April Ruth Hoffmann
@april-ruthless.bsky.social
Radical Geographer & Historian. Community Organizer. College teacher. Advocate. Always traveling where is home? Lesbian. Abolitionist. Kindness is currency. You belong. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🩷🩵
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And your solution to this was to [checks notes] make it more expensive for Europe to buy American cars, and by reducing fuel economy and emissions standards - make them less desirable for Europeans as well.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Chinese vehicles have not yet arrived on our shores, but they have eaten up market share in Europe and Mexico — and their collection of American data is a national security threat.
April 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
And your solution to this was to [checks notes] make it more expensive for Europe to buy American cars, and by reducing fuel economy and emissions standards - make them less desirable for Europeans as well.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
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The Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesperson has ordered residents to many neighbourhoods in Khan Younis to leave, warning of an imminent attack “with great force”.
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Israel completely encircles Rafah, cutting it off from the rest of Gaza
The army says that it completed the so-called Morag corridor, claiming the city as part of its ‘security zone’.
aje.io
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Israeli army’s Arabic language spokesperson has ordered residents to many neighbourhoods in Khan Younis to leave, warning of an imminent attack “with great force”.
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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ICYMI — Least surprising news of the week: Trump wants to free the informant who lied to the FBI about Biden. apnews.com/article/fbi-...
April 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
ICYMI — Least surprising news of the week: Trump wants to free the informant who lied to the FBI about Biden. apnews.com/article/fbi-...
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Starting Monday, a new policy from the Department of Treasury will require social security number and other official identification documents when sending money abroad.
(via @keranews.org)
(via @keranews.org)
Feds to collect personal info of people exchanging, sending money from U.S.-Mexico border
The federal government will begin collecting detailed information about who’s making cash transactions of $200 to $10,000 at money exchange businesses in several South Texas counties. The effort is pa...
www.keranews.org
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Starting Monday, a new policy from the Department of Treasury will require social security number and other official identification documents when sending money abroad.
(via @keranews.org)
(via @keranews.org)
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We have a big announcement!
CLASP’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce Wendy Chun-Hoon as our next president and executive director, starting May 15, 2025. She brings decades of experience in advancing racial, gender, and economic justice! www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
CLASP’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce Wendy Chun-Hoon as our next president and executive director, starting May 15, 2025. She brings decades of experience in advancing racial, gender, and economic justice! www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
CLASP Board Names Wendy Chun-Hoon as Next President | CLASP
April 11, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – The Board of Trustees of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) announced today that it has chosen Wendy Chun-Hoon as the organization’s next president and ex...
www.clasp.org
April 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We have a big announcement!
CLASP’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce Wendy Chun-Hoon as our next president and executive director, starting May 15, 2025. She brings decades of experience in advancing racial, gender, and economic justice! www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
CLASP’s Board of Trustees is proud to announce Wendy Chun-Hoon as our next president and executive director, starting May 15, 2025. She brings decades of experience in advancing racial, gender, and economic justice! www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
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Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!
April 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!
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🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)!
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🧬 The First Annual HAAM Meeting is coming on August 26, 2025 in Turin🇮🇹 (and online)!
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
✨ Flash talks, career panel & community updates.
📅 Submit your abstract for a flash talk by June 15
📢 We're looking for volunteers to join the organizing team
#HAAM #ISBA2025 @isbarchaeology.bsky.social
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“By choosing capital over conviction, self-preservation over truth, and the principalities and powers over the people it claims to serve, Columbia has betrayed the trust of its students and faculty.”
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
The Powers and Principalities Manipulating Columbia University
As a professor at Columbia, I cannot remain silent about the crisis my university is facing.
sojo.net
April 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“By choosing capital over conviction, self-preservation over truth, and the principalities and powers over the people it claims to serve, Columbia has betrayed the trust of its students and faculty.”
sojo.net/articles/opi...
sojo.net/articles/opi...
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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book tour alert! San Diego, LA, Boston, Brooklyn, Philly, & Madison friends, come through & hang out. I’ll be in convo with some brilliant kind writers for my novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, I would love to see you ❤️🏀
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
book tour alert! San Diego, LA, Boston, Brooklyn, Philly, & Madison friends, come through & hang out. I’ll be in convo with some brilliant kind writers for my novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, I would love to see you ❤️🏀
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April 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
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To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica.
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Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
March 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
February 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
TWENTY.
As in, they call that getting slammed.
So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.
TWENTY is a lot.
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If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
February 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.
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Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…
propub.li
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
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If you’re a health care worker looking for some information on things you can do to prepare for and resist ICE enforcement actions, we shared some information in an IG post that we hope is helpful.
You can view all the sides in the post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFWKkCLz5fF/
You can view all the sides in the post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFWKkCLz5fF/
January 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you’re a health care worker looking for some information on things you can do to prepare for and resist ICE enforcement actions, we shared some information in an IG post that we hope is helpful.
You can view all the sides in the post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFWKkCLz5fF/
You can view all the sides in the post here: www.instagram.com/p/DFWKkCLz5fF/
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Tonight's @interruptcrim.bsky.social resistance lab was heartening.
People are creative, courageous & committed to continuing to provide care for migrants & trans people - and deeply understand the connections to abortion & reproductive care.
I am holding on to that.
Join us bit.ly/BDNHLaunch
People are creative, courageous & committed to continuing to provide care for migrants & trans people - and deeply understand the connections to abortion & reproductive care.
I am holding on to that.
Join us bit.ly/BDNHLaunch
Beyond Do No Harm — Interrupting Criminalization
bit.ly
January 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Tonight's @interruptcrim.bsky.social resistance lab was heartening.
People are creative, courageous & committed to continuing to provide care for migrants & trans people - and deeply understand the connections to abortion & reproductive care.
I am holding on to that.
Join us bit.ly/BDNHLaunch
People are creative, courageous & committed to continuing to provide care for migrants & trans people - and deeply understand the connections to abortion & reproductive care.
I am holding on to that.
Join us bit.ly/BDNHLaunch
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