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Jacks Salazar

@jackiessalazarr.bsky.social
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she/they, 20s, trying my best COVID-conscious, anti-AI, pro-knowledge freelance author-illustrator in progress art-for-fun acc @jatsaro.bsky.social tags: #jackswrites views are my own 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ | 😷🚫🦠 | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇽

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Jacks Salazar @jackiessalazarr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Latest for Necessary Behavior—evaluating the prevalence of Flock Safety’s surveillance and ALPR systems, as well as the ethical and sociopolitical concerns that come with them. READ HERE: necessarybehavior.com/flock-safety... — #Flock #surveillance ARCHIVE: #jackswrites
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Flock and the Falsehood of Safety in a Surveillance State — Necessary Behavior
How Flock Safety came to become a surveillance capitalism behemoth—and what it means for the day-to-day lives of those who are being monitored through these safety systems.
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Jacks Salazar @jackiessalazarr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New for Necessary Behavior: What we’re missing in the conversation about body image that Ariana Grande’s appearance has inspired. READ: necessarybehavior.com/ariana-grand... #arianagrande #bodyimage (ARCHIVE: #jackswrites)
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Ariana Grande and the "Weight Loss" Conversation We're Not Having — Necessary Behavior
The discourse around Ariana Grande proves that just as it is true that we shouldn't make assumptions about someone’s state of mind or overall health from their physical appearance, it is also true tha...
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Jacks Salazar @jackiessalazarr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New for Necessary Behavior! On how the current cyclosporiasis outbreak was only enhanced by federal funding cuts and a poor public health response. READ HERE: necessarybehavior.com/cyclosporiasis #jackswrites
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Cyclosporiasis, Lettuce Recalls, and US Public Health Failures — Necessary Behavior
The current lack of clarity and insecurity around the cyclosporiasis outbreak is no accident; in fact, it is demonstrative of a larger systemic failure brought onto American consumers by the dismantli...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We’re bribing Iran with hundreds of billions of dollars for an outcome that our intelligence community assesses Iran isn’t even going to agree to. Absolute clown show.
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Jacks Salazar @jackiessalazarr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
latest for Necessary Behavior! on THAT author and how her bigoted views have tarnished her legacy. you can read here: necessarybehavior.com/on-jk-rowling #jackswrites #harrypotter
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Harry Potter and the Atrocious Author: JK Rowling and Why "Death of the Author" is Not a Good Excuse — Necessary Behavior
Nearly thirty years ago, JK Rowling published a middle-grade fantasy novel about an orphan who discovers he is a wizard and gets transported to a magical school. But after three decades of Harry Potte...
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The Economist @economist.com · 05/05/2026
Donald Trump's approval rating currently stands at -18. His unpopularity is in large part explained by Americans’ views of the economy. Follow our Trump tracker for the latest
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/05/2026
it is not polite to mention my exhaustive personal history of human rights abuses
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Gift 🎁 link. FDA officials "have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a [HHS] spokesman...confirmed." "The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds, 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
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F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/05/2026
epic win! now you can travel the world with your ANTI-WOKE passport. wait what? oil and jet fuel prices are HOW HIGH?????
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"Clavicular’s movement lives in the vocabulary of “looksmaxxing,” “hardmaxxing,” and “ascending,” a lexicon born in incel-adjacent internet forums and now being pushed into the mainstream by TikTok, Kick, and algorithmic outrage." theintercept.com/2026/05/05/c...
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Clavicular and the Right-Wing Project to Radicalize Young Men
Clavicular offers his young male viewers easy answers to explain why the world has left them unhappy and alone.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”
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damasterchief @damasterchief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/04/2026
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures -- ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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Psy Costanza @ganondalf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Shelter in place security orders and NOTAMs now operating in Jalisco as the military carry out further ops.
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Mexican Security Forces Kill Drug Kingpin Nemesio ‘Mencho’ Oseguera
The leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed during an operation led by Mexico’s military.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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How Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made it nearly impossible for this Palestinian teenager to manage her chronic illness
Shahd al-Afifi has a rare skin disease that requires a strict daily routine of constant moisturization, careful hygiene, and a humid, climate-controlled environment. The Israeli genocide in Gaza has m...
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James Neal - will know what will happen when it does. @jameswneal.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Violent clashes erupted in parts of western Mexico on Sunday amid a military operation that led to the death of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, triggering widespread security concerns throughout the region. www.cbsnews.com/news/violenc...
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Violence erupts in Mexico after cartel leader "El Mencho" killed in military operation
Mexico's Ministry of Defense security forces killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," in a military operation.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“I could spend this essay demanding the federal government restore these databases. But I learned something during the AIDS epidemic… Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate. So let me propose what we can build while we wait.”
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America's disease surveillance system is going dark. Here's what we can build to replace it
America’s disease surveillance system is broken. Here’s how to replace it.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
✨ ICYMI ✨ If you're looking for a place to chat books that's less spread out than socials with algorithms, come join the Indie Discord group! We've got over a thousand members and it's a great place to chat about your writing, get help and advice, and share your stuff! Link in my profile! 🤍
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/01/2026
An Israeli 'organised camp' in Rafah would use facial recognition as a 'sorting' tool to deter return, analyst warns aje.news/3t98ec
An Israeli 'organised camp' in Rafah would use facial recognition as a 'sorting' tool to deter return, analyst warns
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.
Sesame Street Instagram:
Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird.
Offering comfort in Scary Times:
After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I feel like it is very hard to function on a daily basis if you think too hard about how many things in the US are completely falling apart and/or actively being destroyed right now, which is one upside to being recently laid off
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
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Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We can, and should, deplore Charlie Kirk's murder, without whitewashing who he was. ttps://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlie-kirk-assassination-tragedy/
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Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.
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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
edition.cnn.com/2025/08/06/u... This is harmful Conversion therapy is harmful Stop this awful practice now
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‘God, please fix me’: Inside the dangerous resurgence of ‘ex-gay’ conversion therapy | CNN
More than half of US states ban the discredited and harmful practice of conversion therapy for gay people. But former practitioners say it’s making a comeback.
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Necessary Behavior @necessarybehavior.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
If you're outraged, good. But don't stop there. Donate. Volunteer. Show up. Speak out. Allyship without action is just optics.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
An astonishing figure in this piece: Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing. This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers. That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
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Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
NPR and PBS received ~$85 million last year in federal funding. Trump’s golf trips will cost taxpayers over $100 million this year. Republicans think kids learning to read is wasteful spending and indoctrination, while giving a blank check to their cult leader to golf isn’t.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2025
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said Trump adviser Russell Vought. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down." (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @documented.net)
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“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The richest country in the world can afford Medicaid. The richest country in the world can afford food assistance. There’s no reason for the cruel and dehumanizing cuts in this big bill. It’s fascism. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. It’s a cull to accelerate ethnic cleansing.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/07/2025
Trump once again raised his “controversial” (read: illegal) plot to widen the net of targets in his massive deportation scheme. “‘The Homegrowns Will Be Next,’ is one of the more chilling authoritarian phrases I have heard." trib.al/JPp1bU9
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Why Trump’s Renewed Threat to Deport Citizens Is So Terrifying: Expert
An expert warned that Donald Trump bringing back the threat is a clear sign of his rapid descent into authoritarianism.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/07/2025
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials theonion.com/researc...
Researchers Train Mice To Choose Between Life-Saving Medications And Other Essentials
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2025
As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/07/2025
Mushroom Cloud Hopefully Nothing Major theonion.com/mushroo...
Mushroom Cloud Hopefully Nothing Major
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Jacks Salazar @jackiessalazarr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Latest for Necessary Behavior, and it’s a heavy one. Closed off Pride Month talking about Zionism and its intrinsic connection to pink-washing—and how it all serves an Islamophobic agenda. You can read at the link: necessarybehavior.com/the-israeli-... Thank you for your support! #jackswrites
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The Israeli Pink-washing Agenda — Necessary Behavior
As we close off Pride Month, you may be lulled into a false sense of security when seeing advertisements of LGBTQ-friendly venues in Israel — but you may not know about the deeper connection between p...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s never too late to start masking again. Covid isn’t over. Measles is spreading rapidly. We’ve got anti-vaxxers in charge if public health. There’s a huge community of support here if you want to learn more about respirators. You won’t be the lone masker, I promise!
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/06/2025
Time for some real talk: @thexylom.com, the only Asian American-run news outlet covering science, climate, and the environment, will run out of funding in July if we don't secure $7,500 by the end of the month. I might lose my job at a time while waiting for a visa extension -- a nightmare scenario.
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Urgent! Every Dollar Counts!
We grow science with words, and are the only Asian American-run science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, led by Gen-Z! The Xylom needs to raise $7,500 by the end of the month to stay afloat. Please…
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/06/2025
turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...
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Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country
Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"I had to write up 170 incidents in a little over a year, and I was struggling mightily with anxiety, depression, and panic attacks. Since I wasn’t able to care for myself, I couldn’t take care of my team or the community’s library kids." 📚 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Children’s Institute 2025: Spreading Library Joy: PW Talks with Mychal Threets
The PBS Kids’ “resident librarian” and TikTok sensation is adding a picture book to his resume, I’m So Happy You’re Here! A Celebration of Library Joy, illustrated by Lorraine Nam.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
and people say this website is dying
you’re going to have to go to the original to appreciate the full context: https://bsky.app/profile/kents.bsky.social/post/3ls2ey3oqxk23
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you want to make America healthy again, start with Universal health & UBI Masks in healthcare Clean air & water Affordable housing & food Guaranteed education Paid time off Affordable child care When we accept that caring for one another is essential for health & happiness, we all benefit
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent." www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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