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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Defend Scientific Research, Defend Our Universities, and Defend Our Communities! AAUP NC Call to Action on Proposed OMB Rules and on UNC Institutional Neutrality Policy drive.google.com/file/d/1VtEm... Text follows 1/

Since taking office, the Trump Administration has instituted multiple changes that threaten funding for science in the US. Congress has pushed back, passing budgets that continue to provide strong support for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other science agencies. In response, the Administration has sought to restrict and control science funding by other means. On May 29, Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued a set of proposed changes that would dramatically alter federal funding across the board, including funding for science. These sweeping changes would, among other things, reduce the role of peer review by making all grant decisions occur at the discretion of a political appointee, allow grant termination without cause, mandate that funding fit the “Administration's priorities” rather than being governed by scientific merit, seriously restrict foreign collaborations, and have other effects that will seriously damage the science enterprise in America. Similar rules will apply to all federal funding, from that for social science, the arts, and humanities to funding for programs that meet basic human needs. Science magazine has a good summary of some of the most impactful changes.

Of all the actions taken by the Administration with respect to federal funding, this is the most far-reaching and impactful. Scientific societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, are mobilizing their members to respond. There is a straightforward mechanism for the public to comment. Former NIH program officer Elizabeth Ginexi has written an exceptionally helpful guide on how to do so, with detailed suggestions. She emphasizes the value of individual comments that address specific provisions rather than form letters, and gives details you will need to write and submit an effective comment. She offers examples for people at all career stages and for concerned members of the public…

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These changes, if implemented, would have dramatic effects on universities across our state. Federal funding, vetted by experts in the respective areas, underlies much of the research taking place across NC. In addition to individual comments, we need our universities to speak out publicly. However, the Institutional Neutrality Policy put in place by the Board of Governors prohibits UNC schools from speaking out publicly on issues like this that are existential threats to the university and its mission. Further, university leaders’ public silence demoralizes the researchers across the system who have committed their lives to scientific inquiry, and the communities whose lives depend on the fruits of up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific research. Therefore, in addition to opposing the proposed OMB rules change, we call on the UNC Board of Governors, whose responsibility is to defend the UNC System and ensure that it can fulfill its mission, to eliminate this pernicious aspect of the current policy.

AAUP NC is working with scientists and other colleagues to defend higher education as a public good, and to prevent the politicization of science that these proposed OMB rules changes portend. We urge you to join us in this effort, and to spread the word among your colleagues and students.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is madness, the brainchild of a theocratic lunatic. Will UNC's institutional neutrality policy prevent administrators from denouncing what promises to be the destruction of scientific research and of higher education in this country? SPEAK OUT! open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You don't want to miss this conversation about ICE, racial justice, and resistance moderated by @dnbrgr.bsky.social with UNC Press authors @tinashull.bsky.social, Ashley Howard, and Felicia Arriaga ▶️ youtu.be/u5a8HG0Vv-c?...

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UNC Press Authors on ICE, Racial Justice, and Resistance

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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

Image caption: Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson speaks to a guard during a tour of the Krome detention facility in Miami on December 30, 1981, after the quelling of a hunger strike during the Christmas holiday. Jackson's visit brought media attention to conditions at the facility. Mark Foley. Reprinted with permission from AP Photo.

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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A great interview with a dear friend, @annalekasmiller.bsky.social. Check out this great podcast interview with Anna, discussing journalism, social media, media literacy, misinformation, and its impacts on migration policy, namely the ICE and CBP occupation of Minneapolis. Such a brilliant episode!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house." Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

AAUP NC President Belle Boggs has written this powerful essay in response to both the Brown shooting and developments in the UNC system, with an urgent call to action for all of us in NC. Excerpts and action link in thread: 1/ @aaup.org frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/things-can...

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"Things Can Happen"

(an important thing to do so they don't)

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Tina Shull @tinashull.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Hans acknowledged that "outright harassment" will be a consequence, and mumbled something about protecting faculty who are just "doing their jobs" - which he is also in the process of redefining. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL. WE FIGHT. @aaup.org dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

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UNC System President Peter Hans confirms all syllabuses will be public records in forthcoming policy

The Daily Tar Heel obtained a draft of the policy on Wednesday, which denies that syllabuses are the intellectual property of the instructor and stipulates that all instructors must publish course syl...

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist

woman presenting to a woman and man in front of a screen in a ball room

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Hi, Bluesky! My name is Ashley DeAzevedo & I'm the Director of American Families United. This is my first post 🎉 and I’m excited to connect with everyone here. I'm from New Jersey. I'm a mom, wife, proud Catholic, small business owner, and I haven't given up hope in the promise of America.

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🗣️ New from MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd for @publicbooks.bsky.social. The article challenges the idea that "the border" is just a line on a map. Instead, it's a technology—a tool that mixes law, territory, bureaucracy & policing to control human mobility. 🧵 ⤵️ www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tec...

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With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere - Public Books

Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose borderin...

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Charlotte “Pure True Love” @charluv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

No one owns the Water. No one owns the Land. No one owns the sand. These are given by Our Mother. The Planet provides for Free. Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Homeland Heritage.

