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seedlingsong.bsky.social
Kaitlin
@seedlingsong.bsky.social
300 followers 540 following 90 posts
she/her
ex-academic, UU

Main: https://social.coop/@seedlingsong

Untangling Ourselves podcast: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/untangling-ourselves/6644949

unschooling & neurodivergence: unschoolingeveryfamily.com/

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adamserwer.bsky.social
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
seedlingsong.bsky.social
"My fingers are surprised at a softness like lips puffed around the horizontal line of scar. My skin is dry so I head into the light & rub coconut oil on all I can reach. The oil is no small miracle of ordinary care."
muthamagazine.bsky.social MUTHA Magazine @muthamagazine.bsky.social · 2d
“Where in the world did I get the idea that you have to either accept yourself or change? There are worlds beyond those two possibilities, & between them my skin speaks for itself.” - Abby Vines-Lopez

#essays #bodies #tattoos
Body Stories
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www.muthamagazine.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
seedlingsong.bsky.social
“Not only is ICE/CBP detaining so many of our vulnerable community members- they target the elderly, medically in need, they detain them with brutality and harm,” said Cynthia Santiago, an immigration lawyer."
lataco.bsky.social L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d
Federal immigration agencies were involved in at least 33 deaths this year.

The full story: lataco.com/33-deaths-fe...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
A side view of an ICE agent in uniform carrying a gun. Headline at the bottom reads “Seven deaths in December marks the deadliest month and year in decades for in-custody deaths”
December 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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propublicaguild.org
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
Headline: ProPublica management wants 100% discretion over when and how to use AI Supplementary text: The organization rejected our proposal that ensures staff will not be replaced by AI and requires labeling AI-generated content
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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tinadesireeberg.com
Immigration enforcement agents strike a man in a parking lot with a vehicle- he then gets up and runs before being tackled by other agents in Rialto California
December 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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50501sacramento.bsky.social
That’s wonderful for those people!

STOP sweeping in Sacramento and taking survival necessities for our unhoused neighbors. @governor.ca.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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ecomentario.bsky.social
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elisewang.bsky.social Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18d
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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warren.senate.gov
A private equity fraudster was found guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud 10,000 investors, including small business owners, farmers, and Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

Trump just let him out of prison.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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muthamagazine.bsky.social
Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! ✨

#pushcart
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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seedlingsong.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
"The IDF claimed it identified the eight- and 11-year-old boys and “eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-gaza-now
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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seedlingsong.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
"It’s like entering a current more than choosing a career." Robina Khalid on midwifery

https://smallthingsgrowing.substack.com/p/i-was-interviewed-by-a-student-midwife
I was interviewed by a student midwife, and here is what I said
For all the birthworkers out there
smallthingsgrowing.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Solitaire by Deborah Landau
www.divasofverse.com/2015/01/soli...
Solitaire by Deborah Landau
Solitaire That summer there was no girl left in me. It gradually became clear. It suddenly became. In the po...
www.divasofverse.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
Professors who see teaching as a skill, a trust & a responsibility are the ones who are burned out by these conditions. The ones who care about students’ well-being are the ones whose methodologies are unsustainable in these conditions. It’s agonizing.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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indivisible.org
During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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untangleourselves.bsky.social
Here's the kpop specific episode with kind.social/@toblaveisto... .

We talk a lot about girl groups from the 2010-2020s, about originality, spectacle, fandom, politics, and joy as a compass.

pocketcasts.com/podcast/unta...

#kpop #twice #redvelvet #dreamcatcher #girlsgeneration #aespa
A light blue background with a faded rainbow, covered in deep purple text. The text in an arch on the upper left has a pale yellow background behind it and reads in cursive "Untangling Ourselves." At the top right in simple text "Episode 4." Below that in blocky capitals, "MORE KPOP". Then below that in simple text "with Rob Cunningham." At the bottom right is a detailed image from youtube music's year in review, with three vertical phone screens with colorful backgrounds lined up in one image. At the top of each phone screen in silver letters are the years 2023, 2024, and 2025. In the middle are images from red velvet albums. At the bottom of each (and in highlighted larger text around the third image of a red velvet album) is the message "you were in the top 0.1% of Red Velvet listeners."
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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untangleourselves.bsky.social
Two episodes out about music. In the first part (Ep. 3) kind.social/@toblaveisto... and I talk about his search for new and interesting sounds, from rap to noise and experimental. In the second, we talk all about kpop!

podverse.fm/episode/6B30...

#kpop #80s #music #joy #experimentalmusic
S1E3 - Pure Sound with Rob Cunningham - Untangling Ourselves
Show Notes for Ep 3: Pure Sound with Rob Cunningham Rob has been searching for innovative, mind-blowing sounds ever since he was a little kid watching MTV in 1980s suburban Los Angeles. He tells his s...
podverse.fm
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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norcalresist.bsky.social
This is super exciting, but it’s gonna take funds. Help us bond more folks out of immigration detention by donating to our matching fund!

Tinyurl.com/NCRFree
nateraymond.bsky.social Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 29d
New: A federal judge in California ruled that Trump's administration cannot impose mandatory detention on thousands of migrants held by U.S. immigration authorities nationally without first giving them an opportunity to seek release on bond. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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brockm.bsky.social
A U.S. senator stated a basic legal fact: troops can refuse illegal orders.
The Trump Admin opened an investigation into him for saying it.
Fox News praised it: “Make examples of people.”
That’s not a warning sign. That’s fascism—on live TV.
On Orders, Examples, and the Fascism Happening on Live Television
Mark Kelly—former Navy combat pilot, astronaut, sitting United States Senator—stated a simple legal fact on video: members of the US military can refuse illegal orders.
www.notesfromthecircus.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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geographile.bsky.social
I know enough autistic kids to know how destructive this would be. Hell, it would be destructive for a neurotypical kid. But I've worked very hard to help my autistic kid be emotionally solid, and this would have destroyed it.
cajunblue.bsky.social CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · Nov 22
📌 Should he have been detained? Absolutely NOT; however, the govt’s gross miscarriage of justice will not diminish my joy of watching this reunion. 🥹 1/2
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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propublica.org
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.

Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.

He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.

America needs to secure his release NOW.
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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indivisible.org
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
(above images of the Target, Amazon, and Home Depot logos that have been crossed out) We Ain't Buying It Target Companies This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEl; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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lataco.bsky.social
DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM