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Oba Nelle (she/her)

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I am a human, not a bot. I just don’t really know how to do this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day to all that celebrate. I hope everyone gets early release from work on what should be a national holiday.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’ve set my OOO email, handed off what I can and signed off my computer. I’m. On. Vacation. Oh, and I also had my annual boob squish today. To celebrate, I tried a new recipe, Crispy Masala Tofu with Lemon Rive and Raita from NYT Cooking. #ImOnVacation
Crispy Masala Tofu with Lemon Rice and Raita in a blue bowl with a spoon, ready to be eaten.
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The company that makes the majority of packaged bias binding has already gone out of business. It’s going to get harder and harder to find craft materials.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If ICE and DHS end vehicle stops, good. But Alex Pretti wasn't in a vehicle when they shot him. Neither was Julio Cesar Sosa Celis. Nor Keith Porter Jr. The issue is this armed paramilitary that's been shooting and kidnapping people, not the fact that so many of their victims are driving.
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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It doesn’t matter if the man killed by ICE in Maine was authorized to work in the United States or not. It doesn’t matter if he had a social security or not. ICE should not be killing anyone. Period.
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/07/2026
A hero’s welcome for the Cabo Verde team arriving home ❤️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It will be a few years before I can go back to England but I would like to visit ancestral graves while there and, fortunately, Poole has a very close to one of the areas a branch of my family tree came from. I need to remember this museum when the time comes.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This was dinner tonight and it was a good one. The sauce is so lemony… I loved it! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...
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Lemony Peas and Dumplings (Published 2025)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026
need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/06/2026
Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 22/06/2026
ICE is still committing crimes and acts of terrorism against innocent people.
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Representative Ryan Clancy @ryanclancywi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's really, really important to follow workers' leads during union campaigns. And Starbucks workers are asking you to stop buying from Starbucks. So stop buying Starbucks.
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normaforhumanity.bsky.social @normaforhumanity.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Last song on this great inspirational show put together by Jane Fonda and The Committee for the First Amendment instead of watching a fight in a cage. 🙃
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A few weeks ago, I got to spend a few days, pretending I was in an Austen novel. Here are some portraits of me, living my best Regency life, in an ensemble I made. The spencer (short jacket) and hat are based on a 1807 fashion plate. Check out Irina Negrean Portraits on IG; she is absolute magic!
A side profile of a woman, wearing a short jacket of Saxon blue wool with a cape draped over her left shoulder. The cape is lined in raspberry silk and she wears a matching hat of draped wool.A woman, wearing a long gown of salmon colored cotton and a short jacket of Saxon blue wool with a cape draped over her left shoulder, is walking away from the camera into a field of wildflowers. She wears a matching hat of draped wool.A woman, caught mid-twirl, wearing a short jacket of Saxon blue wool with a cape draped over her left shoulder. She wears a matching hat of draped wool.A woman, wearing a long gown of salmon cotton and a short jacket of Saxon blue wool with a cape draped over her left shoulder. The cape is lined in raspberry silk and she wears a matching hat of draped wool.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/05/2026
I do not think it is possible to do this. The world today is so different from the one I grew up in. If you add cell phones into a story that doesn't have them, there are so many "why didn't they--" questions that arise.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
As a Christian, I don't think federal agencies should be referring to "Christ, our Savior" in any context. I don't need my government to validate my faith. That's why it's called faith. More importantly, my government shouldn't be invalidating the religions of other Americans.
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I just need to share how beautiful and adorable my grandma is today which is her 99th birthday!
A mid-forties woman poses for a selfie with her grandma on her 99th birthday. Her grandma looks like she’s at least 15 years younger.The birthday “girl”, wearing a sash that says Birthday Queen and a paper, bejeweled crown. 99 years young!
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Don’t let them pass the SAVE Act. It’s a direct attack on voting rights meant to disenfranchise millions. We must stop it now. Tell your senators: Vote NO on the SAVE Act and protect our democracy.
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Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act
Contact Congress today!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/03/2026
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I did a finished a thing…
An unlaced Victorian corset of ivory cotton sateen, bound and flossed in sage green on a pale blue background A woman wearing the corset over a black knit dress
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Cindy @catladyknitting.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We aren't going to forget about the pedophiles.
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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 19/02/2026
84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
February 19, 2026

INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY

As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members.

We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025.

We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942.

On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together.

We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII.

STOP REPEATING HISTORY.

#TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll
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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Please note the reason we have NOT converted these warehouses to housing is that the sewer infrastructure of warehouses is not sufficient for hundreds of humans to be in 'em living hygienic lives (i.e. not sitting in their own piss and shit). And note they are NOT doing sewer upgrades on them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 11/02/2026
I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. There’s no justification for shooting someone ten times in the back. The debate about what Alex Pretti did or didn’t do is irrelevant. The agents committed murder. It wasn’t a “bad shoot”. It was a killing
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Firing a few key faces at the top while maintaining the the fundamental system is one of the most common appeasement tactics in history. Don't settle for Bovino. Don't settle for Noem. Don't settle for Miller. ICE must be abolished. That is the bare minimum.
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Jeanne (she/they) @fangirljeanne.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There are rumors that ICE is dropping off people barefoot or even nude in the woods. I just want to remind people that these tactics aren’t new or from 1940’s Europe. Ask any indigenous people. It might be new to you, but they’ve been in this fight for centuries.
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Left to freeze, Darrell Night exposed Canada police’s deadly ‘starlight tours’
Cree man, now dead at 56, helped reveal practice in which Saskatoon police drove Indigenous people out of city and abandoned them in sub-zero temperatures
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/01/2026
Anyway this is the shit that they call "unskilled labor" but it is actually really fucking hard to be able to anticipate needs and meet them before they come up.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/01/2026
Can't believe I have to say this but climate change is responsible for extreme cold snaps.
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Oba Nelle (she/her) @obanelle.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Hey @calyxworks.com I just wanted to let you know, I got my 76 yo mom a green Portland Frog/Little Beirut sign hoodie for Christmas. She loves it (even though she doesn’t completely understand the Little Beirut part) and she wore it out and about yesterday. She said she got lots of smiles!
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