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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
June 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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truthout.org
“We’ve been made to believe that capitalism is the only way … But that’s not true,” says Manuela Hincapie Vidal, an employee at a Rhode Island tool library.
truthout.org/articles/no-...
“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
As Trump imposes tariffs, tool libraries can serve as a sustainable alternative to consuming more products.
truthout.org
April 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you?

Goodnight 💚
April 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🚨NEW🚨

How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy

One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’.

@nafeez.bsky.social on broligarch extremism

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/04/h...
How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy
One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the 'negro problem'. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eug...
bylinetimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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envdefensefund.bsky.social
The #CorteIDH 's landmark ruling strengthening protections for Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation in Ecuador is a game-changer for Indigenous rights and environmental justice across Latin America. www.edf.org/Z6DL
A Landmark Decision for Indigenous Rights: The Inter-American Court Protects Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation in Ecuador - Climate 411
On March 13, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) delivered a landmark ruling in the case of Indigenous Peoples Tagaeri and Taromenane v. Ecuador. The Court declared Ecuador internat...
www.edf.org
March 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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propublica.org
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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environmentalpol.bsky.social
New article!

Prefiguring multispecies justice, by Anna Sturman, @danycelermajer.bsky.social, @freyagrace.bsky.social and
@blancheverlie.bsky.social.

This article considers the ways critical feminist thought and multispecies justice intersect.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
full title: Prefiguring multispecies justice: how communities are challenging and transfiguring care, labour, and belonging in the midst of climate catastrophe. abstract: Formal disaster management plans and institutions are systematically neglectful of the impacts of climate-change-exacerbated disasters on animals, with few exceptions. While animals’ exclusion in this context is consistent with their status as property, or parts of ecosystems with no independent ethical value, differently located humans and animals contest this status and the types of institutions that follow from it. In this article, we draw on research conducted with Australian communities whose witness of animals’ suffering during the 2019–20 Black Summer fires, and the failure of state-led disaster responses to attend to this, led them to autonomously organise to care for wild and domesticated animals. Their efforts have been largely classified, and dismissed, as volunteerism and (feminised) care...
March 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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nicsigni.bsky.social
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
'We Really Need to Talk About MAGA's Sexual Predator Problem'

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-really-...
March 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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shannonrwatts.bsky.social
Every member of Congress over the age of 60 should pick a young legislator or candidate to mentor and support with the expectation that the mentor leaves office within 5 to 10 years. Stop hoarding power.
March 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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dividerdecider.bsky.social
Uniter
Do you act against your own best self interests?

Consider that you may be in a Cult.

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#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory Source: @thekattalk.bsky.social, @harlowsmusings.bsky.social, @resist.riseup.movement, et al, www.instagram.com/reel/DGcFp0d...
March 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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guttmacher.org
As of today, 7 million people have been denied access to contraceptive care because of the Trump administration’s #ForeignAid shutdown.

📢 Read our new op-ed for @msmagazine.com, where we explain the devastating consequences & call on policymakers to act: gu.tt/4kEn9Wo
Foreign Aid Cuts Will Lead to 34,000 More Pregnancy-Related Deaths in Just One Year
The freeze on U.S. foreign assistance funding and the subsequent stop work order has already taken an irreversible toll on global health programs, including family planning services, causing chaos acr...
gu.tt
March 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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allaboveall.bsky.social
“The majority of the people in this country affirm abortion access as a matter of freedom and health care justice. So, why should we cede ground?”

We are 💯 with you @ayannapressley.bsky.social

www.jezebel.com/rep-ayanna-p...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Warns We're on 'the Path to Being a Nation of Forced Birth'
“I need people to lean in, because when we say it's a matter of life and death, that has already been proven to be so right here in the state of Texas,” Pressley told Jezebel at SXSW.
www.jezebel.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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rmac.bsky.social
Incredible @laurawags.bsky.social profile of NPR's Anas Baba, whose bravery is unmatched

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For NPR’s Anas Baba, covering the war in Gaza also means living it
The NPR producer is one of few Palestinian journalists working with a U.S. news organization to file dispatches from Gaza.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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vgalaz.bsky.social
How librarians and ‘guerrilla archivists’ are saving the country’s data from DOGE

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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tkingfisher.com
Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles
The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
www.worldwildlife.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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vox.com
Musk affiliates are pushing agencies to use Starlink, with the FAA leasing kits.

Critics fear these moves signal a shift in the telecom industry that could result in the world’s richest man deciding how the nation’s communications network works. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/I1wv9m
The Elon Musk company you should be worried about right now
The Trump administration appears to be giving Starlink, a division of SpaceX, preferential treatment.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
well i spent the remainder of the company's money this year on a high fidelity cover of "Rock the Casbah" where the the line "Shariff don't like it" is replaced with "Tariff (pronounced Tareef) don't like it". this is it folks. this is how we save democracy.
March 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
I'd love it if cis white abled liberals defended trans people, immigrants, Black and Indigenous people, and disabled people as much as they defended elected Democrats. It would be glorious actually.
March 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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atrupar.com
MEUSER: You've got Trudeau saying how the president is making a dumb move. That's bad diplomacy.

SANCHEZ: I'm not sure how it's good diplomacy to say that a neighboring country should be the 51st state and that you're gonna impose economic hardship to achieve that goal.
March 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM