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Jilly Jesson

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Artist Designer Maker in Tucson Arizona @ JillyJesson.art ❄️ Love is Louder 💯 Vote 🩵💙 Always picture taking, daytripping, art and abouting, in my studio creating, styling fabric, listening to music, cooking, reading, watching films and researching things.

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Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is Jilly @ Jilly Jesson Fine Art & Design in Tucson, AZ.

I have created a new collection of designs for you and I hope you love them!

Style, fashion, interior design, decor and gifts all created from my original hand made work.

My online gallery is:
cowgirlmoksha.etsy.com
More Soon‼️
XO 😘

Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · 10d

#nokings #nokingsday #nokingsinamerica

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · Jul 11

In this week’s PEN Ten interview, @aliadastagir.bsky.social discusses her new book, To Those Who Have Confused You To Be A Person (@crownpublishing.bsky.social, 2025), which documents the stories of 14 women — herself included — who have faced online abuse. Read more: pen.org/alia-dastagi...

When the Mob Isn’t ‘Just Online’ - PEN America

In this PEN Ten, reporter Alia Dastagir discusses the difference between protecting free speech and protecting individuals experiencing harassment.

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Matt Hoyt 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇹🇼 @matthoyt.bsky.social · Jul 13

Just reading @aliadastagir.bsky.social and this grabbed me:

‘Many men suggest women and especially feminist women are humourless, that we don’t make good comedians. But they don’t understand how much laughing we have to do just to survive.’

Book cover for ‘To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person’ by Alia Dastagir.

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Alia Dastagir @aliadastagir.bsky.social · Aug 16

I hear what she’s saying, but her comments do obscure the way online hate is connected to systems of misogyny, racism, anti-Blackness, transphobia, fatphobia, homophobia, and other forms of oppressive violence. Logging off/tuning out can be individually healthy but it isn’t a collective answer.

Taylor Swift On Dealing With Online Hate: ‘Anything You Feed The Internet, It Will Kill’

On the "New Heights" podcast hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, Swift talks about how she and Travis handle internet opinions differently.

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A Moment with Erik Fleming podcast @momenterik.bsky.social · Sep 22

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@carolineheldman.bsky.social
@aliadastagir.bsky.social
@tracyexplains.com
@legalafmtn.bsky.social
#blacksky #politics #podcast

Survival Is Resistance Featuring Dr. Caroline Heldman, Alia Dastagir, Melba Pearson and Dr. Tracy Pearson

Host Erik Fleming sits down with political scientist Dr. Caroline Heldman and journalist Alia Dastagir to explore how survival becomes resistance for women facing harassment, assault, and online abuse...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Feb 15

This book could not have arrived at a better time. @aliadastagir.bsky.social is one of the smartest sexual violence reporters and I’ve been eagerly awaiting her newest project!

A picture of the book To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online by Alia Dastagir sitting on a wooden table. The book has a white cover with large text and a purple and orange image of a hand holding a phone that is on fire.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’ve been working with a team at the University of Michigan on a study about survivors’ experiences with reporting intimate materials that were created or shared without their consent. We’re looking for participants! Please share far and wide!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17d

Page One in Boston.

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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 17d

Good lord. The MMWR is a hallmark of public health practice. Firing its editors will impact you and how your local health department functions.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15d

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.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 15d

Antifa Freedom Frogs, on their way to confronting the fascist authoritarian Trump regime's Nazi ICE Gestapo in Portland. 🙌💪👏✊🇺🇸👇

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Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · 15d

I'm very sad reading about the passing of Diane Keaton. One of the highlights of my career was meeting her at La Paloma when she and I were both walking across the parking lot. She was gracious and lovely, I'll never forget that day. 💔

#dianekeaton #film #womeninfilm #Tucson #Arizona #feministicon

Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · 23d

Fall is here‼️ I’m so grateful for the quiet flame within 🔥 the steady pulse of being that reminds me I am alive and ready for the next adventure, connected, and whole. Each breath fans it gently. Each moment, a spark of grace. ✨🙏🍁🍂

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23d

“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.”

The National Guard soldier pissed about Trump’s DC takeover

“This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation.”

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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 23d

Here's what is in the Trump compact proposed to the University of Arizona. Some terms seem benign, others extreme, but the key is: If the feds decide you violated any of them, you must pay back all of your federal funding for that year. It's a sword of Damocles.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Sep 20

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can use a person’s ethnicity to conduct immigration-related stops.

Nevertheless, Justice Kavanaugh acknowledged this type of profiling will result in U.S. citizens being detained.

In Latest Unsigned Order, SCOTUS Blesses Trump’s Use of Racial Profiling in Immigration Arrests

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · Sep 18

Discover how fine arts have evolved! 🎨✨ At Jilly Jesson Fine Art, we’re passionate about mixed media & sculpture, showcasing how these forms contribute to the evolution of visual concepts. Join us at wix.to/9s6AQXy and explore. #FineArts #CreativeGrowth #JillyJessonFineArt #MixedMedia

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · Sep 17

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 18

Back in April, Rolling Stone interview Jimmy Kimmel about patriotism, Trump, and cancel culture:

"I don't think anyone should be canceled. I really don't."

Interview: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Jilly Jesson @jillyjessonart.bsky.social · Sep 18

Agreed 👍💯

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 18

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

In other words, I am the *opposite* of his cowardly employer.

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Jussi Hattara @jhattara.fi · Jan 25

"Capitalist growth, probably for at least a century and certainly from the turn of the millennium on, has been growth in the wrong sense. Not only endless but uncontrolled—random. Growth as in tumor. Growth as in cancer."
–Ursula K. Le Guin
www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/33-clin... #capitalism

Ursula K. Le Guin — 33. Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor

September 2011 Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich. —Richard Falk, “Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances,” Al Jazeera , 22 Feb. 2011 It’s as silly for me to write...

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