@farrahparkes.bsky.social
Desperately seeking liberation.
Abortion forever.
Cat person.
Ambivalent philanthropy person.
Philly by way of 🇯🇲.
I made a podcast once: www.lovingproject.com.
Views my own.
Abortion forever.
Cat person.
Ambivalent philanthropy person.
Philly by way of 🇯🇲.
I made a podcast once: www.lovingproject.com.
Views my own.
Pinned
*Runs out to buy a few bottles from the state store before it becomes scarce*
Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
*Runs out to buy a few bottles from the state store before it becomes scarce*
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
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In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:
“Girls have been getting better grades than boys since before women had the right to vote.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | The ‘Boy Crisis’ Is Overblown
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In the Times, Jessica Grose finds that many of the claims about boys’ supposed backslide in education in Richard Reeves’ blockbuster masculinity-crisis book “Of Boys and Men” are empirically unfounded:
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Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.
Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7
#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7
#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
July 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.
Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7
#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7
#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪
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I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.
July 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I don’t have commentary for this… it is just horror.
This part.
“Democrats are the minority. There’s not much they can do”
Sure sure orrrrrrr
You can recall the amount of hell raising shit and obstruction the GOP did when THEY WERE THE MINORITY PARTY.
Sure sure orrrrrrr
You can recall the amount of hell raising shit and obstruction the GOP did when THEY WERE THE MINORITY PARTY.
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This part.
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please let us rest.
February 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
please let us rest.
Amen!
After seeing the consequences of their years of biased coverage about trans people @nytimes.com is trying to erase their role in bringing us to this perilous moment. That’s why I wrote this Letter to the Editor to keep accountability squarely where it belongs and to call for an unvarnished apology
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February 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Amen!
I'm not an organizer at all but it feels like the perfect moment for mass outreach to disappointed Trump voters, to find the persuadable ones and help them see that he was never on their side. Ppl are losing jobs & subsidies & benefits, they're mad. It feels like an opportunity. Am I crazy?
February 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm not an organizer at all but it feels like the perfect moment for mass outreach to disappointed Trump voters, to find the persuadable ones and help them see that he was never on their side. Ppl are losing jobs & subsidies & benefits, they're mad. It feels like an opportunity. Am I crazy?
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
I was already planning to boycott Target, but realizing they had the nerve to cut back on DEI after placing ads podcasts with Black hosts for BHM 2025 has really upped my commitment to the situation, cuz how DARE do that my faves at @thisistheread.com?!?!?!
February 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I was already planning to boycott Target, but realizing they had the nerve to cut back on DEI after placing ads podcasts with Black hosts for BHM 2025 has really upped my commitment to the situation, cuz how DARE do that my faves at @thisistheread.com?!?!?!
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If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:
The Trump Administration Might Just Spend $400 Million on 'Armored' Teslas
Donald Trump's administration expects to spend $400 million on 'armored' vehicles made by Elon Musk's Tesla.
www.rollingstone.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If Musk's DOGE wants to save an easy $400 million, they could just cancel this planned government contract for "armored" vehicles from Tesla:
I feel like everyone who owes taxes needs to withhold them come April...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
February 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I feel like everyone who owes taxes needs to withhold them come April...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup
February 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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this has been published for over a week. somehow we are all just finding out about this. when an entire administration begins to target a marginalized community to erasure at a voluptuous degree, stories like this go under the radar.
SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.
SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.
“My death as a member of the third gender and transgender population does not mean you won.
It solely marks the end of our association.
You are not the land of the free.”
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...
It solely marks the end of our association.
You are not the land of the free.”
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
this has been published for over a week. somehow we are all just finding out about this. when an entire administration begins to target a marginalized community to erasure at a voluptuous degree, stories like this go under the radar.
SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.
SHAME on mainstream media for not making this story known.
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2000: Don't be evil
2015: Do the right thing
2025: Just following orders
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
2015: Do the right thing
2025: Just following orders
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2000: Don't be evil
2015: Do the right thing
2025: Just following orders
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
2015: Do the right thing
2025: Just following orders
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It me.
I don’t have to fend off the desire to comply in advance. Anyone who knows me knows that, fortunately or unfortunately, I would rather die than let someone I don’t respect tell me what to do.
February 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It me.
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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
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They seem to think that by going back to only white men having positions of power we can heal our divisions. But that’s just an admission that the core division at the heart of it all was white men resenting no longer exclusively having positions of power.
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
They seem to think that by going back to only white men having positions of power we can heal our divisions. But that’s just an admission that the core division at the heart of it all was white men resenting no longer exclusively having positions of power.
👀
FAFSA now asking just what kind of white you are.
And people in America still think being white will save you from this administration.
And people in America still think being white will save you from this administration.
February 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
👀
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I am very tired, but wrote this, quickly, to capture what I could since we live in the days of media erasure. Tonight there was a #protest at the #treasury and most #news did not see fit to cover it while it unfolded. I captured posts, video, and quotes as I could--I linked to @indivisible.org
We Are At War
And legacy media asks you not to pay attention
brandy-schillace.medium.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I am very tired, but wrote this, quickly, to capture what I could since we live in the days of media erasure. Tonight there was a #protest at the #treasury and most #news did not see fit to cover it while it unfolded. I captured posts, video, and quotes as I could--I linked to @indivisible.org
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So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
February 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
This fucking guy...
By a vote 54-46, the #Senate confirmed the nomination of Pamela Bondi to be Attorney General.
Democrat Senator Fetterman voted in favor.
Democrat Senator Fetterman voted in favor.
February 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This fucking guy...
I still don't see how it's not illegal...
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I still don't see how it's not illegal...