Gemma
@gemmasupernova.bsky.social
Writing education towards justice. Writer, poet, playwright, literacies scholar (Syracuse PhD 2022), writing coach. We Might As Well Be Underwater (Unsolicited Press, 2017). Queer. Social media lurker mostly. She/her.
www.gemmacoopernovack.com
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I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Yes please.
My amazing, brilliant mutuals who are not literacy scholars—pleaaaasseee do not spread the moral panic about three-cueing v. phonics. The idea that this is what we should blame for our so-called literacy crisis is the product of a literal podcast & click-bait articles, not actual scholarship.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Yes please.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
Wow. One can only say "a new low" so many times. AND YET.
"We're killing all the right people" is something that I think should be remembered in the annals of history as one of the worst things ever said. That's...that's bleak. That's pretty heinous even for fascism. To just say it like that.
Lindsey Graham Has Bonkers Defense for GOP Not Denouncing Nick Fuentes
Senator Lindsey Graham told Jewish Republicans not to worry because the party was “killing all the right people.”
newrepublic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Wow. One can only say "a new low" so many times. AND YET.
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I’m so mad at how hard I laughed
November 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’m so mad at how hard I laughed
More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.
We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.
Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.
He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.
He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.
We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.
Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.
He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.
He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Chicago Broadview 🧵
Outside Chicago—
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Chicago Broadview 🧵
Yupppppp
October 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Yupppppp
Potent 🧵, delightful skystorian
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Potent 🧵, delightful skystorian
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they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.
Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...
www.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.
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Zeteo traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of America’s great cities.
Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...
Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Zeteo traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of America’s great cities.
Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...
Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report:
zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...
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Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now
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And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...
www.acls.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
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Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.
They’ve been disappeared.
People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.
Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.
They’ve been disappeared.
People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.
October 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.
Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.
They’ve been disappeared.
People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.
Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.
They’ve been disappeared.
People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.
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I don't think it's any coincidence that the right has been working sweatily to re-define grooming and sexual abuse of children to mean accepting or affirming trans young people.
They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.
They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.
What a sick joke. A loud swath of Americans made child sex trafficking their top issue, said powerful figures were covering it up. A wealth child sex trafficker gets caught, the president was obviously involved with his crimes and trying to cover it up, and the anti-pedophiles like and defend him.
September 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I don't think it's any coincidence that the right has been working sweatily to re-define grooming and sexual abuse of children to mean accepting or affirming trans young people.
They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.
They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.
🧵 on long term COVID sequelae
My view is very different from the one presented by the press and I’m not a Doctor but have been a Covid advocate for 5 years. I have read thousands of studies and spoken to many long covid sufferers over that time. I don’t believe people are fully recovering. We need to think of there being two 🧵
September 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧵 on long term COVID sequelae
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We are legitimately looking at a genocide against trans people in the United States. That's not hyperbole. The Department of Justice isn't talking about disarming us so that we can all live quietly in peace.
There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.
There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.
September 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We are legitimately looking at a genocide against trans people in the United States. That's not hyperbole. The Department of Justice isn't talking about disarming us so that we can all live quietly in peace.
There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.
There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.
With love to my old home 🧵
🧵Oh boy. Here we go.
Materials & resources for helping to protect our neighbors in this thread.
Materials & resources for helping to protect our neighbors in this thread.
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
With love to my old home 🧵
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Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back.
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
"The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
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I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
Cheers.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cheers.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense