Julie Libarkin
@holdingupthesky.bsky.social
Access, inclusion, equity, and justice - ALWAYS. Lives among the Anishinaabe peoples on occupied lands
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I am feeling more and more my grandmother’s family story - disability saved them. She immigrated before WW1 but everyone else stayed. Her grandfather was deaf and had been sent as a youth to school in the city (maybe Vilna). 1/4
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From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
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From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities
Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant.
www.wkar.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
Larry Summers is…🤢
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Larry Summers is…🤢
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If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.
What the fuck is wrong with our media
What the fuck is wrong with our media
October 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.
What the fuck is wrong with our media
What the fuck is wrong with our media
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We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
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Bad for Idaho, bad for America.
‘People are going to die’: Idahoans fear spike in insurance costs
Boise resident Susan Wood spent her career in the health insurance industry. She worries federal changes may upend her health care coverage.
www.idahostatesman.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bad for Idaho, bad for America.
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.
newrepublic.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
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ICE continues to assault us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This happened about 15 minutes ago. ICE just took one of the protesters inside the facility. This is the first time that’s ever happened.
Join us at 1930 Beach Street. Free our friend. Free our neighbors. Shut down this facility.
Join us at 1930 Beach Street. Free our friend. Free our neighbors. Shut down this facility.
September 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This happened about 15 minutes ago. ICE just took one of the protesters inside the facility. This is the first time that’s ever happened.
Join us at 1930 Beach Street. Free our friend. Free our neighbors. Shut down this facility.
Join us at 1930 Beach Street. Free our friend. Free our neighbors. Shut down this facility.
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On Juneteenth and forever…
Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.
(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.
(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
June 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
On Juneteenth and forever…
Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.
(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
Honor, don’t bury or whitewash the history of our ancestors who were lynched.
(National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama)
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Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.
June 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.
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It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
May 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.
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How can you tell if the administration is lying? Karoline Leavitt is speaking on its behalf.
May 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
How can you tell if the administration is lying? Karoline Leavitt is speaking on its behalf.
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Someone at the community garden has been stealing from my rhubarb and I feel like such a hobbit about it. Yes, Mordor is rising and the whole shire may burn if we don't get our act together, but also, garden drama stop stealing my rhubarb I need that for cake ugh
May 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Someone at the community garden has been stealing from my rhubarb and I feel like such a hobbit about it. Yes, Mordor is rising and the whole shire may burn if we don't get our act together, but also, garden drama stop stealing my rhubarb I need that for cake ugh
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Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.
May 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Scores of staffers at the White House National Security Council have been abruptly dismissed as part of a sweeping overhaul that slashes the staff from over 300 to just 50. The move shifts the NSC’s role from policymaking to simply carrying out the president’s directives.
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When someone as evil as Dick Cheney openly calls the orange felon the greatest threat to the United States, you know we are in some terrifyingly serious shit.
May 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
When someone as evil as Dick Cheney openly calls the orange felon the greatest threat to the United States, you know we are in some terrifyingly serious shit.
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Remember the 2nd case like Abrego Garcia, involving the gay man deported to Mexico n/w/s having been terrorized and held for ransom there? Judge Murphy orders the US to bring him back. not facilitate, not effectuate, bring him back.
May 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Remember the 2nd case like Abrego Garcia, involving the gay man deported to Mexico n/w/s having been terrorized and held for ransom there? Judge Murphy orders the US to bring him back. not facilitate, not effectuate, bring him back.
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If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?
May 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?
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I can confirm we had to terminate some of our agreements by the end of Thursday. I didn’t realize how it could impact interns.
Trauma continues to be the point.
Trauma continues to be the point.
I work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We got notification that some of our grants were cancelled.
The grants paid for interns—young Americans who help us do our work, build conservation ethic, and build future employees. They lost their jobs with no notice.
The grants paid for interns—young Americans who help us do our work, build conservation ethic, and build future employees. They lost their jobs with no notice.
May 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I can confirm we had to terminate some of our agreements by the end of Thursday. I didn’t realize how it could impact interns.
Trauma continues to be the point.
Trauma continues to be the point.
Lack of transparency is the NUMBER ONE complaint I hear about workplaces, governments, industries, bosses…powerful out here hiding their secrets
This administration will go to any lengths to keep the public in the dark. Transparency? Why would America deserve that.
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Lack of transparency is the NUMBER ONE complaint I hear about workplaces, governments, industries, bosses…powerful out here hiding their secrets
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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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not American, can't vote, but it seems really weird that the Democratic Party isn't just throwing its funding and resources at AOC and supporting her and her ideas—as well as just dumping money into local news organizations—rather than spending millions on a search for a "Joe Rogan for the left"
May 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
not American, can't vote, but it seems really weird that the Democratic Party isn't just throwing its funding and resources at AOC and supporting her and her ideas—as well as just dumping money into local news organizations—rather than spending millions on a search for a "Joe Rogan for the left"
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.