Tanya Kerssen
@tkerssen.bsky.social
Rabble-rouser for food systems change. I don't tell people what to eat. Free Palestine.
co-director @realfoodmedia.bsky.social
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co-director @realfoodmedia.bsky.social
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This also came to mind for me ✨A perfectly delivered line.
lol. Watching S5 of the Wire tonight:
“imagine talking to a psychopath like that”
“I interviewed Dick Cheney once”
“imagine talking to a psychopath like that”
“I interviewed Dick Cheney once”
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This also came to mind for me ✨A perfectly delivered line.
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Zoran has friends everywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Zoran has friends everywhere.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the hunger strike that made Mamdani www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The moment that made Mamdani
How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the hunger strike that made Mamdani www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services, impacting 83,000 Spokanites. With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help:
Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services – RANGE Media
With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help.
rangemedia.co
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Spokane food banks are seeing ‘COVID levels’ of stress on services, impacting 83,000 Spokanites. With the future of SNAP in jeopardy, here’s how our region is impacted and who is stepping up to help:
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on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people
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Los Estados Unidos abren el camino a la proliferación nuclear | #Escriben Vijay Prashad y Dae-Han Song | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/167166-2/
July 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Los Estados Unidos abren el camino a la proliferación nuclear | #Escriben Vijay Prashad y Dae-Han Song | @vijayprashad.bsky.social | www.somosmass99.com/167166-2/
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If you're a nonprofit or union using Bluesky (or a Bluesky fan working for an org that hasn't made the leap) join us for our online training July 22! @levin.bsky.social is talking strategy, organizing, what makes Bluesky unique & what works like before: registration.socio.events/e/blueskytra...
July 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you're a nonprofit or union using Bluesky (or a Bluesky fan working for an org that hasn't made the leap) join us for our online training July 22! @levin.bsky.social is talking strategy, organizing, what makes Bluesky unique & what works like before: registration.socio.events/e/blueskytra...
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Masking en masse also prevents medically vulnerable people from being singled out by cops. BE ALLIES. bsky.app/profile/erin...
How many times did we fucking tell you. You gave up on wearing masks. You let them demonize masks. So they got to write the rules. And the rules are cops “discretion” is that disabled people should be arrested. Because when ableds get to decide who is actually disabled, we lose. Every time.
June 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Masking en masse also prevents medically vulnerable people from being singled out by cops. BE ALLIES. bsky.app/profile/erin...
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Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse.
Beyond erasure: Anti-Black racism in U.S. immigration
Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse
www.metrotimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Black immigrants are disproportionately harmed by exclusionary immigration policies and are continuously erased from the broader immigration discourse.
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Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
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This is why an attack on trans women is an attack on *all* women. 😡
As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡
As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡
May 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is why an attack on trans women is an attack on *all* women. 😡
As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡
As someone put it, how men treat trans women in public, is how they treat cis women in private. 🤷😡
Watch this.
No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss
May 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Watch this.
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In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
May 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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#tdih 1968 UPenn student Kiyoshi Kuromiya and friends held a demonstration against the use of napalm in Vietnam.
They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library.
Thousands turned up to protest.
Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3]
They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library.
Thousands turned up to protest.
Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3]
April 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#tdih 1968 UPenn student Kiyoshi Kuromiya and friends held a demonstration against the use of napalm in Vietnam.
They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library.
Thousands turned up to protest.
Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3]
They announced that a dog would be burned alive with napalm in front of university library.
Thousands turned up to protest.
Students were handed a flier that said: [See⬇️ | 🧵1/3]
May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores - Find an event in your area www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/
May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | March 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores · May Day Strong
May 1 International Workers Day
Rally and March
Rally 4:30pm
March 5:30pm
Minnesota State Capitol
For Immigrant Rights and Workers Rights
Initiated by MIRAC, MN Workers United, MN Immigrant Movement, ...
www.mobilize.us
April 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
May 1st International Workers Day Rally & March | 1 Mayo Dia Internacional de Los Trabajadores - Find an event in your area www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia Home
Kilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal reco...
sign.moveon.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Mobilize
This is an at home write your representative event! Defend Kilmar Garcia and the rule of law!
www.mobilize.us
April 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Write your reps to Defend Kilmar Abrego Garcia” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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The New Barbarism is here. Palestinians used for target practice by Israeli weapon and military software manufacturers. Deportations that are run like ‘Amazon Prime for humans'. Foreign aid replaced by tariffs on the poor. Etc. etc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The New Barbarism is here. Palestinians used for target practice by Israeli weapon and military software manufacturers. Deportations that are run like ‘Amazon Prime for humans'. Foreign aid replaced by tariffs on the poor. Etc. etc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Politicians want to normalise what’s happening in Gaza. Our moral outrage won’t let that happen | Nesrine Malik
The more shocking the carnage becomes, the more people are punished for speaking out. This just makes it clear how much is really at stake, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Gaza has been deported to another dimension in which no rules apply." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
April 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad:
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
- Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation
- Challenging ideas about gender
- Protests against genocide
- Science generally
It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.
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leave our kids alone.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
leave our kids alone.
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A new documentary from Palestinian American-run Watermelon Pictures, and Breakthrough News (with rapper Macklemore and Alana Hadid among the producers), shows perspectives from inside the 2024 Columbia University encampments.
This New Documentary Gets at What the Columbia Encampments Were Actually About
"We were like, 'Wow, we're sitting on a movie that is ready to go, that debunks everything that Trump is saying.'"
www.teenvogue.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A new documentary from Palestinian American-run Watermelon Pictures, and Breakthrough News (with rapper Macklemore and Alana Hadid among the producers), shows perspectives from inside the 2024 Columbia University encampments.
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A Supreme Court opinion about the U.S. government disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador should probably mention the words "El Salvador"
The Republican Justices Do Not Want to Talk About the Human Suffering They’re Enabling
The Court’s opinion in Trump v. JGG is disastrous for the people the administration is disappearing.
ballsandstrikes.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
A Supreme Court opinion about the U.S. government disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador should probably mention the words "El Salvador"
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WashPo Apr 9 -- Brevard Cty FL high school teacher of 11 years became state's first to have contract terminated for using trans student's preferred rather than legal name w/o parental permission under a new "parents' rights" law. Brevard is home of Moms for Liberty. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
WashPo Apr 9 -- Brevard Cty FL high school teacher of 11 years became state's first to have contract terminated for using trans student's preferred rather than legal name w/o parental permission under a new "parents' rights" law. Brevard is home of Moms for Liberty. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social