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Rebecca Young (she/her) 🐈‍⬛🐈🏳️‍🌈💙

@paxmeow.bsky.social
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Feminist, progressive, climate change activist and working mom of twins. Dreaming big and fighting hard. Over educated cat person. Here to listen, learn, organize, and connect. May never recover from the 2024 election but here we go.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 6h
We out here #moratoriumnow
Banners over freeway reading

Stop AI data centers

Moratorium now
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Mutton of the Sea @muttonofthesea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Been working with people across the state on getting Washington to pass a state-wide moratorium on AI data centers. Sunday, Oct. 4, please call or write your elected officials and tell them it’s time to get in front of this while we still can and ban AI data centers now. #moratoriumnow
Data Center moratorium now! Day of action: Oct. 4 QR code. WAIR, Washington AI resistance 
Map of Washington state showing AI moratorium events in Seattle, west Seattle, Ellensberg, Beacon Hill, Cle Wlum, Lyle, Olympia,Walla Walla, and UW
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 23h
Getting ready for our 10/4 day of action for a statewide data center moratorium in Washington! Find your closest action and join us! @wa-air.bsky.social @troublemakers.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
Overpass banner sign that reads

Stop AI data centersOverpass banner sign that reads

Moratorium now
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 26/07/2024
Stop saying “not all men” and instead get to the quiet work of not being that kind of man. If you have things to say, say them to the men who are that kind of man.
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Rebecca Young (she/her) 🐈‍⬛🐈🏳️‍🌈💙 @paxmeow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is so deeply disturbing on so many levels. Shut this industry down and throw these men in prison.
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Jonel @jonelstr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
URGENT: #SeattleDog people: The Seattle Animal Shelter needs TWO fosters for TWO moms with neonatal puppies. SUPER cute but not doing great in a kennel environment - Please email sasfoster@seattle.gov if you are able to foster. @cheriepriest.com @nedpyle.com please amplify if you can?
Sweet nursing Pitbull /Terrier mix mom and her 6 puppies, mom is Black and 5 of the puppies look black, one is gray.Three ADORABLE 5 week old pit mix puppies mom is not pictured - one is tan, one is gray and one is mixed white and gray
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Rebecca Young (she/her) 🐈‍⬛🐈🏳️‍🌈💙 @paxmeow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Let’s build the people power we need for the future we deserve!
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
I admit, when WA passed a law mandating a carbon-free electricity system by 2045, it did not occur to me that utilities would simply ignore the law & double down on gas plants. Laws mean nothing without credible, visible enforcement.
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WA wanted clean energy. But utilities plan fleet of gas plants
WA's utilities must go carbon-free by 2045. So why are they turning now to natural gas?
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 28/07/2026
Support SEPA reform in Seattle by asking the city council to end predatory delay procedures from city law. The big vote is today! Habitat for Humanity has an online letter 📧 campaign here that is easy to fill out and send: habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/164...
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Habitat for Humanity Seattle
Habitat for Humanity Seattle
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is subtle but important: according to the Supreme Court you literally HAVE TO ask for a lawyer in words. if you sit staring at the wall or ask "do i need a lawyer?" the cops can keep talking to you and trying to get you to respond for hours but if you *ask* for a lawyer they can not.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
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Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
NEW: Seattle Police gave Elon Musk's Starlink 100k in grant money to support their internet needs during the FIFA World Cup. Now advocates are calling on the cops to cut all ties with the right-wing billionaire. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Lands $100K Seattle Police Contract
Seattle advocates are calling on the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to end their new contract with right-wing billionaire Elon Musk’s company Starlink. SPD confirmed in an email to The Burner that th...
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 04/05/2026
Let me be blunt: Democrats should gerrymander the ever living shit out of every state where we have unified control of government. If we need to gerrymander our way to electing a Congress that will ban gerrymandering, then we should fucking do it. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...
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Stop Bringing a Fair Fight to a Knife Fight
We can't protect our democracy while pretending this is an ethics class.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Comedian Michelle Wolf at 2018 WHCD bard resonates more now: "I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you...He's helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you're profiting off of him"
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
4 days ago, NPR reported that the Trump administration is still withholding, in violation of the Epstein files statutes, 37 pages of documents that implicate him in the rape of a child. This should end his presidency. www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
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Justice Department publishes some missing Epstein files related to Trump
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Here's a list of all the places Trump is building concentration camps to brutalize non-white men, women, and kids—including many in the US legally and some who are citizens. Most will be sent to die in places they've never been to or to be tortured by Trump pals. # = Prisoners.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
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Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/02/2026
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026
Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island). The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/01/2026
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.
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Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Renee Good is dead. She was killed by ICE. Marimar Martinez has permanent injuries from being shot 5 times. Geraldo Campos was killed in ICE custody. 1,200 people are missing from Alligator Alcatraz & 2025 was the deadliest year on record. Yet these Dems gave them MORE money.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 07/01/2026
Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.
I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
 
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Rep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
they're doing it for gender, imo
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/01/2026
in this statement, Schumer says Trump lied to him THREE TIMES about this invasion. but Schumer's only concrete ask is for Trump to BRIEF CONGRESS. why? so Trump can lie again? IMPEACH. Call your reps and demand they IMPEACH. reps.fyi
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Find Your Representative
Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/01/2026
Any elected not calling for impeachment by the end of the day should be primaried
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/12/2025
If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25
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Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
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