R. Cielo Cruz
@rcielocruz.bsky.social
Writer ⚧🇨🇺🏳️🌈♌︎ Racial Justice facilitator Rep the NO 4ever #Intersectionality #AbolitionNow #BLM Sex/SWer positive, they/them, #RacialJusticeReads founder
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R. Cielo Cruz
@rcielocruz.bsky.social
· Feb 10
I know the world is, like not great rn, but I have some fresh #bookreviews on my #storygraph if you also cope or would like to cope by burying yourself in fiction. And feel free to follow.
app.thestorygraph.com/profile/rcie...
#booksky #diversebooksky #lgbtqiabooksky
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#booksky #diversebooksky #lgbtqiabooksky
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A beautiful love letter to independent journalism, and hope.
October 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A beautiful love letter to independent journalism, and hope.
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Read this whole thread, but this post in particular really drives home just how blindly we are accepting a profit-driven multicorporate agenda as some kind of inevitable "human progress."
This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Read this whole thread, but this post in particular really drives home just how blindly we are accepting a profit-driven multicorporate agenda as some kind of inevitable "human progress."
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The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin
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Do all these AI bros defending the personhood of chatbots etc extend their ethics to their interactions with non-human animals or no
Because I’m very curious now
Because I’m very curious now
October 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Three (or however many) years ago an attorney friend in CA told me that the conservatorship fights a la Britney Spears were way more far reaching and a bigger future threat than we could grasp. Everyone who makes $ off caging ppl, medically or criminally, is responsible for this.
Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care
President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.
www.npr.org
October 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Three (or however many) years ago an attorney friend in CA told me that the conservatorship fights a la Britney Spears were way more far reaching and a bigger future threat than we could grasp. Everyone who makes $ off caging ppl, medically or criminally, is responsible for this.
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Blocking everyone who tells me that we can resolve the femicide epidemic by teaching boys critical thinking skills. I know a woman who was nearly strangled to death by a logic professor. Fuck off.
October 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Blocking everyone who tells me that we can resolve the femicide epidemic by teaching boys critical thinking skills. I know a woman who was nearly strangled to death by a logic professor. Fuck off.
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A Black Woman battling a rare cancer needs help. After giving birth she found out she had cancer and lost her job because of it and is unable to work due to the pain. She’s raising money to afford groceries and bills this month. If we each give $1 she’ll reach her goal.
October 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A Black Woman battling a rare cancer needs help. After giving birth she found out she had cancer and lost her job because of it and is unable to work due to the pain. She’s raising money to afford groceries and bills this month. If we each give $1 she’ll reach her goal.
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IT’S TIME Y’ALL!
In 1 month, my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org will be awarding women across the U.S. w/ $10,000 EACH in scholarships through The Perry Second Chances Scholarship
I started this program giving money from my savings. Im so moved at what it has become.
Apps open 11.15 🩵✝️
In 1 month, my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org will be awarding women across the U.S. w/ $10,000 EACH in scholarships through The Perry Second Chances Scholarship
I started this program giving money from my savings. Im so moved at what it has become.
Apps open 11.15 🩵✝️
October 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
IT’S TIME Y’ALL!
In 1 month, my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org will be awarding women across the U.S. w/ $10,000 EACH in scholarships through The Perry Second Chances Scholarship
I started this program giving money from my savings. Im so moved at what it has become.
Apps open 11.15 🩵✝️
In 1 month, my nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org will be awarding women across the U.S. w/ $10,000 EACH in scholarships through The Perry Second Chances Scholarship
I started this program giving money from my savings. Im so moved at what it has become.
Apps open 11.15 🩵✝️
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Featured story: “The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings, regardless of whether or not it’s a for-profit or a nonprofit agency. And anytime you’re talking about people as a commodity, I don’t know what that looks like to do ethically.”
The Adoption Trap
Private foster care and adoption agencies in Texas are brokering contracts for moms to turn over their children in a murky legal world, spawning protracted civil custody battles.
www.texasobserver.org
July 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Featured story: “The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings, regardless of whether or not it’s a for-profit or a nonprofit agency. And anytime you’re talking about people as a commodity, I don’t know what that looks like to do ethically.”
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If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
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This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
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In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
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We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.
Help us report ⬇️
Help us report ⬇️
Are You Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You.
We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.
www.propublica.org
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.
Help us report ⬇️
Help us report ⬇️
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The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:sq3cuwk7tsjv564xefoj67tq/post/3m22qmtgnhc2a.
Page by T. Christian Miller | @tchristianmiller.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️...
skywriter.blue
October 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:sq3cuwk7tsjv564xefoj67tq/post/3m22qmtgnhc2a.
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18/ Johnson determined the contractor had unauthorized contact with the press and had misled internal investigators about it, the IG report says. The ambassador defended the contractor’s dismissal during his Senate confirmation hearing this year.
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
18/ Johnson determined the contractor had unauthorized contact with the press and had misled internal investigators about it, the IG report says. The ambassador defended the contractor’s dismissal during his Senate confirmation hearing this year.
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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This thread is something.
@propublica is putting in the work
@propublica is putting in the work
1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️
October 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This thread is something.
@propublica is putting in the work
@propublica is putting in the work
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11/ Johnson is now Trump’s ambassador to Mexico, one of the most important diplomatic posts in Latin America. And Bukele has a new friend in Trump, whose administration paid a reported $6 million to use the CECOT prison.
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
11/ Johnson is now Trump’s ambassador to Mexico, one of the most important diplomatic posts in Latin America. And Bukele has a new friend in Trump, whose administration paid a reported $6 million to use the CECOT prison.
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Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation, will discuss "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" with Dr. Uahikea Maile, a Kanaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Oʻahu.
Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT
Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT
Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and member of Alderville First Nation, will discuss "Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead" with Dr. Uahikea Maile, a Kanaka Maoli scholar, organizer, and practitioner from Oʻahu.
Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT
Oct. 6th, 6:30pm CDT
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“DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda—and sometimes, for what appears to be purely recreational violence.”
I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.
Must-Reads and the War on Chicago
"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda—and sometimes, for what appears to be purely recreational violence.”
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Medicaid reimbursement for providers is already extremely low, one reason why many don't take Medicaid. This is going to drive even more providers away!
States are cutting Medicaid provider payments long before Trump cuts hit
North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new fed...
www.npr.org
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Medicaid reimbursement for providers is already extremely low, one reason why many don't take Medicaid. This is going to drive even more providers away!
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This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:
African-Americans are experts on America.
African-Americans are experts on America.
America should listen to Black people
October 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:
African-Americans are experts on America.
African-Americans are experts on America.
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College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.
I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:
emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.
I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:
emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
October 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.
I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:
emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.
I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:
emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...
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I never get blocked as much as on the days i point out the every single thing that is happening now is something that multiple people from multiple spheres of life/influence said would happen. People's refusal to ask themselves "why didn't i believe them?" is preventing progress.
The police funding discussion was laughed at… “what do you mean DEFUND the police?”.
Funding levels have skyrocketed to support the activities we see right now.
Now it’s “…but nobody knew it would be this bad…”
Yeah, WE knew!
Funding levels have skyrocketed to support the activities we see right now.
Now it’s “…but nobody knew it would be this bad…”
Yeah, WE knew!
October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I never get blocked as much as on the days i point out the every single thing that is happening now is something that multiple people from multiple spheres of life/influence said would happen. People's refusal to ask themselves "why didn't i believe them?" is preventing progress.
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I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.