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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Nottoway Plantation, the “largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South,” caught fire "The loss of Nottoway is not just a loss for Iberville Parish, but for the entire state of Louisiana,” officials said
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See photos, videos of fire that destroyed the Nottoway plantation in Louisiana
Now a popular wedding venue, the mansion built in 1859 was "not only the largest remaining antebellum mansion in the South but also a symbol of both the grandeur and the deep complexities of our regio...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Energy development–even when it’s clean energy–on tribal land must respect tribal sovereignty and follow federal laws. This case has been going on for years, and now OK is fighting a court order.
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Oklahoma wants to keep Osage County windfarm up despite order to dismantle
The State of Oklahoma is asking a federal judge to keep an Osage County wind farm operational, despite being ordered to dismantle it late last year.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/05/2025
asked by Stephen A. Smith about his Harvard shakedown, Trump starts ranting about Harlem and says "I got a very high Black vote"
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This from the @washingtonpost.com is wild
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Donald Trump’s loyalists cannot contain him. His maliciousness and incompetence have produced dangerous, even lethal, disruptions, @Peter_Wehner writes. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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America’s Mad King
The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/04/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene openly laughed at questions submitted by her concerned constituents. In total, 3 people were arrested—including 2 attendees who were tasered by Acworth police.
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MTG’s Town Hall Goes Haywire as Voters Tear Her to Shreds
Two of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s constituents were tasered over their protest.
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If your great policy ideas have to be promoted with the caveat of dissing previous administrations "great" policies, you're just selling a different shade of shitty. Watching grown folks in suits playing word games and rhetorical chess to sell the same lies of their grandparents. tax the wealthy!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/03/2025
Several Lebanese news outlets report that Israeli soldiers have opened fire at a French infantry unit serving in the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/xxcn4p
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Ruth Marcus @ruthmarcus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wrote this for the New Yorker about Donald Trump’s reign of terror against Big Law. Now he has gone after WilmerHale. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How Donald Trump Throttled Big Law
The President has two goals: to seek revenge and to intimidate lawyers challenging his agenda. Is a top firm’s deal with him a necessary act of survival or a damaging blow to the entire profession?
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is what happens when politicians traffic in mendacity and hypocrisy. Tell me again about those emails, Signal bros. 🙄 It's obvious this administration is complicit with leaking sensitive military secrets. Quite worse than HRC emails, imo.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Kaufmann: Through wars, recessions, and national crises, Social Security has never missed a payment and there's no reason it should.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Thank you to Mayors Nadia Mohamed and Roslyn Harmon for a beautiful evening of community at the inaugural mayors’ iftar. Being with our neighbors makes us stronger and able to face the uncertainty of the moment. We are not alone.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/03/2025
There is no substantive difference between a government shutdown and what Republicans are already doing and intend to do in the future. The only thing that’s changed is that the GOP can now claim to have bipartisan assent for their wave of mutilation.
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Vote the Bums Out
Nine Democratic senators lent their imprimatur to Donald Trump’s plan to destroy the government. Voters must make them pay.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/03/2025
Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam says his country is at risk of being drawn into a “new war”, as dozens of new Israeli air attacks against Hezbollah killed at least two people.
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Lebanon warns of ‘new war’ as Israel launches fresh deadly strikes
Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon kill at least two and injure eight others.
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Michelle Lee @momaeagle.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Returning Home: Bay Area Indigenous tribes fight for return of ancestors
For decades, thousands of Native American ancestral remains have been stored away in museums and academic institutions across California, despite a federal law requiring their return to descendants.
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This administration is set on eradicating all trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations. The actions from the Trump Administration and Congress are abhorrent. We need politicians to see us and the real threat to our existence as American Indian people! Silence only permits violence!
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This lawsuit falsely claimed that the Indigenous-led movement to stop the DAPL was actually started by Green Peace. It was brought by the same law firm that was using Native kids to try and gut tribal sovereignty.
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Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 17/03/2025
Tribal sovereignty is inherent—it predates the United States and is enshrined in treaties, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. We won't stop reminding the Trump administration of these facts.   Thank you to the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council for having me today.
U.S. Senator Tina Smith sitting with Tribal leaders and MIAC board members at their Sovereignty Day event at the Minnesota State Capitol.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/03/2025
BREAKING: The Israeli military has hit the Turkish Friendship Hospital for Cancer Patients in central Gaza, the only medical facility delivering cancer care in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/81f3yk
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
*screams into the void* so now we have to watch this administration humiliate itself on the world stage like a petulant spoiled child. Behavior that insults the valor of WWII vets like my Grandfather. America first?? a lie told to claim power. Land grabs of an Earth ablaze yet will endure despite us
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Poli Alert @polialert.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“Whether it’s Meta or Amazon or Bezos, it’s clear that Trump runs the show. That’s incredibly worrying. The whole job of the Fourth Estate is to hold the powerful accountable — not to bend the knee.” @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @atrupar.com open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Oliver Darcy on a cowed mainstream press
"It’s highly alarming how news institutions and Big Tech are behaving in response to an autocratic wannabe."
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The audacity of fundraising emails asking for more money to "save democracy" when y'all aren't even fighting. Money shouldn't be the deciding factor of whether good defeats evil. Greed, pride, & mendacity are the traits of a politician. Politicians are inherently corrupt & trained to lie for power.
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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It’s difficult to get a tree to grow when the roots are diseased.
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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
People are STILL SAYING “This isn’t who we are!”, and I really, really need yall to recognize that IT IS who this country is, and who it’s been since inception. Like c’mon now, I cannot hold y’all’s hand when I say it anymoooooore NOTHING will change until you see it and acknowledge it. Nothing.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Sen Murkowski has introduced a Senate bill to permanently name the highest peak in North America Mt Denali after Trump re-named it Mt McKinley.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
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Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Ignore the media headlines reporting that these moves ‘raise questions’ or ‘push the boundary.’ It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Breaking the Law
Just weeks in, the Trump administration has violated rules, laws, and the Constitution.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
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IllumiNative @illuminative.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“We are still here, still using our language and speaking that today, as well as using our culture and making sure that it is present and highly visible.” - Josie Lee (Ho-Chunk). Read more: loom.ly/YEJ6vQE
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Ho-Chunk are part of Wisconsin’s living history
The Ho-Chunk Nation Museum and Cultural Center in Tomah seeks to preserve and promote the tribe's history and culture. "If it weren’t for Ho-Chunk people, we wouldn’t have the state as it exists today...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/02/2025
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW: Ahmad Khalil, A Lone Survivor in Gaza “The Israelis shot my father, my mother, my sisters and my brothers.” vimeo.com/1053892294
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Ahmad Khalil, A Lone Survivor in Gaza
Ahmad Khalil's immediate family was killed in front of him while they were displaced in a school in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Israeli forces entered…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I keep seeing folks understandably point out that there are Democratic lawmakers who are scared to speak out for fear of retribution. I'm sympathetic to that. But also: no reasonable adult would begrudge a lawmaker for giving up their seat for someone who's willing to speak up. That's their job.
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Dr. Joely Proudfit @nativeprof.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Duwamish Tribe gets another chance at federal recognition
The Duwamish Tribe, a group of Indigenous people that has sought federal recognition as a sovereign Indian nation for nearly 50 years, will get another chance to make its case, a judge ruled last week
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 05/02/2025
“Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the last week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history,” @jamellebouie.net writes.
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Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I Hate Politicians!! We deserve leaders not these fools and maniacs. It's infuriating how some Democrats are still so sensitive about losing but have no fkn plan except to block progressives. You will continue to lose because you refuse to hear the screams for a #FreePalestine NOT ethnic cleansing
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is ethnic cleansing. Live Updates: Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza: Live Updates
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IllumiNative @illuminative.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Native Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are breaking down financial barriers & fueling entrepreneurship, homeownership & economic sovereignty. Let's invest in a future where all Native communities thrive. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...
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Forbes EQ BrandVoice: From Financial Barriers To Breakthroughs: How Native CDFIs Are Changing The Game
Native CDFIs are empowering communities with capital, credit and financial education; acting as catalysts for generational wealth, fueling entrepreneurship, homeownership and economic sovereignty.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@indivisible.org is absolutely crushing it on activism right now — federal and state. Join them wherever you live to get engaged in advocacy for democracy.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thank you @jasmineforus.bsky.social. THIS is the energy we need from the opposition party during an attack on democracy.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Wonder if MAGA Christians support Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinian Christians? Yes, there are Palestinians who are Christian who are being bombed, killed, and occupied. Israel bombed Churches in Gaza. Is this fine? Or do only white Christian lives matter?
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW: As the political leaders of the U.S. and Israel claimed ownership of Gaza in a February 4 press conference, we focus on the stories of impacted Palestinians forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip. youtu.be/0PgAsfg9_gY
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Forcibly Displaced in Gaza
YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
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Christina Alaniz - M.S.Ed. @radicalaunty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Bakati Sellers, you have me fuming.Take a beat and fkn listen to the words coming out of Josh's mouth. It's embarrassing that you're this clueless & no better than Scott with the bs rhetoric and gaslighting. You're both so disconnected from the reality of the situation. Josh knows! #ethniccleansing
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/02/2025
"Unless the US ends its military support, Gaza will also be Trump’s war." Ahead of US President Trump’s talks with Israeli PM Netanyahu, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the US to cut off military assistance to Israel. 🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/88c0lj
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Shocking no one, Republican Senator Sen Cassidy, who’s up for reelection in 2026, voted to protect his job instead of his constituents.
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Senate committee advances RFK Jr.'s nomination for HHS secretary in party-line vote
The Senate Finance Committee advanced Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination Tuesday.
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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I want to say something on here that may trigger some of you, and I’m gonna hold your hand while I do. If you are a follower of a certain skin tone (🤚🏻), and you insert yourself into a convo intended for persons more of my skin tone (🤚🏾) or darker, I may check you. This is my space. I curate for the
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