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Aubrey Hicks
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Help your neighbors. Tend to the commons.

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We are not alright. We do not have to live this way.
No one is free until all are free.
Solidarity & love 👊🏻💕. Free Everyone 🇵🇸

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"Their only plan is to break our spirits. And so, the work of the moment is simple. If you see anybody engaged in efforts that you value right now— hope-giving work, base building work, community care work— we need to shower them in gratitude and support." @garrettbucks.bsky.social
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Partner’s choice tonight, was a good one. www.imdb.com/title/tt0166...
The Straight Story (1999) ⭐ 8.0 | Biography, Drama
1h 52m | G
www.imdb.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Is it simply narcissism that makes a person want to put their name on everything? Or is it more complex?
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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can you shut up man
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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We're all supposed to be 100% in tune with white men's feelings. We're supposed to care about them at the expense of our own. We are supposed to live in fear of them getting upset. Treating their feelings as grenades that can go off at any time. They on the other hand do not need to care about ours.
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Our #FridayReads recommendation is UCLA IDEA's “The Fear is Everywhere: U.S. High School Principals Report Widespread Effects of Immigration Enforcement.”

Our colleague Deborah La Torre is one of the researchers on this important project.

idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications...
The Fear is Everywhere: U.S. High School Principals Report Widespread Effects of Immigration Enforcement — IDEA
idea.gseis.ucla.edu
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Not an original thought but it really is something that the United States federal government can raid your home with helicopters, molest your children in the middle of the night, destroy your home and render you homeless…and YOU’RE on the hook thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...
Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE
The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.
thetriibe.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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rescinding the switch to Calibri (to make documents more readable readable people with visual disabilities) is yet another clear example of vice signaling as policy
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Call me crazy, but Institutional Research in Higher Ed seems more critical now than ever.
Ready to capture powerful insights from your graduating seniors? Registration and administration for the 2026 College Senior Survey (CSS), an essential exit survey measuring academic, civic, and developmental outcomes, is open!

📅 Survey Window: Now - June 30, 2026

heri.ucla.edu/college-seni...
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The people smiling and nodding while Trump makes racist comments about Somali folks
OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:

Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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This short-documentary was the reason I wanted LAPD’s headshots. It started with just the people involved with this story but when I was typing the request, I just said, “fuck it, all of them”
what LAPD never told the public or internal investigators.

The investigation further revealed an underreported and rare issue: search warrants that circumvented court oversight and became untraceable due to LAPD mishandling.

Short-doc about what we are calling shadow warrants youtu.be/Xh3ZlDegq9o
The Blue Hand: LAPD Improperly Used A Search Warrant To Investigate A Shooting Victim
YouTube video by West Side Storytellers
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I think my doctor will disapprove, but deviled eggs for brekkie are the best.
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Post something random AND have a good landback day
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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I monitored these same sorts of white supremacists for years (to fight them), and let me tell you.

You have to CONSTANTLY, aggressively deprogram yourself.

Even just, the language. We are social creatures and we absorb the language we're around. Guess what words enter your mental vocabulary
This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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finally the usual starter pack to find outlets that may be nearer to you:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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2025 in one sentence
Someone made a wish using the monkey's paw
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Zohran walking into the Oval Office, focusing on his key policy platforms, and coming away with an unqualified win over Trump really puts into relief how bad the Democratic leadership is that it has been repeatedly rendered totally impotent and made to look like bumbling cowards by the Donald.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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REBUILD cannot continue to do what it does without funding so please consider donating if you can: givingtuesday.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM