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Rhode PVD

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Lover of flower gardens, libraries, history, buildings and feminism. In Providence. She/her/ma’am https://linktr.ee/rhodepvd

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 6d

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 15h

In 2019, when ICE raids were ratcheted up in RI, you could sign up with a Latinx community group to offer your guest room to people who feared they were being targeted at their own homes.

I know of several people who did that then, but haven’t heard about it this time around. Anyone??

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 20h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 17h

And yet wherever you are in Colorado and whatever the weather is there at this moment, you probably need to put some more chapstick on

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 17h

Garlic bagel with chive cream cheese and slices of red onion. Add tomato jam only if it’s made in-house.

Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact, autism isn’t for humans only. How do I know? Meet Freddie my neurodivergent cat. He was officially diagnosed by a specialist vet.

He hates being touched by human hands, it feels icky! So we pet him lightly with a whisk broom instead

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

PDF it even if you do own or control the site.

I’ve lost millions of words to hacks, outages, and corporate sales

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Says the woman living in a place where you cannot nap on the floor or on your lawn because common, giant stinging centipedes

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Rhode PVD @rhodepvd.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently today is Thursday

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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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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 2d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."