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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1h

I'll see that and raise you US membership in the ICC. Accountability for all.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1h

I say this as a Christian and a parent: If you can't love a child unconditionally, if you can't support proven life-saving practice, then don't expect the government to use its resources to place vulnerable children in your care.

#religion #parenting #gender

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Two Mass. couples sue state DCF over gender-identity policy for foster children

The DCF form requiring foster families adhere to policies that support the gender identity and sexual orientation of children in foster care.

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2h

I for one am proud of Antifa's amphibious unit and the work they're doing in my former city of Portland. Wish I could give you all a gift card to Powell's.

#antifa #portland

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2h

pretty much

Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2h

Engage in such radical extremism as reading widely and doing acts of kindness for vulnerable neighbors. #antifa

#reading #kindness #spoonie

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 19h

It's heartening to see Christians resist Christian nationalism.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 22h

Do you all think it’s inhumane to leave people rotting in bed (literally, not metaphorically)? Im talking about people who cannot tolerate light and sound, and maybe even touch. People who can’t drink or chew on their own. For decades.

If so then you should look up Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 22h

As I tell myself and my dear friends, the problem isn’t that YOURE pacing incorrectly. You are not to blame because you accidentally spent too much time looking at something. You are sick because scientists and practitioners decided that the loss of a segment of the population was okay.

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Did the men in this work environment pick up on Ingrassia's predation? Anything "a little off?" Did they do anything about it?

This kind of power system isn't limited to this regime. Men, be allies to the women you work with. This dynamic is more common than you think.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Are they providing trauma counseling to all the children who witnessed this?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Thaddeodrome 📼🥵🤯😵 @thaddeus.zone · 1d

shallow discourse has created a real short pipeline to move ideas from from "useful heuristic" to "thought-terminating cliché"

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 2d

Due to staff shortages, wizards are developing bad backs.

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Bad pain day, so I may just finish the whole thing today (audio books help me cope when I can't focus on much else).

Author seems very conscious of the tropes she's playing with, offering a self-aware FMC.

#romancelandia 💙📚 🌶️📚 🥄 #spoonie

Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2d

Confession: I've never watched a Hallmark Christmas movie. But at 18% into this audio book, I'm pretty sure that's the vibes I'm getting. Manhattan woman trying to patch things up after her company steals the idea of a small-town toymaker who has a dog named Elf.

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#romancelandia 💙📚 🌶️📚

Cover art for "Holiday Ever After" by Hannah Grace. Shows a city woman/country man white couple kissing in a scene of a quaint small town in the snow.

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 1d

#BookSky 👇

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2d

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm #writing a small-town romance, and it's got quirky customs and nosy townspeople, but I don't want to get too saccharine about it. Gossip can move the plot along, for example, but IRL can be terribly toxic. I want to convey something authentic, even if a bit idealized for rom-com effect.

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2d

TBH, I'm not all-in on the deification of small towns and the assumption that the city is cold and calculating. Cities can be solid communities & some of the most toxic behavior I've ever seen was in small towns. But the appeal of an idealized place where everyone is known and welcomed is strong...

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Chessa Williams @chessawrites.bsky.social · 2d

Confession: I've never watched a Hallmark Christmas movie. But at 18% into this audio book, I'm pretty sure that's the vibes I'm getting. Manhattan woman trying to patch things up after her company steals the idea of a small-town toymaker who has a dog named Elf.

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#romancelandia 💙📚 🌶️📚

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 2d

If everything that trauma survivors felt was our fault and/or our responsibility actually was our fault or our responsibility, we'd be wielding some incredible supernatural power over the world. I mean, goddamn, Sam.

Good thing that's just Trauma Brain f*cking with us.