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Elenca @kkelenca.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Happy birthday!! (I debated over which account would be best to message on to be sure you saw it and then saw this post here when I opened BS like a sign lol) May your day be peaceful and productive and fun! 🧡🧡🧡🧡

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Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

young posters, the use of language changed before you were born, so in case you didn't know this: the reason things like Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" isn't (derogatory) it's because access is *guaranteed* in exchange for your advance payments into the program

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 19/02/2025

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

Also because of the way the US is structured, only federal employee strikes would impact the federal government and they're currently suing to stop what's happening. A lot of the general strike discourse skirts the violence issue too. Cops have no problem using their unions as shields for murder

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/02/2025

That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.

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AlwaysACivilServant @drneuro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you're screaming at a hospital about teen trans care, keep screaming.

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Keepapitchinin @keepapitchinin.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Look for the helpers? Yes, but also BE the helper, at least once today.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s pretty obvious that the movement that overthrew apartheid in SA continues to make a lot of white American moderates and liberals uncomfortable and that’s why we get sanitized Teddy Bear Mandela the same way we get sanitized Panda Bear King but uh it’s all right there

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

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Elenca @kkelenca.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Congrats!! ❤️❤️ I hope things continue going smoothly for you and your health and comfort stay as steady as possible

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Americans, please call your senators and tell them to vote no on the confirmation of Russ Vought as head of OMB— it’s scheduled for 7 tonight and Vought is the co-author of Project 2025

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

ICE is Gaming Google Search U.S. Immigration is Gaming Google to Create a Mirage of Mass Deportations 13,000 archived ICE press releases timestamped to 24 January 2025. "Every article was updated on the 24th ... causing the Google SEO to...rank it higher." Brilliant work @darakerr.bsky.social!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/02/2025

This @melissagiragrant.com piece takes on social media narratives about protesting ('why aren't people in the streets?'), and highlights the fact that many communities have BEEN protesting, never STOPPED protesting, are ALWAYS fighting for their lives.

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The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Srsly. Appeasement has never worked to curb fascism. Thought we finally learned this for good in the run-up to WWII, but clearly not.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We've warned for years that on-campus surveillance (the explosion of CCTV cameras, schools using facial recognition, keycards that track student movements, etc etc) would be weaponized by a future government to chill speech and attack vulnerable students Welp... www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/tru...

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Trump Threatens to Deport Pro-Palestinian International Student Protesters

An executive order that purports to combat antisemitism on university campuses is likely to chill free speech and target students for pro-Palestine, antiwar and anti-racist views. The order, signed by...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting

Article Abstract

How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.

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Lauren Kaori Gurley @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨NEWS: A temporary order has been issued blocking the Labor Dept. from sharing any data with DOGE, after a group of unions, including AFGE, sued DOGE and held a major protest outside DOL yesterday. Here's the union's email:

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/02/2025

student protests did not stop. students protest year-round, even if you only pay attention when you're cheering for cops to round them up. hope this helps

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

OSU students tried to hold a multi-faith prayer in the middle of the campus quad in protest of the war and rooftop snipers were trained on them before the cops broke them up. And now many of the people who CHEERED for the cops, especially university administrators, are like 😮. It’s infuriating.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/02/2025

For those keeping track at home, Dems held the floor all night and are still going strong this morning.

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Elenca @kkelenca.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

💚💚💚💚💚💚 DEATH ARRIVES slowly and painfully with many ticks before the sweet release of oblivion

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Elenca @kkelenca.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

#CelesChere #FinalFantasyVI #FFVI #MyArt Back again with “What if the experimentation on Celes caused her eyes to glow with each spell she uses” and Bio/Poison this time

A drawing of Celes Chere from Final Fantasy VI. She has one hand raised and green bubbles swirl around. Her eyes glow in a matching green.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 03/02/2025

🧵 If I'm going to get hate mail over it, I'll do this thread over w/o typos: Bluntly, I'm hearing from Hill offices that messages sent via resistbot tend to be heavily discounted. Calling is a more impactful way of communicating with Members and Senators. So if you can call, call. 🧵

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Amartbee @amartbee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Toriyama last note was to Piccolo to waive goodbye to the teacher. Toyotaro's version on the left, corrections by Toriyama on the right.

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Rine @rine.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Korean elected officials climbed gates and pushed past armed men to get into parliament while organizing protests, I have zero faith in the American Senate bothering to stare down one of the 18 year old pukes raiding USAID.

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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I feel like those of us who studied the far right have been trying to raise the alarm for decades. Elected Democrats mostly couldn’t fathom the GOP would go this far. And here we are. It would be nice if they would now say, “You were right. What do we do?” Instead of just trying the same things.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One thing for Senate Democrats to do is announce they will use every tool at their disposal to block Bondi’s nomination until DOJ appoints a special counsel (ideally with beefed up firing protections) to investigate the widely reported crimes committed this week by Musk and his band of DOGE goons.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away. It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.

To all personnel:
At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, February 3, 2025. Agency personnel normally assigned to work at USAID headquarters will work remotely tomorrow, with the exception of personnel with essential on-site and building maintenance functions individually contacted by senior leadership. Further guidance will be forthcoming.

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with. www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit

In the order, CDC researchers were
instructed to remove references to or
mentions of a list of forbidden terms:
"Gender, transgender, pregnant person.
pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual,
non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at
birth, assigned female at birth
biologically male, biologically female,"'
according to an email sent to CDC
employees (see below)."

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

He also very directly and specifically blamed disabled people. And I am absolutely begging y’all to call it out and not leave us out of your activism. He literally named us. Why aren’t we on your list of at-risk groups?

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primrose @primimpropr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Y'ALL IF YOU DON'T CALL YOUR SENATORS ABOUT ANYTHING CALL ABOUT THIS. ask them why this is happening ask them how an independent government agency is under musk's control ask them what they plan to do about it Demand someone save the Office of Management and Budget from nazi control.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

there are simply too many stories and not enough paid journalists to write them all. this is by design.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 01/02/2025

What a nightmare. The crashed plane is reported to be an air ambulance—and multiple homes and cars are said to be on fire on the ground. (This is in NE Philly, near the Roosevelt Mall.)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/02/2025

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world. The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

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