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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/05/2025

A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Judge appears about to order the release of Rümeysa Öztürk!

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Me, yesterday: yay, I finished my first year teaching in higher ed. Time to finish up grades so I can take a short break before summer classes My body, this morning: please say hello to a sore throat, headache, and body aches.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/05/2025

happy may day! poster by madeleine jubilee saito

Dictators, fascists, and oligarchs want us to believe that they are all-powerful and that we’d be nothing without them. The reality is, they don’t create anything. WE the people create EVERYTHING!

This poster was inspired by this passage from Daniel Hunter’s article “10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won”:

“It will be helpful to have a power analysis in our minds, specifically that’s known as the upside-down triangle. This tool was built to explain how power moves even under dictatorships.

The central tenet is that like an upside-down triangle, power can be unstable. It naturally topples over without anything supporting it. To prevent that, power relies on pillars of support to keep it upright. … Describing the pillars of support, Gene Sharp wrote:

‘By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler though a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule.’

Removing one pillar of support can often gain major, life-saving concessions. In response to Trump’s 2019 government shutdown, flight attendants prepared a national strike. Such a strike would ground planes across the country and a key transportation network. Within hours of announcing they were ‘mobilizing immediately’ for a strike, Trump capitulated.”

— Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/04/2025

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

What a shameful endorsement.

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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 26/04/2025

EVERYONE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THIS EVERYONE.

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2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Was Deported With No Meaningful Process, Judge Suspects
Asserting that "it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport" a U.S. citizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his "strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/04/2025

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

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RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In my grad union, we organized an access needs article. It included eliminating required medical documentation. The admin rejected our proposals at every turn. Now, RFK, Jr. wants to create a registry of Autistic people. That required documentation makes people less safe.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 21/04/2025

Hi friends! A good friend asked me to share this awesome new project— a literary magazine by trans kids, for trans kids, with a little help from trans adults. If you have a trans kid in your life, definitely check out Chrysalis Magazine! www.chrysalismagazine.org

ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF

Chrysalis

a new literary magazine by trans youth, for trans youth (created with a little help from trans adults)
These days, it feels like we are always hearing about trans kids and teens: Chrysalis was created so that trans, non-binary, intersex, gender-
queer, agender, two-spirit, and gender expansive youth can speak for themselves - and most impor-
tantly, speak to one another.

At Chrysalis, we believe that art, literature, and culture are a key part of trans resistance and resilience for people of all ages. And we know that the creativity, talent, and imagination of trans youth is unparalleled!

Chrysalis exists to give that radiance a platform, and to mentor the next generation of trans writers.

Submit!
We are currently seeking submissions of visual art, poetry, non-fiction and fiction related to our first issue's theme: Strength. You can also submit reporting on local events related to trans youth, and questions for Danny Lavery, our advice columnist! Visit the submissions page of our website for more information: chrysalismagazine.org/submissions
Submissions deadline: June 15, 2025.

Support our Work

Chrysalis is a grassroots initiative: we do not yet have grant funding and or other resources. Your donations help us print the magazine, pay for our website and other subscriptions, and grow our efforts for the future. To support our work, visit chrysalismagazine.org/support-our-work
chrysalismagazine.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Because it's #EarthDay, I'm resharing my open library Against AI and Its Environmental Harms at: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Educators, as we consider our work and commitments to our students and their futures, how are we teaching about AI's climate impacts? How are we resisting AI hype? #EduSky

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Poor reporter interviewing me about financial aid next year got an earful when they asked if I think anything can be done to stop a disaster from happening. Just me ranting "this isn't the asteroid from Armageddon, this is a self-inflicted wound and we could reverse these illegal firings any day."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025

It's been three months + 1 day since Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, twice, at the inauguration. If you're still focused on pro-Palestine protestors as a threat to American Jews, then you don't really care about us. If you're still saying that cancel culture by the left is a thing, you're full of it.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There are just too many legendary JD Vance memes today to get any serious work done.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

At the very least, a Secretary of Defense probably shouldn’t be an incorrigible yapper. Every middle school student only had to learn about “loose lips sink ships” ONCE to be like “it’s time to tighten up!”

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Me: Yay! I got a bunch of grading done this weekend. Let's see, what is on the to-do list for tomorrow. Surely, my hard work will make this week a bit less hectic. 😎 :: checks list :: Me: Oh, more grading. A LOT more grading. 🫣

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/04/2025

I'm quite comfortable with abolishing deportations and giving every immigrant and refugee a home and food and education and a job and safety, and if you object on the basis that we don't give citizens those things, my answer is simply that we should be giving those things already.

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terririder.bsky.social @terririder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

No kings protest in Binghamton NY 🇺🇲 this is what democracy looks like. Love my community in Broome county NY.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A few hundred people in Binghamton came out to today and collectively said no to fascism. Two observations: 1. So many people driving by cheered & honked in solidarity. 2. The crowd skewed older (60+). Legacy media might not cover this, but collective dissent is happening across the country.

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

While many leaders are failing to meet this moment with active resistance and solidarity, many educators are doing the important work to protect immigrant students, families, and community members.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal." Check out "bargaining for the common good" www.advocate.com/news/chicago...

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Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections

Discrimination in education isn't welcome in the Windy City.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/04/2025

and there is more of this for democrats to do! demand to see the other people renditioned to this prison! conduct on camera interviews with people who have lost social security, veterans benefits and medical care because of DOGE, hold rallies against the administration’s lawlessness!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him. What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure. Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying. It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive?

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

RFK Jr. is a dangerous ghoul. @ericmgarcia.bsky.social’s work has always been important. And, in this particular moment he reminds us that we can resist. We can build a world where autistic lives are valued and supported.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.

A selfie of Andry José Hernández Romero, in better times, standing in front of a rainbow arch of balloons.

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel:1-877-447-4487

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I don’t know if Jon Hamm’s new show will be good. But what *do* I know? He can play a very handsome rich man from Westchester who is deeply sad, emotionally detached, and messy across multiple decades.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/04/2025

Many of us have long warned that the real antisemitic threat in the United States is white supremacist nationalism.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This sounds like an exciting new journal. It’s open source too!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

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Danny Mintz @dannymintz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

She wrote an op-ed in her college paper. That's the pretext.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.” This is the way. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The statement names farmworker union leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, who was picked up in what appears to be blatant retaliation for his organizing; SEIU Local 925 member Lewelyn Dixon, a University of Washington lab technician detained on her way home from visiting family; SEIU Local 509 member Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student whose detention by federal agents was captured in chilling footage; sheet metal worker Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a SMART Local 100 apprentice who was sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison complex; and United Auto Workers Local 2710 member Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by federal agents in front of his eight-months-pregnant wife.

The unions are also calling on employers, university administrators, and local governments to refuse to cooperate—and demanding that elected officials “find their spines.”

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Solidarity to Simmons faculty who are organizing for a better and more just higher education system. ❤️, a former SEIU 509 grad worker.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Katie Meyer @katiekat.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Do not look away from what is happening. New to organizing? Start talking to someone you care about. Ask them what they know about what is happening. Use the conversation as a starting point to plan what you will do *together* to resist this fascist administration.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 06/04/2025

We noticed some hateful flyers in our neighborhood and they were giving a rage headache every time we saw one. So instead of just being mad, we created new ones. Please feel free to use! This one is: Protect Trans Kids in black and white and in color.

Image description:
A white background with half a box outlined in black with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:"
Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says:
1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth
2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes)
3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers)
4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries.
5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth.
6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults.
At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids' Lives!"

Image description:
A cream background with half a pink box with black text that stretches across the top and says, "PROTECT TRANS KIDS!" & "GENDER AFFIRMING CARE:"
Then in two columns of 3 rows, it lists 1-6 that says:
1. Supports & affirms the gender identity of trans youth
2. Consists of a step-by-step process with social changes (e.g., shifts in name, hair pronouns, clothes)
3. Includes possible physical interventions (e.g. hair removal, voice coaching, puberty blockers)
4. Has a regret rate of less than 2%. Compared to a regret rate of 14% for all surgeries.
5. Reduces anxiety, depression & risk of suicide in trans youth.
6. Provides better mental health outcomes when provided to teens versus adults.
At the bottom it says, "Gender Affirming Care Saves Kids’ Lives!"

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