Deb Won't Shut Up
@debwontshutup.bsky.social
Volunteer. Forever rooting out that which no longer serves myself/my vision of the world I want to live in. Opinions and views are my own. They may align with my volunteer gigs, but do not necessarily represent those orgs.
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66 years ago, four Black college students sat down at the Whites Only lunch counter of the Woolworth in Greensboro, NC. It wasn't a spontaneous. They planned it. And they stuck with it for nearly 6 months.
Learn More: my.linkpod.site/ki10006
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #Resistance
Learn More: my.linkpod.site/ki10006
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #Resistance
February 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
66 years ago, four Black college students sat down at the Whites Only lunch counter of the Woolworth in Greensboro, NC. It wasn't a spontaneous. They planned it. And they stuck with it for nearly 6 months.
Learn More: my.linkpod.site/ki10006
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #Resistance
Learn More: my.linkpod.site/ki10006
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory365 #Resistance
On other platforms I've seen a few comments from ppl interpreting "force the fight" as a call to arms -- as if there is nothing between Dems continuing to follow a playbook the other side has shredded and civil war. 🤦🏼♀️
Force the Fight: A Resistance History Lesson from the Anti-Federalists
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 2:23 AM
On other platforms I've seen a few comments from ppl interpreting "force the fight" as a call to arms -- as if there is nothing between Dems continuing to follow a playbook the other side has shredded and civil war. 🤦🏼♀️
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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
For something completely different from my usual posts. Made this tonight.
www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-pi...
My modifications (continued in thread):
Rotel with green chilies - 1 regular, 1 mild
Chicken: 2 large chicken breasts and 2 thighs
More below
www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-pi...
My modifications (continued in thread):
Rotel with green chilies - 1 regular, 1 mild
Chicken: 2 large chicken breasts and 2 thighs
More below
Slow Cooker Chicken and Black Bean Soup (Easy Dump and Go Dinner)
Spicy slow cooker Chicken and Black Bean Soup made with Rotel tomatoes, green chiles, bell pepper and spices, topped with avocado and a touch of sour cream.
www.skinnytaste.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For something completely different from my usual posts. Made this tonight.
www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-pi...
My modifications (continued in thread):
Rotel with green chilies - 1 regular, 1 mild
Chicken: 2 large chicken breasts and 2 thighs
More below
www.skinnytaste.com/crock-pot-pi...
My modifications (continued in thread):
Rotel with green chilies - 1 regular, 1 mild
Chicken: 2 large chicken breasts and 2 thighs
More below
Resistance begins with truth and that means breaking free of the mythology of the founders and the founding. I have found @tadstoermer.bsky.social videos to be extremely helpful with that.
#Resistance #History
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#Resistance #History
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The Epstein Files: Same Rules Since 1787
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Resistance begins with truth and that means breaking free of the mythology of the founders and the founding. I have found @tadstoermer.bsky.social videos to be extremely helpful with that.
#Resistance #History
youtu.be/gmOnrKy4uwA?...
#Resistance #History
youtu.be/gmOnrKy4uwA?...
"the Trump administration has fired almost 100 judges viewed as too liberal and over the summer eased rules allowing any attorney, regardless of their legal background, to apply to become what recent recruitment ads refer to as a “Deportation Judge.”"
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
Army Reserve lawyer fired from immigration bench after defying deportation push
www.stripes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"the Trump administration has fired almost 100 judges viewed as too liberal and over the summer eased rules allowing any attorney, regardless of their legal background, to apply to become what recent recruitment ads refer to as a “Deportation Judge.”"
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
Have you seen this? My head after reading the first several paragraphs: 🤯🤬🤮🤬
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Project 2026 Declares Open War on Women’s Rights
When the Heritage Foundation released its new policy blueprint for 2026 this week—an extension of the now-infamous Project 2025—it did so with the calm confidence of an institution convinced no one wi...
msmagazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Have you seen this? My head after reading the first several paragraphs: 🤯🤬🤮🤬
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
msmagazine.com/2025/12/13/p...
Think you know the Montgomery Bus Boycott or Rosa Parks? This is a great reminder that resistance takes time to work. A fact that's easy to forget in our instantaneous culture.
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Think you know the Montgomery Bus Boycott or Rosa Parks? This is a great reminder that resistance takes time to work. A fact that's easy to forget in our instantaneous culture.
I volunteer with Emergent Justice and I can tell you this evidentiary hearing is a big deal. Please help me and @emergentjustice.org amplify this story and this week's coverage of the hearing.
Emergent Justice has been in community with the Justice for Mario Willis team for a few years. With hearts of hope and gratitude we look forward to his crucial evidentiary hearing the begins on Monday. Addition info resources in thread.
#wrongfulconviction
www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
#wrongfulconviction
www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
Detroit man’s fight for freedom: Key hearing set in 2008 firefighter death case
A key hearing next week could determine freedom for Mario Willis, who has spent 16 years in prison for a fatal fire that killed a Detroit firefighter, a conviction his supporters say was built on chan...
www.clickondetroit.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I volunteer with Emergent Justice and I can tell you this evidentiary hearing is a big deal. Please help me and @emergentjustice.org amplify this story and this week's coverage of the hearing.
Great and important article.
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great and important article.
This is why I will never, ever agree with Dem strategists who advise dropping transgender issues to win elections.
"[G]ender-affirming care saves lives."
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
"Suicidality scores among the [study's] patients who provided responses dropped by over 67 percent."
"[O]f the hundreds of patients who started hormone therapy, only seven discontinued their treatment."
#USA #Healthcare #Suicide
New Study: Gender-Affirming Care Dramatically Lowers Suicide Risk for Trans Kids
Twenty-seven states in the US ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth, including hormone therapy.
truthout.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is why I will never, ever agree with Dem strategists who advise dropping transgender issues to win elections.
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"Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. In the final years of her life, she and other survivors shared their stories publicly, bringing a more nuanced awareness about the legacy of that day." More: 19thnews.org/2025/11/viol...
Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of 1921 Tulsa massacre, dies at 111
“I have been blessed with a long life – and have seen the best and worst of this country. I think about the horrors inflicted upon Black people in this country every day.”
19thnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died at 111. In the final years of her life, she and other survivors shared their stories publicly, bringing a more nuanced awareness about the legacy of that day." More: 19thnews.org/2025/11/viol...
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Today, I watched the documentary "Sir, No Sir" about the G.I. Antiwar Movement during Vietnam. This was a movement primarily of men (and a few women) who were serving during the Vietnam War and decided what was happening was wrong. I highly recommend it. I found a free version on Youtube.
#protest
#protest
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Today, I watched the documentary "Sir, No Sir" about the G.I. Antiwar Movement during Vietnam. This was a movement primarily of men (and a few women) who were serving during the Vietnam War and decided what was happening was wrong. I highly recommend it. I found a free version on Youtube.
#protest
#protest
If the cave-in frustrated you, if you need some resistance inspiration, if you aren’t clear as to what liberal nationalism is or why it's a problem, check this out. And if you aren’t following him on IG or elsewhere, you should
www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9FLtB...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9FLtB...
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If the cave-in frustrated you, if you need some resistance inspiration, if you aren’t clear as to what liberal nationalism is or why it's a problem, check this out. And if you aren’t following him on IG or elsewhere, you should
www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9FLtB...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQ9FLtB...
When it shows up on our doorsteps, will we be this brave? Will I be this brave? Daily, I wonder what I should be doing now, learning now, to be prepared (if that is possible) for when it arrives. How does someone with my disabilities "stand" with these warriors?
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
When it shows up on our doorsteps, will we be this brave? Will I be this brave? Daily, I wonder what I should be doing now, learning now, to be prepared (if that is possible) for when it arrives. How does someone with my disabilities "stand" with these warriors?
We know that being able to stay connected to family and other members of their support network while incarcerated reduces recidivism. So this decision isn't about better outcomes for families. It's about increasing the profit of the correctional telecom industry.
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
We know that being able to stay connected to family and other members of their support network while incarcerated reduces recidivism. So this decision isn't about better outcomes for families. It's about increasing the profit of the correctional telecom industry.
Reposted by Deb Won't Shut Up
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Highly recommend reading this.
October 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Highly recommend reading this.
One of the saddest truths I've see on social media. When will we wake up and realize that sacrificing anyone for personal safety will never provide long term safety for anyone?
Trans people are constantly seen as a reasonable sacrifice so that everyone else will be left alone. We might as well be thrown into a volcano.
October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One of the saddest truths I've see on social media. When will we wake up and realize that sacrificing anyone for personal safety will never provide long term safety for anyone?
We need a Schoolhouse Rock reboot that focuses on civics and factual history - with inclusive graphics. They were effective. I just read the words "constitution" and "we the people" in a skeet and now that song is going through my head unbidden.
October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We need a Schoolhouse Rock reboot that focuses on civics and factual history - with inclusive graphics. They were effective. I just read the words "constitution" and "we the people" in a skeet and now that song is going through my head unbidden.
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It is important to recognize that mental health symptoms can show up at school in ways that are often misinterpreted as bad behavior. This contributes to absenteeism and the school to prison pipeline. 🧵 #MIAW
youtube.com/shorts/Hlb8r...
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Mental Health Awareness Week Youth 2025 #miaw
YouTube video by Emergent Justice
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It is important to recognize that mental health symptoms can show up at school in ways that are often misinterpreted as bad behavior. This contributes to absenteeism and the school to prison pipeline. 🧵 #MIAW
youtube.com/shorts/Hlb8r...
youtube.com/shorts/Hlb8r...
Great representation of the various books by Black authors that have been banned.
Banned books are banned knowledge.
Banned books are banned knowledge.
Research shows reading is great for mental health and reading books that reflect a person's lived experience matter.
Unfortunately, authors regularly face banning. These are just a FEW of the titles by Black authors on the Banned List.
#MIAW #BannedBooksWeek
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Unfortunately, authors regularly face banning. These are just a FEW of the titles by Black authors on the Banned List.
#MIAW #BannedBooksWeek
youtube.com/shorts/H34Lt...
Black Authors on Banned Book Lists
YouTube video by Emergent Justice
youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Great representation of the various books by Black authors that have been banned.
Banned books are banned knowledge.
Banned books are banned knowledge.
I was raised in a home where parental mental illness was present. Books were my lifeline to sanity and after I left home, they were the first steps I took to broadened my understanding of ppl different from me.
Knowledge, Community and Mental Health are all important for our liberation. This week we'll be sharing posts about all three as part of Mental Illness Awareness Week and Banned Books Week 2025. 🧵
#MIAW #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
#MIAW #BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984
October 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I was raised in a home where parental mental illness was present. Books were my lifeline to sanity and after I left home, they were the first steps I took to broadened my understanding of ppl different from me.