@hollisblume.bsky.social
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I’m in a privileged place in my life where I can partner with a deserving nonprofit trying to get gifts to 30K+ children and teens impacted by trauma and engaged with Dept of Children and Families.
Can you please help me be Santa and clear their holiday lists?
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
Can you please help me be Santa and clear their holiday lists?
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’m in a privileged place in my life where I can partner with a deserving nonprofit trying to get gifts to 30K+ children and teens impacted by trauma and engaged with Dept of Children and Families.
Can you please help me be Santa and clear their holiday lists?
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
Can you please help me be Santa and clear their holiday lists?
www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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I am stunned. Embarrassed. Enraged. Infuriated. Exasperated.
And more than anything else: I am ashamed.
And more than anything else: I am ashamed.
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.
www.inquirer.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I am stunned. Embarrassed. Enraged. Infuriated. Exasperated.
And more than anything else: I am ashamed.
And more than anything else: I am ashamed.
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July 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
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This is a powerful thread.
When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
Told I “might want kids.”
Told I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This is a powerful thread.
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Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
No Kings: Safety and Deescalation Training for Hosts & Core Teams · No Kings
_**Gather in-person with your planning and safety team to participate in this virtual training.**_
Get together a team of fellow No Kings organizers IN PERSON and dial in as a group for this virtual ...
www.mobilize.us
June 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
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“We were going to use technology to…overturn the monetary system,” Peter Thiel said in 2010, explaining the reasoning behind starting PayPal. He added that “we cld never win an election…bc we were …a small minority. But maybe you could…unilaterally change the world… thru a technological means.”
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The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
www.motherjones.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“We were going to use technology to…overturn the monetary system,” Peter Thiel said in 2010, explaining the reasoning behind starting PayPal. He added that “we cld never win an election…bc we were …a small minority. But maybe you could…unilaterally change the world… thru a technological means.”
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The white privilege of growing up not knowing what "sundown towns" were (and are - some still exist.)
(2/3) For White peers: At your poorest, you inherited never needing to have "The Talk" about how some law enforcement will want you dead for the crime of your appearance, or how to recognize a town people like you won't be welcome after dark, or being told that your skin, your hair, your life
May 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The white privilege of growing up not knowing what "sundown towns" were (and are - some still exist.)
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Women, they mean you too. Even republican women. Good grief.
In the “private sector,” there “needs to be a presumption that people are allowed to discriminate,” meaning that they get to “make a choice about This & not That, & that as long as the govt is not doing that, that should be a permissible thing” - Claremont fellow Jeremy Carl
He adds that…. 1/
He adds that…. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Women, they mean you too. Even republican women. Good grief.
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Friends w substacks: helpful unpacking of why many folks are migrating to ghost and other hosting platforms for their newsletters.
Substack aims to become a main publisher of news and information in the 21st century, which would give the company tremendous power to tilt the political discourse toward far-right politics.
www.theframelab.org/why-framelab...
www.theframelab.org/why-framelab...
Why FrameLab left Substack
Our top reasons for making the right move
www.theframelab.org
May 26, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Friends w substacks: helpful unpacking of why many folks are migrating to ghost and other hosting platforms for their newsletters.
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Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.
Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center
Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...
ash.harvard.edu
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.
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A date that will live in infamy
The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.”
It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th.
It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class.
Only the best people, right?
It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th.
It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class.
Only the best people, right?
April 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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A date that will live in infamy
The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.”
It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th.
It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class.
Only the best people, right?
It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th.
It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class.
Only the best people, right?
April 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
A date that will live in infamy
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I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
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One of the big challenges in holding the tech billionaires accountable for their depredations: the more you try to communicate what is known about their underlying motivations, the more fantastical you sound. If you don't already know "Network State" & "Tech Zionism," you are in for a wild ride.
Why are tech billionaires plotting to build a new city on Greenland? The answer is weirder and scarier than you think.
And — for some strange reason — the mainstream press just won't talk about it.
www.thenerdreich.com/tech-billion...
And — for some strange reason — the mainstream press just won't talk about it.
www.thenerdreich.com/tech-billion...
Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland
A movement based on “tech Zionism” seeks to create “The Next America”
www.thenerdreich.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
One of the big challenges in holding the tech billionaires accountable for their depredations: the more you try to communicate what is known about their underlying motivations, the more fantastical you sound. If you don't already know "Network State" & "Tech Zionism," you are in for a wild ride.
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Please make time to watch this stunning 17-minute talk from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
"This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like"
Then share it with all your networks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
"This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like"
Then share it with all your networks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Please make time to watch this stunning 17-minute talk from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
"This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like"
Then share it with all your networks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
"This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like"
Then share it with all your networks!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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flyer to notify customers of tariff impacted items in canada
sign of the times
sign of the times
April 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
flyer to notify customers of tariff impacted items in canada
sign of the times
sign of the times
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calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever
calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
April 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever
calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
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we really don’t talk about this enough
April 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
we really don’t talk about this enough
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weirdly, looking at my phone for hours has not staved off economic collapse. sorry I tried my best
April 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
weirdly, looking at my phone for hours has not staved off economic collapse. sorry I tried my best
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Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.
April 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.
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SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.
DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.
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It’s a fire sale…
April 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s a fire sale…