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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 1d

I might not find some political activism that compelling but I try to keep in mind Kwame Ture's point:

"You don't criticize somebody who's doing something when you doing nothing."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas

This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).

issuu.com

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 1d

Also, since you’ve apparently just turned up on this Internet, saying something inflammatory just “as a joke” without giving ANY indication it is one is a no no.

Saying something inflammatory and knowing it, and then denying it as “just a joke” later, is what incels do.

And no that’s not a joke.

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 1d

It’s not a real issue though because someone else thought of that decades ago.

I’m not outraged, I’m laughing at how you could possibly think that was a unique thought.

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 1d

Do you think nobody has questioned this worldwide for millennia?

The CDC, the American Association of Pediatrics, WHO?

Did you do ANY bit of searching for what research has been done?

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 1d

My dad lived with CHD for a long time, at least a decade. (And did not take care of himself)

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 9d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

American politics becomes what it becomes because when people were saying “ Americans don’t protest like the French, Koreans, etc”

Everyone leaves out the context of

How they stopped covering Black protests and no longer mention them

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Bay Area friends! Food! Trauma! Healing! All that and more with me, @soleilho and Lee Lai, tomorrow night, 6pm at Mrs Dalloways! Free! It's all part of @litquake.org!! litquake2025.sched.com/event/28S9x/...

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 3d

Lyrics Born is still around tho

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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 22d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 3d

…and call me in the morning

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that the movie “We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story” is based on the book by Hudson Talbott?

You can borrow the book AND the movie from your local library! 🦕📖🦖

Movie poster of “We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story”

Book cover of “We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story” by Hudson Talbott

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 4d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 3d

Trump approving $20 billion to give to Argentina during a government shutdown should be a bigger story than it is.

America first my ass.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3d

The greatest risk of white shields, is from the white people serving as shields mistaking their different risk profile and higher visibility, as being evidence of their greater organizing ability.

They then draw funding and center of gravity away from marginalized organizers.😦

See "Wall of Moms."🤷🏿‍♂️

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Let sleeping dogs lie? @johnhthepoet.bsky.social · 3d

"VERDICT These beautifully crafted letters offer relevance and practical guidance and will resonate with many readers. "
www.libraryjournal.com/review/read-...

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JMHoltwoman @pixiedust5954.bsky.social · 3d

I would like to see protestors shouting phrases such as “WE are what is great about America!!!” Or
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 3d

For people who are juuuust close to the edge and only need mini-therapy

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Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 3d

You know what? I’ll let this slide if it means he shuts up about it.

Sheeri Cabral 🍉 @sheeri.org · 4d

A sign you’ve truly made it…

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