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@timlongman.bsky.social

High school friend who lives in Lawrence, KS, posted this. It may start with the undocumented, then move to refugees, then move to green card holders, then naturalized citizens. The denial of due process ultimately makes us all unsafe. Don’t think because you are a citizen, they won’t harass you.

April 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM

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Sir Lewis Updates

@lh44updates.bsky.social

"Feeling right at home ~"—Lewis via IG

February 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Joshua Erlich

@joshuaerlich.bsky.social

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM

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dell cameron

@dell.bsky.social

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt.

We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered.

Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

February 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back

The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

www.wsj.com

February 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Sarah

@alatteliterature.bsky.social

"...Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 26

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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The Salt Lake Tribune

@sltrib.com

In light of heightened fear, Utah immigration experts share what you can do now to prepare in the event of ICE detainment, as well as what you and others can do if agents knock on your door or arrive at your workplace.

Utah reports of ICE sightings are driving fear. Here’s what experts say you should know.

In light of heightened fear, Utah immigration experts share what you can do now to prepare in the event of ICE detainment, as well as what you and others can do if agents knock on your door or arrive at your workplace.

www.sltrib.com

January 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami #womensart

Minimalist artwork in black on white featuring a silhouette of a flying bird, bottom slight right, as if flying towards a row of bare winter trees to the top left

January 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Noelle 💫

@mxrphvs.bsky.social

Currently reading
#booksky

January 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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𝕬 𝕮𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖑 🥀

@acrimsonpetal.bsky.social

More books by Trans and Non-Binary authors:

- Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
- PET by Akwaeke Emezi
- Blood Orange by Yaffa
- They Were Here Before Us by Eric LaRocca
- The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon
- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

#BookSky #DiverseBookSky

January 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Lindsay Wiley

@lindsaywiley.bsky.social

Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 23

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!

That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

January 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM

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More Perfect Union

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: The National Treasury Employees Union is suing the Trump administration.

They're suing over Trump's "schedule F" order that that makes it easier to fire career federal workers.

The union's president says, “This order is about administering political loyalty tests."

January 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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More Perfect Union

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Trump has repealed a Biden executive order mandating ethical behavior from administration employees.

The order told federal workers to:
-Not accept gifts from lobbyists
-Not take other bribes
-Not lobby for two years after government work
-And more

Now those rules are gone.

January 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃

@falconryfinance.bsky.social

January 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM

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Tiffani Ashley Bell

@tiffaniashleybell.com

I have been trying to tell people this

I am descended from people prevented from reading bc it was empowering

It still is

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 19

THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ

I AM BEGGING YOU TO READ

THERE IS A REASON THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO READ!!

DON’T DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM BY REFUSING TO READ

January 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM

Noelle 💫

@mxrphvs.bsky.social

I am workshopping a new idea tho. Mostly bc I want a Mayan/indigenous coded FMC in fantasy.
#booksky #writing

January 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM

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Becca Podos

@beccapodos.bsky.social

Ceasefire today, liberation tomorrow 🇵🇸

Crossposting here on behalf of Books for Palestine; please check out our Instagram at @books_palestine for a number of resources!

What does the ceasefire mean? While an immediate ceasefire is a necessary first step toward rebuilding Gaza, and a welcome development, it is not the end of the occupation. Nor does it change anything for the rest of occupied Palestine, including the West Bank, where violence has been constant and intense. And so,
IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORK.

Under the deal, Stage One — lasting 6 weeks — would see Hamas releasing a number of its remaining hostages, while Israel has pledged to release a number of Palestinian prisoners, thousands of whom have been jailed for years without charge or trial in prisons that have been described through evidence as torture camps. Israel will pull its troops from all populated areas of Gaza, while Gazans will be allowed to return to their homes, though the majority have been destroyed. Stage Two would see a “permanent end to the war.”

But even after the truce was announced on Wednesday and up until Sunday morning, Israel continued its bombardment of Gaza with increasing intensity. Air strikes in Deir el-Balah, Al-Nuseirat, Khirbet Al-Adas, Al-Bureji, and elsewhere killed more than 100 Palestinians, including children, a journalist, and medical professionals.

After hours of delay, Netanyahu continuously repeated this is a temporary ceasefire and that
the “war” will resume.

January 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Noelle 💫

@mxrphvs.bsky.social

Lost my motivation to write this week bc I’m anxious and depressed which is EXACTLY what happened last time. Need to pep talk myself into writing bc that mfer cant have that much power over me.