & Community Institute
Every year, more people across the United States experience climate disasters, forcing them to leave their homes, lose their belongings, and be separated from jobs and …
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 06/01/2025
Artists, writers, filmmakers: Please integrate COVID into your cultural work. Avoiding COVID in your content erases critical history. And we all know what horrible things can happen when we as a society fail to learn from history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025
cannot overstate the degree to which i am negatively polarized against nimbys. like, if you go to a public meeting to speak against lower cost housing i think the city should eminent domain your house and your house specifically
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/01/2025
The president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza.
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Biden Approves Another $8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel as Genocide Continues
The president has used his final days in office to guarantee the continuation of Israel’s genocidal assault in Gaza.
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kjb @kristijaybee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Read this if the New Year has you filled with apprehension and a touch of despair. It grounded and focused me and lit a spark of hope because I can see possibility here. Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for collecting so much wisdom to show us how to begin 2025.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Comrade Card for New Year's Day, 2025. (Appreciation to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the inspiration.)
Watercolor. Black-gray-gold background. Round colorful disc with red and blue mixing into purple. Words arcing toward each other: Trying, each day, to reduce the gap between my values and actions.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
This rot is so deep and and so macabre and so accommodated over decades by leaders - Mayors, Governors, both political parties, the DOJ. And we will never be a healthy democracy while this is a regular and tolerated aspect of the American criminal legal system.
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Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“No shout out to the blacklisting McCarthyism government of the late 50s.” Spoken by Timothée Chalamet on Nardwuar.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.
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Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It takes a lot of privilege to think that health is a level playing field. Health is shaped to a large extent by our position in the hierarchy of class, race, sex, gender, ability, region, etc. Check out @deathpanel.bsky.social for some of the best, most thorough analysis around to explain why.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
One area of study that science deniers have never been able to influence or silence, whether it’s climate change denial, COVID denial etc. Actuarial science and the insurance industry. They do the math on the cold hard truth, and whether you “believe it” or not, your insurance rates will reflect it.
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 27/12/2024
Since "AI" isn't actually intelligent (it's just statistical likelihoods of the next word), nor is it even artificial (it's manually trained and tuned with deliberate feedback from traumatized human moderators), it's best understood as a market bubble welded to an organizational/management pathology
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 23/12/2024
hey so! this is terrifying :)
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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...
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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
i got so hype for hope and change all those years ago, i guess that's on me. now obama only pops up to scold people for not voting for his ancient former colleague, or to...pick a kendrick lamar song that isn't "not like us"? nixon had a less embarrassing post-presidential existence than this guy
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