E Batlan
ebat14.bsky.social
E Batlan
@ebat14.bsky.social
Post performance artist
🏳️‍🌈/ higher education administrator/ Mom to Charlie Pineapple, the Wonder Kitty.
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Shoulda been called Project 1984 😡 and we the People are PISSED.

📞 CALL YOUR REPS bit.ly/hellorep

📍 Then join us on June 14 as we rise up in cities across the country to say: NO KINGS. Find an action: NoKings.org.

#50501Movement #NoKings #FiftyFiftyOne #PeoplesMovement #June14 @polrev.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The Dallas ICE office is involved in a mass removal effort targeting nearly 200 people — many without removal orders — scheduled to be deported to El Salvador today.

This is not just cruel – it is lawless. I refuse to stay quiet while families are being torn apart, and lives are being put at risk.
April 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
www.openculture.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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It was real. They communicated officially within the agency that the Office of Communications and the Press Office both no longer exist, and that all public communication would be on X.
So maybe this isn’t real, or it WAS real until a grownup found out about DOGE’s latest.
April 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I wish there was some ray of hope here, but there's not. We've already lost way too much institutional knowledge over the last 3 months, and there's no reversing that. All I can say is that they shouldn't escape blame here. Call congress and tell them you know what's happened and who's responsible.
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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To make matters much much worse, we were also told that they will begin a round of Reduction in Force orders on May 7th. They're cutting our staff by thousands more. There's no logical justification for any of this except to kill the agency...
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This was officially confirmed yesterday in our meeting. Both the offices that handled press and public relations have been dissolved entirely, and all public announcements will be done on Musk's site from now on.
April 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Very glad @hcrichardson.bsky.social is onto @gilduran.com and "The Nerd Reich." Americans NEED to know that no matter how conspiracy-addled and insane it sounds, this is what DOGE is doing as we speak: implementing systems for surveillance/control.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-27-2...
March 27, 2025
Today, Wired reported that it had found four more Venmo accounts associated with the Trump administration officials who participated in the now-infamous Signal chat about a planned military attack on ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE.

In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.
March 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Huge news, a preliminary injunction was just granted in the PFLAG v Trump case enjoining the administration from enforcing the executive order ban on gender affirming care for trans youth.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Vaccination is the only way to prevent the spread of measles, @katherinejwu.com tells @lorakelley.bsky.social in The Atlantic Daily. A surge in the illness that had previously faded from American life could reshape childhoods:
Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different
America’s regression could change the experience of childhood.
www.theatlantic.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Make a call to save Social Security! It could be gone in 90 days! 📲

Script in first comment.

#socialsecurity
Make a call to save Social Security! It could be gone in 90 days! 📲 #socialsecurity #seniorcitizen
YouTube video by Jessica Craven
youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell
March 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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What bullshit.
March 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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everyone has been asking us for a list of Republican town halls. Turns out, official orders went out to Republicans instructing them to hide from their constituents. But we're showing up anyway - check out our toolkit for the March recess 3/15-3/23

indivisible.org/muskorus
March 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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March 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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🚨 Urgent! 🚨 Social Security could be gone in months.

Don’t believe me? WATCH this. Then call your reps. Script below.

#SocialSecurity

youtu.be/da63R32f6p8
🚨 Social Security could be gone in months! 🚨 Don’t believe me? WATCH this.
YouTube video by Jessica Craven
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Republicans just voted to take your money and give it to billionaires.

It’s not enough that House Republicans are enabling Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous power grab. Now they’re selling out everyday Americans so that Trump, Musk, and their billionaire allies can get even richer.
House Adopts Republican Budget That Calls For Medicaid Cuts
Lobbying by President Donald Trump himself helped sway Republican holdouts.
www.huffpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Eyes locked, target acquired. 🦉🔎

Photo by:paulbrowning.photography
February 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.
Upheaval and firings at CDC raise fears about disease outbreak response
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.
www.npr.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Rest easy, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Aretha Franklin & Roberta Flack 💙💙💙💙

🕊🕊🕊🕊

Legendary.
February 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM