Reposted by Tanya KerssenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery 24273824110130
Reposted by Tanya KerssenSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe. 16604011114969
Reposted by Tanya Kerssenashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/05/2026i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so muchtime.comTIME100 Philanthropy: Ashley FairbanksFind out who else is on the TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2026 list 1202309266
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Free Salah Sarsour from ICE detention!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/free...actionnetwork.orgFree Salah Sarsour from ICE detention!On March 30th, twelve ICE vehicles descended on Salah Sarsour's Milwaukee neighborhood. Federal agents surrounded Salah, arrested him, and threw him in a DHS prison.1,2 Salah is a Palestinian Amer... 000
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Jacob Frey: No $40 Million Cop City for MPD. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Jacob Frey: No $40 Million Cop City for MPDThe Frey administration is proposing that the City of Minneapolis spend at least $40 million on a “Community Safety Training and Wellness Center.” After three months of assault on our communities by I... 010
Reposted by Tanya Kerssendaviss @daviss.org · 05/02/2026This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense. 127106722452
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026If you are able, please join me in supporting a Mpls family that is experiencing fear and hardship with the detention of their family member, taken Jan 3 and sent to a detention center in Nebraska. Bills, rent, and legal fees are accumulating and they need some community support. gofund.me/85b41dc95gofund.meDonate to Support a Family in Immigration Crisis, organized by T CommunitySupport"Dear community, My name is Sofía and my family is experiencing hardship… T CommunitySupport needs your support for Support a Family in Immigration Crisis 001
Reposted by Tanya KerssenMedia 2070 @media2070.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Arresting Black journalists for covering a protest is a violation of the most basic principles of the 1st amendment. This administration is determined to deny not only the constitutional rights of its citizens and residents, but the human rights of all who oppose its racist agenda. 104
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025This also came to mind for me ✨A perfectly delivered line. 020
Reposted by Tanya KerssenJesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 05/11/2025Zoran has friends everywhere. 01455
Reposted by Tanya KerssenSantiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/11/2025WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around. 354202363630
Reposted by Tanya KerssenMother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/11/2025Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the hunger strike that made Mamdani www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe moment that made MamdaniHow a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign. 250295
Reposted by Tanya KerssenRANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 05/11/2025Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services, impacting 83,000 Spokanites. With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help:rangemedia.coSpokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services – RANGE MediaWith the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help. 16939
Reposted by Tanya KerssenPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people 103115501873
Reposted by Tanya Kerssensomosmass99.bsky.social @somosmass99.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Los Estados Unidos abren el camino a la proliferación nuclear | #Escriben Vijay Prashad y Dae-Han Song | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/167166-2/ 023
Reposted by Tanya KerssenNew Media Mentors @newmediamentors.bsky.social · 03/07/2025If you're a nonprofit or union using Bluesky (or a Bluesky fan working for an org that hasn't made the leap) join us for our online training July 22! @levin.bsky.social is talking strategy, organizing, what makes Bluesky unique & what works like before: registration.socio.events/e/blueskytra... 48122
Reposted by Tanya KerssenJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Masking en masse also prevents medically vulnerable people from being singled out by cops. BE ALLIES. bsky.app/profile/erin... 1351123
Reposted by Tanya KerssenDetroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 16/06/2025Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse.metrotimes.comBeyond erasure: Anti-Black racism in U.S. immigrationBlack immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse 06537
Reposted by Tanya KerssenRiver @riverofdiversity.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is why an attack on trans women is an attack on *all* women. 😡 As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡 129226
Reposted by Tanya KerssenMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u... 3064542216
Reposted by Tanya KerssenZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 26/04/2025#tdih 1968 UPenn student Kiyoshi Kuromiya and friends held a demonstration against the use of napalm in Vietnam. They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library. Thousands turned up to protest. Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3] 1297
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores - Find an event in your area www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/mobilize.usMay 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | March 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores · May Day StrongMay 1 International Workers Day Rally and March Rally 4:30pm March 5:30pm Minnesota State Capitol For Immigrant Rights and Workers Rights Initiated by MIRAC, MN Workers United, MN Immigrant Movement, ... 011
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...sign.moveon.orgBring Kilmar Abrego Garcia HomeKilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal reco... 010
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...mobilize.usWrite your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia · MobilizeThis is an at home write your representative event! Defend Kilmar Garcia and the rule of law! 010
Reposted by Tanya KerssenYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The New Barbarism is here. Palestinians used for target practice by Israeli weapon and military software manufacturers. Deportations that are run like ‘Amazon Prime for humans'. Foreign aid replaced by tariffs on the poor. Etc. etc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comIce director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process 715263
Reposted by Tanya KerssenYanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comPoliticians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine MalikThe more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 7435169
Reposted by Tanya KerssenNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad: - Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation - Challenging ideas about gender - Protests against genocide - Science generally It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes. 302487610
Reposted by Tanya KerssenNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025leave our kids alone. 2058765
Reposted by Tanya KerssenTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 10/04/2025A new documentary from Palestinian American-run Watermelon Pictures, and Breakthrough News (with rapper Macklemore and Alana Hadid among the producers), shows perspectives from inside the 2024 Columbia University encampments.teenvogue.comThis New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About"We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'" 216448
Reposted by Tanya KerssenBalls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 10/04/2025A Supreme Court opinion about the U.S. government disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador should probably mention the words "El Salvador"ballsandstrikes.orgThe Republican Justices Do Not Want to Talk About the Human Suffering They’re EnablingThe Court’s opinion in Trump v. JGG is disastrous for the people the administration is disappearing. 2298
Reposted by Tanya KerssenAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 10/04/2025WashPo Apr 9 -- Brevard Cty FL high school teacher of 11 years became state's first to have contract terminated for using trans student's preferred rather than legal name w/o parental permission under a new "parents' rights" law. Brevard is home of Moms for Liberty. @rikiwilchins.bsky.socialwashingtonpost.comFlorida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred nameIt’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity. 410640
Reposted by Tanya KerssenOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement." labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...labornotes.orgKentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred WorkersTwo hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ... 10620210
Reposted by Tanya KerssenPaul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back 159103873341
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Truly this is the new cointelpro, but overt instead of covert. 000
Reposted by Tanya KerssenRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2025“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 254149433442
Reposted by Tanya KerssenHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I didn’t foresee blind support of Israel literally destroying American higher ed & freedom of speech but wow what a clear demonstration of the mantra “none of us are free until all of us are free”. 7669168
Reposted by Tanya Kerssen5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This week’s premium episode is about the latest chapter in Trump’s authoritarian blitz, from deportations without due process to the targeted disappearance of protestors.patreon.comAuthoritarian Creep(s) [SUBSCRIBER-ONLY] | 5-4Get more from 5-4 on Patreon 29815
Reposted by Tanya KerssenDerek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez is one of the most compelling organizers in the labor movement. One of the very moving parts of my interview with Edgar Franks, Lelo's comrade and political director of his union, for @truthout.org. 013663
Reposted by Tanya KerssenNatascha Elena Uhlmann @nataschaelena.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The Trump administration's volley of attacks is right out of the boss' playbook. It’s never been more important for organizers to remember: workers have the power to fight back. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...labornotes.orgDon’t Panic—Organize!The Trump administration has swept into office with a volley of attacks: Gutting programs that acknowledge race and gender inequality. Freezing funding for a wide swath of programs (though that order ... 073
Reposted by Tanya KerssenEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025You can use this @fightforthefuture.org tool to easily tell your state legislators to oppose mandatory ID check laws. www.stoponlineidchecks.orgstoponlineidchecks.orgONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET 8761398
Reposted by Tanya KerssenEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense 3573810315038
Reposted by Tanya KerssenRhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025On April 5, I am joining thousands of people as we march on Washington and demand an end to the genocide and an arms embargo NOW. We will not be deterred by the Trump admin's attempts to quell our movement. Join us - find bus info at marchforpalestine.org. Talk to me about making a plan to be there. 9589133
Tanya Kerssen @tkerssen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Take quick action now to demand Lelo’s release: win.newmode.net/realfoodmedi...win.newmode.netNew/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore 030
Reposted by Tanya KerssenBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11/03/2025BREAKING: Philippines says former President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 41860200
Reposted by Tanya KerssenZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 11/03/2025So students can be alert to scapegoating divide & conquer tactics, teach outside textbook about Red Scare, "a scorched-earth policy against country’s most progressive forces." Not just McCarthy & Hollywood, it was an attack on Black freedom & labor struggles. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/su...zinnedproject.orgSubversives: Stories from the Red ScareStudents meet targets of government harassment and repression to analyze why disparate individuals might have become government targets. 06635
Reposted by Tanya KerssenRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial. 71172216