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Sherry Hamby
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Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Univ of the South | Strengths-based approaches to overcoming and preventing trauma | Founder of ResilienceCon | Mom, dog lover, gardener

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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 1d
Couldn’t agree more. Ms. Hart doesn’t understand what a book is.

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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 2d
Oh APA, I hope one day you will learn there are things more important than money
cdelawalla.bsky.social Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d
For all you Psychology folks out there, APA is a member of this group.

So, they co-signed this thank you note to Trump at the same time they posted about how bad racism is re: Trump’s AI video.

That’s not nonpartisan. That’s playing both sides.

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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for posting

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d
For all you Psychology folks out there, APA is a member of this group.

So, they co-signed this thank you note to Trump at the same time they posted about how bad racism is re: Trump’s AI video.

That’s not nonpartisan. That’s playing both sides.

sciencetechaction.org/aboutus/

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 6d
Awesome
slothropsmap.bsky.social Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7d
“This building belongs to the people of this city.”

Maybe the thing I like most about Mamdani is his knack for effortlessly communicating the true nature of the social contract without melodrama or pretense.

Yes, it’s a public building. You pay for it. That means it’s yours. Come take a look.
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 7d
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7d
“This building belongs to the people of this city.”

Maybe the thing I like most about Mamdani is his knack for effortlessly communicating the true nature of the social contract without melodrama or pretense.

Yes, it’s a public building. You pay for it. That means it’s yours. Come take a look.
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 7d
It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11d
by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d
The nurses are pissed
nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15d
Please share. 💔

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 15d
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
arno-aman.bsky.social Arno_Xen (ANTIFA) @arno-aman.bsky.social · 16d
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
arno-aman.bsky.social Arno_Xen (ANTIFA) @arno-aman.bsky.social · 16d
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21d
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 23d
This
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23d
When I consider the bandwidth needed to pushback against the revisionist birthright citizenship history, I think a lot about Toni Morrison’s idea of racism being a power of distraction. Every new argument, every new twist, every new publication, costs time, energy. It takes away from something else.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 23d
When I consider the bandwidth needed to pushback against the revisionist birthright citizenship history, I think a lot about Toni Morrison’s idea of racism being a power of distraction. Every new argument, every new twist, every new publication, costs time, energy. It takes away from something else.

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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · 24d
This is a great list! I'm impressed with how much independent, nonprofit journalism that Minnesota has!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: When you have elected officials who are saying go out and 'protect your neighbor,' and they're doing it like this -- this is what happens

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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 26d
Josh Johnson thoughtfully explains how change happens when people do something and don’t simply comply.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d
RIP to one of the greatest American rock musicians of all time, Bob Weir. One more Saturday night, my friend.
Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night (Tivoli Concert Hall 4/17/72) | Meet Up At The Movies 2022
YouTube video by Grateful Dead
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jan 1
In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jan 1
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · Dec 30
My friend, Daniel Hull, a respected Anishnaabe elder, is losing his housing in a few days because his rental property has been sold. I hope you will consider donating to his Gofundme.
Thank you 🙏

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Donate to Anishnaabe elder Strong Heart Bear find accessible housing, organized by Daphne Dean
For the past 35 years, Anishinaabe elder Strong Heart Bear has … Daphne Dean needs your support for Anishnaabe elder Strong Heart Bear find accessible housing
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Sherry Hamby @sherryhamby.bsky.social · Dec 16
There are dozens of reasons other than “not good enough” that one person is selected/succeeds in a very competitive field. There’s often almost no difference between #1 and #4 or even #34. On a different day…different results. In many spaces, what we need is more room for more people to succeed.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Dec 14
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · Dec 4
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · Dec 2
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · Nov 25
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:

- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating

This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Nov 21
What if the culture were awash in intellectual elites downplaying the organized mass rape of children David, would that get us back on track

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"Do Not Obey In Advance" and "Don't give into the Lies" @pamdess.bsky.social · Nov 17
Tennessee 7 - Out of 529,915 registered voters, only 20,359 have voted. That’s 3.84%. MAKE A PLAN to vote, bring a friend, a neighbor, a coworker. EARLY VOTE IS OPEN - Nov 26 election day is Dec 2nd. Get to the polls & VOTE FOR @aftynbehn.bsky.social
pamdess.bsky.social "Do Not Obey In Advance" and "Don't give into the Lies" @pamdess.bsky.social · Nov 16
If you live in TN 7th District, please vote for Aftyn Behn. EARLY VOTING IS OPEN until November 26th Election Day is Dec 2nd. PLEASE VOTE @aftynbehn.bsky.social
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Nov 16
Behn: My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Nov 14
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.