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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 6h

I feel sick.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 12h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when a center “treating” autistic and ADHD kids burned one alive… all because the parents want to use alternative therapies to cure their child rather than adjust their lives to accommodate and accept them ?

What we know about the hyperbaric chamber death of Royal Oak boy at the Oxford Center

Here's what we know so far about the hyperbaric chamber death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper, the Oxford Center, and the people charged in his death.

www.freep.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 2d

This explains my marriage and subsequent divorce.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t belong here.
- me, at work. everyday.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 5d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 5d

Royalty visited today. Indigenous representation was present on site… symbolically.

A flag of the Sami people and a land acknowledgement of the tribes who once cared for this land and were betrayed isn’t enough, but it isn’t nothing.

the remarks never touched on current immigration. A shame.

Image of a woman with purple hair wearing glasses standing in front of the Sami flag hanging at an event celebrating Norwegian immigration to the US.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 7d

World sad. I’m sad.
Sculpture to collect shiny objects makes it bearable. Just.

Greenware sculpture of a vaguely rabbit shape with multiple compartments for trinkets. Artist made work in progress from today, October 4th, 2025.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 7d

“Time Machine” by Ingrid Michaelson

Ingrid Michaelson | Time Machine (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by SoulPancake

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DLelandWhite @dlelandwhite.bsky.social · 9d

I will use this column to hype my dude
sluggish.ghost.io/a-straight-u...

a straight-up advertisement for my husband's book

I have built a subjective scale of Christmas mania and appointed myself as arbiter of truth. A simple 1 to 10, where 1 is you tolerate the holiday, 5 is you like it like a normal person, 10 is you mig...

sluggish.ghost.io

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 10d

2024: my image was part of a project that highlighted National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

The project stretched into this year when I talked with the company’s ERG about working as an autistic artist with chronic illness & pain. I’m proud of it.

Will NDEAM exist in 2026? #disability

Illustration depicting various people with different visible and invisible disabilities. The center includes one figured, flanked by a hummingbird representing AuDHD, imagining a world full of support and compassion. The image is done in shades of blue, orange and pink. Text below reads “United We Belong.”

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d

Middle schoolers walked out
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Des Moines Public Schools students walk out in protest of Ian Roberts' arrest by ICE

Hundreds of students from Iowa's largest school district left their classrooms Sept. 30 in protest of Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts' arrest by ICE.

www.desmoinesregister.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 10d

two women singing in front of a white board that says time after time on it

Alt: two women singing in front of a white board that says time after time on it

media.tenor.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11d

i actually cannot conceptualize how crazy shit is about to get

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11d

AAAAND we are officially shut down!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 12d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 13d

Just finished “Buffalo Hunter Hunter” and it was a great read.

More than that -
I’ve retreated from my birth family since 2016, cut them off since 2024. I’ve refused to exonerate them for their choices & it’s the right thing to have done.
It wasn’t easy though.

The ending… worth it. Always.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 14d

I adore this show’s representation of delayed emotional processing and alexithymia. Even other elves are better with emotions than Frieren.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15d

Read about #DrIanRoberts in his biography and you will see why he was targeted - a high profile Black man with a background of excellence in a completely mediocre Red State whose elected officials will not fight for him.

This is a test case to see what they can get away with in every Red State.

www.dmschools.org

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 15d

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts

Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for this.
AuDHD mom - the very act of having kids sent me into overwhelm multiple times a day until I understood my neurotype. Now I can cater to my sensory issues & my children’s sensory needs better. Acceptance of autism & ADHD made us a healthier family; withholding meds wouldn’t have

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15d

I am now!

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15d

#ActuallyAutistic mom here and tI’m so grateful for people like you.

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Art Witch Lauren @artwitchlb.bsky.social · 15d

How to ruin someone’s day:

- describe any food that has sauce, spread, or condiments as “wet” and proceed to list wet foods and why they are gross

- when they say “ah, but soup is delicious and quite clearly a wet food” tell them that:

“No, soup is a drink with chunks in it”

#ActuallyAutistic