EB
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I’d always searched for sunshine
—I’d scout high and low—
Until one day I realized
the sun was following me, everywhere I’d go
☀️🌻
Educator and life long learner-forever seeking out light. Running toward new horizons and sorting it all out with words.
—I’d scout high and low—
Until one day I realized
the sun was following me, everywhere I’d go
☀️🌻
Educator and life long learner-forever seeking out light. Running toward new horizons and sorting it all out with words.
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If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
August 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you’re trying to make it harder for people to vote, stop pretending to give a shit about democracy.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
Every American - regardless of their political views - deserves to have their voice heard.
“If we do not recognize the full history then we are doomed to repeat it”
They’ve tried to erase us for centuries. Didn’t work then, won’t work now. Black history IS American history.
August 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“If we do not recognize the full history then we are doomed to repeat it”
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So this is happening
August 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So this is happening
Read the whole thread (all 7!) This is a super important explanation of how race and racism is very much a part of all of us. White people cannot continue to deny it.
www.threads.com/@zacatecho/p...
www.threads.com/@zacatecho/p...
Christian Ortiz (@zacatecho) on Threads
I am a Decolonial Social Scientist. My work studies the world before colonialism and the invention of race, and examines how the social construct of race continues to shape everyone today.
Here is ho...
www.threads.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Read the whole thread (all 7!) This is a super important explanation of how race and racism is very much a part of all of us. White people cannot continue to deny it.
www.threads.com/@zacatecho/p...
www.threads.com/@zacatecho/p...
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“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.”
Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
www.motherjones.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.”
Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
We should ALL be furious. What impacts one, impacts us all. In a democracy, when we allow the rights of others to be trampled, we allow those in power to trample ours too. And the more rope we let out, the more they will take. Also. Speaking out against injustice is just the right thing to do.
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We should ALL be furious. What impacts one, impacts us all. In a democracy, when we allow the rights of others to be trampled, we allow those in power to trample ours too. And the more rope we let out, the more they will take. Also. Speaking out against injustice is just the right thing to do.
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Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
NEW:
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
“I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.”
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
August 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
Hell yeah Boston 💪
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:
“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hell yeah Boston 💪
And education/learning from our past is *good*
August 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
And education/learning from our past is *good*
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Donold used the higher crime numbers from 2023 to justify his takeover of D.C., and soon he'll use lower ones from early January this year to "prove" it worked.
August 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Donold used the higher crime numbers from 2023 to justify his takeover of D.C., and soon he'll use lower ones from early January this year to "prove" it worked.
Thought experiment: Things get really dire in the US. US citizens begin fleeing the country quickly.
Question 1: Do you go?
Question 2: Where do you go?
Question 3: What do you bring?
Question 4: How would you want to be treated once you’re there?
Question 1: Do you go?
Question 2: Where do you go?
Question 3: What do you bring?
Question 4: How would you want to be treated once you’re there?
June 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thought experiment: Things get really dire in the US. US citizens begin fleeing the country quickly.
Question 1: Do you go?
Question 2: Where do you go?
Question 3: What do you bring?
Question 4: How would you want to be treated once you’re there?
Question 1: Do you go?
Question 2: Where do you go?
Question 3: What do you bring?
Question 4: How would you want to be treated once you’re there?
🎯
Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
Jewish senators accuse Trump of exploiting antisemitism to target universities
Democrats including Schumer say Trump is using antisemitism as cover to defund schools
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🎯
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When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
April 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
April 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
💯 We’re way past due.
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
💯 We’re way past due.
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
Watch live here
HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador.
Follow along for updates ⬇️
Follow along for updates ⬇️
April 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Watch live here
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
April 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
500+ people of all ages showed up in our rural Iowa town of Decorah to say #HandsOff! Population 8,000. This is what democracy looks like 💪
📸 Charlie Langton
📸 Charlie Langton
April 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
500+ people of all ages showed up in our rural Iowa town of Decorah to say #HandsOff! Population 8,000. This is what democracy looks like 💪
📸 Charlie Langton
📸 Charlie Langton
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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There’s no greater red flag than someone who says things are going well here right now.
March 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
There’s no greater red flag than someone who says things are going well here right now.
Such a well thought-out description of the challenges that the Democrats currently face. Written by my friend, and professor of political science, @jpstonerook.bsky.social
"I’ll admit I don’t know what Democrats ought to do right now. What I do hope to do with this article, however, is to lay out the reasons why Democrats feel so helpless at the moment. Maybe by stating explicitly what those problems are, Democrats can find a way to start fighting back."
How Democrats Got Backed Into a Corner
The top ten political challenges facing Democrats right now.
reasontobelieve.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Such a well thought-out description of the challenges that the Democrats currently face. Written by my friend, and professor of political science, @jpstonerook.bsky.social