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Kipp Dawson

@kippdawson.bsky.social
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Retired (woman) coal miner, public school teacher; not at all retired from 70+ years "good trouble" work for justice and a verdant, peaceful planet for all; find me at kippdawson.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"the senseless sacrifice of decades of common-good investments in everything from medical research to national parks..." thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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A storm of dissent against MAGA is brewing into a hurricane
President Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe approach to MAGA governance is generating shock and disgust among Americans.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Join us on April 17!!
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Pittsburgh. April 17.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m sure they’d love to move us actual autistics to the camps anyone else who is disabled, different, dissident, ill, artist, compassionate, queer.
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@joyce56 @joyce56.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
OMG, this is trump's America. 😔
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Do we think ICE doesn’t apply to us because we were born in Ohio or California? Trump made it clear - “Homegrowns are next.” But first they gotta build more camps for all of us.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ugly and uglier.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Nothing new on the POTUS playbook; second time as dangerous farce.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Trump/Musk is flooding the zone, here is how you keep up: Trump taking cash bribes from oligarchs in exchange for power, Oligarchs steal from US gutting safety & opportunity for working families, Trump/Oligarchs doing horrible things to innocent people to distract US from their crimes against US.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Please recognize this: what POTUS/SCOTUS get away with doing to immigrants & green-card & visa holders, they can get away with doing to the rest of us.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Justice Action Center @justiceactionctr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🎉BREAKING: We won! The judge just officially stayed (blocked) the federal notice that was set to end humanitarian parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on April 24th. The court also granted us class certification. Stay tuned for more details on what this ruling means!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/04/2025
Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/03/2025
Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
And so, as it must for all years, 1984 came. But instead instead of leaving, it crept into dark places and grew, awaited its time and grew some more, and forty years later it sprang out and shouted, “Here I am! Greatness!!” Some rallied around it. Some said, “It’s not so bad.” So the fight is on.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
And today, Trump transforms more than half a million legal residents of the USA into illegals subject to deportation. With a wave of his royal hand.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“Bizarre,” yes; but true
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Yes, please, Canada
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Jon Scop @jscop.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Holy f*ck. No, Adam, this is not a "test case," this is real fast-blooming fascism, right now. You voted for most of Trump's nominees. At least you didn't join Chuckles in his big yes, but you're not exactly inspiring anyone.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Yes, please and thank you, Canada.
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Jeff Bernstein @jabern.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In many a time, in many a land With many a gun in many a hand They came by the night, they came by the day Came with their guns to take us away With a knock on the door, knock on the door Here they come to take one more One more - Phil Ochs
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Administration Officials Believe Order Lets Immigration Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants (Gift Article)
It remains unclear whether the Trump administration will apply the law in this way. But such an interpretation, experts say, would infringe on basic civil liberties.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
People in Florida won a victory for all of us. These wins are important. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening
The Oscar-winning film, about a Palestinian community resisting displacement and violence from Israeli forces, has become the latest focus of a culture war in the state
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Absolutely.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
@summerlee.bsky.social Our Rep. Summer Lee met with hundreds of constituents in Pittsburgh and demonstrated how a real people’s and peoples’ representative builds “beloved communities” (MLK’s words) of #resistance in times like these. Watch. www.facebook.com/share/p/15ty...
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Redirecting...
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“Two weeks ago, I went down to D.C. because Congress had some questions about how we do things here in Boston, It might have been my voice speaking into the microphone that day, but it was 700,000 voices that gave Congress their answer: This is our city." www.wickedlocal.com/story/news/2...
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Boston 'is not a city that tolerates tyranny' Wu said. Hits back at Trump, ICE in address
"We are the city that leads in the storm; that stands up under pressure, together; and finds strength in each other."
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
When proven anti-Semite harass, expel, deport, and empower murder and war against Palestinians. Jews, and others in the — get this — name of “fightingg anti-semitism,” . . . Gratitude to Dave Zirin & The Nation & Portside portside.org/2025-03-20/t...
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Trump Has Ordered a Hit on Judaism
In 1988, the Saturday Night Live crew performed a skit about a game show hosted by Tom Hanks called “Jew, Not a Jew.” Contestants would look at a photo of a celebrity with an anglicized name and guess...
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
During World War II, the USA passed the “Enemy Aliens Act” to kidnap and incarcerate Japanese Americans, and in smaller numbers, some German-Americans. One speaks out here against Trump’s new invocation of that long-idle law, against current legally-here people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The US used the Alien Enemies Act to detain their families. Now, they are watching history repeat.
The statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A Pittsburgh teaching colleague shared this today. How many of our children will suffer as those who teach them are no longer “affordable” to the billionaires slashing our schools and everything else we the people pay our taxes for and need, especially our children secure.ngpvan.com/n6ZE7wsBrkuL...
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Oppose dismantling the U.S. Department of Education
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#Resistance from the educators at Columbia University’s Teachers College. dianeravitch.net/2025/03/20/t...
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ALERT! Teachers College Faculty Opposes Trump Attacks on Higher Education and DEI
The following statement was drafted and signed by faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University. The Trump administration is cynically using the pretext of “fighting anti-Semitism” t…
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So much admiration and gratitude for and to this woman.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 19/03/2025
Commentary from a teacher in St. Francis, Minn., on their breathtaking book ban policy. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/19/t...
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'The Handmaid's Tale' could really teach something to the kids in St. Francis. Too bad it's banned. • Minnesota Reformer
“The Bluest Eye” and “The Perks of Being Wallflower” are out.
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Manchester Evening News @manchestereveningnews.co.uk · 19/03/2025
A report has warned of the growing risks to lives, the economy, and the planet
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Met Office warns Earth is 'profoundly ill' as scientists conduct 'health check'
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Katherine Walker @kayfeet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thank you Sarah Inama for actively supporting inclusion! www.ktvb.com/article/news...
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'Everyone Is Welcome Day' asking for volunteers as inclusivity movement grows
The idea is to create a visible reminder throughout Idaho schools, workplaces, and communities that "inclusion matters." The event is scheduled for March 24.
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Schindermania @eschinderman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, is refusing to comply with orders to take down the “Everyone is welcome here” banner in her classroom…
A photo of a thank you note addressed to:
Sarah Inama
Lewis and Clark middle school 
4141 E. Pine Ave. 
Meridian, Idaho 83642
On the cover of the card is a bunch of bananas. It says thanks a bunch.
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Katherine Walker @kayfeet.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher, is leading the charge to fight the growing hate in USA. Small acts add up. www.ktvb.com/article/news...
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'Everyone Is Welcome Day' asking for volunteers as inclusivity movement grows
The idea is to create a visible reminder throughout Idaho schools, workplaces, and communities that "inclusion matters." The event is scheduled for March 24.
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Al Jazeera English @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Ecuador's violence surges as Noboa hires controversial military contractor
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“essentially closing research operations in my group” = no new experiments save 1 recently funded grant. Spending freezes limit our ability to order supplies and reagents. We need to focus remaining funding on maintaining personnel + analyzing existing samples w whatever’s left in the cabinet
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It pains us to say this. Our lab aims to find cures for many GI conditions. We proudly do both discovery & mentor students - Americans & non-americans alike, & we will have to pause both..unless we find support. So please, help support us keeping discovering & mentoring www.enteric-neuron.com/help
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Help support our work! | home
help, support, philanthropy, science, education, gastrointestinal motility disorders, enteric neurobiology, enteric neurons
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is where science is at. Amplify the message: when NIH is cut, science in this country stops. Science depends on the stability of the NIH +others. Funding cuts, delays, and uncertainties mean we can't do our work. Support KLAB, and also call your legislature and tell them this is unacceptable!
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
MAGA hate comes to Pittsburgh’s mayoral election. Sneakily and behind the scenes, of course. Working to unseat Pittsburgh’s first black mayor, Ed Gainey. Stealthfully. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
A Trump megadonor leans into a tight swing-state Democratic primary
Pennsylvania’s biggest Republican donor may be trying to put his thumb on the scale of a Democratic primary
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Right. Getting an MD/PhD is an 8-10 year endeavor. You can’t just fire a bunch of people at NIH and at universities and expect others to come in to keep up the science, or do other good science. Ramming in inexperienced people with a political agenda leads to shitty science.
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Her name is Dr. Rasha Alawieh. She is one of our latest sisters in this struggle. Maybe keep her name and story out there — no more disappeared!
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Kipp Dawson @kippdawson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
While well-heeled former presidents and politicians are silent, courageous leaders like Dr. Sirianni knowingly risk whatever they have to let us know what’s really happening. May we follow their lead and build the #resistance from below. Thank you, Rachael Sirianni.
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