DanaMPatton
@danampatton.bsky.social
Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.
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DanaMPatton
@danampatton.bsky.social
· Nov 17
conservative christians: you liberals just live in an echo chamber on bluesky
me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....
me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....
Baby I was you. I was full of self-righteousness and desperate to be good enough. Let it go. Let ppl be who they really are. Throw open your arms wide and actually love people. Really truly love your community. All of it.
Hey hows about you clean up your own house and WTF would you know @ partnerships btw men and women anyway
The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable, lifelong and exclusive partnership between a man and woman.
Vatican warns against rise in polyamory, saying ‘succession of faces’ does not rival exclusive union | CNN
The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable, lifelong and exclusive partnership between a man and woman.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Hey hows about you clean up your own house and WTF would you know @ partnerships btw men and women anyway
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And now, late at night before the holiday, the bill to gut the comptroller has dropped. Sponsored by Sen. Nick Scutari, whose buddies who run Union County were investigated by the comptroller. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
New Jersey watchdog warns proposal to weaken his office would benefit the powerful and undermine accountability • The Jersey Vindicator
Legislative leaders want to take away the comptroller's investigatory power.
jerseyvindicator.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And now, late at night before the holiday, the bill to gut the comptroller has dropped. Sponsored by Sen. Nick Scutari, whose buddies who run Union County were investigated by the comptroller. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
Our water is out for them to work on a main. was not a water main break. zero warning. Just put soap all over my hands then no water. Out til 5am. A neighbor said workers told her part of this water/sewer work is at the request of a developer whose project hasnt even been approved yet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Our water is out for them to work on a main. was not a water main break. zero warning. Just put soap all over my hands then no water. Out til 5am. A neighbor said workers told her part of this water/sewer work is at the request of a developer whose project hasnt even been approved yet.
We can build a new world where we take care of people. Every politician who ever said we can't pay for things to help ppl has been full of shit.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We can build a new world where we take care of people. Every politician who ever said we can't pay for things to help ppl has been full of shit.
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Sppd has left after shooting tear gas at the protesters.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sppd has left after shooting tear gas at the protesters.
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This administration’s escalating campaign of mass deportation and related violence, fear and chaos, is having a profound and harmful impact on children and schools across America.
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This administration’s escalating campaign of mass deportation and related violence, fear and chaos, is having a profound and harmful impact on children and schools across America.
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
This emirates ad where the white man's Black wife isn't allowed to speak and they are going to Dubai... who is that for?
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This emirates ad where the white man's Black wife isn't allowed to speak and they are going to Dubai... who is that for?
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
I'm watching The Roses, and I'm really worried about their kids. It's very distracting, and there's not enough Ncuti Gatwa to take my mind off it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I'm watching The Roses, and I'm really worried about their kids. It's very distracting, and there's not enough Ncuti Gatwa to take my mind off it.
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Alabama’s voucher scheme is doing exactly what it was designed to do: drain public schools to subsidize religious indoctrination.
Alabama is funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools using textbooks that deny evolution, whitewash history, and attack LGBTQ people.
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Kids deserve better than conservative Christian propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/taxpayer-d...
Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys
Christian textbooks that deny evolution, downplay slavery, and avoid critical thinking are now being subsidized with public funds
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Alabama’s voucher scheme is doing exactly what it was designed to do: drain public schools to subsidize religious indoctrination.
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Racializing Objectivity
How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow www.umasspress.com/978162534810...
How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow www.umasspress.com/978162534810...
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Racializing Objectivity
How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow www.umasspress.com/978162534810...
How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow www.umasspress.com/978162534810...
It's depressing when you reach out to schedule Know Your Rights and Rapid Response trainings and people just aren't interested. But even if just one in ten are it's worth the disappointment.
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's depressing when you reach out to schedule Know Your Rights and Rapid Response trainings and people just aren't interested. But even if just one in ten are it's worth the disappointment.
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Friendly reminder to anyone who is gonna be around babies this holiday season to please make sure your TDAP is up to date!
“The U.S. recorded 6,600 pertussis cases in early 2025
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Texas has already passed 3,500 cases this year” www.healthday.com/health-news/...
Whooping Cough Surges Nationwide as Vaccinations Fall
THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is making a major comeback in the United States, with sharp increases now seen in Texas, Florida, Cali
www.healthday.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Friendly reminder to anyone who is gonna be around babies this holiday season to please make sure your TDAP is up to date!
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This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This was the first If Books Could Kill podcast I listened to, and it was phenomenal.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
It's not jus a good takedown of one book, but it's a good takedown of this entire genre of "sprawling history of the world" type books.
Think it nails two critical points that plague all punditry.
Oooooohhhhhhh
Alana 🦮
Baby female Chiweenie mix
Adoptable from Baja Paws Rescue (San Diego, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/alana-79590405/ca/san-diego/baja-paws-rescue-ca3014/
Baby female Chiweenie mix
Adoptable from Baja Paws Rescue (San Diego, CA)
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/alana-79590405/ca/san-diego/baja-paws-rescue-ca3014/
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Oooooohhhhhhh
My 12yo with all the ADHDs is trying to clean his room & refuses any tips @ doubling, music, etc. Just full on white knuckle loud complaining⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My 12yo with all the ADHDs is trying to clean his room & refuses any tips @ doubling, music, etc. Just full on white knuckle loud complaining⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm making a stew and I was trying to put a touch of Worcestershire sauce in and a bunch poured out and idk I've never thrown out a massive pot of stew but this might be a first.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I'm making a stew and I was trying to put a touch of Worcestershire sauce in and a bunch poured out and idk I've never thrown out a massive pot of stew but this might be a first.
Staten Island belongs with Long Island. They are soulmates.
Having grown up on SI, I want to note that the borough would implode hard and fast if it tried to become a separate city without the preferences/infrastructure support it gets as Manhattan and (lesser extent) Brooklyn’s bedroom community.
Of course logic never stopped right wing slop from slopping.
Of course logic never stopped right wing slop from slopping.
Let our people go! Zohran Mamdani victory spurs Staten Island pols to renew bid to pull out of NYC
Staten Island pols say they’ll be beefing up efforts for independence from NYC in 2026 as the United States celebrates it’s 250th birthday — in large part because socialist Zohran…
nypost.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Staten Island belongs with Long Island. They are soulmates.
Special ring o hell for people crank calling rapid response lines
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Special ring o hell for people crank calling rapid response lines
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it's important to remember that the past is a different place with different moral frameworks like for example if a Spanish royal from the 1500s was to learn that we had a Columbus Day they would probably think there was something deeply wrong with our society, some kind of foundational moral rot
there is like an *exact* correspondence to this in columbus’s logs where he meets the taino and says ‘they’re so friendly, would make great slaves’ and las casas appends a comment along the lines of ‘look at this, you could not ask for better proof of what an incredibly sick fuckhead columbus was’
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
it's important to remember that the past is a different place with different moral frameworks like for example if a Spanish royal from the 1500s was to learn that we had a Columbus Day they would probably think there was something deeply wrong with our society, some kind of foundational moral rot
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A woman of dignity
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A woman of dignity
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Ahhahahah! Pensions. It’s always pensions (if you have them).
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...
Any idea why she's quitting then? Her statement isn't very coherent (big surprise), although it would make more sense as an explanation of just not running for re-election.
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ahhahahah! Pensions. It’s always pensions (if you have them).
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
Almost no cops QUIT post-Floyd protests, despite what unions said. But a lot RETIRED, bc pensions are often based on end-career income, and Covid + protests = record OT and thus record pay and thus record pensions in 2020-21.
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An American elected official with courage enough to say this in the Oval Office is quietly the biggest news out of the meeting
Israeli press is irate that Trump didn't push back on Mamdani saying the US funds genocide against Palestinians
November 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
An American elected official with courage enough to say this in the Oval Office is quietly the biggest news out of the meeting
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Today #NJ07 Rep Tom Kean Jr brags that he voted for two bills to "help ensure the abundance of affordable and reliable energy across the U.S."
One promotes oil refining - when the rest of the world knows solar is the future.
The other promotes *exporting* liquefied natural gas. Huh?
What a joke.
One promotes oil refining - when the rest of the world knows solar is the future.
The other promotes *exporting* liquefied natural gas. Huh?
What a joke.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today #NJ07 Rep Tom Kean Jr brags that he voted for two bills to "help ensure the abundance of affordable and reliable energy across the U.S."
One promotes oil refining - when the rest of the world knows solar is the future.
The other promotes *exporting* liquefied natural gas. Huh?
What a joke.
One promotes oil refining - when the rest of the world knows solar is the future.
The other promotes *exporting* liquefied natural gas. Huh?
What a joke.