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loamandgrace.bsky.social

@loamandgrace.bsky.social
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Dirt, moss & lichen lover. Midwest transplant, but still a New Yorker at heart. Artist, naturalist, neurodivergent. mom to a couple cool humans. I will like all your pet pictures.

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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Read letters written by children held in the Dilley detention center: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Loving our neighbors is real, true and strong. We have not forgotten how to do it:
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2026
In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
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Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days
The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
800 showed up!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1922 #Womensart
Painting with stylised lake side landscape in reds, blues and purples, with relection of hills in still water
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 26/01/2026
Keith Porter Jr Geraldo Lunas Campos Renee Good Alex Pretti All killed by ICE/CBP. 32 others died in ICE custody in 2025 alone. That we know of. Meanwhile ICE has stopped paying for most detainee healthcare. This is a public health emergency. Public health and medical workers. We must speak out.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...
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Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
UK suffragettes (WSPU) who taught themselves jiu-jitsu to tackle violence from the police and male vigilantes (image via Mary Evans Picture Library) #womensmartialarts
Six monochrome photographs in sequence of a white woman in early 20th century dress practicing self defence moves on a man dressed as a UK policeman
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Songs don’t save the world. They save people. …And people do the rest.
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
If this projection is correct or even possibly correct, then immediate global government action is needed. Also, consider the push for new data centers & AI in this context. Context, consent and consequences matter. How did we become so obsessed with money? We’re on a rock in space! #landback
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Not sure about abolition work? Might data help? The U.S. leads the world in women’s incarceration rates. Here’s a state by state breakdown put in global context. South Dakota leads the board above El Salvador. Michigan looks good by comparison, but is still outpacing the global majority.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Gah! These textiles are so beautiful!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Cruelty is the word that keeps surfacing
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/11/2025
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick
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Joan Zahra Dark 🔥 جون زهر درك @joandark.com · 26/10/2025
If you're dealing with food insecurity with food stamps being cut off in November, you can find local food pantries at foodfinder.us FindHelp also has food bank and pantry listings, as well as other mutual aid orgs and resources findhelp.org
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I think this is actually a smart idea. Large scale or small scale. @kentcountyindivisi.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @jasonfugate.dev
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 25/10/2025
Congress established an emergency fund to ensure that millions of Americans on SNAP continue to receive nutrition assistance when funding expires in November. Mr. President: Don’t let kids go hungry. Use these emergency funds to feed low-income families.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/10/2025
#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/10/2025
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Ah, and one of my favorite quilt pieces:
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Again, 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Nasty business
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Oh, one of my favorite paintings. “Artemisia Gentileschi assembles composition, light, anatomy, and material truth into a single moral engine that runs on courage” “the tyrant’s defeat is earned stroke by stroke” “a scene where justice is made visible and agency becomes action.”
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A Complete Analysis of “Judith Beheading Holofernes” by Artemisia Gentileschi – classicalcanvas
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2025
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
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I ❤️ Labs @ilovelabs111.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social This feels like an escalation in the the scale and extreme actions ICE is taking www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Stephanie Ruhle @stephruhle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Love this piece!
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loamandgrace.bsky.social @loamandgrace.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ugh, I hate everything about this.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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Silkabelli (cittadina UE 🇪🇺) @silkabelli.eurosky.social · 16/09/2025
Queen
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Pat Donaldson @ptdnldsn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It is true that more people are living with chronic diseases now. My husband has familial high blood pressure, and has been taking medication to control it and cycling 100 miles a week for the last 40 years instead of dying suddenly at fifty.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/09/2025
Good morning, you beautiful humans. We have some good momentum going into this week ahead of Thursday’s hearing. Let’s use it! Call your reps, demand they fire RFK Jr. They’re listening- we’ll see which of them steps up to do the right thing. #SaveHHS #USAnotRFK #FireRFKJr
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Impeach Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (UPDATED 8/31) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates August 31, 2025: On Thursday, September 4th, RFK Jr. will testify before the Senate Finance Committee. August 28, 2025: After only four weeks …
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Unfortunately, we are not on this list. But my kids won't be victims in RFK's pro-cancer crusade. #Momvocate
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We were warned.
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