Deepa
@heydeeps.bsky.social
Instructional Designer, online education, higher education, #EdTech!
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Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades
July 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades
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THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
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We strongly encourage all #NoKings participants to attend the #ACLU’s Know Your Rights Training, this Tuesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT, which will prepare you to handle any encounter with law enforcement and de-escalate tense situations at marches (en Español a las 5:15pm PT).
act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Know Your Rights Training: Get Ready for June 14
Take action with ACLU People Power!
act.aclu.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We strongly encourage all #NoKings participants to attend the #ACLU’s Know Your Rights Training, this Tuesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT, which will prepare you to handle any encounter with law enforcement and de-escalate tense situations at marches (en Español a las 5:15pm PT).
act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in children globally.
🧒 It causes around 100 000 deaths & 3.6 million hospitalizations each year in children under 5. Infants under 6 months are most at risk.
🔗 bit.ly/4klHdMH
🧒 It causes around 100 000 deaths & 3.6 million hospitalizations each year in children under 5. Infants under 6 months are most at risk.
🔗 bit.ly/4klHdMH
June 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in children globally.
🧒 It causes around 100 000 deaths & 3.6 million hospitalizations each year in children under 5. Infants under 6 months are most at risk.
🔗 bit.ly/4klHdMH
🧒 It causes around 100 000 deaths & 3.6 million hospitalizations each year in children under 5. Infants under 6 months are most at risk.
🔗 bit.ly/4klHdMH
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DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.
June 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
DOGE was a smash and grab robbery of our personal data.
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My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
June 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community.
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🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨
Friday, May 30th at 3pm
Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.
We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
Friday, May 30th at 3pm
Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.
We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨
Friday, May 30th at 3pm
Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.
We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
Friday, May 30th at 3pm
Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear.
We are standing up for science and vaccines!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-...
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In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
Millions Would Lose Health Coverage Under G.O.P. Bill. But Not as Many as Democrats Say.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
In the first 15 minutes of the E&C markup, the number 13.7 million uninsured has already come up twice. It's an exaggeration of what the GOP bill would do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
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Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.
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It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.
The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.
GOP Plans To Cut Medicaid Would Kick Millions Off Health Insurance, New Analysis Says
An authoritative analysis by Congressional Budget Office is House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest headache.
www.huffpost.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It’s official: Republicans want to kick millions of Americans off their health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.
The nonpartisan scorekeepers at CBO just confirmed that the GOP’s plans would boot millions of people from Medicaid.
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Donald Trump is a disgrace and a complete disaster. Just 100 days in, and he’s already racked up the worst approval ratings of any President in history. It’s pathetic — an absolute humiliation. What a loser.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
Poll: Trump’s approval rating at 100 days in office | CNN Politics
Donald Trump won back the Oval Office and took charge of the government amid the strongest poll numbers of his political career, but as the 100-day mark of his presidency approaches, Americans’ views ...
amp.cnn.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Donald Trump is a disgrace and a complete disaster. Just 100 days in, and he’s already racked up the worst approval ratings of any President in history. It’s pathetic — an absolute humiliation. What a loser.
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...
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Just sat down on the Capitol Steps with my good friend @booker.senate.gov to have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America.
And what we can all do to stop it.
Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...
And what we can all do to stop it.
Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...
April 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Just sat down on the Capitol Steps with my good friend @booker.senate.gov to have a real conversation about the dangerous situation we confront in America.
And what we can all do to stop it.
Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...
And what we can all do to stop it.
Tune in live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBej...
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Donald Trump’s attacks on @ActBlue are authoritarianism in action.
April 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Donald Trump’s attacks on @ActBlue are authoritarianism in action.
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13/ Enraging piece on girl who had to film her own rape to be believed by cops—who'd charged her with lying about it—by @raeoflion.bsky.social and @juliaradio.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
www.motherjones.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
13/ Enraging piece on girl who had to film her own rape to be believed by cops—who'd charged her with lying about it—by @raeoflion.bsky.social and @juliaradio.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
April 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
Australia 0
Canada 0
Denmark 0
Finland 0
France 0
Germany 0
Iceland 0
Ireland 0
Italy 0
Japan 0
Netherlands 0
Norway 0
Portugal 0
Spain 0
Sweden 0
UK 0
United States 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.
Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
April 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.
Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
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Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual
"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I often give MSM headline-writers/editors a hard time on framing of political news.
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
So now a note of compliment to hed-writers + photo and layout editors who put together today's WSJ print front page. (h/t @jorgeguajardo.bsky.social )
If Dickens or Dreiser were writing this, would seem overdone
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne
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@nanaclarabelle.bsky.social
@pos47.bsky.social
@scottwessels71.bsky.social
@julieis66.bsky.social
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@nanaclarabelle.bsky.social
@pos47.bsky.social
@scottwessels71.bsky.social
@julieis66.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Sioux Falls, South Dakota #3E #Handsoff #FiftyFiftyOne
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@nanaclarabelle.bsky.social
@pos47.bsky.social
@scottwessels71.bsky.social
@julieis66.bsky.social
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@nanaclarabelle.bsky.social
@pos47.bsky.social
@scottwessels71.bsky.social
@julieis66.bsky.social
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NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy'
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
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It’s a fire sale…
April 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s a fire sale…