Sarah Gaida (she/her)
@sgaidahugtrees.bsky.social
Unlearning and learning anew
Cat mom / Wife / Aunt
Cat mom / Wife / Aunt
Seems logical...
If I were someone whose project is reviving the factional strength and electoral viability of centrist Dems, and if I was someone always banging on about meeting public opinion where it is, I think I would be counseling the centrist faction to actually be responsive to public opinion on Gaza.
July 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Seems logical...
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America, the Racist Nation
White colonizers are accepted as refugees while people of color fleeing actual violence are sent to foreign torture camps
White colonizers are accepted as refugees while people of color fleeing actual violence are sent to foreign torture camps
Three months ago, President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U.S. The first group has been swiftly processed and is set to arrive on U.S. soil Monday.
First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.
Three months ago, President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U.S. The first group has been swiftly processed and is set...
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
America, the Racist Nation
White colonizers are accepted as refugees while people of color fleeing actual violence are sent to foreign torture camps
White colonizers are accepted as refugees while people of color fleeing actual violence are sent to foreign torture camps
Don't be distracted by the squirrel.
DOGE Is Not Cutting Government Spending
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
youtu.be
April 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Don't be distracted by the squirrel.
We are officially a police state.
This is what happens in Iran, China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Congrats, MAGA and Republicans.
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs apnews.com/article/mahm...
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs apnews.com/article/mahm...
Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.
apnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We are officially a police state.
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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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"Deporting a Muslim who has committed no crime in the name of Jews is not exactly a favor to Jews. It looks more like a provocation by the federal government, designed to generate strife among communities."
"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Deporting a Muslim who has committed no crime in the name of Jews is not exactly a favor to Jews. It looks more like a provocation by the federal government, designed to generate strife among communities."
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If your boycotting involves shaming people who don't participate in the same actions, you aren't actually on the side of the people. You're still a stooge of corporations.
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If your boycotting involves shaming people who don't participate in the same actions, you aren't actually on the side of the people. You're still a stooge of corporations.
"But no matter, Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king. Slashing USAID scratches a racist itch central to the MAGA cause."
Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
www.motherjones.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"But no matter, Musk and Trump wanted to start with what they saw as the weakest, wokest government agency, to slaughter it and hang it on a pike as a warning not to disobey the king. Slashing USAID scratches a racist itch central to the MAGA cause."
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“Have you said thank you once? Just say thank you” is what abusers say.
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“Have you said thank you once? Just say thank you” is what abusers say.
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Dancing for the puppet master in the Oval Office...
Russia's response to Trump's tantrum says it all really:
February 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Dancing for the puppet master in the Oval Office...
Watching footage of this is so uncomfortable. Our American leaders are NOT acting like leaders. But no surprise there, I guess.
There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Watching footage of this is so uncomfortable. Our American leaders are NOT acting like leaders. But no surprise there, I guess.
Democracy dies with billionaires.
“Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion,” Jeff Bezos says in a statement about how he is going to coerce the newspaper he owns to shut out opposing views
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Democracy dies with billionaires.
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This is a second lavender scare. They're going to purge all LGBTQ employees from the federal government.
In the USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials.
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
“People came to us because they needed community, needed connection. We were trying to keep each other safe. Now, we’re all just this big target.”
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
www.motherjones.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is a second lavender scare. They're going to purge all LGBTQ employees from the federal government.
Haha I love this take
David Frum argues that explorers named bodies of water on the way TO something from their home. Their home was the center of their world.
Gulf of Mexico is what you cross to get to Mexico.
He says calling it Gulf of America knocks the US out of the center.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Gulf of Mexico is what you cross to get to Mexico.
He says calling it Gulf of America knocks the US out of the center.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
www.theatlantic.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Haha I love this take
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Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Democrats were quicker to respond to students protesting a genocide than to the richest man on earth trying to unilaterally shut down a government agency
February 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Democrats were quicker to respond to students protesting a genocide than to the richest man on earth trying to unilaterally shut down a government agency
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February 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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