DanaMPatton
@danampatton.bsky.social
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Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.
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danampatton.bsky.social
Baby I was you. I was full of self-righteousness and desperate to be good enough. Let it go. Let ppl be who they really are. Throw open your arms wide and actually love people. Really truly love your community. All of it.
masonmennenga.bsky.social
conservative christians: you liberals just live in an echo chamber on bluesky

me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....
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oagennaro.bsky.social
Anyway. I’m a special education teacher. I don’t have words except I’m tired. Protect our children.
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gregpak.net
Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.
inquirer.com
Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.
He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.
A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.
www.inquirer.com
danampatton.bsky.social
I need inspiration please.
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prisonculture.bsky.social
I wish people in this country would be honest about the country.
danampatton.bsky.social
Everyone was complimenting each other's cosplay. Every comic book artist I talked to was lovely. It's so packed but everyone is just nerding out. I watched a kids' costume contest in the Pride hang out room. A+.
danampatton.bsky.social
I love it so much! Our 12yo has been complaining @ our lack of holiday decorations.
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ptrchn1.bsky.social
Exactly why New Jersey needs the Immigrant Trust Act!
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago



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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
danampatton.bsky.social
The best costume we saw at NYCC today was a guy dressed like the Buc-ee's mascot that also had elements of Winter Soldier. A double Bucky. Also a child in an incredible xenomorph costume.
danampatton.bsky.social
thinking about how we get out of the situation we are in here and what happens after, it's very interesting to me what has and is happening in places like Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Cuba.
danampatton.bsky.social
I was genuinely asking if in your research this came up. I'm not debating that Maduro is a corrupt tyrant or suggesting he's a leftist. I'm trying to learn more about why many people were upset or dismissive of her win. I know some sites ppl just want to fight but that's not what I'm here for.
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kennybooyah.bsky.social
I saw this beautiful, otherworldly white stickpea flower yesterday in Cocoa, Florida. They’re also called powder puff plants or fairy dusters. These magical plants are valued for their ornamental beauty and ability to attract pollinators.
danampatton.bsky.social
I researched NYC CCRB when we were trying to get police accountability in Jersey City, & @ 80% of the time their recommendations were ignored. It's one of the things that pushed me further toward abolition. There just doesn't seem any way to really get people control of the current policing system.
hellgatenyc.com
In 2019, voters empowered the Civilian Complaint Review Board to bring misconduct charges against cops who lied to the agency's investigators. But the board is tossing those cases out at a surprising rate, and public data conceals that fact. What gives?
The NYPD's Watchdog Is Tossing Out Lying Cop Cases—Then 'Hiding' the Data from the Public
The agency tasked with holding the NYPD accountable is letting cops accused of lying to its own investigators off the hook.
hellgatenyc.com
danampatton.bsky.social
Bathrooms should all be unisex if only for efficiency. there's always a line for one gender and not the others no matter where you are it seems.
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itsmeio.bsky.social
someone finally broke the stagnancy with a 100$ donation. we’re still far from the 4500$ goal that would give us shelter again. Please lets do it ❤️🥺
itsmeio.bsky.social
We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid
Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety
I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.
chuffed.org
danampatton.bsky.social
I always get teary at NY Comic-con bc everyone is just genuinely enjoying their favorite things & being their truest selves.
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
danampatton.bsky.social
When they already have the local police depts
mrjohnmuller.bsky.social
I saw someone say something to the effect of "ICE is a federal jobs guarantee for racists and domestic abusers" and, hoooooo boy, if that isn't hitting the nail on the head.
danampatton.bsky.social
It seems like bc you can't build resorts and steal resources if there's still a functioning infrastructure. It needed to be bombed to oblivion first. Netanyahu wasn't going to let it happen til his genocide was almost complete. And our country was happy to help. Horrific.
danampatton.bsky.social
Did you read anything @ Machado being an oligarch and US backed candidate who wants to privatize power and oil (which I'm sure our own oligarchs would love to get in on)? You said in substack she supported some far right ideas. I'm interested in if she took away from real people-backed candidates.
danampatton.bsky.social
My version of a spa day is putting peppermint foot scrub on with socks over it to go to sleep. 🌈💫
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newtownaction.org
@publixofficial.bsky.social has over 900 stores in FL and 500+ stores across AL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, and VA.

Email Publix CEO Kevin Murphy and tell him you won’t shop at Publix until open carry is banned in all stores.

✉️ Take action: bit.ly/PublixSafety

#BoycottPublix #PublixSafety #BanOpenCarry
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lollardfish.bsky.social
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com