The strands that @deborahbaker.bsky.social excavates, that make up the American Right, also echo globally in all places where right wing ideologies are collating, collaborating and weaponizing.

@deborahbaker.bsky.social uses the prism of Charlotteville to show us not just the enormous shifts in U.S. politics but also the long arc of history that connects it. Her mining of history, reportage, archives & even bureaucracy gives us a deeper view than what we usually find in the public domain.

A wealth of information but also inspiration, the report by Rachel Reid maps the creative ways in which #Afghan HR activists have continued their work against great odds & at great risk - a call to many of us who are frozen in difficult but far less challenging circumstances. #Afghanistan #Taliban

The @aanafgh.bsky.social report does not shy away from critiquing the repression during the Republic years while delineating the massive rupture and loss of democratic space caused by the 2021 takeover by the #Taliban. For a dense subject the report is also very readable. #Afghanistan #HumanRights

#fortheloveofpoetry
From: Do you know how to swim
"I can stop wearing jeans
if you so say; can change to
a different woman very easily.
....all my boyish mannerisms
I shall cast to the winds.
Giving up jeans is easy
If I become a river

Do you know how to swim, my boy?"