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Karla Monterroso

@karlaliliana.bsky.social
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Part chaplain, part cross-pollinator, part coach, part builder. Multiracial multicultural institution dreamer. Brava pero vulnerable. www.bravaleaders.com

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 1h
Filled out my California ballot today and man, reading all the propositions makes me marvel at the amount of money billionaires put in to rig the deck.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11h
The notion that we fight fascism by pretending it's not occurring has brought us here to a place where Nazi cheerleaders have taken over our government, occupying our cities, abducting our neighbors & trafficking immigrant children.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11h
Man who has never run for office, nor likely even knocked a voters' door, offers advice to someone who has done both - and won. Man who made his living valorizing capitulation by calling it "civility" would like all others to do the same. Groundbreaking.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 11h
If we are lucky enough for this white supremacist fever pitch to pass, the thing I am not looking forward to is how many people will try to tell us it wasn’t that bad and how we are embellishing what actually happened.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h
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KKK attempts ‘Knights Party’ rebrand while maintaining white nationalist beliefs
Ku Klux Klan rebrand, putting family and faith at the center of the group’s message as it claims growing support before the midterms.
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Dennis M. Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
White House on Trump purchasing SpaceX debt before space order: ‘No conflicts of interest’ Just corruption. share.newsbreak.com/jtpq31p4?s=i16
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White House on Trump purchasing SpaceX debt before space order: ‘No conflicts of interest’ - NewsBreak
The White House said on Friday there was no conflict of interest when President Trump's accounts bought more than $1 million in SpaceX debt two days before
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the "support the troops" folks are very quiet.
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Interesting, though, how they're perfectly fine with the idea of thinking up ways to inflict horror and harm on that same girl. That doesn't bother them in the slightest. Yes, I am saying these two things are connected. Explicitly.
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
These men really cannot stand to be uncomfortable about ANYTHING. They have to remake EVERYTHING, AND EVERYONE, into an image of what they consider the perfect girl, and yes, I said GIRL, one that causes zero complications and they don't actually even have to think about. Like, at all.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shout out to all the Californians going about their day knowing cities nearby are just drifting into the ocean. A wild amount of boundaries and disassociation helping us get through the day.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read the whole thread.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like it and I'd like more of it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/10/2026
Klan ass federal government
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We live in a country where the political reaction to folks demanding police stop public randomized beatings and killings was the election of this administration. An admin that regularly beats and kills thousands of people for the crime of being from another country or defending those people.
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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
love how we were told performative social justice was the problem, but the performance of literal violence is these people's entire life purpose
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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These people are everything I hate about the world. We handed government to the worst people in the country.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So many men appear to be wholly uninterested in being people.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“What are we fighting for? I know what I’m fighting for! I’m fighting for an increase in the possibility for tenderness among us… that’s what I’m fighting for, everywhere in the world and in my private life…And you bet, I try to give at least as much energy to my love life as I do to my war life because I think they’re the same. It’s why I’m fighting, and it’s, love is a way of nourishing my spirit in the positive way as against hatred.”— June Jordan (1994)
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is devastating and also a remarkable instance of public leadership from a candidate. There is some indication here the assault was politically motivated, which is even more disturbing.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If any of you have paid attention to Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in the past, you understand how little they will have to offer here.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I was in college, I had to walk past Frat row (called The Row) and it was always an indignity. Couches on front lawns putting up numbers rating you when you passed. One day, a Frat was having a "Mexican day", they had put fake fence wire around the house and hung up oranges everywhere...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
This publication, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, is really what I consider our most important publication now as Black radicals & cultural workers. Artfully produced, edited & designed, always thoughtful crucial content covering ground from politics to art criticism. I'm honored Olúfẹ́mi's cool with me.
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”
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The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response
The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The good thing about 2026 is that it's clear that the white supremacists are at the helm. You don't have to argue with Chait et al. You never did. You don't have to read their work because they do not have the range. You can't learn anything.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's hot out there! Farm workers are out in the fields working in these conditions in triple digit temperatures. America we need to do better. 1/
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread. (It’s a new world, fellow academics.)
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
At this point, if you’re still against Mayor Mamdani, please let me know so that I can immediately banish you from my life. Speak up! Say it with your chest! Announce yourselves!
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Ok what’s the real story here? Union busting? Trying to get higher paid people to quit?
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New polling of swing voters in Sunbelt States shows that populist message attacking oligarchs and corruption works better than GOP frame blaming Big Government. @waytowinus.bsky.social @jenancona.bsky.social @celindalake.bsky.social @motherjones.com 1/ www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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Democrats’ Recipe For Sun Belt Success: More Populism
New polling from a major donor group says the party should echo the messaging of some of its top candidates.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apnews.com/article/rene... Good For Them !......
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Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration office...
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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@theferocity.bsky.social thanks so much for the Lesbian bar story. I knew something had happened at a Lesbian bar but not much else. Appreciate the care for disabled people in the way you discussed it. Lost a facilitation gig because of being immunocompromised and needing accommodations this week.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I first heard this in a movie on Nuremberg featuring Alec Baldwin and it really stuck with me
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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