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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 7h

The struggle has always been worth it. So have the people in it. So are you. Pause with me today. Breathe in solidarity, breathe out the weight you were never meant to carry alone. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #BreathingPractice

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 7h

The NLRB was left without a quorum for 345 days. Cases sat unanswered for nearly a year. Amazon, Starbucks, REI, and Trader Joe's won union elections and still have no contracts. The companies are simply refusing to bargain. And: union membership held steady in 2025.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1921, ten thousand armed coal miners marched against a private army and the United States military in the largest armed labor uprising in American history. They wore red bandanas around their necks — one likely origin of the word "redneck." Not the insult it became. A badge of solidarity.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She was 17 at Stonewall. A Latina trans woman who'd been on the streets since age 10. She co-founded STAR House for homeless trans youth — and was later booed off stage at pride by the movement she helped build. She got back up. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Muslims for Just Futures trains Muslim women in organizing, advocacy & healing justice. Muslim students are being detained for writing op-eds. Muslim women are not disappearing. They are building. #GoodTroubleThursday #MuslimWomen #GenderJustice

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They have tried to make you disappear. You are still here. Pause with me today. Breathe in presence, breathe out every attempt to erase you. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #YouBelong

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 1943, sailors dragged Mexican American kids out of diners and burned their clothes in the street. The city didn't prosecute the attackers. They banned the zoot suit. In 2025, the administration revoked the protected status of schools, churches, and hospitals from immigration raids.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last week: the wrongful conviction of twelve young Mexican American men. This week: what happened next. In June 1943, sailors marched into Mexican American neighborhoods with smuggled weapons. The people who had been attacked were criminalized. Sound familiar?

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

She started organizing farmworkers in her forties and kept going until her nineties. She signed up more UFW members than any other organizer, helped ban the short-handled hoe, and negotiated contracts, all while raising a family. The leader they thought would just make coffee. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ACLU took 230+ actions against the Trump admin in 2025 and won 64%. But the bigger story: ACLU, Brennan Center, NAACP LDF, AAJC & LatinoJustice PRLDEF filing together. An attack on any right is an attack on all. #GoodTroubleThursday #CoalitionWorks

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coalitions are built one relationship at a time. So is the self. Pause with me today. Breathe in connection, breathe out isolation. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #Mindfulness

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In 1944, a multiracial coalition fought for two years and freed twelve wrongfully convicted Mexican American men. In 2025, that same model showed up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a union sheet metal apprentice wrongfully deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison despite a court order protecting him.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In 1942, the LAPD rounded up over 600 young Mexican Americans, not because of evidence, but because of their clothes and their neighborhood. Twenty-two men were put on trial together, before an all-white jury. A multiracial coalition organized immediately, raised money, and fought for two years.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Vilissa Thompson built Ramp Your Voice around one premise: Black disabled women are not a niche. They are a community with expertise, leadership, and stories worth centering. Building the movement from the inside out. #GoodTroubleThursday #DisabilityJustice

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every body deserves dignity. Including yours. Especially yours. Pause with me today. Breathe in wholeness, breathe out every system that has measured your worth. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #DisabilityJustice

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Section 504 protects 1.4 million students with disabilities. It was won in 1977 when Judy Heumann and 150 disabled activists occupied a federal building for 25 days. The Office for Civil Rights that enforces it has lost nearly 50% of its staff. Seven of twelve regional offices closed.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hitler's racial ideology was significantly shaped by US eugenics programs. Yup; ours came first. More than 30 states passed forced sterilization laws. Hitler cited American race law in Mein Kampf. The Supreme Court upheld forced sterilization in 1927. That ruling hasn't been formally overturned.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a friend who worked for a health insurance company and said she had to leave because it was damaging her soul that she was expected to reject every claim the first time it was submitted.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wilbur and Orville get the credit. Katharine managed the business, nursed Orville back from a near-fatal crash, and secured the European contracts that made the airplane viable. Orville said she'd done as much as either of them. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The League of Women Voters: 30M voter contacts. 53 legal cases. 71% win rate. 9.3M voters protected. In one year. Founded in 1920. Still fighting in 2026. They are not stopping. #GoodTroubleThursday #VotingRights #LWV

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We can tell we're winning when they fight back so hard. That's been true every movement that ever won. Pause with me today. Breathe in endurance, breathe out despair. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #RestAsResistance

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Amber Nicole Thurman was 28 years old. A mother. Applying to nursing school. She developed a complication after a medication abortion. Doctors knew what she needed. Georgia's abortion ban made performing that procedure a crime. They delayed for nearly twenty hours. Amber died.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Women voted in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807 — thirty-one years. The legislature took that right away as a partisan political maneuver. Women then spent the next 113 years fighting to get back a right they had already held. #MoreToTheStory #WomensHistory #VotingRights #Reconstruction #Progress

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Ojibwe language went underground when the boarding schools came. Families kept it alive in secret. It's coming back to the surface now. Coming back is a profound act of defiance. #GoodTroubleThursday #IndigenousLanguage #LanguageRevitalization

