Freedom Baird
@freedombaird.bsky.social
Artist 🌿❄️ Media Geek 💻📷. Author of Shore Line Recall: Boston Harbor Islands. Interdisciplinary artist making work to answer questions, which usually generates more questions. MIT and MassArt trained. Committed to the human-nature connection.
Trump's staffing cuts are putting Social Security at risk. app.sosha.ai/s/PyUVWU1Y
Social Security faces 'death spiral'
app.sosha.ai
July 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Trump's staffing cuts are putting Social Security at risk. app.sosha.ai/s/PyUVWU1Y
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Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage
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The real patriots have come out. Love you all.
We got the #nokings music video right here... enjoy my people.
youtu.be/_DuwJSmpXB0?...
We got the #nokings music video right here... enjoy my people.
youtu.be/_DuwJSmpXB0?...
#NOKINGS Music Video (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by scaredketchup
youtu.be
June 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The real patriots have come out. Love you all.
We got the #nokings music video right here... enjoy my people.
youtu.be/_DuwJSmpXB0?...
We got the #nokings music video right here... enjoy my people.
youtu.be/_DuwJSmpXB0?...
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‘No Kings’ protests are being held in Los Angeles and other cities around the nation to coincide with President Trump’s military parade in D.C. Follow our live coverage from L.A. www.latimes.com/california/l...
June 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
‘No Kings’ protests are being held in Los Angeles and other cities around the nation to coincide with President Trump’s military parade in D.C. Follow our live coverage from L.A. www.latimes.com/california/l...
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Hello Bluesky! We are Education & Democracy United (EDU), a new organization of students, faculty, and staff working to support and defend academic freedom at colleges and universities across the US.
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
May 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hello Bluesky! We are Education & Democracy United (EDU), a new organization of students, faculty, and staff working to support and defend academic freedom at colleges and universities across the US.
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
CIVIL RIGHTS SEW-IN
Sunday, May 18, 2-5pm, Cambridge, MA
Bring your mending, knitting, or just bring yourself. No skills required!
We’ll provide fabric and a bit of sewing training. We'll talk about civil rights and support each other in this time of crisis 🖤
www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-righ...
Sunday, May 18, 2-5pm, Cambridge, MA
Bring your mending, knitting, or just bring yourself. No skills required!
We’ll provide fabric and a bit of sewing training. We'll talk about civil rights and support each other in this time of crisis 🖤
www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-righ...
April 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
CIVIL RIGHTS SEW-IN
Sunday, May 18, 2-5pm, Cambridge, MA
Bring your mending, knitting, or just bring yourself. No skills required!
We’ll provide fabric and a bit of sewing training. We'll talk about civil rights and support each other in this time of crisis 🖤
www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-righ...
Sunday, May 18, 2-5pm, Cambridge, MA
Bring your mending, knitting, or just bring yourself. No skills required!
We’ll provide fabric and a bit of sewing training. We'll talk about civil rights and support each other in this time of crisis 🖤
www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-righ...
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ICYMI: An expanded explanation of how a judge says Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk will be moved back to Vermont for a bail hearing on May 9.
@johnhawkinson.bsky.social reports at bit.ly/3Ee6Q2g. #Somerville #CambMA
Leave social media behind! Try coming directly to cambridgeday.com.
@johnhawkinson.bsky.social reports at bit.ly/3Ee6Q2g. #Somerville #CambMA
Leave social media behind! Try coming directly to cambridgeday.com.
Judge orders Öztürk transferred to Vermont (updated) - Cambridge Day
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk will be moved back to Vermont and a judge will consider her release at a bail hearing on May 9.
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April 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
ICYMI: An expanded explanation of how a judge says Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk will be moved back to Vermont for a bail hearing on May 9.
@johnhawkinson.bsky.social reports at bit.ly/3Ee6Q2g. #Somerville #CambMA
Leave social media behind! Try coming directly to cambridgeday.com.
@johnhawkinson.bsky.social reports at bit.ly/3Ee6Q2g. #Somerville #CambMA
Leave social media behind! Try coming directly to cambridgeday.com.
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April 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
At least 100,000 rallying and marching in Boston today!
#HandsOff #Boston #Massachusetts #Protest #CivilRights #MassMobilization #Indivisible #MoveOn #EDU #Resist #Resistance #Defiance #NoKings #HandsOff2025
#HandsOff #Boston #Massachusetts #Protest #CivilRights #MassMobilization #Indivisible #MoveOn #EDU #Resist #Resistance #Defiance #NoKings #HandsOff2025
April 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
At least 100,000 rallying and marching in Boston today!
#HandsOff #Boston #Massachusetts #Protest #CivilRights #MassMobilization #Indivisible #MoveOn #EDU #Resist #Resistance #Defiance #NoKings #HandsOff2025
#HandsOff #Boston #Massachusetts #Protest #CivilRights #MassMobilization #Indivisible #MoveOn #EDU #Resist #Resistance #Defiance #NoKings #HandsOff2025
See you in the Boston Common on Saturday 11am-2pm people!
HANDS OFF our towns and cities, our state, our immigrants, our LGBTQ folks, our schools, our students, our life-saving research
HANDS OFF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!
#Boston #Resistance #HandsOff #Massachusetts #Protest #Harvard #Tufts #CivilRights
HANDS OFF our towns and cities, our state, our immigrants, our LGBTQ folks, our schools, our students, our life-saving research
HANDS OFF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!
#Boston #Resistance #HandsOff #Massachusetts #Protest #Harvard #Tufts #CivilRights
April 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
See you in the Boston Common on Saturday 11am-2pm people!
HANDS OFF our towns and cities, our state, our immigrants, our LGBTQ folks, our schools, our students, our life-saving research
HANDS OFF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!
#Boston #Resistance #HandsOff #Massachusetts #Protest #Harvard #Tufts #CivilRights
HANDS OFF our towns and cities, our state, our immigrants, our LGBTQ folks, our schools, our students, our life-saving research
HANDS OFF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!
#Boston #Resistance #HandsOff #Massachusetts #Protest #Harvard #Tufts #CivilRights
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March 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Join us at 5:30 tonight at Powder House Square Park as we stand up for Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD Tufts grad worker and Fulbright scholar, who was ambushed by ICE agents on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment.
March 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Join us at 5:30 tonight at Powder House Square Park as we stand up for Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD Tufts grad worker and Fulbright scholar, who was ambushed by ICE agents on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment.
A Tufts international grad student was detained by ICE yesterday outside her apartment. Visa revoked. Her whereabouts are currently unknown
Emergency Rally today Weds, March 26, 5:30pm, Powderhouse Square Park, Somerville
Greater Boston please come out! And spread the word
#Student #Detained #ICE
Emergency Rally today Weds, March 26, 5:30pm, Powderhouse Square Park, Somerville
Greater Boston please come out! And spread the word
#Student #Detained #ICE
March 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This quilt of mine hangs in our bedroom. It’s called “Passages”
March 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This quilt of mine hangs in our bedroom. It’s called “Passages”
If you've been needing some upliftment in this resistance:
youtu.be/CsIgNqLjbtk
#InternationalWomensDay #InternationalerFrauenTag #WomensRights #TransRights #Resistance #Protest #Protests #Dance #FlashMob #HigherLove #Joy #SteveWinwood #Kygo #WhitneyHouston #Boston #Massachusetts
youtu.be/CsIgNqLjbtk
#InternationalWomensDay #InternationalerFrauenTag #WomensRights #TransRights #Resistance #Protest #Protests #Dance #FlashMob #HigherLove #Joy #SteveWinwood #Kygo #WhitneyHouston #Boston #Massachusetts
Boston International Women's Day Dance Flash Mob 2025
YouTube video by Dance Flash Mob Boston
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March 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you've been needing some upliftment in this resistance:
youtu.be/CsIgNqLjbtk
#InternationalWomensDay #InternationalerFrauenTag #WomensRights #TransRights #Resistance #Protest #Protests #Dance #FlashMob #HigherLove #Joy #SteveWinwood #Kygo #WhitneyHouston #Boston #Massachusetts
youtu.be/CsIgNqLjbtk
#InternationalWomensDay #InternationalerFrauenTag #WomensRights #TransRights #Resistance #Protest #Protests #Dance #FlashMob #HigherLove #Joy #SteveWinwood #Kygo #WhitneyHouston #Boston #Massachusetts
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Somebody may have set a row of Tesla charging stations on fire in Littleton. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
Massachusetts Tesla charging stations intentionally set on fire, investigators believe
The Massachusetts State Fire Marshal's office says a fire at a bank of Tesla charging stations is believed to have been intentionally set and is being investigated as suspicious.
www.cbsnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Somebody may have set a row of Tesla charging stations on fire in Littleton. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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Wanna learn something new and take your mind off… everything?
I’m teaching a pop art quilting class online in April, and I’ll teach you how to take ho-hum photos of your pets and turn it into stuff like this! Registration is open now: www.craftymonkies.com/event-detail...
#quiltsky #popart
I’m teaching a pop art quilting class online in April, and I’ll teach you how to take ho-hum photos of your pets and turn it into stuff like this! Registration is open now: www.craftymonkies.com/event-detail...
#quiltsky #popart
January 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Wanna learn something new and take your mind off… everything?
I’m teaching a pop art quilting class online in April, and I’ll teach you how to take ho-hum photos of your pets and turn it into stuff like this! Registration is open now: www.craftymonkies.com/event-detail...
#quiltsky #popart
I’m teaching a pop art quilting class online in April, and I’ll teach you how to take ho-hum photos of your pets and turn it into stuff like this! Registration is open now: www.craftymonkies.com/event-detail...
#quiltsky #popart
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I’m totally appreciating @accuquilt.bsky.social’s blog post today. It strikes me as a direct response to the censorship of the AQS. I see you and appreciate you, Accuquilt!
www.accuquilt.com/blog/news/10...
www.accuquilt.com/blog/news/10...
100 Years of Women’s Voices Through Quilting and Sewing
For centuries, quilting and sewing have been more than domestic tasks. They have served as powerful forms of expression—a tactile language through which women have woven their stories, identitie
www.accuquilt.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’m totally appreciating @accuquilt.bsky.social’s blog post today. It strikes me as a direct response to the censorship of the AQS. I see you and appreciate you, Accuquilt!
www.accuquilt.com/blog/news/10...
www.accuquilt.com/blog/news/10...
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Me and my #StitchPunk quilt, ‘Woman 3.0’, at QuiltCon, thanks to @saqaart for promoting my work. And thanks to @the_badass_quilter for the ribbon and all the quilt support over the years. #artquilt #quiltart
February 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Me and my #StitchPunk quilt, ‘Woman 3.0’, at QuiltCon, thanks to @saqaart for promoting my work. And thanks to @the_badass_quilter for the ribbon and all the quilt support over the years. #artquilt #quiltart
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4th page done. Messed up the numbering. Still don’t know how I’ll do the lettering. But I’ll start tracing… #artquilt #quiltart #bannedbooks #humanrights
February 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
4th page done. Messed up the numbering. Still don’t know how I’ll do the lettering. But I’ll start tracing… #artquilt #quiltart #bannedbooks #humanrights
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Things men said while Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl was being zip tied, dragged and arrested for simply speaking:
“Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her. This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences.”
And
“Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her. This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences.”
And
February 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Things men said while Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl was being zip tied, dragged and arrested for simply speaking:
“Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her. This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences.”
And
“Look at this little girl over here, everyone. Look at her. This little girl does not want to leave. She spoke up and now does not want to suffer the consequences.”
And