Daisy Patton
@daisypatton.bsky.social
Exploring memory and living archives, the (disabled) body, story-carrying, and social/reproductive histories.
📍Western MA
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Daisy Patton
@daisypatton.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Gardens are sanctuaries, a place that ties us to nature. The word paradise comes from Old Persian, pairidaeza (meaning enclosed garden). To be with loved ones, surrounded by the natural world—those elements drew me to this photo, as I often return to garden/nature in my collection of photos. 1/x
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Policing is defunding Chicago.
Chicago spent more than $212 million on overtime for members of the Chicago Police Department in the first 10 months of 2025 — 6% more than the amount Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to set aside for police overtime in all of 2026, records show. https://to.wttw.com/49QGPU6
Chicago Spent $212M on Police Overtime So Far This Year, 6% More Than New Limit Set for 2026
Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling told the Chicago City Council on Nov. 5 that he was confident that CPD would be able to spend no more than $200 million on overtime in 2026.
to.wttw.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Policing is defunding Chicago.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
OU alumni and others, you call leave a voicemail with the Office of the President at (405)325-3916 letting them know you disagree with the admin letting this political witch hunt be rewarded. I just did and the voicemail is not full.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
OU alumni and others, you call leave a voicemail with the Office of the President at (405)325-3916 letting them know you disagree with the admin letting this political witch hunt be rewarded. I just did and the voicemail is not full.
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It's very helpful to remember: we organized and we won a lot of good shit.
That scared entrenched power shitless, and this moment is that hierarchy's struggle to reassert itself.
If we beat it back and demand a rebuilding that is liberatory, we can win even better shit.
That scared entrenched power shitless, and this moment is that hierarchy's struggle to reassert itself.
If we beat it back and demand a rebuilding that is liberatory, we can win even better shit.
Like, very obviously, many things have improved! My kids get accommodations in school that would have been unthinkable in the 90s! Gay marriage is, right now, legal! If you spend all day thinking about how much worse things are you're basically talking yourself into being a reactionary
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's very helpful to remember: we organized and we won a lot of good shit.
That scared entrenched power shitless, and this moment is that hierarchy's struggle to reassert itself.
If we beat it back and demand a rebuilding that is liberatory, we can win even better shit.
That scared entrenched power shitless, and this moment is that hierarchy's struggle to reassert itself.
If we beat it back and demand a rebuilding that is liberatory, we can win even better shit.
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This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Last Saturday, artist Megumi Nakazawa showcased her work at the Harriet Tubman Center in LA. Her projects “Faces of Mass Incarceration” and “Faces of Palestine” put faces to the those we’re not supposed to see.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Last Saturday, artist Megumi Nakazawa showcased her work at the Harriet Tubman Center in LA. Her projects “Faces of Mass Incarceration” and “Faces of Palestine” put faces to the those we’re not supposed to see.
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I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help.
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
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For my fellow New Englanders, here's a thread of local Indigenous orgs to support:
bsky.app/profile/tutu...
bsky.app/profile/tutu...
A few Indigenous organizations in New England to support:
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is working to restore the Wôpanâak language within the Wampanoag Nation:
www.wlrp.org
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is working to restore the Wôpanâak language within the Wampanoag Nation:
www.wlrp.org
Home | WLRP Home
www.wlrp.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For my fellow New Englanders, here's a thread of local Indigenous orgs to support:
bsky.app/profile/tutu...
bsky.app/profile/tutu...
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
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Tapping the sign again
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tapping the sign again
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
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A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.
ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
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The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
heads up, gmail has a new setting automatically on that allows their a*i to be trained on your emails so make sure to turn off the 'Smart Feature' checkbox in your settings
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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Tehran is a city of ten million people in a location that has been settled for six thousand years. Its survival as a city is now threatened by drought.
The potential relocation of the capital of Iran could be destabilizing to the Iranian regime, which would have major geopolitical implications.
The potential relocation of the capital of Iran could be destabilizing to the Iranian regime, which would have major geopolitical implications.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Tehran is a city of ten million people in a location that has been settled for six thousand years. Its survival as a city is now threatened by drought.
The potential relocation of the capital of Iran could be destabilizing to the Iranian regime, which would have major geopolitical implications.
The potential relocation of the capital of Iran could be destabilizing to the Iranian regime, which would have major geopolitical implications.
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yooo demand 4 made me sit up in my seat. I don't think I knew they had called for actual enforcement of the Penalty Clause!!
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says that states that disenfranchise their residents shall have their representation *reduced* in Congress.....and it has neve been enforced 🙃
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says that states that disenfranchise their residents shall have their representation *reduced* in Congress.....and it has neve been enforced 🙃
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
yooo demand 4 made me sit up in my seat. I don't think I knew they had called for actual enforcement of the Penalty Clause!!
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says that states that disenfranchise their residents shall have their representation *reduced* in Congress.....and it has neve been enforced 🙃
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says that states that disenfranchise their residents shall have their representation *reduced* in Congress.....and it has neve been enforced 🙃
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The number of ICE facilities has increased by nearly 100 over the last 12 months.
According to the ICE facilities page, there are currently a total of 221 facilities holding detainees.
By comparison, at this time last year, there were a total of 124 facilities that ICE reported on the list.
According to the ICE facilities page, there are currently a total of 221 facilities holding detainees.
By comparison, at this time last year, there were a total of 124 facilities that ICE reported on the list.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The number of ICE facilities has increased by nearly 100 over the last 12 months.
According to the ICE facilities page, there are currently a total of 221 facilities holding detainees.
By comparison, at this time last year, there were a total of 124 facilities that ICE reported on the list.
According to the ICE facilities page, there are currently a total of 221 facilities holding detainees.
By comparison, at this time last year, there were a total of 124 facilities that ICE reported on the list.
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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The crisis remains.
Even as SNAP benefits are restored, food banks and pantries around the nation continue to feel the strain with no reprieve in sight. n.pr/4oOIUEl
Food banks, already strained, brace for prolonged demand
Even as SNAP benefits are restored, food banks and pantries around the nation continue to feel the strain with no reprieve in sight.
n.pr
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The crisis remains.
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Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled."
The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.
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“I think most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking… which really obscures the reality.”
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
What Counts as Seeing - Orion Magazine
A conversation between Alice Wong and Ed Yong
orionmagazine.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“I think most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking… which really obscures the reality.”
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
Alice Wong, you will be missed.