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Alexa
@downeasteralexa.bsky.social
Social worker, dancer, musician, traveler, fantasy fan, perpetual learner, unapologetic bleeding heart
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Have the day you deserve 🙂
April 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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When you find a new song to obsess over and listen to exclusively for the next 10 days
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Full page ad in today’s New York Times:
March 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I never finished the #20bookchallenge but here’s today’s haul from @firestorm.coop I’m very excited about
March 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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“This is honestly terrifying,” says Elisabeth Barton, a founding member of Echo Adventure Cooperative, a tour operator near the park. “We’re deeply concerned about the long-term health of Yosemite National Park under the current administration.”
www.sfgate.com/california-p...
'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.
www.sfgate.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This entire thing is almost comically corrupt
"newfound leverage" from the quid pro quo:

"With a newfound leverage over New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Trump border czar Tom Homan hosted the big-city Democrat on Thursday to discuss ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s largest city."
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
February 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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In response to a lawsuit by a coalition of organizations, including the ABA, a judge temporarily blocked the executive order cutting funding for foreign assistance programs. Learn more: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go?

From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Climate #Data #GreenSky #IRA #BIL
Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
grist.org
February 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I’m ditching Google/Chrome for Ecosia and honestly would’ve have before all of this if I’d known about it sooner. I like it so far!

ecosia.co/app?referrer...
February 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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President Trump vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the US fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping foreign-aid freeze has temporarily stopped US-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the drug's flow into the US reut.rs/42Pab1w
Exclusive: Trump’s foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico
President Donald Trump has vowed to destroy Mexican cartels and end the U.S. fentanyl epidemic, but his sweeping freeze on foreign aid has temporarily stopped U.S.-funded anti-narcotics programs in Mexico that for years have been working to curb the flow of the synthetic opioid into the United States.
reut.rs
February 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Good morning, friends.
May your coffee be strong and your day productive.

Find something, no matter how small, that you’ll feel proud to accomplish and do it. Then pat yourself on the back. Go you!
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Daily task: ❌❌BOYCOTT AMAZON! ❌❌

This is a tough one I know but here are some other options!

Costco.com ✅ Famers markets ✅ Thrivemarket.com
CVS.com ✅ Trader Joe's ✅ Ulta.com
Poshmark.comNewEgg.comIkea.com

Art by @trilemma.bsky.social - love it! 💙

Please SHARE‼️‼️

#fuckjeffbezos 🖕
February 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Jane Eyre
Jane Watir
Jane Erthe
Jane Fyre

Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye...

Until the Fyre Janes attackid.
February 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Cannon Fodder by Morton Dimondstein, 1952, linocut

So grateful to have gotten to see The Met’s Democratizing Prints exhibit!

I love printmaking, its history, and connection to activism. It’s my personal favorite medium to work with when I have the time for art. Links below for some good articles.
February 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

15/20

#booksky
#20bookchallenge
#Gaviotas
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Republicans want to slash Medicaid — a death sentence for thousands of Americans. Medicaid provides health care to more than 37 million kids, funding for 2/3 of seniors in nursing homes & is 40% of the revenue for community health centers. 

We must EXPAND Medicaid, not cut it.
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I am very much in heaven. A much needed break from current reality exploring history and art and finally seeing some of my favorite works 🥹
#TheMet
February 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

14/20

#booksky
#20bookchallenge
#DietForADeadPlanet
February 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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As lawyers righteously file multiple lawsuits against Trump & Musk’s coup, we must nonetheless recognize: the courts can’t “save” us. They won’t be the backstop protecting us from this takeover. The only thing that can save us is us.
The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup
While the lawsuits being filed against the Trump-Musk administration are righteous, they will not “save” us from this nightmare.
www.thenation.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

13/20

#booksky
#20bookchallenge
#TheLordOfTheRings
#Tolkien
February 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

12/20

#booksky
#20bookchallenge
#AWomanIsNoMan
#EtafRum
February 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM