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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 16h

Reminiscent of what happened to queer people and disabled people after the Holocaust

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 16h

I would be delighted

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 17h

He’s 79. It would be not at all surprising if died before the end of his term

Regarding his public ruminations on not getting into heaven probably has more to do with his relationship to Epstein

He is confident he won’t be punished in life

But death is beyond his control

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 17h

Random people: There is so much circumstantial evidence that Trump might be dying

Me: No, shit. He’s 79

Like increased visits to the doctor are weird for a 79 year old or that him dropping dead before the end of his term would be shocking

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

My left ankle is in an ever worsening sprain because I can't afford orthopedic shoes on top of not being able to afford enough food

I need at least $1000 to cover necessary expenses that are directly related to my wellbeing

Please help if you can

#MutualAidRequest

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 7d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
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#MutualAid

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 1d

Literally our only hope.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

It's not mutual aid because that person's not part of your community apparently even though you see them online, but why don't people get that we must expand our notion of community & get out of who white capitalism says is it is even to band together to get through our fascist predicament.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Niemoller was a Nazi—the poem is about how collaboration won’t save you, let alone neutrality

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 1d

not to mention the fucking professional atheist scientists who provide the entire foundation for anti-trans bigotry by saying "science PROVES there are only two sexes!"

May their underpants never be dry again.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

www.theguardian.com

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 2d

Ficking Notwithstanding Claus

It needs to be abolished

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 2d

Abolish the notwithstanding clause

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 2d

"Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have all lined up at the Supreme Court to say that when a government invokes the Notwithstanding Clause, the courts should stay out and not even look at the case."

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

xtramagazine.com

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 2d

What rock do you live under

It’s the vibe of everything written by Christopher Hitchens and that racist asshole who wrote God is Dead

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 4d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 2d

Before the Gilgo Beach murderer there was Joel Rifkin. He killed 17 women on Long Island between 1989 and 1993 (mostly sex workers). He was caught because he was driving a car w/o a license plate & had a dead victim in his car at the time. Police weren’t even looking

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

My left ankle is in an ever worsening sprain because I can't afford orthopedic shoes on top of not being able to afford enough food

I need at least $1000 to cover necessary expenses that are directly related to my wellbeing

Please help if you can

#MutualAidRequest

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 7d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

Pay Wren Frey using PayPal.Me

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

Abolish the Nobel prizes

Yes all of them

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing so far and I am very much in need of help

#MutualAidRequest

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 7d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 7d

I’m queer and disabled. I’m unable to work and only receive $420/month in benefits. I run out of money and food which is terrible for my physical and mental health

Please help me stay fed

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar

#MutualAid

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Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 3d

So, all those years I was a French immersion student and didn’t know the English word for it, I was still getting it right but was just outdated

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

Wren Ashe Frey (she/they) @crippledscholar.bsky.social · 4d

They don’t teach it anymore so this won’t be a problem for much longer

Everything is print from here on out

And no I don’t think cursive is the necessary basis of education

This solves the chicken scratch problem because printing is less likely to be illegible

ʜᴀᴄᴋᴀʀʏ ʙɪɴx @chaclo.blacksky.app · Feb 17

Illegible handwriting as an adult makes me so angry because it’s like they didn’t even fuckin try.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4d

so this month i shall read

1. the monk
2. the castle of otranto
3. the mysteries of udolpho
4. gerard or the world, the flesh and the devil
5. the vampyre
6. carmila
7. the turn of the screw
8. the narrative of arthur gordon pym
9. vathek
10. the king in yellow

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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