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Manda Adams 🌈♿️she/her

@revmanda.bsky.social
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UCC clergy, disabled. I love Jesus & my Muslim spouse. Mamá de una asilada. 1st wave #longcovid. #axSpA. I’m here; I’m queer; my pain is moderate to severe.

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This could be us but our Supreme Court sucks
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
If we cannot solve anything with violence, then why are we funding weapons of war
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Q. (they/them) @quiara.net · 11/09/2025
I’m only $200 from the barebones goal. Thank you so much. 💙
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/09/2025
"Today’s decision sets a course for the United States to become a country where masked officers pluck people from streets and businesses because of how they look."
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Supreme Court blesses racial profiling by ICE
The conservative justices don't explain a decision that green lights detaining people for how they look.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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Stephen | Queer & Disabled Creator @pronouncedsteven.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
We are currently at $120/$435 If you wish to help support you can donate below ⤵️
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is who they are. And every single politician who fails to call this out publicly and loudly and unequivocally is affirmatively, actively contributing to this evil.
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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Abbott wants Texas Dems to be removed from office for "abandoning" their voters for 10 days. Yet my Congressman Sylvester Turner died on March 5th & Abbott didn't call for a replacement election until November with an expect runoff in December. I'll go 10 months without representation. Weird, right?
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.
A large gray cat sits on a partially-closed shoebox. Another cat’s face pokes out of the open corner of the box.
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Robert Saint Lawrence @robertsaintlawrence.bandcamp.com · 27/06/2025
“What you should immediately do if a relative is arrested by ICE” ~ @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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What you should immediately do if a relative is arrested by ICE
Immigrant advocacy groups provide guidance on what you can do when a family member is detained by immigrant enforcement officials.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Healthcare settings have a duty to mitigate COVID. Patients shouldn’t be infected in the place they go to seek care. What about HCWs? A new study showed 40% had symptoms of Long Covid. This is a mass disabling event. It’s creating chronic illness patients, while taking HCWs out of the workforce:
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Studies detail high rates of long COVID among healthcare, dental workers
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David Hawkins-Weeks @hawkinsweeks.eurosky.social · 24/04/2025
Love this work by Mark Cohen… Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography
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Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York – in pictures
Mark Cohen’s photographs of his daily walks in New York show the world viewed from the height of a child – revealing fresh threats, thrills and perspectives
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here
Email from DHS to unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I know times are bad because any date from the future (2034, 2078, 2026) sounds like it could be the title of a post-apocalyptic movie.
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Locutest of Borg [she/her] 🏳️‍⚧️🍉◼️ @audrilou.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Reminds me that the coiner of the phrase “be gay, do crime” meant that shit and gets annoyed when people use it as a silly little phrase instead of a call to action
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serendipityfalcon.bsky.social @serendipityfalcon.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thank you. I am sick of all the outrage being about the one man they say is a mistake. They were all mistakes. All horrible dismissals of due process. Each and every extraordinary rendition is a mistake and a crime.
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SNC @steelncandy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I learned young that "unlawful" and "wrong" are distinct and often unrelated concepts. Feels like that should be a more widespread idea
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This, all day every day.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As the administration and the Supreme Court have demonstrated, the law is not a moral instrument. And we cannot afford to treat it as such in an era that necessitates widespread resistance.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I think we should name the extent of the administration's law-breaking and call out their lies. We should also tell the truth of people's stories. Sometimes, this will mean pointing out that someone had legal status or didn't commit any crimes. But we can do that without abandoning everyone else.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Put differently, if the administration scooped up 20 activists tomorrow, myself included, and shipped us off to some nightmarish place, and you heard a news report saying "15 of those activists had no criminal record," I would be one of the other five. Would my fate be important?
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Ben Fowler @benmffowler.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Apologies if this was one of the conclusions but the powers that be must've figured out long ago how much universal healthcare would have freed us up to get mad in public.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/03/2025
As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.
Showing the accessibility settings for alt text in bluesky with two options:

Require alt text before posting
Display larger alt text badges

Both are checked
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.
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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
BTW, the original reporting about how the DOGE kids want to rewrite the social-security COBOL code-base ... ... came from @makenakelly.bsky.social at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/doge-r... (As ever, the Wired team continues to absolutely kill it in their DOGE coverage: Subscribe if you can)
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits? The New Jersey system crashed ... ... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems Nope He was wrong the COBOL ran *fine* It was the newer web-site code that croaked 5/9
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"A good example of this could be witnessed during the pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, businesses shut down en masse. Laid-off employees swarmed online to apply for unemployment benefits, and the websites for many state governments crashed under the load. In New Jersey, the governor told the press that their COBOL systems desperately needed help to deal with the new demands. “Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old,” he noted.

But technologists who were working behind the scenes to fix the problems knew that the number-crunching COBOL wasn’t the problem. That old stuff was working fine. No, it was the newer stuff that had crashed — the programs powering the website itself.

“The thing that went bananas was this web application in between the mainframe and the outside world. That was the thing that sort of fell apart,” says Marianne Bellotti, a programmer and writer who worked for years on government systems, and who observed New Jersey’s system. But it’s too embarrassing, as the historian Hicks points out, to admit that “oh, our web systems broke down.”

Bellotti’s seen the same thing happen with other government agencies, like the IRS. She was called in once to help with an IRS web app that wasn’t working. When they investigated, they found that, indeed, the problem was in newer programs, “this chunk of poorly written Java code”. The mainframe running COBOL, in contrast, was racing along like a Ferrari."
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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 29/03/2025
All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
One of the best ways you can help us fight mask bans is to wear a mask. Wear it to show solidarity with disabled and vulnerable people. Wear it to stand up to fascism. Wear it to protect your health for the battle ahead. The more people masking, the harder they are to ban. Normalize masking!
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I just think the MOST vulnerable people should have the MOST support and luxury and not the exact fucking opposite every fucking time in this goddamned country
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"people should start saving now" is an awful shitty thing to say to the 7.5M disabled people on SSI who legally cannot save more than $2k without losing their benefits which are a max of $943 a month to fucking begin with www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...
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Social Security has never missed a payment. DOGE actions threaten 'interruption of benefits,' ex-agency head says
New changes at the U.S. Social Security Administration may put its ability to deliver monthly benefit checks at risk, former agency head says.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Because the first question shifts the blame to the desperate, making their morality the focus, while the second question demands accountability from the powerful. It's easier to question survival than to challenge greed.
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
When did firing national park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than just taxing billionaires?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Part of my advocacy for not surrendering is sustaining, which involves taking breaks, pleasure, and beauty. See you in the streets (and these ancients producing brand new acorns and leaves on the trails).
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We must speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Though based on the latest science we should update Seuss to clarify that trees & other plants do have ways of speaking to each other & other kingdoms of life through astonishingly complex means & that Western science has been engaged in a long overdue process of learning to listen & understand them
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Really American @reallyamerican.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett exposes near $1 billion in new contracts for Musk in just 2 weeks: "This is nothing more than a money grab. He's not out there trying to save money for the American people, he's lining his pockets."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/02/2025
NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The “it’s just a flu!” COVID minimizing language has made people downplay the risks of COVID & forget how serious flu can be. After 5 years of COVID reinfections it’s hard to know if you’re “healthy” “I wasn’t aware that the flu virus could do something like this to a perfectly healthy child”
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Arkansas teen placed on life support after catching flu
This flu season has been rough in Arkansas and nationwide, with thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.
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United Church of Christ Washington D.C. Office @justiceucc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
❤️ This Valentine's Day, we are sending extra love to the dedicated, hard-working federal workers in our country! Amidst unprecedented budget cuts, illegal funding freezes, and an unpredictable political climate, your continued commitment and service does not go unnoticed.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My favorite covert public assistance program: The mortgage interest deduction.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/02/2025
TBH lot of people are on public assistance and don't even realize it, because it's not explicitly framed as govt assistance.
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