shay alexi
@shayalexi.bsky.social
writer. artist. 1000 lightning bugs in a trenchcoat.
📕Unbridled (Game Over Books)
🎓Masters in Communications candidate (Agnes Scott College)
📕Unbridled (Game Over Books)
🎓Masters in Communications candidate (Agnes Scott College)
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US Senator Chris Van Hollen meets migrant Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador aje.io/mit82d
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
US Senator Chris Van Hollen meets migrant Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador aje.io/mit82d
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“I could watch / anyone die, but I looked away. Still, / I wore the war on my back. I put it / on every morning.“
— Donika Kelly
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Donika Kelly
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.
April 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“I could watch / anyone die, but I looked away. Still, / I wore the war on my back. I put it / on every morning.“
— Donika Kelly
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Donika Kelly
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This poem appeared in Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Because we live in a police state that loves punishment whether that’s evangelicals who crave punishment for “sinfulness” or liberals and “Fuck around and find out.”
That’s the universal religion.
That’s the universal religion.
Like why is the current Democrat message just "I don't want politicians to help people out. I want my fellow man to suffer"? All this tells me is that Democrats are either lazy, sociopathic, or both.
March 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Because we live in a police state that loves punishment whether that’s evangelicals who crave punishment for “sinfulness” or liberals and “Fuck around and find out.”
That’s the universal religion.
That’s the universal religion.
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In times like this there’s a real risk that comes with framing decency as radical.
When we talk about being radicalized we need to go beyond empathy and into collective struggle against systems of oppression.
Caring for others is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
www.jphilll.com/p/what-radic...
When we talk about being radicalized we need to go beyond empathy and into collective struggle against systems of oppression.
Caring for others is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
www.jphilll.com/p/what-radic...
What radicalized you?
Never cede the framing
www.jphilll.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In times like this there’s a real risk that comes with framing decency as radical.
When we talk about being radicalized we need to go beyond empathy and into collective struggle against systems of oppression.
Caring for others is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
www.jphilll.com/p/what-radic...
When we talk about being radicalized we need to go beyond empathy and into collective struggle against systems of oppression.
Caring for others is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
www.jphilll.com/p/what-radic...
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Update on repression against Cop City activists in Atlanta 🤬
Nothing to see here. Not creepy at all. Zero repression or overreach. #Atlanta #StopCopCity #ACAB
Update on repression against Cop City activists in Atlanta 🤬
Nothing to see here. Not creepy at all. Zero repression or overreach. #Atlanta #StopCopCity #ACAB
Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?
Cameras are hidden in unmarked boxes on utility poles in a move residents and advocates call ‘creepy’ and ‘corrosive’
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Update on repression against Cop City activists in Atlanta 🤬
Nothing to see here. Not creepy at all. Zero repression or overreach. #Atlanta #StopCopCity #ACAB
Update on repression against Cop City activists in Atlanta 🤬
Nothing to see here. Not creepy at all. Zero repression or overreach. #Atlanta #StopCopCity #ACAB
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If nothing else, this.
February 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
If nothing else, this.
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History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
![Social Skills Training
by Solmaz Sharif
Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. [ran out of space. poem also here: https://tinyurl.com/sharifpoem]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlmttkf54je7ie22kz7oymca/bafkreigd6yv4wvtxd2uwuzf27xbt62mpxep67ljta2edqmjeywqi7zfmhu@jpeg)
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
History says we forgave the executioner.
—Sharif
—Sharif
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While this comparison is actually too *generous* to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
While this comparison is actually too *generous* to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.
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LA STUDENT STRIKE DAY 5 -
RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.
This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.
RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.
This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.
February 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
LA STUDENT STRIKE DAY 5 -
RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.
This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.
RIGHT NOW: Pasadena High School has just joined the dozens of other schools all over LA that have staged walkouts throughout this week.
This is the 6th straight day of anti-ICE, immigrations rights protests in LA.
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In case anyone suddenly finds it relevant to engage what June Jordan learned when she went to work in solidarity with a group of young visionaries who ousted a US installed dictator…
sangodare.podia.com/a-revolution...
sangodare.podia.com/a-revolution...
"a revolution based on self-respect": dangerous solidarities
When a television star became a tool for a repressive, economically predatory and socially backwards US regime June Jordan deepened her solidarity within and beyond the nation state. This reflective ...
sangodare.podia.com
January 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In case anyone suddenly finds it relevant to engage what June Jordan learned when she went to work in solidarity with a group of young visionaries who ousted a US installed dictator…
sangodare.podia.com/a-revolution...
sangodare.podia.com/a-revolution...
I made myself this reminder card featuring an excerpt from Dub by @alexispauline.bsky.social
Everything is an invitation to build a new world.
Everything is an invitation to loosen our grip on the systems we know (even when their familiarity is comfortable or convenient).
Everything is an invitation to build a new world.
Everything is an invitation to loosen our grip on the systems we know (even when their familiarity is comfortable or convenient).
January 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I made myself this reminder card featuring an excerpt from Dub by @alexispauline.bsky.social
Everything is an invitation to build a new world.
Everything is an invitation to loosen our grip on the systems we know (even when their familiarity is comfortable or convenient).
Everything is an invitation to build a new world.
Everything is an invitation to loosen our grip on the systems we know (even when their familiarity is comfortable or convenient).
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“i hope I die / warmed / by the life I tried / to live”
— Nikki Giovanni
— Nikki Giovanni
January 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“i hope I die / warmed / by the life I tried / to live”
— Nikki Giovanni
— Nikki Giovanni
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Workers are each other’s allies, not each other’s competition.
January 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Workers are each other’s allies, not each other’s competition.
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"When someone alludes to “clean” healthfulness — from clean living to clean drinking — someone somewhere is carrying the burden of being “dirty.” You cannot have one without the other."
Tressie McMillan Cotton nailing it again.
"My point isn’t that drinking is good. But switching drinking for casual CBD use is not solving a problem so much as buying into one industry instead of another." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/o...
"My point isn’t that drinking is good. But switching drinking for casual CBD use is not solving a problem so much as buying into one industry instead of another." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/o...
Opinion | Dry January Is Driving Me to Drink (Gift Article)
Do or do not, as Yoda might say. But please shut up about it, as I definitely would say.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"When someone alludes to “clean” healthfulness — from clean living to clean drinking — someone somewhere is carrying the burden of being “dirty.” You cannot have one without the other."