Alisha
@alisha764.bsky.social
Vegan 🌱 | cat loving 😸 | tree-hugger 🌳| #Trekkie 🖖| librarian 📚 | cat & human foster parent 🐈👩🍼
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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KEEP CATS SAFE—there is clear proof of cat-human household transmission of bird flu. CDC scientists posted the data—but suddenly deleted soon afterwards. CDC is being blatantly muzzled.
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
February 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
KEEP CATS SAFE—there is clear proof of cat-human household transmission of bird flu. CDC scientists posted the data—but suddenly deleted soon afterwards. CDC is being blatantly muzzled.
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th century, became one of the most powerful figures in the rare book world, leaving historians to grapple with questions of identity and self-invention. https://buff.ly/4aCFuyp (Deborah W. Parker, UVA) #BlackHistoryMonth
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, auction houses and art galleries. She was also a Black woman who passed as…
buff.ly
February 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th century, became one of the most powerful figures in the rare book world, leaving historians to grapple with questions of identity and self-invention. https://buff.ly/4aCFuyp (Deborah W. Parker, UVA) #BlackHistoryMonth
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January 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team I would love to be able to respond to direct messages by using an emoji on the message or holding the message & hitting reply so the person knows I’m responding to that specific item. We all probably love sending memes to specific people, & I’d love to do that here.
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hey @bsky.app @support.bsky.team I would love to be able to respond to direct messages by using an emoji on the message or holding the message & hitting reply so the person knows I’m responding to that specific item. We all probably love sending memes to specific people, & I’d love to do that here.
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January 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day.
Big Agriculture Is Leading Us Into the Bird Flu Abyss
The federal government’s deference to agriculture industry interests has put the US at risk of a public health crisis.
truthout.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We might have just rung in a new year, but it feels like an epidemiological Groundhog Day.
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Some rare good news out of Arkansas & a big L for Sarah Huckabee Slanders 👏👏👏
December 24, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Some rare good news out of Arkansas & a big L for Sarah Huckabee Slanders 👏👏👏
He matches the chair.
December 22, 2024 at 1:12 PM
He matches the chair.
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While Facebook is pushing every Instagram user to Threads, and Twitter is desperately trying to shore up its collapsing user base, Bluesky is picking up steam — currently nearly 24 million users — because people actually enjoy using it. Go figure.
December 1, 2024 at 8:48 PM
While Facebook is pushing every Instagram user to Threads, and Twitter is desperately trying to shore up its collapsing user base, Bluesky is picking up steam — currently nearly 24 million users — because people actually enjoy using it. Go figure.
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another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.
I am enjoying all the #cats #catsofbluesky pictures.
November 25, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I am enjoying all the #cats #catsofbluesky pictures.
Combining two of my favorite things 😸
November 23, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Combining two of my favorite things 😸