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DeAnna Beachley
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Historian, #gender, #suffrage, poet, essayist, artist. Avid reader, nature lover, and a HUGE fan of ravens, vultures, and condors. I draw rocks.
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NEW: Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.

Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under T...
www.propublica.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I read this poem at the start of a meeting I was leading. Thank you Rudy Francisco for this poem.
From Rudy Francisco's book, Helium.

Published by @buttonpoetry.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/rfhelium

#poem #books #writing
April 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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This video literally inspired us to bring the old school dictionary upstairs from the basement storage. It’s now on the coffee table, as the good lord intended. A constant reminder to all who dwell here that as for me and my house, we look shit up.
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
So much fun to be part of the third annual NAWP reading!! Thank you @readinstead.bsky.social and @mitchnobis.bsky.social @notatawp.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Populist Party Platform 6.
"From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires."
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Populist Party Platform 5.
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty."
March 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Populist Party Platform 4.
"The urban workmen are denied the right to organize for self-protection; ... a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions."
March 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Populist Party Platform 3. "The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists."
March 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Populist Party Platfrom 2. "Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most of the States have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation and bribery."
March 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
1. All I have to offer at this moment are words from the Preamble of the Populist Party from 1892.

"The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin.
March 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Almost complete eclipse now.
March 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Call your senator NOW, and demand they vote against cloture (and in support of a filibuster) on the CR.
www.270towin.com/elected-offi...
Contact Information for United States Senators - 270toWin
Mailing address, phone number, website, facebook and twitter accounts for each member of the United States Senate.
www.270towin.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Over the past month extreme drought has expanded in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada.

This month’s rains ended a 214-day stretch without any precipitation in Las Vegas — which has received less than a quarter of normal rainfall since last March.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
California faces worsening drought despite recent heavy rainstorms
Dry pattern seen among entire ‘lower basin’ of the Colorado River, including Arizona and desert cities such as Las Vegas
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I’m mentoring for Adroit this summer along with a whole roster of excellent poets and writers. Send your interested poets and writers to this great program.
@adroitjournal.bsky.social
Applications are open for our Mentorship Program!
The program pairs established writers with high school and gap year students interested in learning more about the creative writing processes of drafting, redrafting, and editing.
Visit the link in our bio to learn more and apply! 🌟
February 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Find a protest near you.

We can't promote wildlife and save what little is left without addressing the political situation we find ourselves in. The radical right must be stopped.

Get involved
Get in this fight

www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
Indivisible National · Indivisible on Mobilize
We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
www.mobilize.us
February 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This is a good thread.
February 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Took a walk in the LV Wetlands today. I needed to.
February 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Went exploring at Lake Mead yesterday. Some water patterns from Rogers Spring.
January 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Gneiss pebble over drawing and the palette used for the drawing.
January 16, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Phainapeplas. They eat desert mistletoe berries.
January 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
For tonight’s wolf moon.
January 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM