Maya kholaif
fallinginforrests.bsky.social
Maya kholaif
@fallinginforrests.bsky.social
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“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.
January 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…
January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS.

Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies.

AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS.

Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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I’d say that’s the appropriate response.
January 23, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Zohran Mamdani took New York City by storm last night, with over 50 percent of the vote — despite a torrent of corporate money for Andrew Cuomo.

I was pleased to speak with the new mayor-elect just the other day about his vision for the future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqU0DAjg0RA
A Conversation with Zohran Mamdani
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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It’s breaking my heart to not be in New York City but I’m so proud to call it my home
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Zohran’s win is about to bankrupt my therapist. What do u mean im listening to happy music on my walk in the park?

Let’s hear it for new york!
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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At least there are trees.

When I was younger, I thought trees were a big stupid waste of time except insofar as they provide us with oxygen.

Now, when I am sad and on the edge of something worse than sad, I think, "At least there are trees."
July 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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As the U.S. revokes hundreds of visas to suppress activism, Kaveh Akbar writes beautifully and the pervasive fear--and the need to protect the rights of the most vulnerable. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My existence since 2020
I have been anxious for so long. It is like I am trying to break the world record for how long you can consecutively be anxious.
March 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Stephanie Nolen reporting that 1,200,000 children will die because of this decision. Unconscionable.
State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid (Gift Article)
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Trump is conducting an authoritarian witch hunt against foreign students here legally, simply because they’ve engaged in free speech that his regime doesn’t like.

This is modern-day McCarthyism and an attack on the First Amendment. We must all stand up against it.
March 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Drowning in deadline and dress rehearsals. Damned essays and drama will be my downfall!
March 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Four (?!?!?!) days until Everything Is Tuberculosis will be published. Can't wait for y'all to read this little book I've poured the last four years of my life into.
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM