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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

You can eat all organic food, drink green juice every day, do yoga, get vitamin D and touch grass… and still become disabled. Wellness culture can’t save you from disability. What’s worse, most wellness “gurus” will blame you when you become ill. Wellness culture is toxic & eugenics adjacent.

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Iago Grimaldo @archvillain.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -Jacob Riis

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 25/04/2025

Sean Duffy says he hasn't seen enough data to believe in the benefits of bike lanes. So we put together this cheat sheet to help him out — mostly using information from his own department. buff.ly/lo1C6dR

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Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Is Dead Wrong About New York City's Bike Lanes - Streetsblog New York City

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says he hasn't seen enough data to believe in the benefits of bike lanes.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/04/2025

From my latest piece. The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It is not a “DEI” rollback it is the resegregation of American universities. Headline writers could at least be honest about this.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/04/2025

"Abolish ICE" sounded like a radical demand to Democrats, though ICE itself only dates to 2003. Today, it should be clear to even the most deluded liberals that if you establish institutions for the sole purpose of brutalizing people, authoritarians will inevitably use them to consolidate power.

A stormtrooper in full riot gear and a masked state mercenary with a baton look through the bars of a prison cell into a confinement area in which prisoners sit in bunks four levels high, very much reminiscent of the famous photographs from within the death camp Buchenwald during the Holocaust in which Nazis murdered millions of people.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

that op-ed featured chilling anecdotes like this one, which if you read closely you will note contain *not so much as a hint of any actual "consequences," steep or otherwise, this kid faced.* Just ... people disagreed with him, I guess? anyway, now students are being kidnapped and disappeared.

OPINION | I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead. The consequences for saying something outside the norm can be steep. I met Stephen Wiecek at our debate club. He's an outgoing, formidable first-year debater who often stays after meetings to help clean up. He's also conservative. At U.Va., where only 9 percent of students surveyed described themselves as a "strong
Republican" or "weak Republican, that puts him in the minority. He told me that he has often "straight-up lied" about his beliefs to avoid conflict. Sometimes it's at a party, sometimes it's at an a cappella rehearsal, and sometimes it's in the classroom. When politics comes up, "I just kind of go into survival mode," he said. "I tense up a lot more, because I've got to think very carefully about
how I word things. It's very anxiety inducing."

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

three years ago the New York Times published an op-ed by a college student complaining about the chilling effect of feeling "disdain" from fellow students, because the New York Times wanted to convince America the real threat to free expression was something other than a looming right-wing autocracy

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Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @brianamillslmft.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 09/04/2025

Tiny ballet flats, palm-sized flip flops, velcro-strap sneakers with movie character illustrations: Approximately 17,000 pairs of children’s shoes lined Pennsylvania Avenue in a memorial for Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military since October 2023.

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17,000 Children’s Shoes Line Pennsylvania Avenue in Moving Gaza Memorial

The pro-Palestine art installation in Washington, DC, coincided with anti-Trump marches across the country.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I just cried in my office after having another student in here talk about precautions they're taking about their status. I have received calls all week from people who need their names removed off publications or letters I was part of organizing. I feel sick and helpless and so so angry.

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Ms . Pen-in-my-knee EEK-en @skywitchy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Much of America in the coming months is going to be: *** I can excuse racism and transphobia but I draw the line at my 401(k) ——— You can excuse racism and transphobia?

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

that is absolutely the goal. someone told me they heard a clip of Elon Musk saying something like “people are living too long” and we know which people he’s talking about (i’m disabled as well). thank you for your courage, i’m trying to muster it too. some days easier than others.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/04/2025

SCOOP: In his first meeting with staff, Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

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Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall

Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation. “It’s a concerted effort to go after people who are from countries and religions that the Trump administration wants to get out of the country.”

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This conversation becomes more relevant by the minute. So grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting, to the brilliant minds & seasoned organizers who agreed to join me, & to Democratizing Justice & Funders for Justice for sponsoring Tomorrow! Don’t miss it! www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/04/2025

this is the logical extension of the bipartisan "tough on crime" politic

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

but who’s the opposing team member who DUCKED

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I believe the term is “rendition”

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Milk Bootlegger @vrexford.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Yes & he's also dumber than a rock www.threads.net/@tinageorge2...

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Tina George (@tinageorge2701) on Threads

Ummmmmm

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Sure you’ve lost your life savings but hey at least you can say all the slurs you want in the break room of the job you no longer have

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

not that wood is much of a conductor. idk

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

idk, i thought wood would just be warmer than stone, in general. doesn’t it being alive help? lol. i don’t really buy the dark trunks theory, bc how does the sun get to the trunk that’s under the snow to heat it up? but i would buy that wood absorbs heat from the air and conducts it through.

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

i’ve noticed it before in the park, how there’s a melted area around the roots and trunks

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

i thought Justice Sotomayor always dissents on death penalty cases

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

don’t you love how trees have little wells around them where the warmth of their aliveness has melted the snow? at least that’s how i interpret it, maybe i’m wrong

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 08/04/2025

"We will not forget those who have orchestrated this injustice, the govt officials and uni administrators who have targeted you without cause...They sit in their ivory towers, scrambling to fabricate lies and distort the truth, throwing accusations like stones in the hope that something will stick."

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To my husband, Mahmoud Khalil: I can’t wait to tell our son of his father’s bravery | Noor Abdalla

Your wrongful detention is testament to the fact that you have struck a nerve. They are trying to silence you, but they will fail

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 08/04/2025

today is National Library Workers Day, and i am asking you to support library workers by -using your library (it matters!); -defending library workers against the ongoing efforts to intimidate, silence, and criminalize them; -advocating for better pay for them. 📚

What is National Library Workers Day?
NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers.

On January 25, 2003, a resolution was proposed:
That in order to recognize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support staff and librarians that the Tuesday of National Library Week be designated National Library Workers Day; and, that on that day, interested library workers, library groups, and libraries should advocate for better compensation for all library workers and, if the day coincides with Equal Pay Day, these individuals, groups, and libraries should recognize both days together.

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

people imprisoned in these concentration camps (and he will have no problem finding people to imprison) will do the industry jobs as enslaved labor.

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

people sure can suck sometimes

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

On the Prisons Must Fall page on our website, we also share additional related resources for caregivers, teachers, parents, and educators looking to engage together with children about building communities of care without prisons or policing: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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Prisons Must Fall — Interrupting Criminalization

By Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball and gorgeously illustrated by Olly Costello, Prisons Must Fall is a powerful children’s book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring solutions that do not invol...

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Fellas is it gay to have a functioning economy

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

😂😂😂 I live in a pothos now.

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

😂 so true. i guess i meant it also metaphorically, that we can have our radical ideas and not be shy about sharing them when it’s appropriate, but also respect that we are working with all different kinds of people & ideas. i think we agree that moving strongly on points of agreement is the goal.

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dandelion @redandelion.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

one of my friends, in response to the plan to rewrite the entire SSA COBOL code base in 2-3 months: “I felt a terrible disturbance in the Force, as if millions of QA Engineers suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.”

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