Brandi Sparks
@brandisparks.bsky.social
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To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!
May 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!
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Trump’s choice for IRS Director, Billy Long of Missouri, just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead...
www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
Trump IRS Pick Was Just Enriched By Tax Schemers
New documents show Billy Long’s $130,000 personal debt was suddenly paid off by donors at firms policed by the tax agency he’d lead.
www.levernews.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Trump’s choice for IRS Director, Billy Long of Missouri, just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead...
www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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One of the most iconic photographic images of the 20th century, 'Migrant Mother', 1936 by Dorothea Lange, featuring the family of Florence Thompson, who allowed the photograph to be taken to aid the plight of the US working poor during the Great Depression #WomensArt
April 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
One of the most iconic photographic images of the 20th century, 'Migrant Mother', 1936 by Dorothea Lange, featuring the family of Florence Thompson, who allowed the photograph to be taken to aid the plight of the US working poor during the Great Depression #WomensArt
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The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.
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Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
April 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
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Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
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“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E
March 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen: theatln.tc/UHOLqA9E
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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It would have been a lot easier to fight fascism at the polls than in the streets.
March 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
It would have been a lot easier to fight fascism at the polls than in the streets.
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DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
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February 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Trump's US, where MAGA Nazis kidnap you if you speak out. This woman was assaulted and abducted for asking a question at a Town Hall. The MAGA speaker jeered on stage and thanked the staring crowd for being subservient. Those who tried to intervene were also attacked. #3E #EndImpunity
February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Trump's US, where MAGA Nazis kidnap you if you speak out. This woman was assaulted and abducted for asking a question at a Town Hall. The MAGA speaker jeered on stage and thanked the staring crowd for being subservient. Those who tried to intervene were also attacked. #3E #EndImpunity
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From the incredible team continuing to track the effect that abortion bans are having on women's health: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
From the incredible team continuing to track the effect that abortion bans are having on women's health: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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The waste is coming from the White House. 👇
February 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The waste is coming from the White House. 👇
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Escape,1940 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, painted just after the artist arrived in the US and it evokes the hardships of war in Europe #WomensArt
February 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Escape,1940 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, painted just after the artist arrived in the US and it evokes the hardships of war in Europe #WomensArt
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JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland.
Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland.
Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies.
civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...
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It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.
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Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt
February 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt
“Breaking with the US will be a hell of a wrench but it is better than staying in an abusive relationship.”
Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy
The new Cold War between Europe and America
open.substack.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Breaking with the US will be a hell of a wrench but it is better than staying in an abusive relationship.”
