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NJ Knitwit

@njknitwit.bsky.social
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Mother, teacher, knitter. I ❤️ public schools and democracy. Feminism benefits everyone. BLM. LGBTQIA+ ally. Here for The Resistance and your pet pics.

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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@mikiesherrill.bsky.social The 1st amendment exists everywhere, not in zones. So disappointed and disgusted that you used NJSP to support fascists instead of protecting peaceful citizens at Delaney Hall. Do the job we elected you to do! Get a backbone! ICE out of NJ!
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Stop the Charter School Money Grab. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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Stop the Charter School Money Grab
Charter schools get the same federal funding as public schools. But they are pushing for more-to create a half billion dollar a year slush fund of the federal Charter School Programs. It is not only u...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
real soul of the nation stuff do you want a state made up of masked guys doing murder in the street or civil servants researching cancer at the va
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen. Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
School vouchers are a scam that further divides children between the haves and have nots, and in so doing, miseducate us all to be more selfish against each other and ignorant about each other.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims they didn't realize they'd just invented Socialism for undocumented refugee immigrants. Happy Thanksgiving.
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I have a complicated relationship with the Catholic church, but Popes Leo and Francis give me hope for what we could be.
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Did Women Ruin the Workplace? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... No, but guys like this did. For real @nytimes.com ?
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Video: Opinion | Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
And can conservative feminism fix it?
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hell yeah!
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Tonight should be a good reminder to Senate Democrats they better not cave.
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
If you’re ok with vouchers being used for ski trips or piano lessons but not ok with SNAP benefits being used for pizza or cupcakes, it’s not the use of public money you have a problem with. It’s that you think wealthy people deserve perks and poor people deserve to be poor.
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Mark Weber @jerseyjazzman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
New post: Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/11/dear... If you do, YOU will feel the damage to your salary, your pension, and your health care. What issue could possibly be more important than that?
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Dear NJ Teachers and Their Families: You MUST Not Vote For Jack Ciattarelli
To all NJ public school staff and their families: You must not vote for Jack Ciattarelli. He will do serious, lasting damages to you person...
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The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this but: A vote is not a love letter for the perfect candidate. A vote is a chess move to win a world you want to live in.
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Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I can't find her on here but Mary Mack from the band Kissing Practice has just pulled my brain into focus like a dolly zoom. "AI is a thneed" #TheLorax #AI #LazyBabies
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
No Kings protesters in NJ & VA get to take all that energy to the polls now in very important elections in their states 2 weeks from now. Make your voices heard in the streets & at the ballot box. Vote against all Trump allies/enablers & send a message to the rest of them for us.
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Thousands of people who love America at the #NoKings rally in #Princeton this afternoon
Image of peaceful protesters holding signs in the shadow of George Washington and the Princeton Battle Monument
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/09/2025
If you’re too afraid to do your job, you should quit your job. If you’re too afraid to report on what’s going on because you’re afraid of MAGA death threats, you should stop being a reporter. if you’re too afraid to vote against honoring a white nationalist due to death threats, you should resign.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You guys are doing it again. Yes, NOAA is important because of the National Weather Service, but that is not all they do and you should stop saying it is. I wrote this for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read it and adjust your messaging accordingly. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 blog.ucs.org/science-blog...
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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)
Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.
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missnonyc.bsky.social @missnonyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Rob Sand, Dem candidate running for Governor in Iowa on school choice.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If there's a masculinity crisis in America, Ground Zero is the cowardly wusses who work for ICE and HSI, covering their faces with masks, fearful of an 80-year-old congresswoman, and reeking of panic What are the consequences for a U.S. secret police? My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Why are ICE agents such cowardly wusses? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, how the Trump-Leo divide was born in the ‘80s.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mothers Day from the Trump Administration. The goal isn’t for us to have more children, it’s to turn all of us into Tradwives.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Also, these "we should've kept schools open during covid" pieces are a giant Fuck You to every teacher or school staff member out there, and people need to get off that bullshit.
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Postcards to Swing States @postcards2win.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Please join us on Wed. April 16 to learn about our upcoming Postcards to Swing States programs for 2025 and 2026. We'll begin sign-ups on May 1 for postcards for November 2025 elections in Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. www.mobilize.us/ptp/event/76...
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New Postcard Programs! · Progressive Turnout Project
Please join us to learn about our upcoming Postcards to Swing States programs for 2025 and 2026. We'll begin sign-ups on May 1 for postcards for November 2025 elections in Virginia, Pennsylvania and...
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 21/03/2025
The current secretary of education said that we should teach reading, writing, and math in our schools, but not ideology. Ironically, if it wasn't for the ideology that everyone deserves to learn reading, writing, and math, we wouldn't have the ability to teach that to everyone.
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Send your Congress persons a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...
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Protect the U.S. Department of Education: Stop Trump's War on Children
The elimination of the U.S. Department of Education would turn back the clock on student rights and protections and bring those who wish to destroy neighborhood public schools one step closer to their...
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
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Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey Jersey, watch your cats!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Oppose proposed Sec Ed: www.nea.org/advocating-f...
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Oppose Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education | NEA
She aims to carry out the Project 2025 plan to dismantle the Department of Education and weaken public schools nationwide.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.
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Madison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!! 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🌎 women continue to face systemic barriers in STEM and it is imperative we continue to address the large gender gap in science we absolutely need the brilliance, tenacity, and innovations of women to face challenges such as climate change
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The #NFL removing the words "No racism" from the end zones of today's #SuperBowlLIX venue, New Orleans, because the president's attending the game, is so 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-…
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Regal👑Beagle @rbeagle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Public schools choose everyone. School Choice chooses some.
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rock on, federal workers 🥄
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Irony is dead in this moment along with common sense. Trump who squawked “but her emails” incessantly, let Musk (unelected/not a govt employee) send his crew of kids in to review classified information & plug devices of unknown origin into the government computer system, compromising everything.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tl;dr summary: The presence of minorities in professional positions in commercial aviation is the result of hard-won Civil Rights battles. Admission to these fields was never “given.” It had to be fought for. To even insinuate that they have not earned their place is an insult to this entire legacy.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Stop what you’re doing and read this.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I will never not be mad that legacy media allowed "the price of eggs" to stand in for "we're too fucking racist and misogynistic to vote for Harris" and now there isn't a single giddamn word about it. Meanwhile, at Publix today there are just a handful of egg cartons going for 8 bucks each:
A very empty section of grocery shelves where eggs should be
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@govmurphy.bsky.social looking forward to NJ following CA’s lead!
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.
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ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it
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NJ Knitwit @njknitwit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@govmurphy.bsky.social NJ’s turn to tag in
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