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Helen Boyd (she/they)
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Author/educator/activist; https://www.patreon.com/hbkramer; http://helenboydbooks.com/; https://www.facebook.com/helenboydbooks; https://www.instagram.com/helenofboyd/; https://www.tiktok.com/@helenofboyd
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · Jan 21
just so you all know, bluesky's kind of an entertaining news feed for me, so i don't follow folx back who aren't posting content i need. sorry to be that asshole, but this is NOT facebook and i don't want it to be.

that said, for you newbies: i do re post some awesome people
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 48m
We're not gonna know when he's dead. It's gonna be AI for a long while.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 1d
He's mad at Canada. Who gets mad at Canada?

I am tired of living with this fascist baby child.

So tired

Let's boycott Black Friday to start.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 1d
“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 1d
I don't really know how this all doesn't end in violence.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 2d
We are living in a eugenics nightmare.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 3d
Talking to anyone with privilege about what is about to happen on 11/1 is complicated business
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 3d
We could all be celebrating our president ringing the bell on his cancer treatment but you all chose this.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.
lukeyoquinto.bsky.social Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 3d
Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
I've really always wanted to write for #theonion
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
Do it.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
"People who loved guy for saying "you're fired" suddenly surprised by same guy firing everyone once he got elected"
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
Everything he's built is shit
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d
Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
It's always been real. But that's not even a metaphor anymore, or a prediction.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
Doing this again just in case you weren't aware.

The current WH is now the most blocked on Bluesky.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
I love that the WH account is the most blocked here.
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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 4d
Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
The picture of the East Wing destroyed/under construction upset me way more than I expected.

Knowing his shitty, cheap, garish taste will rebuild it makes it even worse.

My God I can't wait until this is over.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d
Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare.

And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”
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Helen Boyd (she/they) @helenboydbooks.com · 4d
ask me how i found out indoor #cats can get fleas.

turns out mice come in when it gets chilly out. that's it.

my Bella is a good mouser and now i'm boiling my sheets.

happy Monday everyone.
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fae⁷ @onthistangent.bsky.social · 5d
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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