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My Father’s Daughter

@aninsggirb.bsky.social

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ARCH/IA/LA assistant professor. landscape architecture for the health of all living beings via psychocultural & behavioral analyses. spatial restitution = belonging to place-wellbeing. cortisol reduction re-wilding. magazine editor.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · Feb 1

I wrote: ‘Health equity and community care are essential to spatial justice. Care encompasses more than the absence of harm, but comprises multiple measurements of comfort — balance and alignment in body, mind, and spirit, resulting in feelings of contentment, belonging, and, purpose.’

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · Nov 15

FIELD NOTES: REPAIR #4

The latest in the series, feat. words by Simon Sadler, @tamigraph.bsky.social, Nina Briggs, @kavitaurbanist.bsky.social, Aaron Cayer, Ifeoma Ebo, Elke Krasny, @johanpries.bsky.social, Kyle Spence, Phineas Harper & Gabu Heindl.

Observations on repair in a broken world:

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 8h

they understand that he meant the govt, state, city & academic jobs - ayce raids are the precursor practice to incarcerating the ones to be replaced

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 12h

targeted for being a loving, generous auntie & a trailblazing advocate for justice, particularly in the areas of civil rights & consumer protection by a corrupt, unequal justice system

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

This is important exculpatory evidence bc the indictment accuses James of seeking a “second home” mortgage when in reality she intended to use it as an “investment” home by renting it out.

(James disclosed between $1,000-5,000 in rent during 1st year, but the contract allowed short term rentals.)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 16h

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 14h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 13h

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” - Andy Warhol

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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People's CDC @peoplescdc.org · 1d

Due to the federal government shutdown, there is no updated CDC data to inform a Weather Report. COVID is still being transmitted around the country and everyone should continue to use their layers of protection: high-quality masks, get your updated boosters, testing before gathering,

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 14h

you need to go on tour with that message - you’ll save ppl a lot of ⏰💰😩 especially 💁🏽‍♀️

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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

A note and a caution about “planting season.”

@visionandjustice

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

So the Nobel Peace Prize was given to someone who fights authoritarianism and was not given to an actual authoritarian.

Makes sense to me.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 15h

FINALLY.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 1d

Hate is a learned behavior & doesn’t exist independently. It is shaped by fear, anger, stress & social conditioning. People often hate what they don’t understand or perceive as a threat…they feel powerless, overwhelmed, or frustrated, they search for someone to blame.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Mormons Once Aspired to Be a 'White and Delightsome' People

A historian looks at the legacy of racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

www.theatlantic.com

My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 2d

this feels catastrophic & all I can think of is the ppl who have & will be disappeared

My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 2d

Same

My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 2d

Segregation was/is never enough for wyt supremacists who sought/seek to maintain a social order that kept/keeps BP in subordinate positions (slavery) - to reverse Reconstruction & relegate BP to laborers w/limited or no rights - reflecting a deep-seated belief in their racial superiority. See P2025

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 3d

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Startling only to anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, but regardless: it’s not looking good!

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And whether they’ll ever be able to produce enough revenue is a looming question. A startling report by researchers at MIT spooked investors in August, finding that only a measly five percent of AI pilot programs help businesses succeed at “rapid revenue acceleration,” with the vast majority falling flat.

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 2d

Re-segregationist

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 2d

“…the hollowing out of govt institutions in favor of admin by political hacks…loyal to a leader, similar to Mao during the Cultural Revolution…Xi-style fixation on reorienting the military to support personal political agenda & guaranteeing its loyalty…”

Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 2d

My latest, on the ongoing Trump push for undemocratic power. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/08/t...

‘Trump 2028’ Is No Joke

The U.S. president is drawing ever more from Chinese autocrats’ playbook.

foreignpolicy.com