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Barely Amy

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Mom of teens and fur babies, lover of history, books, crafty bits, and music; relationship is complicated. Witchy and liberal, angry and fragile. Eternally searching.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 22

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Barely Amy @mimimac13.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is the verbiage of SF360, which they are tempting to push through Iowa legislature. From my reading, it would make administering vaccinations such as covid illegal.

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Barely Amy @mimimac13.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'll have no truck with kings.

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Shane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · Feb 17

He wants to eliminate FEMA and he spent the day at a NASCAR race amidst a three-state catastrophe. Where is the damn media about this? Where is the outrage they would show a Democrat president?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Feb 15

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Feb 16

The President & the richest man in the world are recklessly attacking medical research—with researchers being laid off, studies being canceled, & kids now unable to get the lifesaving treatment they need. It’s absolutely heartless & will have devastating consequences for us all.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Feb 16

Knowledge is power…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 15

I fear they’re coming for ALL school vaccine mandates next. Including measles, mumps and rubella.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Feb 15

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 15

Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Feb 15

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Feb 15

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Barely Amy @mimimac13.bsky.social · Feb 15

Looks like my whole family is on their way.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Feb 13

You can’t spell Stonewall without the T

NYT headline: U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website The "T" was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q. + on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

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Barely Amy @mimimac13.bsky.social · Feb 14

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Barely Amy @mimimac13.bsky.social · Feb 14

I just heard of the third beautiful, brilliant trans soul who needed to exit this life early. Three this week. One a teen. My heart aches for every single soul who is terrified and shattered and broken. Who feels like there is no other way. You ARE loved and wanted and so special. Please stay.

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Stacy @stacy31.bsky.social · Feb 11

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 11

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Feb 8

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

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Have A Gay Day @haveagayday.bsky.social · Feb 9

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Feb 9

Everyone needs to know this…

The Trump administration is gearing up to restart immigrant family detention—ICE is already inviting private prison companies to bid on contracts.

Say it plain: This means profit from family detention, and US citizens in mixed status families will be caught in it too.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Feb 8

It's also not true. White maternal death rates are also not great when compared to other countries. The downside of using the people you systematically opress as your benchmark is you fail to recognize how your own policies are killing you.

Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · Feb 8

They are who we think they are

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