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Tina Shull @tinashull.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It was an honor to give a keynote speech welcoming new US citizens at a naturalization ceremony on the 4th of July in #Charlotte last week. My message? Immigrants (not the Dec of Independence or “nation” or the Statue of Liberty or so-called golden door) are a beacon and what make America great

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Migration Scholar Collaborative @migrationcollab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

1/12 🧵 As migration scholars, we're honored to highlight @naomipaik.bsky.social's timely "Sanctuary for All," published by @oxunipress.bsky.social for @icahdq.bsky.social. She argues: with Project 2025 threats, expansive sanctuary is crucial for all. ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...

https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/18/2/144/8156006?guestAccessKey=c1a70d7d-2c76-48bf-b436-99bc31cb6547

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 04/06/2025

Read this opening.

MEMORANDUM OPINION
One morning, Kafka's Josef K. awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room.
As he gets his bearings, he realizes that he is under arrest. When he asks the strangers why, he
receives no answer. "We weren't sent to tell you that," one says. "Proceedings are under way
and you'll learn everything in due course." Franz Kafka, The Trial 5 (Breon Mitchell trans.,
Schocken Books Inc. 1998). Bewildered by these men and distressed by their message, K. tries
to comfort himself that he lives in "a state governed by law," one where "all statutes [are] in
force." Id. at 6. He therefore demands again, "How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?"
"Now there you go again," the guard replies. "We don't answer such questions." Undeterred, K.
offers his "papers" and demands their arrest warrant. "Good heavens!" the man scolds. "There's
been no mistake." "[O]ur department," he assures K., is only "attracted by guilt"; it "doesn't
seek [it] out…. That's the Law." Id. at 8-9. "I don't know that law," K. responds. "You'll feel
it eventually," the guard says. Id. at 9.

Such was the situation into which Frengel Reyes Mota, Andry Jose Hernandez Romero,
and scores of other Venezuelan noncitizens say they were plunged on March 15, 2025. In the

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

HAYS COUNTY — In late March, a group of Venezuelan relatives and friends, celebrating a pair of birthdays, rented a six-bedroom house in the southern tip of Austin with a pool and stunning views from every window of Texas’ Hill Country.

They decorated a table for a cake and blew up balloons. As the night faded, the kids went to bed and the adults kept hanging out.

Suddenly, at about 5 a.m. the next morning, the group heard explosions from flashbangs, followed by shouts from law enforcement yelling commands to get out of the house, according to interviews with two attendees.

“We all started shouting that there were babies — ‘Babies, there’s babies,’” recounted a 30-year-old Venezuelan man, who said he was at the house to celebrate the birthdays of his son, who turned 5, and his best friend, who turned 28.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Invisible Histories is doing extraordinary work to protect and preserve the queer histories of the U.S. south. They need help filling the gap produced by federal funding cuts. invisiblehistory.org/support/

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

ICE turned back in Somerville So many Somerville community members came out that ICE simply retreated. Nonviolent resistance works when communities come together to protect kids and families.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas

At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy International Workers' Day, especially to migrant workers.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
04/11/2025
Notice of Termination of Parole
it is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paroled you into the United States for a limited period. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) and 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e), DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice.
If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States - unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here. Any benefits you receive in the United States connected with your parole - such as work authorization — will also terminate. You will be subject to potential criminal prosecution, civil fines, and penalties, and any other lawful options available to the federal government.
DHS encourages you to leave immediately on your own.
You can use the CBP Home mobile app on your phone to make arrangements for your departure. If you are departing the United States via land, you should report your departure once outside the United States via that same app. If you are having trouble reporting your departure via land, visit https://194.cbp.dhs.gov/home for more information about voluntarily reporting your departure.
Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States - the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.
I just got this 5 minutes and I'm not even in the United States or have been for months. I'm in Canada and a Canadian resident. I fly to Vegas tomorrow morning for the weekend and a little concerned? Does this look legit

SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card

[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?

+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It’s time

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yesterday, Palestinians located the bodies of 15 aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza. One week after two ambulances were directly shot at by the Israeli military, the bodies of these Red Crescent workers were finally found handcuffed and crushed under their ambulances, concealed in a mass grave.

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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I just wrote an Action Network letter in solidarity with Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi by Right to Reject Zionism #R2RZ! End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi NOW, @yale.edu & Yale Law School! Write a letter here to #StandWithHelyeh: actionnetwork.org/letters/end-...

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End the Repression of Academic Freedom: Reinstate Dr. Doutaghi Now!

Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi is an internationally recognized and published scholar of international law, political economy, and armed conflict. In 2023, the Law and Political Economy Project (LPE) at Yale U...

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Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...

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Statement on Palestine, Genocide, and Repression

The Department of American Indian Studies issues a statement in support of Palestine.

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Tina Shull @tinashull.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Excited to share some of the things I've been working on recently in my research and thinking about on survival in these times at Bergen Community College tomorrow! "Creating Climate Sanctuaries: Why Climate Justice Needs Immigrant and Indigenous Rights" bergen.edu/event/creati...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

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Sarah Rispin @scrispin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Asylum seeker with work permit. Detained by ICE during check in. “Friends [and] neighbors … wrote letters about him being a good and up-standing person … to present at [scheduled] hearing” that never occurred. Disappeared from NC. Flown on illegal transports last weekend. Found on list leaked Thurs.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days. At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In the 1920s (Jewish) cousins of my great-grandparents were deported during the Red Scare. Under the same legal theory now used against a Palestinian. And now the ADL applauds. Shame on the ADL.

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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This is why we must fight for everyone. Whether they’ve been incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal legal system or are merely undocumented. When you accept that some people are deserving of detention and deportation the scope of who is eligible is always under threat of expanding.

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The Girl Who Can't Stop Reading 📚 @cheriieephii.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Always and forever. Keeping fighting and calling your reps and senators. We cannot let our trans family down.

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