Shulamit
@shulamit.bsky.social
Human rights are under siege in the US. Vote like your country depends on it.
Only humans can save this planet, and only by changing ourselves.
We become what we practice; practice what you want to become.
Only humans can save this planet, and only by changing ourselves.
We become what we practice; practice what you want to become.
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🔴BREAKING: Yesterday, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the United States to withdraw from 66 int'l orgs & treaties, including the UNFCCC.
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
Non-governmental organizations that work on climate issues are in the position to continue the important, necessary, international work on global climate.
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
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16 years ago, SCOTUS ruled in Citizens United, allowing the ultra-rich to flood elections with dark money.
Since then, billionaires have taken over our gov’t and screwed over working people.
It’s time to pass my We the People Amendment to FINALLY reverse this disastrous ruling.
Since then, billionaires have taken over our gov’t and screwed over working people.
It’s time to pass my We the People Amendment to FINALLY reverse this disastrous ruling.
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
16 years ago, SCOTUS ruled in Citizens United, allowing the ultra-rich to flood elections with dark money.
Since then, billionaires have taken over our gov’t and screwed over working people.
It’s time to pass my We the People Amendment to FINALLY reverse this disastrous ruling.
Since then, billionaires have taken over our gov’t and screwed over working people.
It’s time to pass my We the People Amendment to FINALLY reverse this disastrous ruling.
Non-governmental organizations that work on climate issues are in the position to continue the important, necessary, international work on global climate.
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
🔴BREAKING: Yesterday, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the United States to withdraw from 66 int'l orgs & treaties, including the UNFCCC.
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
January 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Non-governmental organizations that work on climate issues are in the position to continue the important, necessary, international work on global climate.
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
The cost/benefit of global cooperation and national environment improvement is clearly net positive.
bsky.app/profile/worl...
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🔴BREAKING: Yesterday, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the United States to withdraw from 66 int'l orgs & treaties, including the UNFCCC.
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
January 8, 2026 at 1:47 PM
🔴BREAKING: Yesterday, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the United States to withdraw from 66 int'l orgs & treaties, including the UNFCCC.
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
This will lead American communities to lose opportunities in the booming clean energy economy, says David Widawsky: bit.ly/4jtEVLT
World Resources International, U.S. Program, put out a response to Trump's withdrawal from UNFCCC, by David Widawsky, Director, WRI U.S.
Full text in Alt text of news release screenshot, and in the next 6 slides of this thread.
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Full text in Alt text of news release screenshot, and in the next 6 slides of this thread.
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@wriclimate.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
World Resources International, U.S. Program, put out a response to Trump's withdrawal from UNFCCC, by David Widawsky, Director, WRI U.S.
Full text in Alt text of news release screenshot, and in the next 6 slides of this thread.
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@wriclimate.bsky.social
Full text in Alt text of news release screenshot, and in the next 6 slides of this thread.
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@wriclimate.bsky.social
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The Trace has maintained a database tracking the people shot by federal agents as part of immigration enforcement:
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:35 PM
The Trace has maintained a database tracking the people shot by federal agents as part of immigration enforcement:
Follow PEN America to keep up on censorship
PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Follow PEN America to keep up on censorship
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BREAKING: Tammy Duckworth, who has the most significant combat record of any current U.S. senator, just lashed out at Trump on Venezuela:
“Maybe Trump dodged the draft so many times he’s incapable of understanding the lessons from past conflicts built on lies.”
“Maybe Trump dodged the draft so many times he’s incapable of understanding the lessons from past conflicts built on lies.”
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
BREAKING: Tammy Duckworth, who has the most significant combat record of any current U.S. senator, just lashed out at Trump on Venezuela:
“Maybe Trump dodged the draft so many times he’s incapable of understanding the lessons from past conflicts built on lies.”
“Maybe Trump dodged the draft so many times he’s incapable of understanding the lessons from past conflicts built on lies.”
LinkedIn has allowed the present, sitting president, to choose what goes up for the role of "President of the United States."
That might make sense at first glance, but it means anyone who ever worked for POTUS now has a picture of this ijit. Including Barak Obama.
Fix this, LinkedIn!
That might make sense at first glance, but it means anyone who ever worked for POTUS now has a picture of this ijit. Including Barak Obama.
Fix this, LinkedIn!
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 PM
LinkedIn has allowed the present, sitting president, to choose what goes up for the role of "President of the United States."
That might make sense at first glance, but it means anyone who ever worked for POTUS now has a picture of this ijit. Including Barak Obama.
Fix this, LinkedIn!
That might make sense at first glance, but it means anyone who ever worked for POTUS now has a picture of this ijit. Including Barak Obama.
Fix this, LinkedIn!
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History doesn't always repeat but it sure as hell rhymes
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
www.scientificamerican.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:06 PM
History doesn't always repeat but it sure as hell rhymes
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Unless I’ve missed something—and pls update if so—major news orgs seem profoundly uninterested in the death toll from the Venezuela raid. Nowhere to be found on MSM home pages.
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed.
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Unless I’ve missed something—and pls update if so—major news orgs seem profoundly uninterested in the death toll from the Venezuela raid. Nowhere to be found on MSM home pages.
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
Local sources say 80 dead. Isn’t that worth pursuing, even if it’s just examining the credibility of the sourcing?
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Trillions. 😢
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trillions. 😢
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The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
Routine naturalization ceremonies scheduled for this month in Putnam, Dutchess and Ulster counties to welcome new U.S. citizens were abruptly canceled last week by the federal government, surprising local officials. buff.ly/8emFeDU
Citizen Ceremonies Canceled
Dutchess, Putnam clerks say they have new dates for next year
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.
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I do not recall where I was when I took this photo, though either Philadelphia or Washington, DC.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I do not recall where I was when I took this photo, though either Philadelphia or Washington, DC.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
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Goldman Sachs says the U.S. lost 50,000 jobs last month—which is why Trump’s refusing to release the jobs and inflation reports. They don’t want you seeing how bad the economy really is, but everybody knows.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Goldman Sachs says the U.S. lost 50,000 jobs last month—which is why Trump’s refusing to release the jobs and inflation reports. They don’t want you seeing how bad the economy really is, but everybody knows.
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Yeah, but they will never miss an opportunity to miss the opportunity to torpedo actual governing, when they could destroy more lives instead.
Jeffries: "House Republicans, welcome back from your taxpayer-funded 7 week vacation. You now have an opportunity to actually take some action in an area of this healthcare crisis by working with Democrats before the rules committee this evening to extend the ACA tax credits."
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Yeah, but they will never miss an opportunity to miss the opportunity to torpedo actual governing, when they could destroy more lives instead.
I do not recall where I was when I took this photo, though either Philadelphia or Washington, DC.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I do not recall where I was when I took this photo, though either Philadelphia or Washington, DC.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
Either way, this 2011 photo is more poignant now, as our country moves farther and farther in the wrong direction.
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Gov. Pritzker: “Donald Trump doesn't know anything about Chicago…The man is demented. He really has no idea what he's doing.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Gov. Pritzker: “Donald Trump doesn't know anything about Chicago…The man is demented. He really has no idea what he's doing.”
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By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
By sending us $2,000 to give to billionaire insurance CEOs, and by tripling the interest we pay to mortgage companies while he continues to limit what we can write off, he's effectively looting the treasury and using us a mules to launder the stolen money; funneling it to the wealthy.
Fucking hell.
I started the video and almost didn't keep going, but once I was seeing what Jess was saying, I couldn't look away. Like staring at a train derailing.
Truly hope I'm wrong, but I've been getting the impression this president *wants* to kill poor and sick people.
If...
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I started the video and almost didn't keep going, but once I was seeing what Jess was saying, I couldn't look away. Like staring at a train derailing.
Truly hope I'm wrong, but I've been getting the impression this president *wants* to kill poor and sick people.
If...
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I asked my subscribers to send me their new ACA premium quotes. OH MY GOD. Republicans are sending us into a full on healthcare crisis. You’ve got to see this.
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Fucking hell.
I started the video and almost didn't keep going, but once I was seeing what Jess was saying, I couldn't look away. Like staring at a train derailing.
Truly hope I'm wrong, but I've been getting the impression this president *wants* to kill poor and sick people.
If...
1 of 3
I started the video and almost didn't keep going, but once I was seeing what Jess was saying, I couldn't look away. Like staring at a train derailing.
Truly hope I'm wrong, but I've been getting the impression this president *wants* to kill poor and sick people.
If...
1 of 3
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Allies drive past Chipotle!
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Allies drive past Chipotle!
Exchange the word Christian for "religious" and it's perfect.
Happy Monday morning Bsky! Have a great day peeps!
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Exchange the word Christian for "religious" and it's perfect.