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Queer migrant fighting for Reproductive Justice and abortion access in the South 💜 Harley (D) and Louis (C) enthusiast 💜
📍Miami, but my heart will always be in New Orleans
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astrocrawford.bsky.social
Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...
Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
science.nasa.gov
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....

This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.

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May 3, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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marxologist.bsky.social
Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:
Here is the column I wrote on the theme "What I Would have liked to Know About Germany Earlier," along with the additional reflections I provided at Zeit Magazin's request. -A society governed by regulations, yet lacking individual moral judgement, is more dangerous than one with none at all. -A society that values obedience without questioning authority is destined to become corrupt. -A society that admits to error but refuses to reflect on its origins possesses a mind as stubborn and dull as granite. -Here, at a deserted street, people stop dutifully at a red light. Not a car in sight. This, I once thought, is the mark of a highly evolved society. -At the heart of bureaucracy lies a collective endorsement of power's legitimacy, and therefore, individuals surrender their moral judgement–or perhaps never developed one. They abandon challenge. They relinquish dispute. -When conversation becomes avoidance, when topics must not be mentioned, we are already living under the quiet logic of authoritarianism. -When the majority believe they live in a free society, it is often a sign that the society is not free. Freedom is not a gift; it must be wrestled from the hands of banality and the quiet complicity with power. -When people sense that power is beyond challenge, they redirect their energy into trivial disputes. And those trivialities, collectively, are enough to erode a society's very foundations of justice. -When public events of great consequence–such as the Nord Stream Pipeline bombing–are met with silence from both government and media, the silence itself becomes more terrifying than any atomic bomb. -Facts are acknowledged partially, forgotten deliberately, or swallowed by collective silence. And so we repeat catastrophe–against and again, in cycles. -When the media becomes a servant of public opinion, or avoids conflict to maintain favour with existing powers, it becomes an accomplice to authority. What we call lies are not always distortions of fact. -Political leaders make decisions steeped in fallacy & failure. This reflects the broader political condition of a society in which most people have surrendered their awareness & even their basic agency–allowing such leaders to enact their mistakes on their behalf -When a society uses linguistic difference or cultural misunderstanding as excuses for exclusion, it has crossed into a more insidious form of racism. This is not a political opinion–it is an attitude, a stain in blood, passed down like genes -Bureaucracy is not merely sluggish. It is a cultural scorn. It rejects the possibility of dialogue. It insists that ignorance, codified into policy, no matter how wrong & inhumane it is, remains the best resistance against social mobility, against moral motion. In such a society, hope is not misplaced. It is extinguished -In the surrounding atmosphere, one sees not culture, but self-congratulation; not art, but insularity & collective reverence for power. What is missing is sincerity–honesty of emotion & of intention. In such an environment, art that grapples with true human feeling or moral reckoning is nearly impossible to produce. -A place that routinely discards self-awareness & erases individual agency is one that lives under iron walls of authoritarianism -I have no family, no fatherland, never known what it is to belong. I belong only to myself. In the best of circumstances, that self should belong to everyone. I still do not know what art is. I only hope that what I make might touch its edges while it seems unrelated to anything. & in truth, in the best of circumstances it is unrelated to me, for the "I" already melts into everything -Those things found in galleries, museums, & collectors' living room–are they art? Who has declared them so? On what basis? Why do I always feel suspicion in their presence? -Works that evade reality, that shy away from argument, from controversy, from debate–be they text, painting, or performance–are worthless. -I understand now: people crave power and tyranny as they crave sunshine and rain, for the burden of self-awareness feels like pain. at times, even like catastrophe. -Under most circumstances, society selects the most selfish, least idealistic among us to take on the work we call "art" because that choice makes everyone feel safe. Additional reflections -In Berlin, I encounter the ever-present Schweinshaxe and Schnitzel, and I can hardly believe that such a highly developed, industrialised country offers such a monotonous selection of ingredients. Even more baffling is the sudden proliferation of Chinese restaurants–most of them noodle-based, and operating at a culinary level that any Chinese person could easily achieve at home. The variety of food and cooking methods is so limited here that people form all over the world feel compelled to open restaurants: Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish–you name it. -But the truly horrifying part? The sheer number of Chinese restaurants. I can only assume they believe that no matter what ends up on the plate, German customers will come running. In front of some of these establishments, there are even long queues–yet the food they serve bears little resemblance to anything recognisably Chinese. My favourite food in Germany is the bread and sausage–you simply can't find ones with such distinctive character anywhere else. -I'm puzzled by why so many people would willingly cram themselves into a small bar just to have a long conversation. Since I don't speak the language, I can only imagine that the young people coming to Berlin would talk about clubbing. This sort of thing was all the rage in the U.S. back in the '70s and '80s. -The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humour. This could be the result of their deep reverence for rationality. Just look at Berlin Airport or the advertisements for Mercedes-Benz cars–you start to feel that their lack of humour has become a kind of immense humour in itself
August 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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travisjnichols.bsky.social
Trump to strip LGBTQ+ nonprofits of student loan forgiveness www.advocate.com/news/pslf-lg...
Trump poised to make LGBTQ+ nonprofit workers ineligible for student loan forgiveness
Trump's plan to gut the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program is expected to disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ people.
www.advocate.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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laurenkahre.bsky.social
“We are raising funds to cover the cost of legal fees for a South Carolina woman who is being charged "desecration of human remains" after miscarrying her pregnancy a few weeks ago. “

She faces up to 10 years in jail if she is found guilty.

Any amount is helpful
July 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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christianelliott.me
NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 30
You hear this a lot on the left but it isn't true. USAID did not "fail to tell its story to Americans," the right targeted the agency with lies and misinformation.

Ultimately this narrative turns conservative attacks into even more calls for the left to reform.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o...
I Worked at U.S.A.I.D. for Over 8 Years. This Is Our Biggest Failure. I worked for U.S.A.I.D. in East Africa over the past eight and a half years, selling the story of American foreign aid to people in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya. Our inability to tell this same story to Americans is our great failure. It is what put the agency into the Department of Government Efficiency’s wood chipper first. It’s what allows Secretary of State Marco Rubio to get away with insisting that lifesaving humanitarian aid would continue while the administration drastically slashed its funding. And it’s what I fear will let this presidency cast the deaths from the next preventable catastrophe as unstoppable or inevitable.
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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thebulwark.com
Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?"

Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."
June 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
Words fail me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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blurbette.blacksky.app
Because the Confederates should’ve been lined up and handled. No statues, no land, nothing!
culturesick.bsky.social Kiki Dot @culturesick.bsky.social · Jun 17
I am part of the crowd that believes we are where we are because of how Reconstruction shook out.
June 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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amydiehl.bsky.social
Study (N=37K) finds younger male viewers respond more strongly to character-driven storytelling w/ than to high-octane action scenes and prefer female characters who are strong and independent over those who are hyper-stylized or in supporting roles.
deadline.com/2025/06/trai...
Film Trailer Research Reveals “Young Male Audience Turning To Softer Men, Stronger Women Characters”
Danny Dyer film 'Marching Powder' recently used the data to build their marketing campaign to include a female audience.
deadline.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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matih-id.bsky.social
**Working link here: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...
End of the Pandemic or End of Progress?
The termination notice reads:“The end of the pandemic provides cause to terminate COVID-related grant funds. These grant funds were issued for a limited pu
academic.oup.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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matih-id.bsky.social
In St Louis we built real public health programs rooted in justice and community. Now federal cuts are dismantling that work. I co-authored this piece with Dr Kathleen Page to say clearly that we see what is happening and we are not staying silent.

Read. Share. Advocate: doi.org/10.1093/infd...
May 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
This piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social will go down in history. It is the cry of a nation going down in flames. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
Opinion | Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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melissavandiver.bsky.social
If your reaction to this is FAFO, leopards eating faces, etc - fix your heart. Rights for all or rights for none. You can't advocate for a world where only MAGA suffers. It doesn't exist. It can't.

If your ideology is "fascism but when I like the team in charge" you and I have nothing in common.
nickjudin.bsky.social Nick Judin @nickjudin.bsky.social · May 21
One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four.

Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:

"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Oo whee, now this is a great piece from the poet Tiana Clark! Gift link that contains spoilers for Sinners.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/o...
Opinion | Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Deal Made Hollywood Lose Its Mind (Gift Article)
The obsession with a Black director’s ownership package reflects the themes of his film.
www.nytimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Apr 8
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.
ALIEN ENEMIES ACT: ALIEN ENEMY VALIDATION GUIDE In the case of: ________________________________ A-File No:__________________ 1. The person named above is fourteen years or older: 2. The person named above is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States: 3. The person named above is a citizen of Venezuela: If any of these three requirements are not satisfied, the person named above shall not be ordered removed under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). In such a case, you should consult your supervisor and the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and, where applicable, initiate removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). 4. The person named above is validated as a member of Tren de Aragua (TDA), as determined by reference to the following evaluation form: Instructions: Complete the following validation evaluation form for each suspected alien targeted for removal under the AEA, or, following apprehension, for each alien potentially subject to an AEA removal. After accounting for the two comments below, aliens scoring 8 points and higher are validated as members of TDA; you should proceed with issuing Form AEA-21B, titled, “Notice and Warrant of Apprehension and Removal under the Alien Enemies Act.” Aliens scoring 6 or 7 points may be validated as members of TDA; you should consult with a supervisor and OPLA, reviewing the totality of the facts, before making that determination; if you determine an alien should not be validated at this time as a member of TDA, when available, you should initiate removal proceedings under the INA. Alien scoring 5 points or less should not be validated at this time as member of TDA; when available, you should initiate removal proceedings under the INA. The following alt-text is excerpted of a larger checklist, as the whole page doesn't fit within alt-text character limits. Comment 2: For purposes of validating an alien as a member of TDA, at least one scoring category must involve conduct occurring, or information received, within the past five years. Valuation Explanation Category Definition Explanation Points Judicial Outcomes and Official Documents a. Subject has been convicted of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 521 or any other federal or state law criminalizing or imposing civil penalties for activity related to TDA 10 b. Court records (e.g., indictments, criminal complaints, sentencing memorandums) identifying the subject as a member of TDA, describing specific activity of TDA 5 Self-Admission a. Subject self-identifies as a member or associate of TDA verbally or in writing to law enforcement officer, even if that self identification to a law enforcement officer is unwitting, e.g., through lawful interception of communications. 10 Criminal Conduct and Information a. Subject participates in criminal activity (e.g., narcotics trafficking, human smuggling, etc.) with other members of TDA, including preparatory meetings and significant incidents directly attributed to TDA 6 b. Law enforcement or intelligence reporting identifying subject as a member of TDA, to include Bureau of Prisons validations and reliable foreign partner information. 4 c. Credible testimonies/statements from victims, community members, or informants that affirm the subject’s membership in or allegiance to TDA. 3 d. Detailed open-source media (e.g., newspapers, investigative journalism reports) that describe arrest, prosecution, or operations of a subject as a member of TDA 2 e. Subject conducts and/or facilitates business with TDA (e.g., money laundering, mule, service provider) 2 Documents and Communications Final page: Association a. Surveillance documentation that a subject is frequently observed closely associating with known leaders and members of TDA 2 b. Subject part of group photos with two or more known members of TDA 2 c. Subject presently resides with known members of TDA 2 Total Points VALIDATION DETERMINATION Note: If any of the four requirements are not satisfied, do not complete this validation determination. Based on the validation guide and instructions above, including Comments 1 and 2, I find that the person named above, _______________________________________________: 1. Is fourteen years or older; 2. Is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States; 3. Is a citizen of Venezuela; and 4. Is a member of Tren de Aragua. Accordingly, the above-named person is validated as an Alien Enemy. _____________________ _________________________ __________________ Name of Agent/officer Signature of agent/officer Date completing the form completing the form ______________________ _________________________ ____________________ Name of Supervisor Signature of Supervisor Date
March 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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henpeckedhal.bsky.social
Sure, moms are the superior parent, but how did they get so good at helping people find things that are right in front of them? Who honed their ability to tackle huge projects at the last minute? Who built up their tolerance to dirty clothes tossed on the floor? Dads, that's who.
March 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do.

Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
How to delete genetic data from 23andMe • Log into your 23andMe account. • Go to your Profile, then tap Settings. • Scroll to the "23andMe Data" section at the bottom of the page and click View. • If you want to download your data, select what you want. • Scroll to the "Delete Data" section and click Permanently Delete Data. • Confirm your request: You'll receive an email from 23andMe, and click the link in the email to confirm.
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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courtneymilan.com
So, I don’t care about this particular man, but I do want to point out that immigration officials pulled this woman aside after a trip to Puerto Rico, which is…not a foreign destination, which means they’re pulling and detaining legal immigrants in the regular degular airport.

Be safe.
March 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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moralinjury.bsky.social
"The question, then, is not so much “What are children for?” It is about what women are for."

An excellent read by the excellent @moiradonegan.bsky.social

www.bookforum.com/print/3102/b...
Baby Talk
On pro-natalism and motherhood after Dobbs – Moira Donegan
www.bookforum.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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trans.bsky.social
Zoe Saldana just won an Oscar for a film about a trans woman & didn’t mention trans people at all during her speech.
March 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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erininthemorning.com
“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding”

Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure.

We are all in this together, and we all go down together.

I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.
seansatori.bsky.social Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · Feb 21
FWIW, the choice was scrubbing their website or potentially closing down because their funding was turned off. Sure they could have sued, but what then?
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 21
This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC.

You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself.

It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research.

Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.
February 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM