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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 12h

Yessss!!!! I heard this was coming from you all, very psyched you made it in black!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Nick Pettigrew
@Nick_Pettigrew
Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act.
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Garry Kasparov
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Jun 24
Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

www.houstonchronicle.com

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 6d

Farhana Sultana is a well-known academic who writes about climate change, environmental issues, and social justice. Syracuse University put her on leave at the behest of the far right. Read and sign if you can

Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 7d

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana

As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...

docs.google.com

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 6d

Signed, thank you for sharing. As a fellow alum I’m disgusted by them bending the knee

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Tara (she/her) @fiestywenchyone.bsky.social · 7d

Wtbuggeringf

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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Mischollanious Thoughts @mischollaneous.bsky.social · 7d

The US government most certainly won't be promoting any kind of positive public health policies in the foreseeable future.

Asking folk to protect others by masking should resonate with folks who aren't inherently sociopathic.

Some evidence this advice is good is it is not endorsed by RFK's H.H.S.

Almost Jeanne Moreau but definitely the whole Shenanigans @missplacedathome.bsky.social · 7d

The French government is asking us to mask up. In ads everywhere we are asked to protect others from potentially getting infected by whatever we might carry.

This is one* reason why I like living here. They ask us to protect not ourselves but others.

Civic responsibility.

* clementines !

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7d

This is clear political prosecution and government overreach meant to scare protestors by going after resistance leaders and political candidates.

Kat Abughazaleh must not be imprisoned for fighting against the President’s fascism.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 9d

gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8d

The initial death toll of the massacres in El Fasher, Sudan by the UAE backed RSF terrorists is now at 2,000 according to local sources. Satellite imagery spotted massive stains of blood all over the city. At least 80,000 people are still unaccounted for. #Sudan_War_Updates

Urgent | The joint forces allied with the army: The Rapid Support Militia committed heinous crimes against civilians in the city of
"El Fasher," where more than two thousand unarmed citizens were liquidated and killed on October 26 and 27, most of them women, children, and the elderly.

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 9d

This is so beyond sick and evil, these men deserve life in prison for this shit. I’m just filled with rage, shaking, watching this. What the actual fuck

Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 10d

A heartbreaking read, and hits so close to home, my kids’ are also going thru this in the US. Teen tried going back to in-person school at one point, was physically bullied for masking, he tried but ended up back in homeschool. Just last week we were harassed by a man screaming at us. It’s brutal. 💔

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 10d

Nope.

Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 11d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 14d

Yes!!! This album is perfection, saw them live a bunch back then, sooo good.

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 15d

Where did I take a “dig” at the vaccines? By saying it’s not a sterilizing vaccine?? That’s not a dig, that is a fact. I wish they were. Hope we get one sometime very soon. Why can’t ppl do both? I do both and know tons of ppl who do, it’s not hard. At all. If more ppl masked there’d be less spread.

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Briana Mackay @brimack.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t think I’ve ever come across someone who is pro-mask and anti-vax. I’m certainly not if that’s what you’re inferring. Everyone being vaccinated would be great, but clearly that will never happen, plus it would have to be with vaccines that actually stop transmission which we don’t have yet

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