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flint, michigan. ♾️ neurodiverse educator.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
FLINT. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 18.
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Shouldn't Be This Hard Town Hall - BUS TOUR | Flint · Abdul for U.S. Senate
Please join Abdul our Flint stop for the Shouldn't Be This Hard TOWN HALL BUS TOUR. RSVP IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY AND THE EVENT WILL BE FIRST COME FIRST. MUST PRESENT GOVERNMENT ID AND FOLLOW NO BAGS AN...
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Flint. Daily. @flintdaily810.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flint's new State Park project is already a huge win for the city. But it could be even bigger if two universities -- Kettering and University of Michigan-Flint -- give back historic landmarks from Flint's past so they can be incorporated to the park plans. flintdaily.news/2026/09/25/a...
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Atwood Stadium, UM-Flint Ice Rink Should be Part of Flint’s New State Park Project
The Flint State Park project is the most creative development that has happened in this city in decades, we should maximize its potential.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law. to.pbs.org/46W8fFh
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Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a ...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 22/09/2026
Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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bee 🍉 @heyitsbrandie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
cannot wait to vote for this man a third time 😏
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Final 24 hours to purchase the charity print “Now We Ride!” 50% of the proceeds go to New Mexico Gay Rodeo Association, happening this weekend in Santa FE NM!
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Jeremy White @jeremywired.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
POWER TRIP: ICE’s new electric shock gloves are designed to overpower subjects through intense pain. But it turns out there is a simple way to stop them working. Read the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-pa...
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones. www.wired.com/story/cbp-wo...
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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
El-Sayed: They’ve taken to calling me dangerous. If you’re a worker who wants our economy to work for you, I’m not dangerous. If you’re AIPAC and want to send our money abroad, you damn well better believe I’m dangerous.
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aaron @garfie.zone · 16/07/2026
can't eat the vegetables, can't breathe the air,
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In Little Village, Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo signs
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14/07/2026
$81 billion in tariffs you paid given to companies.
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US refunds $81bn in Trump tariffs after supreme court ruled them illegal
Government had been forced to pay back duties to companies that imported goods into the US that were hit by Trump’s tariffs
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My heart aches for the family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should be alive today. There is no reforming an agency that kills repeatedly with impunity. Enough.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I got beef with the meatpacking conglomerates.🥩🍗🍖🥓
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.”
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Mamdani announces $15M for trans healthcare, includes launching a call/text resource support line. Notes city Law Dept filed an amicus brief against subpoenas for medical records. Hospitals suspended care to trans youth following a Trump EO. This seems to try working around that, doesn’t mention it
NEW YORK - Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced three major new initiatives to safeguard and expand access to gender-affirming care for youth and adults across New York City. The initiatives represent a proactive $15 million investment at a time of growing uncertainty and escalating attacks from the federal government.
To safeguard access to gender-affirming care, Mayor Mamdani's administration will:
• Establish a direct care access fund for providers of youth gender-affirming care to help ensure that New Yorkers can continue to access medically necessary care.
• Launch a call and text line connecting New Yorkers with care, services, information, resources and support related to gender-affirming care.
• Fund research to identify gaps in health care access and outcomes for transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers. As the federal government retreats from supporting this critical research, New York City will invest in better understanding and meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ community.
Earlier this month, the City's Law Department submitted an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge brought on behalf of transgender youth and young adults opposing federal grand jury subpoenas seeking the medical records of patients who have received gender-affirming care. On Wednesday, a federal judge granted the injunction, blocking the U.S. Department of Justice from using subpoenas to access sensitive medical records of transgender patients.
Mayor Mamdani has directed the Law Department to be ready to respond, including potentially litigate, threats to end gender-affirming care for youth and adults from the federal government.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 18/06/2026
Last week, Congress voted to give more money to ICE and CBP. As we said in March, violence by these agencies endangers the autistic community. autisticadvocacy.org/2026/03/dhs-violence-endangers-the-autistic-community/
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DHS Violence Endangers the Autistic Community - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Formal Language This statement focuses on the ways that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violence threatens the autistic and disabled communities. We encourage readers to learn more about how ICE...
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that this is Trump not renewing Trump’s own deal.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026
When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.
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NASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...
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Kier @sickosocial.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025
A woman sporting a banner to represent the Gay Liberation Front at the 1973 Gay Pride parade in Detroit. #lgbt #lgbthistory #gayliberationfront #photography #uploads
A woman sporting a banner to represent the Gay Liberation Front at the 1973 Gay Pride parade in Detroit.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/06/2026
Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 25/05/2026
I'd say erased but anyway a reminder that Memorial Day started because African American Charlestonians took it upon themselves to give a proper burial to the union soldiers
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Many of us are enjoying #MemorialDay with family at picnics and barbecues, but many farm workers are laboring hard to put food on our tables. Let's give a big shout out to these hard-working people. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers in a field with mountains in the background, wearing hats and bandanas. Text reads "Happy Memorial Day" and "#WeFeedYou." Mood is respectful.
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😈™ @cooltimesonline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up
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CELEBRITY DIRT #4 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Virginia Woolf, in 1928, was chiller about gender than basically any living person today
Many people... holding that such a change of sex is against nature, have been at great pains to prove (1) that Orlando had always been a woman, (2) that Orlando is at this moment a man. Let biologists and psychologists determine. It is enough for us to state the simple fact; Orlando was a man till the age of thirty; when he became a woman and has remained so ever since. 

But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.

-- Virginia Woolf, "Orlando."
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/05/2026
Kenneth Wolfe organized the Department of Labor’s controversial prayer services before he was quietly appointed to lead a major agency office. www.wired.com/story/the-de...
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The Department of Labor’s Faith Leader Is Now Also in Charge of Its Civil Rights Enforcement
Kenneth Wolfe organized the Department of Labor’s controversial prayer services before he was quietly appointed to lead a major agency office.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/05/2026
The Education Department is investigating Smith College, one of the nation’s most well-known women’s schools, for its policy that allows transgender women to enroll. wapo.st/4uAdjZP
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.
Black and white photo of a white boy (tween or young teen I guess?) in a cowboy shirt and hat, looking seriously at a shorthaired white kitten he is petting. The kitten is sitting on a western style horse saddle and looks rapturously happy. It’s light colored fur and whiskers are luminous in the sunlight.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The series finale of Dinosaurs was an emotionally brutal reflection on corporate greed and climate change, the entire family accepting the grim inevitability of death due to a handful of rich assholes making life for everyone else literally impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changin...
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Changing Nature - Wikipedia
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bee 🍉 @heyitsbrandie.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I’d like to think writing my little drarry fanfics as a teen pissed jk rowling off in some capacity. Brings me peace.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/04/2026
You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
not only are wire services the core of an enormous amount of reporting, AP plays a very specific and authoritative role in election calling
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/03/2026
Liberal responses to this, while well meaning, often make me sick. “Well just piss on the floor then!” “This is a distraction.” “What will their reaction be when a passing woman enters a mens bathroom, that will sure show them.” Like none of this makes it better. It’s not funny, it’s not a gotcha.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
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bee 🍉 @heyitsbrandie.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Flint, MI
The Block/Rock, a large concrete block commonly painted in Flint, MI, painted as an ice box with “FUCK ICE”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 16/02/2026
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DNA-inspired molecule breaks records for storing solar heat
Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later.
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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What a stupid time to be alive
WHAT A STUPID TIME TO BE ALIVE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
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