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Tunisian Crochet, Crochet, Yarn...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Kenia Hale, a predoctoral fellow, and Payton Croskey, a senior, are members of Princeton’s Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab (created by Dr. Ruha Benjamin), where they research ways people of color can resist digital surveillance.

They led a project called “Liberatory Technology and Digital Marronage.”
How a New Generation Is Combatting Digital Surveillance
We’ve generally come to accept that our devices are listening to our conversations, our personal data is being tracked and sold, and that law enforcement tracks and stores images of our own faces...
aas.princeton.edu
January 6, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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No Kings Day

June 14

All across America

Visit: nokings.org for more info
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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👇🏻
June 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I just used this app to call my uS senators and rep. Super easy. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
(This is not the only thing you can do but this it’s important to do)
You've been averaging a rate of *50 calls a minute* all day today on 5 Calls to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home and stop Trump’s plan to traffic civilians to a foreign gulag. ✊📞🔥
April 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Yay!!!

This season there are 4 other crocheters and you can get just crochet folks if you want!
Surprise! 🧶I'll be teaching all about Tunisian Crochet! The best part is that you own it forever!

Ask me all the questions. I'll tell you no lies!

I'm so freaking excited!
knitstars.com/masterclass/...
April 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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What’s Better Than a Signed Book? A Surprise Inside.

Signed copy?✔️
Cozy mystery?✔️✔️
Free word search & coloring page?✔️✔️✔️

When you grab a signed paperback copy of Death by Drop Spindle by April 19 you’ll also receive an exclusive bonus page that’s part puzzle, part coloring book, ALL cozy crime fun.
April 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Can we in general use Google forms less?

There are other great and more secure options out there and I'm making that shift for both mine and anyone else's data I process as business sake.
April 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Yeah i donated, if you can too, that’s great, sharing is cool too!
Please share and help me raise funds to stop food insecurity givebutter.com/knitforfood2...
April 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Gluttony is a feast for the eyes. This colorway blends elements from the six other sins: the royal purples of Pride, the icy blues of Sloth, the fiery reds of Wrath, the golden shimmer of Greed, the poisonous greens of Envy, and the seductive pinks of Lust.
April 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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We’re getting into the countdown spirit early with preorders for the 2025 LBYC Countdown Calendar, and this year’s theme is straight from the Pixar multiverse!
April 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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$400M still in the budget, no one to spend it.

The cruelty is the point.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Anyway, happy Trans Day of Visibility. We have always been here.

Help support trans people like me in Ohio by buying the ttrpgs for trans right in Ohio.

I can’t slap DeWine but this bundle meeting goal will fill a small bit of hope in me I’ve been losing.

itch.io/b/2946/ttrpg...
TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio by Rue (ilananight) and 225 others
TTRPGs for Trans Rights - Ohio: 467 items for $5.00
itch.io
March 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Our trans and nonbinary siblings have always been here and will continue to remain here.
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary agreed to oust the agency's top vaccine official shortly after being quietly sworn in late last week.
New FDA commissioner agreed to oust top vaccine regulator after private swearing-in
The forced resignation of Peter Marks has unsettled scientists and researchers.
www.politico.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Pushback works, part gazillion:

"Here are the facts: DOGE moved forward with plans to close multiple field offices. Then, without public notice or explanation, they reversed their plans. Now they are trying to pretend like they were never planning to close the offices."
popular.info/p/how-the-so...
How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting Americans
The Social Security Administration (SSA) sent an email on March 27 to beneficiaries saying that reports that field offices were closing was an invention of fake news media.
popular.info
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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For #TransDayofVisibility you should check out these amazing artists!!

go.bsky.app/7Bda1v3

#TDoV
March 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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With my main character, Hazel, I’m sharing some of the nuances and micro-aggressions Black women face every single day in the fiber industry

Can you relate?

Get the story here
tianconnaughton.thrivecart.com/novels
April 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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What happened in Louisiana deserves more attention. 4 MAGA-supported constitutional amendments. All failed.

Great organizing work by folks like Gary Chambers.

www.joyannreid.com/p/that-louis...
That Louisiana win is a BFD (and a message to Wisconsin and Florida voters: yes we can!)
Activists, powered by Black early voters, defeated maga governor Jeff Landry, including in his own parish...
www.joyannreid.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Finally. This is what every damn Democrat Senator should be doing at every opportunity.
SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME

“I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able…1/
April 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Author proof paperback copy of Death by Drop Spindle is here

Holding it and seeing my words in black & white feels surreal… like magic ✨

Death by Drop Spindle paperback is available for pre-order
tianconnaughton.thrivecart.com/novels
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Trump pushes myths about "open borders” leading to spikes in fentanyl use. In reality, 80% of fentanyl traffickers at the border are U.S. citizens. Fighting the crisis means tackling demand—treatment, mental health, education. Facts matter. Read the latest fact-check from @joshlevs.bsky.social
‘Red’ America needs the truth on Trump’s fentanyl failures
With some voters seeing the light, it's time to focus on an issue that hits home
contrarian.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Universities have long been bastions for free speech. They must fight back against the Trump administration's crackdown on dissent.
March 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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21 State Attorneys General are urging America’s legal community to stand together in defense of the rule of law.

We must not falter in our resolve to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.

Our democracy depends on it. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
March 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM