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thefeloniousmonk.com
I've been holding my shivering dog in a closet for three hours, so fuck your fireworks.
July 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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evangreer.bsky.social
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.
June 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
The lesson of the century: Listen to Black women THE FIRST TIME.
June 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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johncusack.bsky.social
Chicago
June 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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andrewqmr.bsky.social
ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass.

The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.

#Massachusetts #mapoli

www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
Peredo Carroll said her client spent a couple days in a small holding cell by herself — an 8-foot-by-10-foot space with nothing but a toilet. Eventually, two other women were moved into the room. The space was so small that all three of them couldn't lie down at the same time, Peredo Carroll said. "So two of them could lie down while one was leaning up against the toilet," she said. Eventually, all three women were moved to a larger holding cell with about a dozen other women. Once again, there were no beds, or a sink with soap for handwashing, and the women slept on the floor. There was one toilet in the center of the room and "the women used the aluminum blanket to cover each other as they used the toilet so they could have a little bit of privacy," Peredo Carroll wrote in her affidavit. Throughout her stay in Burlington, Peredo Carroll said her client received three small meals per day: a small cup of oatmeal in the morning, a couple spoonfuls of pasta for lunch and some sort of rice dish for dinner that she likened to "dog food." A small bottle of water came with each meal. Sherman-Stokes also said her client in the Burlington facility was "not being fed appropriately." After 18 hours in ICE custody, she’d had a small cup of oatmeal and an apple, she said.
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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supernovaparenting.org
Cause they showing a bunch of unmet needs right right
“Misbehavior is communicating unmet needs.” A BioPsychoSocial theory of behavior by Supernova Parentjng
June 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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mike-umbkm.bsky.social
The Sec of Education actually had the person sitting next to her writing answers on index cards and handing them to her for the entire hearing ....

Hayes: "Do you think holocaust education in our schools is a DEI program? ..There is no card for that. It’s just yes or no."
June 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Ms Rachel got hands
May 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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chescaleigh.bsky.social
No I never thought….😭 🐆Thank you @rollingstone.com!

Read the full profile here: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
April 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America.

x.com/MomodouTaal/...
April 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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ibramxk.bsky.social
First they locked children in cages, now they want to leave children all alone in perhaps the most vulnerable and consequential moments of their lives. Nope. Not on our watch. #NoChildAlone
March 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us
March 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jamellebouie.net
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less:

Pick ONE thing and do it.
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What are some actions you can take TODAY? Become a “Friend of the Library” Call your state representatives Boycott businesses rolling back DEI Read & fund independent journalists and magazines Join a Mutual Aid network Donate to environmental justice organizations Support minority authors and artists Pass out Know Your Rights cards to the undocumented Organize a local or school-based protest Follow, elevate, and fund minority voices online Donate to reproductive justice organizations Volunteer at homeless or DV shelters Send money to your local food banks Join the local school board Attend town hall meetings and voice your opinion Start book clubs centered on Black history Fundraise for supplies K-12 teachers may need Donate to legal funds that protect LGBTQ+ people Start a scholarship for underserved students Host community action conversations Work on research about the marginalized Integrate DEI into every part of your business Migrate from Twitter to Bluesky (it’s so good) Support businesses that stand by humanity Stand up to people bullying the vulnerable Donate to Public Citizen and federal worker unions Find joy in the in between and don’t lose hope
February 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
Mutual Aid networks are going to be even more indispensable now. Join one today. Donate money to food banks and places that feed the hungry. Share free health screenings with your neighbors.

www.mutualaidhub.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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blackazizanansi.blacksky.app
Listen, I know every Black person's head turned when they heard that line
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Feb 28
“You should be grateful”

I know where I’ve heard that from
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language.

The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.

Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.

This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
michaelharriot.bsky.social Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · Feb 22
By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine
February 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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jelenawoehr.bsky.social
I’m not sharing that shit even to dunk on it but just gonna state for those who are interested in tactics, what the White House Twitter account is doing is memetic antagonism (whether they know it or not) which is intended to make it impossible to respond without helping them bond with each other.
February 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social
The Serena Williams cameo was diabolical.
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM