andr3s (they/them)
@phillyrikkan.bsky.social
designer * leader *coffee lover * tattooed artsplorer * queerer than before * philly boricua
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We’re being tested. These are not mistakes.Young Latino Men are most at risk now. Young Black men have always been.
LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
news.azpm.org
April 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We’re being tested. These are not mistakes.Young Latino Men are most at risk now. Young Black men have always been.
LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
LGTBQ people are next. Then anyone opposing the government. MAGA are willing to break our Union and their families and as long as they “win”. They will not stop unless we stop them.
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You don’t need to have gone to Harvard to know the lesson from all this — scared authoritarian bullies back down when you stand up to them, and ONLY when you stand up to them.
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
You don’t need to have gone to Harvard to know the lesson from all this — scared authoritarian bullies back down when you stand up to them, and ONLY when you stand up to them.
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I can't say it any clearer than this:
I
don't
care
what
opinions,
positions,
or politics
are held
or expressed
by people
illegally seized,
detained, or
removed
from this country.
I DO NOT CARE.
They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
I
don't
care
what
opinions,
positions,
or politics
are held
or expressed
by people
illegally seized,
detained, or
removed
from this country.
I DO NOT CARE.
They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I can't say it any clearer than this:
I
don't
care
what
opinions,
positions,
or politics
are held
or expressed
by people
illegally seized,
detained, or
removed
from this country.
I DO NOT CARE.
They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
I
don't
care
what
opinions,
positions,
or politics
are held
or expressed
by people
illegally seized,
detained, or
removed
from this country.
I DO NOT CARE.
They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
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I haven't felt so illuminated by an analysis in a long time. Worth reading carefully in full and immediately re-reading. Brilliant: "The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism."
“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
April 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I haven't felt so illuminated by an analysis in a long time. Worth reading carefully in full and immediately re-reading. Brilliant: "The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism."
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Watch a major campaign being born.
20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world.
A better world is possible.
A better world is possible.
Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah
April 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Watch a major campaign being born.
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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This is the sort of thing that sounds like a small deal if you’re not familiar with it. If you are, then you know it’s a very, very big deal.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
This is the sort of thing that sounds like a small deal if you’re not familiar with it. If you are, then you know it’s a very, very big deal.
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Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.
Trump: "You know, our country was the strongest, believe it or not, from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was all tariff based. We had no income tax." (This is nonsense.)
April 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Historians will tell you -- do not believe it.
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I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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Fucking finance guys welcome to the fucking resistance.
“A top Goldman Sachs executive summed up the frustration with Mr. Trump succinctly: Someone has to stop him.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/b...
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Fucking finance guys welcome to the fucking resistance.
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literal villains hellbent on the destruction of the world and folks are like "yeah! go my team!" completely oblivious to the fact that they're cheering for their own subjugation.
April 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
literal villains hellbent on the destruction of the world and folks are like "yeah! go my team!" completely oblivious to the fact that they're cheering for their own subjugation.
For those of you still hanging on to your Harry Potter
April 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For those of you still hanging on to your Harry Potter
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Evangelicals are explicit about connecting age-verification with anti-trans initiatives, even if our allies in the fight are sometimes naive (or willfully blind). The broad push for internet censorship is not just about protecting children.
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...
April 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Evangelicals are explicit about connecting age-verification with anti-trans initiatives, even if our allies in the fight are sometimes naive (or willfully blind). The broad push for internet censorship is not just about protecting children.
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...
www.christianpost.com/voices/the-g...
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Sure, the US economy was in tatters, and there was a global recession, and we lost everything, but at least we made sure there were no more DEI hires and transgender swimmers. It was worth it.
- When historians talk to MAGA about this moment for their future books on how America lost its mind.
- When historians talk to MAGA about this moment for their future books on how America lost its mind.
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Sure, the US economy was in tatters, and there was a global recession, and we lost everything, but at least we made sure there were no more DEI hires and transgender swimmers. It was worth it.
- When historians talk to MAGA about this moment for their future books on how America lost its mind.
- When historians talk to MAGA about this moment for their future books on how America lost its mind.
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We keep writing about this destruction without getting to the core of it. “White Americans who are racially resentful towards Blacks, hold negative views of immigrants, and believe that whites are being discriminated against are especially likely to hold anti-democratic beliefs.”
Study shows growing link between racial attitudes and anti-democratic beliefs among White Americans
A new study reveals anti-democratic beliefs among white Americans are strongly linked to racial resentment and perceived white status threat. This connection has grown stronger over the last decade.
www.psypost.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We keep writing about this destruction without getting to the core of it. “White Americans who are racially resentful towards Blacks, hold negative views of immigrants, and believe that whites are being discriminated against are especially likely to hold anti-democratic beliefs.”
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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Good morning.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
March 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Good morning.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
Listen, you have to just decide.
They are not taking the Black Smithsonian.
Resolve it in your spirit.
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Has everyone in charge at Columbia simply lost their marbles? I really cannot wrap my mind around their dereliction of duty to their students. If my kid went there I would sure feel some kind of way.
March 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Has everyone in charge at Columbia simply lost their marbles? I really cannot wrap my mind around their dereliction of duty to their students. If my kid went there I would sure feel some kind of way.
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The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It’s possible to walk and chew gum but to the extent that the focus on Signal-gate is so intense that it drowns out issues that impact Americans more directly — like the gutting of the Social Security Administration or the defunding of cancer research — it could work to Trump’s benefit
March 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s possible to walk and chew gum but to the extent that the focus on Signal-gate is so intense that it drowns out issues that impact Americans more directly — like the gutting of the Social Security Administration or the defunding of cancer research — it could work to Trump’s benefit
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Free Speech lovers, please defend this.
"Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
"Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Free Speech lovers, please defend this.
"Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
"Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...
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🔥BREAKING NEWS: Two sources have told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs payroll system (VATAS) has been down since Friday. It is operating in 'Emergency Mode' only and will have to resort to straight time cards to get people their base pay on Friday.
March 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🔥BREAKING NEWS: Two sources have told me that the Department of Veterans Affairs payroll system (VATAS) has been down since Friday. It is operating in 'Emergency Mode' only and will have to resort to straight time cards to get people their base pay on Friday.
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This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.
March 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.