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Mara

@marajreynolds.bsky.social
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Everything artist, auntie, educator | co-producer/creative director of @grayareapodcast.bsky.social 3x winner of the INN's Breaking Barriers award. marajreynolds.com/links

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 3h
(🧵) I always tell people the school-to-prison pipeline STARTED with Native Americans. The then-Dept. of War found that it cost $1M to KILL a Native American but only $1200 to “re-educate” them out of their culture, name, and heritage.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I just feel like this should be a bigger issue
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
There is NO industry that is untouched by prison labor. Not one. Men, women, and children as young as 14 make everything from clothes, furniture, electronics, and canned foods to building materials, school buses, and office supplies. Incarcerated women sew the uniforms for McDonald’s.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How many more markers of real fascism are we going to need? This, like every boundary they’ve pushed, is a test.
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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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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/10/2026
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“We’ve got a president who’s no stranger to the Epstein files leading a Gestapo campaign to round up our most vulnerable population of children, driving profits off their lives. It’s human trafficking," said founder of activist group against ICE facility for kids www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You ever find a sentence that just — "It's so straightforward to understand that the only form of perceived agency left to a victim is to decide that they weren't a victim at all." — yeah. That.
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Jessica & the Revenge of the Librarian 💉 @mlisrevenge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's time for the public to learn that public services cannot run on the concept of doing more with less. When there are large cuts to services that rely on public monies, people should feel the results. Libraries, universities, etc. need to stop trying to lessen the visibility of funding cuts.
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stay focused, folks
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Within a decade, I suspect that millennial calls for “consent training” will look just as out of touch as boomer calls for “rape whistles.” Both interventions were equally as successful. The rate of sexual assault has not changed on college campuses since we started measuring it 60 years ago.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 29/09/2026
In 2027 Seattle's minimum wage will be $22.14 per hour. That's more than THREE TIMES the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour—a rate that hasn't been raised since 2009. And yet somehow we're not the jobless wasteland orthodox economics would predict. Weird.
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Seattle announces 2027 minimum wage
The minimum wage in Seattle will increase 3.9% next year.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026
On Friday, ICE posted 33 detainee mortality reports to their online FOIA Library. Over the weekend, those reports were inexplicably deleted. We have archived them on our GitHub and are sharing them in hopes that the information is useful to journalists, researchers, and the general public.
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psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia
FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Annie Ross got her last laugh on us. "Because instead of one head, I've got two! And you know two heads are better thaaaan oooooooone!" This song will be in my head months at a time lol youtu.be/I2vehm72aZM?...
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Annie Ross – Twisted – 1959 TV Performance – [DES STEREO]
YouTube video by Bob Zwolinski
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Sluggo Smith @sluggosmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Make no mistake...this is taxpayer funded human trafficking. The rape and murder of these children will be future headlines.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Rev. Chris Lilley 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @frostinthepines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looks to be another challenging and illuminating read on the legal roots of vigilantism, providing vital context as we continue to confront and challenge the realities of white supremacy and White Christian nationalism. @gauthamrao.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social 🧵 1/4
A book cover lying flat on a light wood slatted surface. The cover features a dark, shadowy background with the left half of a horse's face wearing a bridle visible along the left edge. The main title "WHITE POWER" is written in large, white, diagonally-striped capital letters. Below that, the subtitle "POLICING AMERICAN SLAVERY" appears in smaller yellow capital letters, with each word separated by a thin yellow horizontal line. The author's name, "GAUTHAM RAO," is printed in solid white capital letters at the bottom.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” -Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A fond farewell to one of Henry County's finest
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As a producer of @grayareapodcast.bsky.social, "a show about justice and redemption" I must formally say: just, no. Abominably unnecessary.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was Joseph Campbell's go-to example of someone following her bliss, finding and honoring the path that only she could walk but anyone could learn from to find their own. Despite [so many valid criticisms] he was 1000% right that she is a Hero who should be central in our new mythology.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you're wondering about how Germans in the 1930s looked away as a giant industrial holocaust machine was constructed and operated by their own government, you're soaking in it.
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty My Grandma Donna: cups were made to be emptied and refilled. Be glad you have one at all, keep it intact and drink up!
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
At any point in the last decade a journalist could have followed up with a "what the fuck do you mean by that" And they don't, not a single "what the fuck are you talking about" followup in over a goddamn decade of this.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
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Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump regime is looking for immigrant detention camps big enough to hold up to 3,000 children. At an industry roundtable discussion, officials wouldn't say exactly where or when they need them, only that they’re expecting a “surge.” New from me in @prospect.org.
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Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion - The American Prospect
The order came the same day that the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 17/08/2026
At some point, liberal white people gotta stop pretending they don't understand conservative white people. Especially since they insist on keeping the conservatives in their circles.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/08/2026
Exactly how long are Americans expected to just let these people raid the treasury and spend a bunch of money we don't have on patently stupid and dangerous bullshit that makes us all less safe?
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tw: suicide. I can promise you that you live and work with people who might have suicidal ideation. you might not/will never know it, they might not show it to you; because why would they? But they too deserve to be a part of our world, even as they/we have our inner struggles.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Being an environmental educator is so hard some days. These days.
A photo of a parched and wetland floor: where weeks ago there was water, land is now bare and tacky with drying clay and algae. On this surface rests a pale dirty log, pieces of wood, and a cluster of a dozen or so fish the size of an adult's thumb or smaller which I first mistook for a glistening aluminum can, one of which turned out to be alive (we moved it and it slowly revived and swam away).
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
it's slavery, and it's unconstitutional ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Periodic reminder to check out and support your local Soil and Water Conservation District
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Mara @marajreynolds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check your blades!!!
A (recalled) cusinart food processor blade upside down on a kitchen counter top, showing a missing chunk of metal at the bottom right rivet
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
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Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 08/08/2026
this print is making me feel a little weepy
YOU HAVE TO STAY ALVE.
YOU'RE GOING TO BE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL MIDDLE AGED FREAK.
YOUNG FREAKS WILL SEE YOU IN THE STREET AND KNOW THAT THINGS CAN BE OKAY
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