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Rocketelle

@rocketelle.bsky.social
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Social Services worker. Former public librarian. Still here to help :) Radical Outsider Left. Not a “Yes man”. Never a Democrat nor Republican. Proud Novo Collegian.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states. DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand. My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases. DOJ is now 0-5. My firm is 5-0. Lesson: When we fight we win.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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Rocketelle @rocketelle.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Today is brought to you by the number 4
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
yes. they pay more based on income in taxes for the thing that is then “free” for everyone. this is how public services work
They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?
A free preschool center opening in one of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Every day
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Rocketelle @rocketelle.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
EVERY public library system I’ve worked for has been complicit in this shit AND insisted I was overreacting when I warned them we were putting our patrons in danger by directing them to this abusive media platform for library program info. Fuck all y’all middle class white ladies in Library Admin 🖕
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Happy birthday to John Snow, the man who put the OG into epidemiology, without whom we'd all have cholera and the Broad Street pump would still have a handle
John SnowMap of cholera in Soho in 1854Broad(wick) Street pump (a replica thereof)The handle?
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I don’t think losing an election means you were “right about everything” or “tried to warn” all of us
Freedom of speech painting
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✠ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽 @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
meow
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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Emilia @lazerwalker.com · 26/02/2026
My primary practice may be Daoist rather than Buddhist, but I’ve nonetheless enjoyed pulling on this thread of how most English Buddhist teachings I’ve been exposed to are misguided by way of mistranslation. neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mist...
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(mis)Translating the Buddha
Take my attempt here with a grain of salt. Many book length treatments have argued different sides of this. I only hope that this can serv...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote. “[The government] knows this.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
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Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Midterm message:
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social We’re starting to get more attention, lol. “The Swoletariat: a history of leftist fitness” www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
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The Swoletariat: a history of leftist fitness : It's Been a Minute
So-called "swoletariats" are exercising for the resistance.There’s a lot of fitness content in conservative manosphere circles – that’s not new – but now, there are also fitness influencers who call t...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hard to believe the unbelievable cruelty of the Trump administration. You are watching the deliberate and illegal strangulation of 10 million people and the US media can hardly be bothered to notice. Whether the govt stays or falls, this man-made humanitarian crisis of epic proportions will remain.
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The gravest conditions are evident in the essentials, hitting households first and foremost, especially in poorer provinces and in communities without access to remittances or generators. Some estimates show that 89% of the porgilation already lives in extreme poverty. Every day brings extended power cuts, intermittent water, spoiled food, suspended classes, canceled surgeries, and transportation that stops without warning. Families spend entire days searching for fuel, cooking gas, or basic goods rather than working. The average Cuban expends enormous energy getting by day-to-day, and any effort to plan for tomorrow is premised on rumors.
For several years now, there has been an erosion of public order. Independent media has increasingly reported theft, nighttime insecurity, and murders, even as official statistics remain limited and difficult to verify. As economic stress deepens and blackouts lengthen, localized protests over food shortages and electricity cuts have reemerged. Conditions that strain daily survival also heighten the risk of further social unrest. At the same time, roughly 1,000 political prisoners remain behind bars following the July I1 protests, and new detentions continue. The state's response to instability remains rooted in control.= EL PAIS 50
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Those who can - cither with financial means or physical ability - have left.
Migration is not simply a side effect; it is the clearest measure of how little resilience remains. In 2025, Cubans were the third-largest asylum-seeking nationality worldwide.
Cuba's oil situation today
Against this already fragile baseline, recent events and policies have all but stopped oil imports to Cuba, increasing uncertainty.
First, through sanctions and high-seas seizures, the United States government has, for months, attempted to block Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba. Now, following the January 3rd U.S. military operation in Venezuela, those shipments have stopped.
Then, on January 29, 2026, the White House announced a new executive action that threatens tariffs against any country that provides oil to Cuba.
When compliance risk rises, suppliers and shippers tend to step back first and ask questions later. That chilling effect will reduce deliveries even in the absence of any enforcement action.
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Elizabeth D. Leonard @noisyfearless.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
AMEN. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is an absolute hero and has been right all along. It's not too late for folks who haven't been following her for years, as I have, to start reading her stuff immediately if they want to understand what's going on here. Thanks for posting, @pinetreeactivism.org !
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So Bissap Baobab gets evicted after neighbors complaining about “noise” and is being replaced by a bar doing the same kind of events, but run by white people.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Collins stood silently in the Oval Office clutching a red MAGA hat as Trump told lies about our elections and repeated his call for the federal government to take over vote counting in certain parts of the country. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
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Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections
When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
tbh it feels like Dem voters who do this are not only in the terminal stages of Strategist Brain but have also internalized the Dem tendency to negotiate against themselves You START with high demands. You START with exactly what you want plus extra. You only go down once that point is established
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/02/2026
Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state. This gives us a clear picture of where ICE is going next in the US: Everywhere. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/02/2026
That’s why we’ve launched a newsletter called Tracker. This limited series will follow how federal agents are carrying out Trump’s mass deportation program, tracking key developments and what they signal for the months ahead. Sign up now: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...
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Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus
As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/02/2026
The pace of change is accelerating, and the implications are far-reaching. Keeping up isn’t easy, but it’s essential. www.wired.com/newsletter/I...
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Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus
As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/02/2026
Last week, we reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the US. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/02/2026
"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 12/02/2026
Sesame Street educates its followers on iconic Black hairstyles in honor of Black History Month.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money. And if they can talk you into believing anyone else is to blame, they will keep picking your pockets and purchasing themselves politicians and getting away with it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
MINNESOTA Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social : “They are still racially profiling… Dems need to hold the line. The senate needs to hold the line. I will not forgive anyone who doesn’t stand their ground at this moment in time, and I don’t think the 🇺🇸 people will either.” (From @atrupar.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
9/ WTF?! 27 states have already agreed to use the SAVE system—which links to an SSA database mishandled by DOGE— to purge their voter rolls. (So the security of the 2026 election will be compromised even if the Save Anerica Act doesn’t pass.) www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...)
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
W.E.B. Du Bois said, the "black proletariat is not part of the white proletariat." "Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois’s Two Proletariats" by J. Phillip Thompson. items.ssrc.org/reading-raci...
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Du Bois’s <em>Two</em> Proletariats
[epq-quote align="align-right"]"What can be more radical or liberating than freedom and justice for all?"[/epq-quote] As an ideal, liberal democracy has great appeal. What can be more radical or liber...
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's strange how W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction gets read by some as a Marxist book. It informed his thinking and teaching but Du Bois said that sociologically, Marxism didn't apply to the United States as much as it would to other countries because of how racism resulted in two proletariats.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“She’s not from here.”
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference
Calling HR meme with Marco Rubio and JD Vance both saying "Europe should be more racist" but to different effect
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 15/02/2026
My English-Scots-Irish ancestors didn't die for multiculturalism; they killed for it. Killed Confederates who said shit exactly like this.
A racist tweet by Elon Musk:
For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone!" American culture, with its English-Scootts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that's why people come here.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 15/02/2026
The governor who refuses to ban caste discrimination now fundraising for the former mayor who set into motion "Cop City". 10/10 no notes, good job everybody
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Well well well
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
GINA CHRIST: “My name is Gina Christ. And I live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

I was on my way to work.

There’s people all around my car. I have both hands up on either side of my face — you cannot hear me.

An ICE agent breaks my driver’s side window, glass, reaches in, opens my door, pulls me out of the door, tells me to get on the ground, zip-ties me — and now gas, flashbangs, pepper spray.

There was no need. They detoured to grab me. They could have continued to drive. Their cars were past my car. They passed my car, jumped out of their cars, apprehended me, and kept going.

Once I was detained, it was very like, ‘Do you have water? Are you comfortable? How’s the heat?’ It was a very schizophrenic experience.

I mean, this is insane. This isn’t anything that could minutely be referred to as a couple of bad apples.”
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
ALIYA RAHMAN: “My name is Aliya Rahman. I was born in Northern Wisconsin, grew up in Bangladesh. I now live in Minneapolis.

I came upon a traffic jam that I pretty quickly realized was ICE.

I was told: ‘Move. I will break your effing window.’ And I couldn’t get a clear answer to where they wanted me to move to.

Very quickly, I was pulled out of that car. I fell twice — once right outside the car, and once behind the car face down.

I am disabled. I am autistic. I have a brain injury. And when I hit that ground face first, I just experienced shooting pain through my neck, through my head. My vision became blurry.

What happened to me in detention was far worse than what happened to me on camera. What happened to me in detention was a complete stripping of my rights.

Nobody knew I was there. I wasn’t told where I was going. I wasn’t given a phone call. And I’m going unconscious and I’m wondering — is this it? They call us bodies. Is this it for me? Am I going to die?

I want to live in a country where people who are enforcing the law treat people humanely.”
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran.

I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work.

I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders.

Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe.

I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7.

They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 15/02/2026
the Black Panthers were right
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK 
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/02/2026
Again and again, guardrails are a scam
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
At the Munich Security Conference this weekend, I told a hard truth. There is no ceasefire in Gaza. The assault continues. Palestinians continue to die. And Trump is issuing glossy brochures about fake future Gaza real estate deals instead of working to end the war.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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