@baggins76.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Organizer. Jew. Teacher. Occasional poet. Director of Family Assets for Independence in Minnesota (FAIM) program. Ask me about it!
I just felt the wing of the Owl of Minerva brush against my upturned, weeping face.
April 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I just felt the wing of the Owl of Minerva brush against my upturned, weeping face.
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THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO DAYS SINCE THE LAST CANOODLING
March 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
THERE HAVE BEEN ZERO DAYS SINCE THE LAST CANOODLING
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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
February 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
February 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards... (checks news) a sieg-heiling billionaire? 😬🤦🏻☄️
January 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards... (checks news) a sieg-heiling billionaire? 😬🤦🏻☄️
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Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
December 10, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Maybe Dr. Oz owning $550,000 in UnitedHealth stock and seeking to run the agency that oversees UnitedHealth's biggest cash cow (Medicare Advantage) should get more attention
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
December 5, 2024 at 3:57 PM
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are:
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
a) Telling the truth,
b) In real danger of persecution, and yet
c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities?
That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
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Several people incarcerated in Virginia’s Red Onion prison have intentionally burned themselves in protest against inhumane conditions including racial and physical abuse, medical neglect, excessive solitary, food covered in maggots, and dog attacks.
Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ Virginia prison conditions
Officials acknowledge prisoners have harmed themselves but say they did not set themselves on fire or self-immolate
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Several people incarcerated in Virginia’s Red Onion prison have intentionally burned themselves in protest against inhumane conditions including racial and physical abuse, medical neglect, excessive solitary, food covered in maggots, and dog attacks.
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A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...
November 30, 2024 at 7:28 PM
A small sampling of why Elon wants to eliminate federal watchdog agencies...
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“A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History”
Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.
Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.
We’re entering flu season with bird flu raging among US dairy cattle: ~third of CA herds infected.
The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.
We may get lucky. I hope so.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
The danger is flu viruses have a trick: they can swap segments —one farmworker co-infected by human and avian flu— to cause pandemics.
We may get lucky. I hope so.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...
Opinion | A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History (Gift Article)
It’s not too late for President Biden to give the U.S. a life-changing gift.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2024 at 11:25 PM
“A Bird Flu Pandemic Would Be One of the Most Foreseeable Catastrophes in History”
Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.
Why are we not taking this vastly more seriously given the potential downside? Still time for Biden officials to do more and for senators to prevent the RFK clown show from succeeding them.
November 28, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Hope is not a feeling... but a practice. - Rabbi Sharon Brous
November 26, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Hope is not a feeling... but a practice. - Rabbi Sharon Brous
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One reason physicians can’t just go rogue and disregard state laws banning abortion, as I keep seeing people suggest (or demand).
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November 25, 2024 at 1:10 PM
One reason physicians can’t just go rogue and disregard state laws banning abortion, as I keep seeing people suggest (or demand).
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News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration.
Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.
This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.
Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.
This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.
Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration
Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2024 at 2:41 AM
News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration.
Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.
This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.
Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.
This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.
ISO volunteers to hand out copies of Heather McGhee's "The Sum of Us" to pink clad crowds leaving screenings of "Wicked"...? (or I can just echo the calls to GO SEE THE FILM!)...
November 25, 2024 at 2:23 AM
ISO volunteers to hand out copies of Heather McGhee's "The Sum of Us" to pink clad crowds leaving screenings of "Wicked"...? (or I can just echo the calls to GO SEE THE FILM!)...
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🔔 Fighting against deportations: "Building Rapid Response Network" webinar 🔔 12/4 @ 3-4:30pm ET
Anti-deportation organizers will share best practices for building a rapid response network.
Register: bit.ly/buildingrrn
@detentionwatch.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @cosecha.bsky.social & GLAHR
Anti-deportation organizers will share best practices for building a rapid response network.
Register: bit.ly/buildingrrn
@detentionwatch.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @cosecha.bsky.social & GLAHR
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 PM
🔔 Fighting against deportations: "Building Rapid Response Network" webinar 🔔 12/4 @ 3-4:30pm ET
Anti-deportation organizers will share best practices for building a rapid response network.
Register: bit.ly/buildingrrn
@detentionwatch.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @cosecha.bsky.social & GLAHR
Anti-deportation organizers will share best practices for building a rapid response network.
Register: bit.ly/buildingrrn
@detentionwatch.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social @cosecha.bsky.social & GLAHR
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Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need.
A few initial thoughts:
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A few initial thoughts:
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need.
A few initial thoughts:
🧵
A few initial thoughts:
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Pablo Casals absolutely shreds in this recording of Beethoven's archduke trio. Like I can see him smashing his cello into expensive bits right after recording stops. Here for it. 😂
November 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Pablo Casals absolutely shreds in this recording of Beethoven's archduke trio. Like I can see him smashing his cello into expensive bits right after recording stops. Here for it. 😂
Gotta assume folks in other states are also calling on their reps to vote against HR9495, allows Treasury to cancel 501C3 status of NGOs deemed "dangerous" w/o due process. Like... a Rawlsian veil of advocacy? Kantian advocacy imperative?? 😂
November 19, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Gotta assume folks in other states are also calling on their reps to vote against HR9495, allows Treasury to cancel 501C3 status of NGOs deemed "dangerous" w/o due process. Like... a Rawlsian veil of advocacy? Kantian advocacy imperative?? 😂
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This will be bad. Gonna probably give to AALDEF again. Will post more as I hear what other groups are planning to do to help those threatened. www.aaldef.org
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 AM
This will be bad. Gonna probably give to AALDEF again. Will post more as I hear what other groups are planning to do to help those threatened. www.aaldef.org
I <3 pods. Invite 5 neighbors who are also freaked out and isolated, and feel a bit better together over snacks. The risk is - they replicate class & race segregation that exists in most neighborhoods and social networks, and they fail to connect into any broader organizing except click & sign,
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
I <3 pods. Invite 5 neighbors who are also freaked out and isolated, and feel a bit better together over snacks. The risk is - they replicate class & race segregation that exists in most neighborhoods and social networks, and they fail to connect into any broader organizing except click & sign,
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1/ Birthmark, a Louisiana worker-owned birth justice collective, is tackling the state's maternal health crisis by launching a new Maternal Health Fund to provide financial support for reproductive care, from doula services to child care. rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/11/15/n...
New Maternal Health Fund Aims to Support Black Louisiana Parents
Louisiana's maternal care landscape is dire. Birthmark's mutual aid fund works to close to the gap.
rewirenewsgroup.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:43 PM
1/ Birthmark, a Louisiana worker-owned birth justice collective, is tackling the state's maternal health crisis by launching a new Maternal Health Fund to provide financial support for reproductive care, from doula services to child care. rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/11/15/n...