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DanaMPatton

@danampatton.bsky.social

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Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · Nov 17

Baby I was you. I was full of self-righteousness and desperate to be good enough. Let it go. Let ppl be who they really are. Throw open your arms wide and actually love people. Really truly love your community. All of it.

Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga.bsky.social · Nov 17

conservative christians: you liberals just live in an echo chamber on bluesky

me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 2h

Ok back to reading about Zapatistas

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 2h

In 25 states & DC, ICE & US Marshals exclusively rely on local jails to lock people up.

These facilities are incentivized by contracts with federal agencies that line sheriffs' pockets (but in some cases, like in TN, counties are actually losing $$ while doing the dirty work).

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails.
In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 2h

They have shot so many children point blank in the head. There is no end. I worry about people who are US citizens who went & served in this foreign govts military coming back having so deeply dehumanized anyone with brown skin. Even more than we already do here.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 2h

🌈💫💯 there were clues though like vaccine misinfo, being good friends w someone funneling money to his super racist/homophobic sister's campaign, that Rhode Island public meeting he piped in on... Nevermind his actual policy here.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 3h

Prato the Italian coffee shop by my son's school is playing November rain and we should do this instead of Columbus shit.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 3h

if you slide the bikini top up over your eyes it might work😅

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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 3h

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools www.yahoo.com/news/a... #SchoolVoucherScam

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools

State funding of private-school vouchers is primarily being used for students attending religious institutions, with nearly 98% of funding going toward Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic schools. This year, state lawmakers passed a budget that included a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to supply the state-run K-12 scholarship program, MOScholars, with $50 million of general […]

www.yahoo.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 3h

Capitalism is trying to kill us in every way possible.

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3h

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 3h

I feel sad for the progressives who actually thought he would do that, or that he's actually a progressive and not just a gelatinous cube that slides whatever way he thinks is best for his career.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 3h

"Sacco’s embrace of Ciattarelli had some progressive folks begging Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop — who had Sacco’s support when he ran for the Dem nod for governor earlier this year — to disavow the North Bergen mayor now. Instead, Fulop tweeted out his praise of Donald Trump on Sunday." ☠️

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Inish View @inishview.bsky.social · 7h

View from the Ramelton Scenic Walk along the Lennon River estuary.
Discover more → www.inishview.com/activity/ram...

#donegal #wildatlanticway #visitdonegal #govisitdonegal #ireland

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 8h

Ceasefire doesn't mean the genocide is over, i hope you keep supporting Palestine. I documented a lot, and been through so much, and it's devastating. Please offer me any support you can. I will be so much grateful.

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

chuffed.org

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 7h

My choice would be Angela Bambace or Viola Luizzo, but Columbus is an incredible embarrassment. We who have Italian heritage should be ashamed this holiday still exists.

New Jersey Monitor @newjerseymonitor.com · 1d

Commentary: Columbus is now an Italian American myth. Let’s name the day after someone else. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/13/r... via @byjenamiller.bsky.social

Columbus is now an Italian American myth. Let’s name the day after someone else. • New Jersey Monitor

Writer Jen A. Miller says she's proud of her Italian American heritage — but thinks Columbus Day in name has to go.

newjerseymonitor.com

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 15h

I've been listening to a live version of this SOO MUCH lately.

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Mona Agent 99 @monaagent99.bsky.social · 15h

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The Clash - Know Your Rights (Extended Version from Rare Acetate, Remastered)

YouTube video by Ant 2 Man Bee

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 15h

One time we went to a birthday party for an episcopal priest & my husband innocently took a cookie from a guy he knew who was playing in the band. I found him in the basement scooping peanut butter out of the container with his fist.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 15h

I love that!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 19h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 16h

I subbed for a high school class that was reading Gatsby last year (all Black & brown kids) and brought up that some ppl have supposed it could be about passing as white & they brought up things @ that I never thought of. Really interesting.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 16h

do you hear yourself my lord

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 21h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 16h

It looks so gorgeous.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 16h

Connecting this and the inspections of ppls genitals in bathrooms who don't "look like a woman" It's all the same need to decide who gets to be a person. Who gets to live.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s the story a Latina US citizen told me about being surrounded by masked agents who demanded her papers and, when they got them, told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17h

Yes I'm trying to be the most cringe and sus to my 12yo right now ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17h

Every single person has a book in them someone needs to read, and no one should be gatekeeping who is and isn't a writer.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat