Mary R (she/her)
@marigold26.bsky.social
A better world is possible. In tech, toddler mom, Stanford/ Laney College Alum, Bi, Pan 🌈🍉
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Mary R (she/her)
@marigold26.bsky.social
· Nov 16
This incredible bookstore in Detroit John K King on four floors.
I want to go here
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
Incredible the depths of darkness we find ourselves in
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Incredible the depths of darkness we find ourselves in
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Headline: California renters are very picky customers
How are they picky? Do they keep changing apts because of colors? Amenities?
Oh… it’s because of rising unaffordable rent.
How are they picky? Do they keep changing apts because of colors? Amenities?
Oh… it’s because of rising unaffordable rent.
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Headline: California renters are very picky customers
How are they picky? Do they keep changing apts because of colors? Amenities?
Oh… it’s because of rising unaffordable rent.
How are they picky? Do they keep changing apts because of colors? Amenities?
Oh… it’s because of rising unaffordable rent.
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This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This article is a reminder that "abolish ICE" isn't just about the agents now in our streets, but is about a sprawling carceral system that must be dismantled completely. There must be consequences for politicians who try to spend a single dollar more on this.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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When gov't agencies feel comfortable trying to assassinate people in broad daylight on the streets,
whatever the fuck is going on here, they appear to now admit they were hunting this woman for "doxxing" ice
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When gov't agencies feel comfortable trying to assassinate people in broad daylight on the streets,
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My brother has brain cancer and has been denied three times, how much harder can it get?
Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.
Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans
Trump administration officials are considering eliminating age as a factor in deciding whether someone is capable of working.
wapo.st
October 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My brother has brain cancer and has been denied three times, how much harder can it get?
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the three categories of email I get from columbia now are (1) we did a fascism; (2) thank you for your email about how we should not have done a fascism, we hope to regain your trust someday; (3) we will let you know by mail if we have accidentally released your social security number into the world
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
the three categories of email I get from columbia now are (1) we did a fascism; (2) thank you for your email about how we should not have done a fascism, we hope to regain your trust someday; (3) we will let you know by mail if we have accidentally released your social security number into the world
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On this day we join with hundreds of thousands of Black Americans in celebrating freedom.
June 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
On this day we join with hundreds of thousands of Black Americans in celebrating freedom.
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Some random beauty, the neighbor roses have broken containment. #FlowerReport
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Some random beauty, the neighbor roses have broken containment. #FlowerReport
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No mystery about what's happening here. Not hard to describe or understand. And yet we wait, passively, for someone to do something.
How far we've come in 69 days:
-Huge swaths of government illegally shut down
-President is refusing to promise to leave office
-Growing impunity for regime allies, targeted prosecutions at opponents
-Regime using funding and legal threats to subvert universities and law firms
-Corruption endemic
-Huge swaths of government illegally shut down
-President is refusing to promise to leave office
-Growing impunity for regime allies, targeted prosecutions at opponents
-Regime using funding and legal threats to subvert universities and law firms
-Corruption endemic
March 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
No mystery about what's happening here. Not hard to describe or understand. And yet we wait, passively, for someone to do something.
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A green card holder and UW lab tech who immigrated from the Philippines 50 years ago detained at the border for over 3 weeks and counting. No one knows why.
This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)
Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders
A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A green card holder and UW lab tech who immigrated from the Philippines 50 years ago detained at the border for over 3 weeks and counting. No one knows why.
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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
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More green-card holders detained by ICE for no reason, this time a 34 year-old German national in the US since he was a teenager.
His mother, who lives in New Hampshire: “It’s unbelievable what’s happening now.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/15/m...
His mother, who lives in New Hampshire: “It’s unbelievable what’s happening now.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/15/m...
German national with green card detained by ICE after arriving at Logan Airport, family says - The Boston Globe
Fabian Schmidt, of New Hampshire, is being held at the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, R.I., according to a public Immigration and Customs Enforcement database.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
More green-card holders detained by ICE for no reason, this time a 34 year-old German national in the US since he was a teenager.
His mother, who lives in New Hampshire: “It’s unbelievable what’s happening now.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/15/m...
His mother, who lives in New Hampshire: “It’s unbelievable what’s happening now.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/15/m...
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good morning. kentucky is on the cusp of passing a bill that will:
• ban medicaid coverage of hormones and surgery for all trans people
• end state restrictions on conversion therapy
gov andy beshear is expected to veto but it seems the gop can override
kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/15/a...
• ban medicaid coverage of hormones and surgery for all trans people
• end state restrictions on conversion therapy
gov andy beshear is expected to veto but it seems the gop can override
kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/15/a...
Anti-trans bills take center stage in House as KY lawmakers work deep into the night • Kentucky Lantern
House GOP cuts off debate as Democrats beg them to reject a provision that would end Medicaid coverage of hormone treatments for transgender Kentuckians.
kentuckylantern.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
good morning. kentucky is on the cusp of passing a bill that will:
• ban medicaid coverage of hormones and surgery for all trans people
• end state restrictions on conversion therapy
gov andy beshear is expected to veto but it seems the gop can override
kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/15/a...
• ban medicaid coverage of hormones and surgery for all trans people
• end state restrictions on conversion therapy
gov andy beshear is expected to veto but it seems the gop can override
kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/15/a...
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This is an important thread on colleges & universities standing up to Trump. Just wanted to add that some universities are quiet so as not to offend their donors. But the donors support Trump!
Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.
March 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is an important thread on colleges & universities standing up to Trump. Just wanted to add that some universities are quiet so as not to offend their donors. But the donors support Trump!
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
March 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.
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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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And the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the NPS has been terminated under Trump's Executive Order. Take a look at all this amazing work while you still can.
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...
Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
March 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the NPS has been terminated under Trump's Executive Order. Take a look at all this amazing work while you still can.
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...
And shout out to all the people working to find news ways to support these scholars.
🗃️
www.nps.gov/orgs/1296/in...
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"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened here, then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I."
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
www.theatlantic.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics, which is what appears to have happened here, then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I."