fey stranger
@feyandstrange.bsky.social
Accessibility nerd (real world not Internet/tech) specializing in events (hire me for your convention!), disaster response nerd, neurodiverse (thus parenthetical), wheelchair user, queer, freak, progressive liberal, old and tired, news junkie on hiatus
It is minor compared to people losing their food aid or paychecks, but I'm pissed that the FEMA online education system is shut down. Everybody from disaster managers to public health to your fire department, county and state, use those free training programs, sometimes to qualify for jobs.
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It is minor compared to people losing their food aid or paychecks, but I'm pissed that the FEMA online education system is shut down. Everybody from disaster managers to public health to your fire department, county and state, use those free training programs, sometimes to qualify for jobs.
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Due to the federal government shutdown, CalFresh benefits won't be issued in November. However, San Franciscans who are use CalFresh will get a letter from our agency next week with instructions for accessing a one-time prepaid card that can be used at grocery stores citywide: sfhsa.org/calfreshaid
October 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Due to the federal government shutdown, CalFresh benefits won't be issued in November. However, San Franciscans who are use CalFresh will get a letter from our agency next week with instructions for accessing a one-time prepaid card that can be used at grocery stores citywide: sfhsa.org/calfreshaid
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When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
Exclusive: The U.S. government asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. Legal experts say the case could have consequences for Afghans the U.S. rescued and promised to support.
Trump administration makes misleading case in high-stakes asylum hearing
Homeland Security asked a judge to deport a man to Afghanistan, where he expects the Taliban to kill him. The case could affect thousands of asylum seekers.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.
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I suspect the shift to fascism is in part due to this very phenomenon.
There is a shift in late stage capitalism to plutonimy where those outside the ultra-rich are economically irrelevant, but even the limited franchise of a farce of a democracy like the US is getting in the way of this change.
There is a shift in late stage capitalism to plutonimy where those outside the ultra-rich are economically irrelevant, but even the limited franchise of a farce of a democracy like the US is getting in the way of this change.
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I suspect the shift to fascism is in part due to this very phenomenon.
There is a shift in late stage capitalism to plutonimy where those outside the ultra-rich are economically irrelevant, but even the limited franchise of a farce of a democracy like the US is getting in the way of this change.
There is a shift in late stage capitalism to plutonimy where those outside the ultra-rich are economically irrelevant, but even the limited franchise of a farce of a democracy like the US is getting in the way of this change.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Join the movement to End Hunger in America
- volunteer at a food bank
- advocate
- donate
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
- volunteer at a food bank
- advocate
- donate
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
Take Action | Feeding America
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October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Join the movement to End Hunger in America
- volunteer at a food bank
- advocate
- donate
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
- volunteer at a food bank
- advocate
- donate
www.feedingamerica.org/take-action
After every disaster when people lose power, there are deaths of this kind. Please be careful with portable generators and don't use them indoors.
If you lose power this winter and use a portable generator to power your home: Be careful.
Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.
(Published 2021 with @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)
Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.
(Published 2021 with @texastribune.org @nbcnews.com)
Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year. The U.S. Has Failed to Force Safety Changes.
Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by ...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 AM
After every disaster when people lose power, there are deaths of this kind. Please be careful with portable generators and don't use them indoors.
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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4/ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036 and without necessarily reconstituting its tank fleet.
European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.
European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.
October 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
4/ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036 and without necessarily reconstituting its tank fleet.
European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.
European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
I don't want to shill for the Post, but this is a serious, silent and growing issue. Disabled folks below that age mark are in the same unpleasant boat. Nursing homes are not nice places to live, and we're supposed to have the right to care in the community - but that care is not great either.
More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all.
Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?
Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?
An age-old fear grows more common: ‘I’m going to die alone’
As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at the end of their lives.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don't want to shill for the Post, but this is a serious, silent and growing issue. Disabled folks below that age mark are in the same unpleasant boat. Nursing homes are not nice places to live, and we're supposed to have the right to care in the community - but that care is not great either.
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
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The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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at its core, a lot of these guys use AI as a woman who can be forced to love them, cannot say no to them, and that they have 100% control over. the problem isn't the specific words used or the specific target, it's what such behavior indicates about the user themselves
October 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
at its core, a lot of these guys use AI as a woman who can be forced to love them, cannot say no to them, and that they have 100% control over. the problem isn't the specific words used or the specific target, it's what such behavior indicates about the user themselves
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Check out this project to document and preserve existing National Park Service signs before they disappear under orders of the regime. Help gather information and spread the word.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
Save Our Signs
Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History
sites.google.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out this project to document and preserve existing National Park Service signs before they disappear under orders of the regime. Help gather information and spread the word.
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
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"The possibly imminent government shutdown would be like no federal funding crunch before it," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/4pMhGiM
Here's what is so different about the brewing government shutdown | CNN Politics
The possible government shutdown that seems imminent this week would be like no federal funding crunch before it.
cnn.it
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"The possibly imminent government shutdown would be like no federal funding crunch before it," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/4pMhGiM
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“If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said Kristofer Harrison, who served as a high-level State Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Because it is corruption.”
(Published May)
(Published May)
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
September 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said Kristofer Harrison, who served as a high-level State Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Because it is corruption.”
(Published May)
(Published May)
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Here’s the text of a public health order issued by the Dir. of Colorado’s public health dept directing the state’s health officer to issue a new standing order to allow pharmacists to administer Covid shots & laying out add’l steps authorized by existing statutes: drive.google.com/file/d/1sNIV...
COVID Vaccine Access PHO.09032025.pdf
drive.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Here’s the text of a public health order issued by the Dir. of Colorado’s public health dept directing the state’s health officer to issue a new standing order to allow pharmacists to administer Covid shots & laying out add’l steps authorized by existing statutes: drive.google.com/file/d/1sNIV...
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Republican legislators in WI propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances. Granting natural entities legal rights is relatively new in the US, but countries & Indigenous communities around the world have enshrined legal rights for nature. ictnews.org/news/republi...
Republican legislators propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances - ICT
The concept of granting natural entities legal rights is relatively new in American government, but countries around the world have enshrined legal rights for nature into their constitutions.
ictnews.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Republican legislators in WI propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances. Granting natural entities legal rights is relatively new in the US, but countries & Indigenous communities around the world have enshrined legal rights for nature. ictnews.org/news/republi...
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New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya
September 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya
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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm…
www.propublica.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)
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A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
ICE just released updated detention statistics.
As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
As of August 24, ICE is holding 61,226 people at authorized facilities around the United States and its Territories.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Detention Management
An official website of the United States government
www.ice.gov
August 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
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NEW: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower Charles Borges resigned today—but his resignation email quickly disappeared from recipients' inboxes, sources tell @wired.com. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/charle...
SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.
www.wired.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
NEW: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower Charles Borges resigned today—but his resignation email quickly disappeared from recipients' inboxes, sources tell @wired.com. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/charle...