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The takers cannot take what lives inside you. Pause with me today. Breathe in resilience, breathe out the grief of what was stolen. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #HealingJustice

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Big Beautiful Bill cut Medicaid. The Administration for Community Living was abolished in March 2025. RFK Jr. has proposed "wellness farms" where disabled people would be sent, denied medication, denied family contact, required to do agricultural labor.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

From the 1860s through the 1970s, the U.S. government forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families with a stated goal of "Kill the Indian, save the man." But families found ways to keep their languages alive underground, doing whatever it took to protect what was being hunted.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

She studied at Barnard, Cornell, Stanford, and Wisconsin. Never got a degree from any of them — she was Indigenous and a woman. Spent her life fighting for Haudenosaunee sovereignty. The Oneida Nation now holds 18,000 acres. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

After 8 years of legal battles, a sacred Ohlone burial ground was transferred to the Sogorea Te Land Trust. Oakland just voted to give them $844K for 16 more acres. Support by paying Shuumi — it means "gift." #GoodTroubleThursday #LandBack

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The land holds memory. So do you. Pause with me today. Breathe in rootedness, breathe out disconnection. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #IndigenousWisdom

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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions Move by state department to limit access is part of Trump’s crackdown on both lawful and undocumented immigration ...

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US halts all immigrant visa applications amid tightening restrictions

Move by state department to limit access is part of Trump’s crackdown on both lawful and undocumented immigration

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Indigenous sovereignty is not history. It is a living legal reality. And it is under sustained attack. Fast-tracked fossil fuel projects bypassing tribal consultation. Budget cuts to Indian Health Service. Legal challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act going undefended by the administration.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Where did the founders get the idea for a federal system where multiple sovereign nations govern together? One answer: the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which had been doing that for hundreds of years before European contact. Congress formally acknowledged its influence on the Constitution in 1988.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

At least 4 million people have already been thrown off SNAP since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last year.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

She was in the audience at the Audubon Ballroom when Malcolm X was shot. She cradled his head in her lap. A Japanese American woman interned as a child, who chose solidarity with Black and Puerto Rican communities her entire life. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The Muslim Justice Center in CT: Know Your Rights trainings, legal coordination, street medic training, community celebration. "We exist because existing institutions have repeatedly failed us." #GoodTroubleThursday #MuslimCommunity #CommunityPower

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You have the right to be here. Fully. Without conditions. Pause with me today. Breathe in dignity, breathe out every law that has ever said otherwise. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #Breathe

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In April 2025, a two-year-old girl born in Baton Rouge — a U.S. citizen — was deported to Honduras. Her father tried to stop it. ICE gave him less than a minute on the phone. A Trump-appointed judge tried to intervene. By the time the government called back, she was already there.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The 14th Amendment, won by Black Americans at enormous cost, was first successfully used at the Supreme Court by a Chinese immigrant named Lee Yick. The 1886 ruling has since protected women, undocumented immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people. Every one of them stands on ground someone else broke.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

When Congress needed the Declaration printed in 1777, they hired her. She printed it, distributed it, and put her own name on it — the only woman's name on any version of the Declaration. Nobody can un-sign it. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday #WomensHistory

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Alice Wong spent her life insisting disabled people get to tell their own stories. She started the Disability Visibility Project at 40. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2024. Died at 51 in 2025. The archive is still here. #GoodTroubleThursday #DisabilityJustice #AliceWong

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Your story belongs to history. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Pause with me today. Breathe in memory, breathe out erasure. #WellspringWednesday #FaithAndJustice #SoulCare #YouBelong

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The National Park Service deleted its page on Pauli Murray. The CDC removed health disparity data. The Department of Education removed resources on women in STEM. When we don't know who built things, we can't defend what they built. Sharing these histories is an act of preservation.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sojourner Truth never said "Ain't I a Woman?" — at least not the way most of us learned it. Truth was from upstate New York. Her first language was Dutch. She spoke standard English. Did you learn the rewritten version in school? Drop a 🔥. #MoreToTheStory #SojournerTruth #BlackHistory #WomensHistory

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

He refused the internment order, was arrested and convicted. Decades later a researcher found the government had fabricated the military necessity. His conviction was vacated in 1983. He spent the rest of his life saying: never again. #SaintsAndRebelsFriday

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

After 8 months of organizing, East New York residents bought their 20-unit building from an abusive landlord — and are converting it into a cooperative they own. "Enough is enough." #GoodTroubleThursday #HousingJustice #CommunityLandTrust

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Paul and Tenisha Tate-Austin spent $400,000 renovating their Marin City home. Their appraisal came back nearly $500,000 lower than comparable homes nearby. A white friend posing as the owner got a dramatically higher value. The racial wealth gap has a paper trail. So does the refusal to close it.

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Sandhya Jha @sandhyajha.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The GI Bill is celebrated as one of the greatest pieces of legislation in US history. It created the American middle class. That is true. Here's what's missing: Southern Democrats made sure it was administered locally — which meant that in most of the country, Black veterans were simply denied.

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 31/07/2026

Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:

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