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Angeleno abolitionist + gardener. White People 4 Black Lives member.

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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sigh, Newsom does it again.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/09/2026
The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.
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Osama Bin Laden Won
The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Corey Pein @coreypein.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Waymo detects you have an outstanding warrant. Waymo detects you are a debtor in default. Waymo detects you are a dissident.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
fascism enacted first on the unhoused will also happen to you
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There’s always enough money for wars, for ICE, for billionaires. Just not for you.
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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
If you hate ICE you should hate cops. What we are seeing currently is an expansion of the prison industrial complex, modern slavery, that has been ongoing under cops the entire time. That is how the frameworks for these abuses are so easy to expand quickly. It's the same monster.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/03/2026
thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.
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JusticeLA @justicela.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Monday, March 30th marks the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Board of Supervisor’s approving the Men’s Central Jail (MCJ) Closure Report, and the 16th angelversary of John Horton the 3rd who was murdered inside MCJ by Deputy gangs.
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JusticeLA @justicela.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Thanks to YOU, the Board of Supervisors passed two critical motions towards closing Men’s Central Jail and ending in-custody deaths! ✊🏽🎉 read more at tinyurl.com/march3motions THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER 📣📣 visit the link in our bio to sign-up for our weekly text message updates!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
This one is resonating today. #Andor
Screen shot from the show Andor. Someone says to Mon Mothma “They [meaning the Empire] don’t even bother to lie badly anymore.” Mon replies “I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
no just posting statements from canva
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#LosAngeles @pslweb.bsky.social #nowaronvenezuela
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/01/2026
You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Oh What a surprise Too bad everyone I know hasn't been loudly warning everyone they know about the inevitability of this exact situation for like two full years now
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Police departments are quietly disabling safeguards for AI-generated reports
Newly uncovered documents reveal how law enforcement agencies have quietly turned off accountability tools that indicate which police reports were written by AI, according to investigative journalist...
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
We called our leaders. We protested. What comes next? Join @surj.org’s Mass Meeting in #LosAngeles to learn about next steps in the movement to resist MAGA + protect our neighbors! Perfect opp for folx who want to join actions but may not know how or where. www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...
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Summer to Grow: Los Angeles Mass Meeting to Turn up the Heat · Showing Up for Racial Justice
In Summer 2025, it’s time to Turn up the Heat. Trump and his billionaire buds continue to push the limits of the presidency, and people are angry and frightened. Whether it’s about slashing Medicaid f...
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@schiff.senate.gov I hope you’re realizing this. Time to get @schumer.senate.gov out!
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#losangeles #transrightsarehumanrights
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#abolition
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Proud to show up to protect each other and to resist Trump and his billionaire buds. #losangeles @surj.bsky.social
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Protect our neighbors! Resist Trump and his billionaire buds! #losangeles #culvercity
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just a guy watching tv and posting, with no sense that he’s personally responsible for massively disrupting most of the institutions involved and the lives of their personnel
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✨️Angélica✨️ @angelica4us.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Attention Los Angeles
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Reminder that LA Mayor + City Council took money from LA Fire Dept to give to LAPD’s already $3 billion budget… #abolition 🛑⛓️
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Sam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This has become an area of academic research, that people often mistake the profound discomfort of visible poverty with risk of violent danger
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People "Feel Unsafe" Because Visible Poverty Is Everywhere
Media hysteria around “rising crime” works because it touches on something real: a palpable increase in visible human suffering. What matters is how we alleviate that suffering.
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So Republicans only think elections are run well if it leads to results they like. Why am I not surprised.
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The most cathartic watch ever.
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Sitting here wondering why @npr.org is using a Trump administrator as an expert on what is or isn’t legal….Why are we propping them up as being any kind of expert on legality? Here's what another Trump presidency could mean for student loans www.npr.org/2024/11/14/n...
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
"That tendency to want to protect your child is a natural one, but it’s also one that is manufactured by the fact that we live in a capitalist society that pushes us to [think] that it’s everybody against everybody else ... [T]hat’s part of the rhetoric of fear." (@prismreports.bsky.social)
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When abolition and parenting intertwine
Editors of a new anthology “We Grow the World Together” reflect on how parenting and an abolitionist politic inform one another
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Let’s see how @nytimes.com then somehow translates this into some elaborate bona fide plan.
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 11/02/2024
Slavery was Legal. Colonialism was Legal. Jim Crow was Legal. Apartheid was Legal. Legality depends on who has power and the kinds of laws they pass to preserve their own privileges and bigoted views. Legality often has nothing to do with justice.
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
🙄 🙄 Wouldn’t it just be easier to cancel it altogether? #cancelstudentdebt
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Hi Angeleno friends! @justicela.bsky.social texts weekly actions for you to help replace LA’s focus on policing and incarceration with care and community. Here is the link to sign up for weekly text actions! jlanow.org/actionlist
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Take Action with JusticeLA
The need to decarcerate is higher now than ever. So is the opportunity. Help us put pressure on system actors we are targeting. The more of us coming together to take the same action, the more power w...
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Or is the system working exactly as it was intended?
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 01/12/2023
+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
A screenshot of a tweet from San Antonio’s local newspaper, The Express News (@ExpressNews). The text reads, “Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.” Below the text is a link card featuring a photo of the aforementioned Cancun-loving demagogue, holding a microphone up to his undeniably punchable face.
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Our connections to and complicity with genocide are everywhere. #LACounty #ceasefirenow
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
This took way too long in the making, but I’m glad it finally happened! Join @justicela.bsky.social to fight for abolition in LA County!
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SarahB @sarahbow.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
The Vera Institute released a tool to track LA Co's unfulfilled promise to decrease the jail population. Highlights: over 40% of inmates have mental health needs and over 50% are pretrial and thus are constitutionally still innocent. 40 people in jail have died so far. Join @justicela.bsky.social!
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Care First L.A.: Tracking Jail Decarceration
Explore data on the people incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jail system. Track the county's progress in reducing its jail population.
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