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包弫 Bao Zhen/Jennifer Ball
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My college was so feminist, I got a Bitchler’s instead of a Bachelor’s. They are slightly different degrees: with a Bachelor’s you can get a job; with a Bitchler’s you are ALREADY a working girl. (Rim shot.) 我的大学非常重视女权主义,所以我拿到的是 Bitchler 学位而不是学士学位。(我开个玩笑。)
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noooooo! Link is one of the best people on this platform. @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team you need to bring Link back immediately
Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.
October 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@sandiegouniontribune.com

GET AN F-ING CLUE: stop writing about people of color and then using biased language to devalue their color! The use of “dark” as a synonym for “bad” is a micro-aggression that results in macro-oppression. 

#ColorBiasIsRacialBias

#ChangeLanguageChangeMinds
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Alternate headline: Johnson Lied.
September 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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When it comes to right wingers, think about this: they're anti-CRT, anti-Woke, anti-DEI, anti-BLM because they're for systemic racism, for uniformity, inequality, & exclusion, & don't value black lives.

They may argue with that but their actions speak louder than their words.
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Police in Kathmandu opened fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens more.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4n13kcI
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@npr.org Someone at NPR has to know this is nuts, right?

You have a person that you are writing about with dark skin and then you write about "dark" times as a negative.

Jesusetta Christa.

Inclusive language is only a synonym away. 

#ColorBiasIsRacialBias

#ChangeLanguageChangeMinds
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@npr.org The use of “dark,” “black,” or “shade” as a synonym for “bad” is a micro-aggression that results in macro-oppression. 
The constant devaluing of darkness pushes the narrative that dark is evil even though the visual spectrum does not confer morality.

#ChangeLanguageChangeMinds
September 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@sandiegouniontribune.com
The use of “dark" as “bad” is a micro-aggression that results in macro-oppression. 
The constant devaluing of darkness pushes the narrative that dark is evil even though the visual spectrum does not confer morality.

#ColorBiasIsRacialBias

#ChangeLanguageChangeMinds
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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August 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual

PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
June 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported.

The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us.

Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending?

Not justice, it’s a betrayal.
June 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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LA DODGERS just now:

“This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.”

Right on, Dodgers!
More of this, please.
June 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.
June 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The EPA recently withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social‬ and @lisalsong.bsky.social
EPA Drops Legal Case Against the GEO Group, a Major Trump Donor, Over Its Misuse of Harmful Disinfectant in an ICE Facility
A complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that on more than 1,000 occasions in 2022 and 2023, the GEO Group had its employees use the disinfectant, which causes irreversible eye damage…
www.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This all comes down to policy choices.

Do we want a nation with policies rooted in cruelty and punishment?

Or do we want a nation with policies rooted in kindness and compassion?

This is the choice before us.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM