Martha
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Martha
@mwrees.bsky.social
Anthropologist in genteel decline: Oaxaca and Georgia (Necessary Trouble Indivisible) + Diving!!
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
BEWARD FLOCK cameras coming to DeKalb: AI makes mistakes. But even more important is the danger of giving access to federal agents. November 12, 2025: [https://www.decaturish.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/dear-decaturish]
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
U.S. Government Quietly Removes Memorial For Black Soldiers From Dutch Cemetery

blavity.com/us-governmen...

"The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission."
U.S. Government Quietly Removes Memorial For Black Soldiers From Dutch Cemetery - Blavity
flip.it
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
NoKings2 = 5.2-8.2 million, according to H. George Elliott [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pNcxWyUnqXjYAuxKG9NUyCnGxd-lEAUTC36miO1B4ow/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0], with interactive spreadsheet.
October 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
3.5% rule:
US population 2025: 342,034,432 x 3.5% = 11,971,205

October 18, if almost 7 million = 2%
October 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
@Georgia's race to the bottom: rates are in sharp decline and the state falls well below national averages and public health thresholds.

Read more at: www.macon.com/news/state/g...
GA has nearly the worst vaccine rate in the US, federal data shows. Here’s where it ranks and why
From measles outbreaks to exemption spikes, a new study reveals how far Georgia has fallen.
https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article312054772.html#storylink=cpy[https://www.macon.com/news/state/georgia/article312054772.html]
September 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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This Labor Day, we are again expecting millions on the streets protesting against the Trump admin's assault on environmental health research, evidence-based policy, and democracy.

This time, @thexylom.com is taking the lead to crowdsource attendance data. Bookmark this spreadsheet for Monday:
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Alcohol Industry begs Canada to buy US liquor [Newsweek 27 August 2025], but they donated 20% more to GOP than Dems [https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/industry-detail/N02/2024].
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
SNL sheds actors of color [https://parade.com/news/saturday-night-live-announces-exit-of-emil-shakim?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=ParadeMag/magazine/Trending+News]
August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
PEW. US MIGRANTS NOTES
US unauthorized immigrants:14m in 2023 (-1m) in 2025.
Immigrants in US=51.9m (15.4%US), 19% labor force (- 20% in 2025).

Mexico-22% of immigrants
6 million (40%) legal, others are unauthorized (without legal status)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.
As of June 2025, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s.
www.pewresearch.org
August 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I’m proud to co-lead the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act to reverse Republican efforts to shutter #PlannedParenthood and other reproductive health centers nationwide. (2)
July 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I stand with my colleagues in #Congress and the #Courts in working to hold this administration accountable. (2)
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The #Trump administration's refusal to allow congressional oversight visits to ICE facilities violates the law, and he knows that. This abuse of power prevents the transparency that the American people, including those in the #FightingFifth, deserve. (1)
HISTORIC MOVE: CHC Members are suing DHS—the first-ever lawsuit from Members of Congress against the Trump administration this Congress.

Why? Because obstruction of oversight, mass detention, and abuse of power cannot go unchecked.
July 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
SPLC interact hate group map.
www.splcenter.org/hate-map/
Hate Map
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s interactive map has been available to track hate across the United States since 2000.
www.splcenter.org
July 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How to Fight the Broligarchy
50501 NY

substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Some steps:
1. Amazon > bye bye
2. Google > DuckDuckGo, Proton suite.
3.  Social Media > Bluesky, etc.
4. Artificial Intelligence > risks:
How to Fight the Broligarchy
The tech overlords want to trap us. Escaping is how we fight back.
substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
reading the Declaration of Independence as an indictment (one example):

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

[https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript]
July 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Frederick Douglass, What is the 4th of July to a slave:

God speed the hour, .... When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power .... Until that year,.... I’ll strive, .... And never from my chosen post, ..... Be driven.
July 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@woodsyexplores on instagram (and others) attempt to comment on Mike Lee and the sale of western public lands by using egregious, erroneous and insulting gendered language. My reply:
June 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
No Kings, Liberty Plaza. Was Qanon there?
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
No Kings, Liberty Plaza 20250614: Proud boys were heckled by others, they soon left.
June 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Los Angeles. Heroes. Mexico<=>US

www.instagram.com/p/DKtANqWNpCO/
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
in Georgia, a 26 year old car doesn't need an emissions inspection: old but still ticking.
June 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM