Isobel McBride
@ismcbride.bsky.social
tide-trawler, word-weaver, student of uncertainty. urban selkie. marxist shrew. multiply disabled and here for the storm.
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Isobel McBride
@ismcbride.bsky.social
· Feb 4
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive…This is what mothers teach - - love, survival.
AUDRE LORDE
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There is no chance we will fall apart
There is no chance
There are no parts
JUNE JORDAN
#JuneJordan #AudreLorde #BlackHistoryMonth #Booksky
AUDRE LORDE
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There is no chance we will fall apart
There is no chance
There are no parts
JUNE JORDAN
#JuneJordan #AudreLorde #BlackHistoryMonth #Booksky
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I feel really stupid asking again
Excuse this personal post, but has anyone found a Navy Jet, I lost it around the Red Sea, DM me.
May 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel really stupid asking again
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the government won't tell you this but
germ theory is real
germ theory is real
May 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
the government won't tell you this but
germ theory is real
germ theory is real
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a parallel, complementary thought that organizers in the Civil Rights Movement also understood: the number of committed racists willing to own the moral costs of that commitment in the face of loud, public exposure of racist violence is smaller than the number of committed racists
April 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
a parallel, complementary thought that organizers in the Civil Rights Movement also understood: the number of committed racists willing to own the moral costs of that commitment in the face of loud, public exposure of racist violence is smaller than the number of committed racists
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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More people being diagnosed with autism isn't being "afflicted." It's more kids having a better idea who they are, HHS.
April 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
More people being diagnosed with autism isn't being "afflicted." It's more kids having a better idea who they are, HHS.
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I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing.
"That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done."
"That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
"That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done."
"That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
April 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing.
"That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done."
"That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
"That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done."
"That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
nymag.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
April 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?
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i did it!! i did all the laundry ever!!! we'll never have to do laundry again!!! today is the best d—[THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED]
April 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i did it!! i did all the laundry ever!!! we'll never have to do laundry again!!! today is the best d—[THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED]
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Is Trump saying China or vagina? Either way they both hate him.
April 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Is Trump saying China or vagina? Either way they both hate him.
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This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
I know this sounds like pedantic scolding but I really do believe that doubling down on the idea that criminal records are a meaningful distinction is like carefully digging a pit that we can be shoved into.
April 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.
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Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?
April 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?
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I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’m saying this in my capacity as an author and once and future library worker:
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
Read whatever the hell you want.
I cannot impress enough on you that the “important” books aren’t important if you don’t jive with them. The popular books, the canon, the whatever. Read what you want.
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This has got to stop
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This has got to stop
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Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!
April 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mask bans kill disabled people. This is the point. You want to support the disabled community? Wear a mask!
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Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
we get 60m dollars worth of tea from China every year. baby, they are literally doing a 104% tax on tea in the United States
sure this sounds bad but remember this nation was founded on the principle of cheerfully tolerating large surtaxes on imported goods
April 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Boston has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
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The More You Know…💫
April 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The More You Know…💫
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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“Sackets Harbor, NY has shown us what can happen when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pushes its luck in a small town—even when Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is a resident,” @marisakabas.bsky.social writes: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
BREAKING: Third grader & family abducted by ICE will return home
The people of Sackets Harbor remind us that resistance can work.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“Sackets Harbor, NY has shown us what can happen when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pushes its luck in a small town—even when Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan is a resident,” @marisakabas.bsky.social writes: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...
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After New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, a 14-year-old Palestinian American who was raised in New Jersey was killed by Israel in the West Bank on Sunday, and Cory Booker hasn't said a thing about this:
Palestinian American teen from North Jersey shot and killed in the West Bank
A 14-year-old boy, an American citizen from New Jersey, was shot and killed by Israeli military forces in the West Bank on Sunday.
www.northjersey.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
After New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, a 14-year-old Palestinian American who was raised in New Jersey was killed by Israel in the West Bank on Sunday, and Cory Booker hasn't said a thing about this:
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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
April 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
