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owenjones.bsky.social
The moment the penny drops for former Tory minister Simon Clarke...
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:
I will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem. The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities. We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security. Removal from reality is most often an accident. It’s just a common side effect of our political culture. Congress should be a job like any other, but the pomp and circumstance gives our elected officials an excuse to detach. The ones who haven’t fallen into that trap have only managed to do so through purposeful planning and frequent trips home. They treat empathy like a muscle, flexing it as often as possible to ward off apathy. But this should be the norm, not the exception. If not for moral reasons, then for strategic ones.
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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evangreer.bsky.social
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
April 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
‘If a White person shares an image online that perpetuates stereotypes of Black people as loud, dumb, hyperviolent or hypersexual, they’ve entered digital blackface territory’.

Thanks to @icespicebag.bsky.social for finding this for me! [1]
Analysis: What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it? | CNN
If you’re White and you’ve posted a GIF or meme of a Black person to express a strong emotion, you may be guilty of wearing ‘digital blackface’ – a modern-day term for an insidious form of racism.
www.cnn.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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owenjones.bsky.social
Nobody is coming to save the people of Gaza.

Right now, we must bear witness for the reckoning to come.
April 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM