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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This isn't immigration control, it's genocide.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Some spots of good news. The clot did not move to my lungs. I got the job. I got the house. It's raining, because the sky still cares about the earth.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is James. I currently have a blood clot in my arm. He keeps resting his head exactly where it hurts, gently. I swear, he knows.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There are people who've been sick for 2, 3, 4+ years now & still aren’t believed by the people closest to them. Long COVID is real. Gaslighting is real. Support the people in your life trying to stay safe. You don’t need to experience it to care

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Literally describing themselves as occupying a blue state like hostile territory with the military and federal forces.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I think about him. The one who got away. Well, ran. Ran away. Writer too. The way we finished each other's sentences wasn't the way others do. Caramel combustion all the way along. When he found her? HER. She was possible. Churchy smiley real estate agent. He wears bow ties now.

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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

🚨 Update on the Republican budget bill!

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Quick reminder: It's impossible to "look Latino." Latina America is as diverse as the United States. When people use "Latino" as a physical descriptor, what they mean is Indigenous. All the Americas have the same history. Sometimes, the invaders and slaver owners spoke English. Sometimes Spanish.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So they passed a bill banning regulation of AI for 10 years. Appalling.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“Alisa, can you define your personal brand in one sentence fragment?”

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This is exciting. My new S*b*tack about my near-death experience is one of the fastest-rising newsletters in spirituality. I was a materialistic atheist when I died in 2015, but that all changed when I went Somewhere Else.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Democrats just flipped the Omaha mayor's office with ads like this. The right-wing obsession with genitals is starting to backfire.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I think new homes should have an option to include a special cat closet, a small room where a built-in litter box goes. It should be vented to an exterior wall, easy to clean, accessed by a cat door, with higher-end self-cleaning boxes. To clean the room, the homeowner uses an outside door.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

He is the antichrist. You know that, right?

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother's Day! I woke to find this on the counter. My son knows me so well! Pink concha from La Panadería, and vegan breakfast tacos from Plantaqueria. Iced coffee from Mila. #happymothersday

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/05/2025

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

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Randalynn @randalynn.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Alisa, with love from the Forward Party of Texas.... We love your content. Keep it up!

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I don't know. I just feel like the bathroom is the worst place to keep your toothbrush. Sharticles and pissspray. How about we keep it in a special container in the fridge, and just run it under warm water before use?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Seeing these all over Texas, in blue AND red neighborhoods. Humans against monsters. Working people against billionaires.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have been predicting as much for some time now. Nice to see it coming true. Check this out: open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...

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The Post-Trump Populist Revolution Will Begin in Texas—and It Won’t Look Like Anything Before

I want to be there when it happens.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The thing is, you can't legislate the human soul. Despots try to order people to stop loving their Gods, cultures, languages, partners. Fidel Castro tried to outlaw religion & homosexuality. Now he's dead, & Cubans are still being religious and gay. Trump and his EOs? Same eventual fate.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Fuck ICE. Racist sadistic pieces of shit. May they rot in hell.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Very interesting resource collecting stories of people who have been arrested and detained by ICE, or even disappeared to El Salvador, since Trump took office. theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...

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Disappeared In America

A mother and her three children were seized by ICE in a pre-dawn raid near Trump’s border czar Tom Homan’s home, despite following the legal process. After ten days in a Texas detention center and a w...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The men include: - Stiven Prieto, a barber who has tattoos relating to his job - Omar Cárdenas, an H-E-B- employee whose pocketwatch tattoo was labeled TDA - Gregori Díaz, arrested in North Carolina, who has tattoos of Pikachu, Mario, stars, and a rose. - José Caldera, whose partner is a citizen.

Photo showing Stiven Prieto Viera at a barbershop in Texas. He looks proud to be standing in front of a barber chair. He's wearing a Yankees cap.

Photo showing Omar Cardenas Martinez, provided by a relative. He's standing in front of the Fort Worth Stock Yards in a T shirt and shorts, looking like he's having a good time.

Black and white selfie photo of Gregori Diaz-Luces, shared by his mother. He's flashing a peace sign towards the camera, and is wearing a Dodgers cap.

Photo of Jose Gregoria Caldera Perez, provided by his partner Zulieka Reyes. He's holding a small child in one hand and making a silly face towards the camera, with his tongue out.

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 30/04/2025

They’ve got Wall Street. We’ve got each other. This May Day, join a growing movement demanding justice for working people. Learn more at maydaystrong.org #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 #MayDayStrong.

Photo of 6 raised fits over a background that reads "May Day", across the bottom are the words "National Day of Action, Stop the Billionaire Agenda, We are the Many. They are the Few."

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If we freed one, we can free more

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Have we figured out pickleball actually sucks yet or are we still being rich

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

No one who has ever gotten a tattoo of a lover's name has broken up with that person. That's how you know they're married right now. That's how you know you don't need further proof. Like in a court of law. You don't need courts. You have tattoos.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Minnesota Dept. of Health, Long COVID Guiding Council: 'Update from the Field: Low Dose Naltrexone for Treatment of Long COVID' 'This project is funded through the State of Minnesota' www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/lon...

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 29/04/2025

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In case you missed it, the Texas legislative session included bills for the state to have its own army and currency, and a dozen other deeply terrifying new laws.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

What the hell kind of country just lets its government get rid of food safety testing because Elon Musk said so? What a pathetic, stupid dump.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I feel one of the last lights of justice went out in an ever more horrible world.

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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 23/04/2025

A new state law allows more than 330,000 registered voters unaffiliated with parties to participate in New Mexico primary elections, and makes New Mexico the second state in U.S. history to enact semi-open primaries.

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Advocates, election officials celebrate New Mexico semi-open primaries law • Source New Mexico

Independent voters can use same-day registration for primary elections, register with one of the major parties, and then vote in the primary.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

All those costumes and guns and she can't even keep her purse secure.

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Author Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez @mizalisa.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Most streets above ground in Guanajuato are closed to cars. It is among the most beautiful and walkable cities in the world. Cars use underground tunnels.

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