Emily Conklin
@emzconk.bsky.social
Marine Scientist/Advocate/Enthusiast | I like birds | she/her | Newport, RI hyperlocal | I pay too much attention for my own good | Opinions my own |
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Emily Conklin
@emzconk.bsky.social
· Jan 26
If you're here to follow along with municipal meetings, you're in the right place. I post about #NewportRI #localpolitics to share what's going on (and some editorializing on events) because paying attention is important. Details of meetings and some community resources in this thread 👇
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it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
it’s fun watching people see what trans folks have been warning of for years. the media has no capacity to inform about the politicization of health care
For those of us who caught an unfortunate stomach bug and spent the entire Thanksgiving weekend on the couch, please tell me what birds you saw 🙏🙏
Did you see any cool birds Thanksgiving weekend?
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For those of us who caught an unfortunate stomach bug and spent the entire Thanksgiving weekend on the couch, please tell me what birds you saw 🙏🙏
There are a lot of important and meaningful causes that need support right now, but if you have a few extra bucks to donate, consider my org @sailorsforthesea.bsky.social - working to protect our blue marble and right now you also get a toasty beanie that I will personally package and send to you 🩵
Our oceans need us—and this #GivingTuesday, you can make double the difference. 🌊💙
Now through December 2, every donation is matched, and gifts of $40+ come with our waffle knit beanie.
Donate today (and get your waffle knit toasty topper): https://bit.ly/43IGf6V
#ProtectWhatYouLove
Now through December 2, every donation is matched, and gifts of $40+ come with our waffle knit beanie.
Donate today (and get your waffle knit toasty topper): https://bit.ly/43IGf6V
#ProtectWhatYouLove
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There are a lot of important and meaningful causes that need support right now, but if you have a few extra bucks to donate, consider my org @sailorsforthesea.bsky.social - working to protect our blue marble and right now you also get a toasty beanie that I will personally package and send to you 🩵
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I still can't get over that what's being pumped out by official admin accounts isn't the stuff of daily, scandalized headlines
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I still can't get over that what's being pumped out by official admin accounts isn't the stuff of daily, scandalized headlines
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Since we aren’t shopping tomorrow here is a great activity for your Black Friday!!
Black Friday Picket for Immigrant Justice – Friday, November 28, 1:30-2:30PM, Sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank, 1575 Northampton St, Holyoke.
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Black Friday Picket for Immigrant Justice – Friday, November 28, 1:30-2:30PM, Sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank, 1575 Northampton St, Holyoke.
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Black Friday Picket for Immigrant Justice · Indivisible Northampton-Swing Left Western MA
Join us for a peaceful, singing protest to tell Citizens Bank to stop financing ICE prisons! Bring signs that support immigrant justice and oppose Citizens Bank complicity in ICE’s reign of terror. We...
www.mobilize.us
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Since we aren’t shopping tomorrow here is a great activity for your Black Friday!!
Black Friday Picket for Immigrant Justice – Friday, November 28, 1:30-2:30PM, Sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank, 1575 Northampton St, Holyoke.
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Black Friday Picket for Immigrant Justice – Friday, November 28, 1:30-2:30PM, Sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank, 1575 Northampton St, Holyoke.
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hope everyone has a day of joy and togetherness, with full bellies, laughter, and warmth. It’s always a good time to give thanks for the good in our lives and rest & prepare for the work ahead. Grateful for my community and everyone taking care of each other 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hope everyone has a day of joy and togetherness, with full bellies, laughter, and warmth. It’s always a good time to give thanks for the good in our lives and rest & prepare for the work ahead. Grateful for my community and everyone taking care of each other 🧡
Happy Thanksgiving. Our government is deporting individuals that are no threat to us to countries that they’ve never seen or don’t remember in order to defend land we brutally stole from indigenous people. That’s what America’s about right?
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Happy Thanksgiving. Our government is deporting individuals that are no threat to us to countries that they’ve never seen or don’t remember in order to defend land we brutally stole from indigenous people. That’s what America’s about right?
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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“They should do it the right way”
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“They should do it the right way”
If you have a few extra bucks this Thanksgiving season, support Indigenous folks still fighting for their rights on this land we stole from them 👇👇👇
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If you have a few extra bucks this Thanksgiving season, support Indigenous folks still fighting for their rights on this land we stole from them 👇👇👇
Rewatching Stranger Things in preparation for the new season and this senior basketball player turned anti satanism preacher is such a young Republican. Really hits different these days 🥲
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Rewatching Stranger Things in preparation for the new season and this senior basketball player turned anti satanism preacher is such a young Republican. Really hits different these days 🥲
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
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Art. I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make rules and regulations for the armed forces — including codes of discipline and strictures against following illegal orders. You can’t punish members of Congress for articulating those rules. Also protected by Speech and Debate Clause.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Art. I of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make rules and regulations for the armed forces — including codes of discipline and strictures against following illegal orders. You can’t punish members of Congress for articulating those rules. Also protected by Speech and Debate Clause.
Newport friends - stay alert. Record record record. Check in on your neighbors. Call the defense hotline. 401-675-1414
If you see them, tends to be black sedans and SUVs with tinted windows this is the hotline that will take it from there.
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Newport friends - stay alert. Record record record. Check in on your neighbors. Call the defense hotline. 401-675-1414
Reposted by Emily Conklin
If you see them, tends to be black sedans and SUVs with tinted windows this is the hotline that will take it from there.
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you see them, tends to be black sedans and SUVs with tinted windows this is the hotline that will take it from there.
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
#rhodeisland #ice
Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414
More recent info from @steveahlquist.bsky.social on the Deportation Defense Network 👇
Because of ICE, the Deportation Defense Network of RI demands widespread, easy access to virtual court hearings, conferences, and trials
During the press conference, it was learned that ICE had taken a Superior Court intern into custody without just cause...
During the press conference, it was learned that ICE had taken a Superior Court intern into custody without just cause...
Because of ICE, the Deportation Defense Network of RI demands widespread, easy access to virtual court hearings, conferences, and trials
During the press conference, it was learned that ICE had taken a Superior Court intern into custody without just cause...
steveahlquist.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
More recent info from @steveahlquist.bsky.social on the Deportation Defense Network 👇
ICE spotted again this morning in Newport and Middletown. Snatching and terrorizing our neighbors. Save the defense line in your phone and call if you see them. 401-675-1414
ICE is in Newport RI this morning. Or someone pretending. If you are out and see them please call the Deportation Defense Line at 401‑675‑1414.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ICE spotted again this morning in Newport and Middletown. Snatching and terrorizing our neighbors. Save the defense line in your phone and call if you see them. 401-675-1414
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I thought turkeys were our allies in The War on Cars!
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I thought turkeys were our allies in The War on Cars!
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There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
25 Nov 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- In unusual move, Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) signs petition for referendum on the 2026 ballot that would bar trans students from sports teams, locker-rooms and bathrooms. She's in a hotly contested election & this is pbly one way to increase Rep turnout.
Sen. Collins signs Maine petition for initiative to restrict transgender rights
The proposed referendum aims to enforce President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://themainemonitor.org/maine-title-ix-battle-national-consequences/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stance on ...
www.pressherald.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
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We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!
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A reminder as we enter the holiday season:
You celebrate in whatever ways make you feel comfortable, loved, and bright through winter, even if that means not observing holidays in a traditional sense or at all. You protect you, darlings, and have a wonderful wintertime ❄️
You celebrate in whatever ways make you feel comfortable, loved, and bright through winter, even if that means not observing holidays in a traditional sense or at all. You protect you, darlings, and have a wonderful wintertime ❄️
There’s nothing normal about expecting family members to be in the same room when one has abused the other. This is abnormal. This is harmful. This is perpetuating more abusive patterns. When you elevate family traditions over protecting the abused, you are re-creating the abuse
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A reminder as we enter the holiday season:
You celebrate in whatever ways make you feel comfortable, loved, and bright through winter, even if that means not observing holidays in a traditional sense or at all. You protect you, darlings, and have a wonderful wintertime ❄️
You celebrate in whatever ways make you feel comfortable, loved, and bright through winter, even if that means not observing holidays in a traditional sense or at all. You protect you, darlings, and have a wonderful wintertime ❄️