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Sparrow J

@summergirl505.bsky.social

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I like finding ways to blame McKinsey, private equity and/or Robert Moses for most things. Black American woman living in the EU, mom of a Long Covid kid, AuDHD, social worker, teacher. I want love, peace, leisure and rest for all. Young hearts, run free❤️

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · Jul 1

Trump "GRIFTS" not gifts

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · Mar 4

In which I start my catalogue of Trump gifts, just so I remember them. Should have started years ago. There are so many, I've probably missed hundreds. But I'll find the hundreds going forward.

WIRED @wired.com · Mar 4

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! I just posted something similar.

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 12h

Who asked for AI in art and sx work? Our lives are being corralled by billionaires with the minds of 8th grade boys. 😒

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 12h

“We are in the fight of our lives and the fight for our history. We have to fight back in a time where erasure is very real,” said Dr. Daphne Chamberlain.

Emmett Till Center to Honor His Legacy With Events Across State

The Emmett Till Interpretative Center will continue its “Remembering Emmett” series with events across Mississippi in October and November.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 13h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 15h

TAKE THAT BACK!

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 15h

NOOOOO! Don't do it! And it's a million pages long 😭

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nutshell @nutshell.bsky.social · 17h

„Was in deutschen Klassenzimmern sichtbar wird, beginnt weit entfernt: in den Slums der Slowakei, in segregierten Schulen Bulgariens, in diskriminierenden Systemen Ungarns und Tschechiens.“

Ein ausführlicher Artikel.

#Antiziganismus

Warum neu zugewanderte Roma-Kinder so schwer in deutsche Schulen zu integrieren sind - die Hintergründe - News4teachers

DUISBURG. Vor zehn Tagen berichtete News4teachers über neu zugewanderte Roma-Familien, die Schulen in deutschen Brennpunkt-Vierteln zunehmend vor

www.news4teachers.de

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 17h

To this day I don't know why I finished that book. I kept thinking it must turn around but it kept getting worse.

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 20h

I think they ignore us purposely, and it's for the same reason I think Farage and Robinson get so many headlines in the UK, and why the AfD and their voters take up so much space in Germany. I don't think the media outlets are ignorant to what this does.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20h

“there are a lot of people in this country …who are disgusted, appalled & frightened”by the Trump admin.
@sulliview.bsky.social is right: where’s the news coverage on these folks & the No Kings march? There are countless stories to be told…
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

open.substack.com

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 23h

In the end, not believing in climate change changes nothing about the fact it will come for us all in this lifetime.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23h

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

- Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23h

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

- Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23h

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

- Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🏽❤️

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 23h

Except

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 23h

I don't know if I can watch it. I still haven't been able to watch the Katrina one. 😔

Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 23h

This is a necessary documentary, but disturbing. What is seen here is a piercing of the lie of American justice. An insider view of corruption and tyranny from those who have lived it. Most disturbing, this kind of concentration-brutality is what Republicans want to import to all 50 states.

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 23h

These right-wingers revere this orange menace. When he is gone, they are going to erect statues and have all manner of tributes ad nauseum. 🙄

Imagine dedicating your Nobel Prize to him, or having him write a forward in your book. This same man who can't coherently end a sentence he started. 😭

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

In this very specific case, I would be much angrier if I were Italian.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

I think this might be a first.

A sitting president promoting the book of a foreign head of government and writing a blurb for the book that’s quoted on the cover.

(Not sure about the son of a sitting President writing a forward — but not many are well-known enough to do that)

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 23h

Ideally. I just mean in this techno-capitalist hellscape 😭

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 1d

Same as Kissinger/Nixon and Vietnam. Sacrificing lives for political power.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 1d

I wish we could pay per news article instead of subscriptions.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 1d

Die Rechte redet uns ein, Medien seien "links", wenn sie ausgewogen & faktenbasiert berichten, weil da die extreme Rechte nicht gut wegkommt.

Wenn diese demokratiefeindlichen Lügner medial gut wegkommen, sind die Medien nicht "fair", sondern machen ihren Job nicht gut.

Lasst euch nicht reinlegen.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

"Vought is an extremist; a tool of creepy billionaires in the corporate takeover of the U.S. government; and he seems to get unhealthy pleasure from depriving Americans of the government services their tax dollars are supposed to fund."

Read Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's latest.
@whitehouse.senate.gov

Russell Vought is the tool of a dangerous elite

He wields his budget hammer not in service to the people or the Constitution, but for the billionaire class.

contrarian.substack.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

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Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 1d

All beliefs except the -isms. You have to say that up front or the right wingers will do that annoying thing where they whine and say "I thought you were tolerant!"

Sparrow J @summergirl505.bsky.social · 1d

We also had a thing called an address book. And yellow pages. Gasp! 😊