Sarah (she/her)
growwhereyouare.bsky.social
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And this is why it's so important to support independent journalism.

Institutional journalism has become a plaything for the rich.

Independent journalists are breaking the biggest news every day, beholden to nobody but their readers.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“cornflakes and community” ✌🏻 #VitaminC #ForTheSoul
“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”
How Federal Employees Are Fighting Back Against Elon Musk
Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Most people don’t realize the value of the services they rely on until they’re gone.
February 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.

Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Here’s @jimacosta.bsky.social, absolutely right, on how other news orgs should be responding re the AP/White House mess

www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
February 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.
February 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Recording dissent may often seem futile, but its not. It is important to show that people knew what they were doing and what was to come. It is important that in the future, whether that future be a week or a generation, that people not be able to say, "We didn't know."
February 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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They are going to ignore court orders.

If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect.

It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
February 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM