María
@mariavictoria.bsky.social
mariavhawkins on twitter. still trying to figure this place out.
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I made a Corsi-Rosenthal Box🙂
(8 HVAC filters and a fan attached to a box)
I bought the filters new, already own the fan, and I made the box out of old furnitures♻️
(8 HVAC filters and a fan attached to a box)
I bought the filters new, already own the fan, and I made the box out of old furnitures♻️
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I made a Corsi-Rosenthal Box🙂
(8 HVAC filters and a fan attached to a box)
I bought the filters new, already own the fan, and I made the box out of old furnitures♻️
(8 HVAC filters and a fan attached to a box)
I bought the filters new, already own the fan, and I made the box out of old furnitures♻️
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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Yes, but it’s not the ruling everyone thinks it was.
This article doesn’t even include the real original sin: The 1974 SCOTUS ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money is a protected form of speech and that independent expenditures could not be limited by Congress.
This article doesn’t even include the real original sin: The 1974 SCOTUS ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money is a protected form of speech and that independent expenditures could not be limited by Congress.
The original sin: Five Supreme Court Republican appointees, many helped onto the Court by right-wing billionaires, open the floodgates for unlimited political spending. Then they refuse to police anonymous political spending they know is corrupting. This is the result.
How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Yes, but it’s not the ruling everyone thinks it was.
This article doesn’t even include the real original sin: The 1974 SCOTUS ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money is a protected form of speech and that independent expenditures could not be limited by Congress.
This article doesn’t even include the real original sin: The 1974 SCOTUS ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which held that spending money is a protected form of speech and that independent expenditures could not be limited by Congress.
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The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The reason people freak out and run from Trump’s racist goon squad is they are literally disappearing people. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up a network of resistance & detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained by ICE, leaving the children behind, reports @19thnews.org.
Child Care Workers Are Building a Network of Resistance Against ICE - Bucks County Beacon
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained, leavi...
buckscountybeacon.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up a network of resistance & detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained by ICE, leaving the children behind, reports @19thnews.org.
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Before the ACA I could not be insured unless I joined a high risk pool. The last time I looked into that was 1998 and it would have cost me $8000 a year (the equivalent of $15,600 today) when I was only making $20k before taxes.
We cannot let these Fascist monsters drag us back to that.
We cannot let these Fascist monsters drag us back to that.
Republican Health Care Lingo Every Voter Should Know.
Do YOU know what your Republican Member of Congress means when they say things like "high-risk pools?"
It means they want to go back to when people with pre-existing conditions like cancer could be denied coverage.
Do YOU know what your Republican Member of Congress means when they say things like "high-risk pools?"
It means they want to go back to when people with pre-existing conditions like cancer could be denied coverage.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Before the ACA I could not be insured unless I joined a high risk pool. The last time I looked into that was 1998 and it would have cost me $8000 a year (the equivalent of $15,600 today) when I was only making $20k before taxes.
We cannot let these Fascist monsters drag us back to that.
We cannot let these Fascist monsters drag us back to that.
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anyway two of these funerals were for young guys who died very suddenly and unexpectedly and Henry’s stepmom told the whole audience so I am telling all of you EVERYBODY GO TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE DOCTOR IN A LONG TIME
YES I KNOW THIS ALSO MEANS ME
YES I KNOW THIS ALSO MEANS ME
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
anyway two of these funerals were for young guys who died very suddenly and unexpectedly and Henry’s stepmom told the whole audience so I am telling all of you EVERYBODY GO TO THE DOCTOR IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE DOCTOR IN A LONG TIME
YES I KNOW THIS ALSO MEANS ME
YES I KNOW THIS ALSO MEANS ME
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Stopping states from acting on AI will stop progress. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided
Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial
www.eff.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Stopping states from acting on AI will stop progress. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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this boycott picket is part of the National We Ain't Buying It call for boycotts from November 27 through Cyber Monday - weaintbuyingit.com - The target orgs are Target, Amazon and Home Depot.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
this boycott picket is part of the National We Ain't Buying It call for boycotts from November 27 through Cyber Monday - weaintbuyingit.com - The target orgs are Target, Amazon and Home Depot.
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Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
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well this is very, very nice.
New at Media Nation: @marisakabas.bsky.social is the alternative to wallowing in Olivia Nuzzi's tale of dysfunction and deceit. There are 42,000 journalists across the U.S., and the vast majority are performing honorably and ethically. dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...
Marisa Kabas is the alternative to wallowing in Olivia Nuzzi’s tale of dysfunction and deceit
Colby Hall’s Mediaite commentary about Olivia Nuzzi is winning a lot of praise. The redoubtable Jay Rosen goes so far as to call it “the best thing I have read about her.” Sign up…
dankennedy.net
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
well this is very, very nice.
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Alcohol is legal in every state
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
It's possible to get addicted to pot. Here's what to know
Doctors say it's possible to get hooked on pot. There's a widespread misconception that marijuana is not addictive, and it's expanded as a growing number of states legalize pot.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Alcohol is legal in every state
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The new ‘Wicked’ is unmistakably a parable about the Wizard (Trump) lying to the people of Oz (🇺🇸) to fearmonger as he persecutes a marginalized element of society (immigrants).
Hopefully that won’t be lost on those who most need to hear it. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/e...
Hopefully that won’t be lost on those who most need to hear it. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/e...
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The new ‘Wicked’ is unmistakably a parable about the Wizard (Trump) lying to the people of Oz (🇺🇸) to fearmonger as he persecutes a marginalized element of society (immigrants).
Hopefully that won’t be lost on those who most need to hear it. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/e...
Hopefully that won’t be lost on those who most need to hear it. www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/e...
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#Harvard and #Yale alums, faculty, staff and students came out today in support of higher education in America now under vicious assault from the #Trump administration (thanks to @blumenthal.senate.gov and @gtconway.bsky.social for coming out to help us today at the #Harvard #Yale game!).
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#Harvard and #Yale alums, faculty, staff and students came out today in support of higher education in America now under vicious assault from the #Trump administration (thanks to @blumenthal.senate.gov and @gtconway.bsky.social for coming out to help us today at the #Harvard #Yale game!).
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IF you are going share something about RFK Jr., this is the story to share. I don't really give a shit who the man fucks. He is killing us. His "work" results in death and suffering among children. He is the worst human ghoul.
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
IF you are going share something about RFK Jr., this is the story to share. I don't really give a shit who the man fucks. He is killing us. His "work" results in death and suffering among children. He is the worst human ghoul.
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky
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That is what I keep saying, as someone who is attracted to women— no, it’s not terrible to see an older teenager and think she’s attractive. It’s terrible to *realize she’s a teenager* and *keep looking*
One moment that sticks in my mind from the early Robert B Parker Spenser novels is when Spenser notices an attractive lady and then realizes that she's a teenager. He immediately looks away and banishes her from his mind.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
It's a throwaway moment in a book series that's a lot about how to be a man.
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
That is what I keep saying, as someone who is attracted to women— no, it’s not terrible to see an older teenager and think she’s attractive. It’s terrible to *realize she’s a teenager* and *keep looking*
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My condolences to this individual's family and loved ones. Thank you to the dedicated medical professionals who cared for them, and to the public health experts working to monitor the situation and educate the public. To emphasize what the experts are saying: The risk to the public remains low.
A Grays Harbor County resident who was undergoing treatment for #H5N5 avian influenza died today. The Washington State Department of Health offers its heartfelt condolences to the person’s family and friends.
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...
doh.wa.gov/newsroom/gra...
Grays Harbor County resident dies from complications of avian influenza
For immediate release: Nov. 21, 2025 (25-140) Contact: DOH Communications The person was infected with the H5N5 virus; the risk to the public remains low OLYMPIA – A Grays Harbor County resident who w...
doh.wa.gov
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My condolences to this individual's family and loved ones. Thank you to the dedicated medical professionals who cared for them, and to the public health experts working to monitor the situation and educate the public. To emphasize what the experts are saying: The risk to the public remains low.
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Are their board members in the files?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Are their board members in the files?
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Side note: as I lean into my PTA mom era, I am telling you, if you haven’t been a PTA parent, which is statistically mostly women….
You will be unprepared for finding out about loads of invisible labor you didn’t know about.
Also why I keep saying that it’s great training wheels for organizing.
You will be unprepared for finding out about loads of invisible labor you didn’t know about.
Also why I keep saying that it’s great training wheels for organizing.
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Side note: as I lean into my PTA mom era, I am telling you, if you haven’t been a PTA parent, which is statistically mostly women….
You will be unprepared for finding out about loads of invisible labor you didn’t know about.
Also why I keep saying that it’s great training wheels for organizing.
You will be unprepared for finding out about loads of invisible labor you didn’t know about.
Also why I keep saying that it’s great training wheels for organizing.
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Whistles to warn of ICE agents have become a sound of resistance. “In South Seattle, whistles have been distributed at Skyway Farmers Market. Cherryl Jackson-Williams … said whistles brought people who are ‘concerned for the safety of their neighbors’ together. The kits were all taken w/in an hour.”
From Seattle to L.A., Chicago, and now Charlotte, communities are stepping up as Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda grows more violent and indiscriminate.
"The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied."
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
"The ways that community members are helping their immigrant neighbors truly are ingenious and varied."
✍️ @tusk81.bsky.social
Look For The Helpers: Americans Come Together To Protect Immigrant Neighbors
From buying out food vendors’ products to blowing whistles in order to warn about immigration agents, Americans are finding new and creative ways to defend immigrant communities.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Whistles to warn of ICE agents have become a sound of resistance. “In South Seattle, whistles have been distributed at Skyway Farmers Market. Cherryl Jackson-Williams … said whistles brought people who are ‘concerned for the safety of their neighbors’ together. The kits were all taken w/in an hour.”
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Pretty well established finding that immigration raids of workplaces reduce student test performance for nearby schools, including for non-vulnerable students. The general DHS surge appears to be doing the same for student performance. www.nber.org/papers/w34452
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pretty well established finding that immigration raids of workplaces reduce student test performance for nearby schools, including for non-vulnerable students. The general DHS surge appears to be doing the same for student performance. www.nber.org/papers/w34452
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If you don’t think #Democracy is endangered, I invite you to read about the the precipitous fall of the Weimar to Nazis. I cover this at length in my book; and much as with the prequels to Star Wars (which borrows from #history), supposedly democracy-loving politicians voted for their demise.
The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319
wwnorton.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you don’t think #Democracy is endangered, I invite you to read about the the precipitous fall of the Weimar to Nazis. I cover this at length in my book; and much as with the prequels to Star Wars (which borrows from #history), supposedly democracy-loving politicians voted for their demise.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...