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Portablescholar

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Musical book nerd on the move as a pet sitter and scholar 🐕🐈‍⬛📕

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”
John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 01/05/2026
According to media reports, Israel intercepted an aid flotilla bound for Gaza near Greece and detained 175 activists. Israel’s interception of yet another aid flotilla is not security. It’s the detention of people trying to relieve the extreme suffering caused by Israel’s unlawful blockade of Gaza.
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Israeli forces intercept Gaza aid flotilla and plans to drop off activists in Greece
Activists attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza say Israeli forces have intercepted their flotilla near the southern Greek island of Crete.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.
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More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women | UN Women – Headquarters
Six months after the ceasefire, and as regional developments shift global attention, UN Women warns that women and girls in Gaza remain at critical risk.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The US Department of War Crimes.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
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Danielle, the Teal Joker ︽✵︽ @likethe309.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Remember when we kicked Russia out of all sports organizations and took all of their assets and all of that? Feels like that should be happening to us
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MaggieMay @sleeplesscrone.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
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ᜀᜈᜒᜃ - anni | she/siya @m-karapatan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Please contact your elected officials to stop the atrocities in Rojava against Kurds actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...
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Congress Must Act to Protect Kurdish Civilians in Rojava (Northeast Syria)
Kurdish civilians in Rojava (Northeast Syria) are facing ongoing attacks, displacement, and humanitarian suffering. Women, children, and elderly people are among the most vulnerable, living under cons...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/11/2025
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Phil @darkphil.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Birds of a feather….. This mother fuc*er is part of a huge flock.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
You’d think the President not knowing he appointed the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve would be a scandal. Someone alert Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper!
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Gabe @nospokenword.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
ICE operations aren't legitimate. The agency needs to be disbanded and any of their personnel that broke laws need to be atrested, charged and locked up.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 25/06/2025
Democrats are in a primarying mood, and these 128 House members should be *real* concerned right now.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Israel is obliterating women and children waiting in line for food and trying to drag us into a war based on Netanyahu’s lies and yet we’re still subjected to the same daily bullshit about how The Real Bad Guys are people who say that’s bad in different ways. Fuck off.
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Lauren Kayes @midheavens.bsky.social · 22/06/2024
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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Antifapup @antifapup.northsky.social · 21/06/2025
The concept of "Privatization" is Nazi ideology. Democracy, the rule of the people, should be above all, not the dollar.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.
Notecard by a homeless person expressing what object was most devastating to lose: Dentures were thrown away and coping isn’t something I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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God @thegodshow.com · 25/05/2025
It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
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General Strike Detroit/Downriver @genstrikedetroit.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
No one is free unless we are all free. Our liberation is bound together, in the struggle against oppression & exploitation. It is our duty to resist, it is our duty to build, & it is our duty to win. For a free & just humanity. #Generalstrikeus Let's Get Free. linktr.ee/generalstrikeus_detroit
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The crazy thing about humans is this: We could provide food, water, shelter, healthcare, & education to everyone on earth. The reason we don’t is because we’ve decided to put profits first. That’s it. The acquisition of bits of green paper over all else is a choice. Greed is holding us back.
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JuniperTheory @bimbo.city · 17/04/2025
Cis allies loudly declaring support also helps push back on one of the main goals of the anti trans movement, convincing the world that hating trans people is Normal Every random cis person going "well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't" means that idea can't spread
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@billydillydally.bsky.social @billydillydally.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#NoBuy2025 Try to patronize locally owned health food stores, local farmers markets, and close-by farms. Stop buying big ticket items, unless absolutely necessary. Use public transportation more often. Billionaires need us, but we don't need them. #BoycottAmazon #BoycottTesla #BoycottPublix
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/04/2025
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts. This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state. The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin. This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Too many Democrats spent a good part of last year demonizing campus protesters, refusing to acknowledge Palestinians as humans, and painting people who want an end to Israel's genocidal actions as terrorists. Trump is pouring on the gas, but Dems lit the match and threw in some logs.
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Don't accept this. Don't accept ANY of this. There are more of us than them.
Post from the Hampton Institute reading it has become increasingly clear that student debt was never meant to be paid off it was intended to create generations of indentured servants whose entire lives ... become property of the capitalist state. A repost of an image by More Perfect Union below the text reads over 42 million people have student loan debt and the photo from the post is a news story reading millenials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from 500 to 5000 dollars under Trump
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Flint @colonycollapse.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
To be absolutely clear, what ICE is doing is a crime. These arrests and deportations are broadly accepted as illegal, and the claim that they do not need to abide by the law is horse shit. We need to start petitioning our local PDs, posting anti ICE notices, and organizing to stop these arrests.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...
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Soros, ‘Globalism,’ and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary
In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, a global movement against corporate globalization and neoliberal capitalism developed, with anti-authoritarian and anarchist politics at it's head. In 1994, the ...
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
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Portablescholar @portablescholar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Please share and donate if you are able to! #solidarity #fundraiser
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Dr. Butch Ware for California Governor 2026 @butchware.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Saw a video of a Palestinian child trying to pick up the scraps of flesh that were left of his mother. And I live in a country where if you call this barbarism you risk arrest & deportation, where protest is ‘anti-Semitism’ & colleges turn students over to the gestapo. Fascism? We need new a word
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Portablescholar @portablescholar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Yesterday was world water day, and I wrote a little rant essay about the state of our water: substack.com/@theportable...
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World Water Day
Take some time to touch water and let it inspire you to act
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Portablescholar @portablescholar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Many people in the US today: 🧠 🏀
A wooden picnic table that someone has written Basketball in pen on the edge of🖊️
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Americans never shut up about being the greatest country in the world and beating the Nazis only to cower in fear the second fascists are knocking at the door. Just an unbelievably cowardly nation.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Gabe @nospokenword.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Same. Sorry to my diss advisor... I ❤️ you; please don't hate me!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"I have been subjected to a vicious, coordinated, and dehumanizing doxxing campaign led by Columbia affiliates Shai Davidai and David Lederer who, among others, have labeled me a security threat and called for my deportation"
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you're a United States Senator who can't be bothered to fight the rise of fascism or protect Congress' constitutional power of the purse, you should literally resign because you're worthless.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Democratic voters own this. No one forced them to keep re-electing these same feckless losers every cycle and yet they did. Look in a mirror.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
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