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Alison Starkey
@wayfinder99.bsky.social
Grad student and healthcare worker, studying the nexus of gender, race, class, government, and business. Language learner, cat herder, socializationally shifted (inventor of words?).
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In WAR, it’s considered a WAR CRIME to TARGET MEDICS. ⛑️

Apparently, POLICE aren’t held to that BASIC STANDARD. 🤬
June 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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As marines descend on LA, as Trump moves closer and closer to martial law, it will be tempting to victim-blame. To equivocate. To find some reason the protesters deserve what’s coming. They don’t.
What I Saw in LA Wasn’t an Insurrection. It Was a Police Riot.
As Trump mobilizes the marines to quell an “insurrection” in LA, it’s essential to be clear about how the protests started and what actually happened.
www.thenation.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I think it would be better if the protests happened anywhere BUT his stupid idiot-ass parade.

He’s just trying to get people to actually come and make him look important.

His birthday means nothing to anyone but him.
June 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
«an ideology that has given up…on…democracy…the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The[y] have made peace with mass death…are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Propaganda primer: Truth and Lies, episode 2 « weapons of war » www.tvo.org/video/docume...
TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts
www.tvo.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Republicans’ SAVE Act strips away centuries of progress to make sure women & people of color can vote.

This bill would make it harder to vote—especially for married women, servicemembers & their families abroad, working parents, and low-income people.

We won’t go back.
April 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Join us for a timely conversation with renowned historian Timothy Snyder as he discusses the urgent threats of authoritarianism and what we can do to resist it.
go.redwine.blue
March 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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seen in the Petworth neighborhood of DC
March 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.
Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."
March 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I would hope this is in relation to Mexico; Trump has talked about strikes into Mexico. But it's not clear. This is where we are
Rep. Carlos Gimenez on CNN alludes to military strikes on Canada: "Instead of taking kinetic action, he's taking economic action in order to protect American lives."
March 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“We should do what we can to spare other families from having to learn such a brutal lesson.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks
Kennedy may not be worried, but everyone else should be.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Is Musk's Ketamine use so bad that he has to wear those sunglasses constantly?
February 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.
February 28, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This: “Their politics reflect an instinct to preserve elite rule, cloaked in the language of meritocracy and market freedom, while channeling resentment toward new power structures they view as threats to their position.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk Is South African. It Explains a Lot.
His worldview is inseparable from his rearing in apartheid South Africa.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The Nazis will Nazi until we punch them in the face.
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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February 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Put a tariff on that, motherfuckers. 🇨🇦
February 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Grateful to Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social for his compelling writing here on racist and segregationist efforts to eliminate DEI programs and policies. 'Worth the read and discussion: Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
theemancipator.org
February 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
February 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Me!!!! I do!!! I agree!!!!
February 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM