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jaime 🌖 (they/them)
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vermont princeling. novice end-of-life doula. queer trad musician. neurodivergent crip witch.
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This is Oligarchy. The three richest men in the world have become $196 BILLION richer since Donald Trump was elected.

$196 billion for three men in 99 days.

Meanwhile, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
February 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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empire works to monopolise
the whole field of life
crushing autonomy
inducing dependence
at the same time
there are cracks everywhere
affinity, activation, affirmation, relationality
already otherwise
find the wiggle room of freedom
find ways of coming together
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwsf...
Cracks Everywhere - Han Reardon-Smith x Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra (words from Joyful Militancy)
YouTube video by Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.
February 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Things that, just a few years ago, would have been thought impossible in the American system of government are now happening.
February 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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This move to replace outlets like NPR with outlets that have no journalistic standards is exactly what it looks like: preventing Americans from getting access to the truth and propping up platforms that will never criticize Trump.
February 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
✨ EEEEEEE ✨
Saturday 2/22 8pm-1am 💖🏰🦊

📍 Fox Market, 3070 US Rt 2. East Montpelier, VT

REN Fair - Queer Dance Party
Saturday, February 22nd, 8pm to 1am. No cover, 21+. Come dressed as the sluttiest court jester, a regal royal, or a trashy lil nymph. Whatever floats ye olde boat.
February 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it
February 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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This Black History Month I’m thinking about Black-owned bookstores.

Since the very first Black bookstore was opened by an abolitionist in 1834, they’ve been a part of every Black radical movement in the country.

The history is rich. ✊🏾📚 Happy #BHM, y’all!

www.mic.com/impact/black...
Black-owned bookstores have always been at the center of the resistance
When he wasn’t helping some 600 slaves escape through the Underground Railroad, David Ruggles was running a bookstore. In 1828, Ruggles opened a grocery store in New York City and later, as he became ...
www.mic.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"
If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.

Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.

It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.

I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.

Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
also this
February 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care.

While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients.

The latest from Mira Lazine.

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Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age
A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
February 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Reject apocalypse as an initiating event for change - we don't need to wait for things to get worse, we can build a better world now.
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Your morning reminder that Nazi, Israeli and South African policies of genocide and apartheid were designed to perfection off of Jim Crow Policies against Blacks in the US.

Our collective memories can easily name those three examples but there are obviously more. What are others?
February 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.
January 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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As of this morning, trans people are removed from federal health websites. Information on trans people and HIV, trans people in Ryan White programs, trans people and cancer- all mentions removed. (cont)
January 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Today was a day of mass censorship. Sending love & solidarity to all the amazing career scientists in government.

For the rest of us: Now is not the time to self-censor or comply in advance. More than ever we need to stand by the principles of our profession and always keep speaking truth to power.
January 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A couple of years ago, institutions rushed to insert token references to Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate etc. on their websites. Our communities see and will remember your capitulation now.
January 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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They’ve removed some articles on preventing chronic disease, too. This is one of them:
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The USDA has taken down most website pages that have references to climate change.

The Trump administration had ordered USDA workers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by "no later than close of business this Friday," according to leaked emails.
January 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.

The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM