DanaMPatton
@danampatton.bsky.social
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
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.....
me: ummm i spent the first 19 years of my life literally not knowing there were christians who didn’t hate gay people soooooo.....
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.
McSkeevey is our Cuomo. he's everything wrong with NJ politics. please Jersey city go vote Tuesday.
on Tuesday: Jim McGreevey’s comeback, once dominant, now uncertain
The former Dem gov, who deflected allegations of corruption two decades ago by coming out as gay, wants to be mayor of Jersey City & faces progressive Dem James Solomon.
oen of my Dec. races to watch: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
The former Dem gov, who deflected allegations of corruption two decades ago by coming out as gay, wants to be mayor of Jersey City & faces progressive Dem James Solomon.
oen of my Dec. races to watch: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
McSkeevey is our Cuomo. he's everything wrong with NJ politics. please Jersey city go vote Tuesday.
Watching this thing @ Guantanamo Bay and we've just always been this. Fucking horrible.
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Watching this thing @ Guantanamo Bay and we've just always been this. Fucking horrible.
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This just in: We can vote tomorrow (Sunday) in person! In all JC and Hoboken runoff elections. @bikehoboken.org @safestreetsjerseycity.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This just in: We can vote tomorrow (Sunday) in person! In all JC and Hoboken runoff elections. @bikehoboken.org @safestreetsjerseycity.org
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ANOTHER EVENT!
How to End Family Policing w/ Erin Miles Cloud, Andrea Ritchie & Dorothy Roberts
📅 Dec. 1, 2025
🕐1-2:30 pm PT/3-4:30 pm CT/4-5:30 pm ET
🔗 www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com/events/hayma...
How to End Family Policing w/ Erin Miles Cloud, Andrea Ritchie & Dorothy Roberts
📅 Dec. 1, 2025
🕐1-2:30 pm PT/3-4:30 pm CT/4-5:30 pm ET
🔗 www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com/events/hayma...
Postponed: Haymarket Virtual Book Launch — How to End Family Policing
www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ANOTHER EVENT!
How to End Family Policing w/ Erin Miles Cloud, Andrea Ritchie & Dorothy Roberts
📅 Dec. 1, 2025
🕐1-2:30 pm PT/3-4:30 pm CT/4-5:30 pm ET
🔗 www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com/events/hayma...
How to End Family Policing w/ Erin Miles Cloud, Andrea Ritchie & Dorothy Roberts
📅 Dec. 1, 2025
🕐1-2:30 pm PT/3-4:30 pm CT/4-5:30 pm ET
🔗 www.howtoendfamilypolicing.com/events/hayma...
there are two places we still really really do this ... artist alley at NYCC for comics and Chamblin Bookmine in Jacksonville Florida for books.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
there are two places we still really really do this ... artist alley at NYCC for comics and Chamblin Bookmine in Jacksonville Florida for books.
We went bowling today and the bathroom stalls all had the number to call if you are being trafficked. Just the saddest thing I could fucking imagine to be trafficked at the bowling alley on the border of Jersey City and Bayonne New Jersey.
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We went bowling today and the bathroom stalls all had the number to call if you are being trafficked. Just the saddest thing I could fucking imagine to be trafficked at the bowling alley on the border of Jersey City and Bayonne New Jersey.
Did a bunch of things I've been meaning to do for awhile. Set up monthly $$ to @truthout.org and @democracynow.org . @philaprint.bsky.social presents for friends & family. Good morning.
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did a bunch of things I've been meaning to do for awhile. Set up monthly $$ to @truthout.org and @democracynow.org . @philaprint.bsky.social presents for friends & family. Good morning.
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If you need some low-priced holiday gifts, University Press of #Florida is offering 40 percent off its books, including my new one WELCOME TO FLORIDA. Use the code 31HOL25 to get the discount. Even Santa would be bowled over by these savings! floridapress.org via @floridapress.bsky.social
University Press of Florida
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November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you need some low-priced holiday gifts, University Press of #Florida is offering 40 percent off its books, including my new one WELCOME TO FLORIDA. Use the code 31HOL25 to get the discount. Even Santa would be bowled over by these savings! floridapress.org via @floridapress.bsky.social
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“Long before Hoover denounced King as a liar, the NYPD issued a surveillance report on the civil rights leader’s visit to Harlem in 1958, with other memos to follow in the early 1960s. Rank-and-file organizers supporting King received unwanted attention as well.“
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Long before Hoover denounced King as a liar, the NYPD issued a surveillance report on the civil rights leader’s visit to Harlem in 1958, with other memos to follow in the early 1960s. Rank-and-file organizers supporting King received unwanted attention as well.“
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Coming to Netflix on December 1, "All The Empty Rooms," a short documentary following photographer Lou Bopp and reporter Steve Hartman as they talk with families who have lost a child to a school shooting and can't part with their child's bedroom.
All The Empty Rooms | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Coming to Netflix on December 1, "All The Empty Rooms," a short documentary following photographer Lou Bopp and reporter Steve Hartman as they talk with families who have lost a child to a school shooting and can't part with their child's bedroom.
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2 Palestine solidarity activists were just seized by Israeli soldiers & armed settlers near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. Settlers from a nearby outpost stopped their vehicle on a road the activists are legally allowed to use, @masafering (X) reports.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
2 Palestine solidarity activists were just seized by Israeli soldiers & armed settlers near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank. Settlers from a nearby outpost stopped their vehicle on a road the activists are legally allowed to use, @masafering (X) reports.
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don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
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Book-banning should be viewed as part of the same agenda as privatization of public goods. It’s an attack on the public realm.
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...
Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'
Public libraries in Tennessee have begun to shut down as they carry out an order from state officials to remove children’s books containing LGBTQ+ themes or characters.For Popular Information, Rebecca...
www.rawstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Book-banning should be viewed as part of the same agenda as privatization of public goods. It’s an attack on the public realm.
This is part of the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan, descendants of the Lenape who lived on the land we occupy. Great day to give back.
www.gofundme.com/f/munsee-thr...
www.gofundme.com/f/munsee-thr...
$7,300 is still needed ♥︎ Please donate., organized by Michaeline Newton Conklin Picaro
Support Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm
Google search st… Michaeline Newton Conklin Picaro needs your support for $7,300 is still needed ♥︎ Please donate.
www.gofundme.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is part of the Ramapough Lunaape Turtle Clan, descendants of the Lenape who lived on the land we occupy. Great day to give back.
www.gofundme.com/f/munsee-thr...
www.gofundme.com/f/munsee-thr...
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As millions celebrate Thanksgiving, we uplift the National Day of Mourning. This is a day to raise awareness about the atrocities faced by Indigenous people throughout history & now. We urge you to take time today to learn about Indigenous people & how to best support their causes & organizations.
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As millions celebrate Thanksgiving, we uplift the National Day of Mourning. This is a day to raise awareness about the atrocities faced by Indigenous people throughout history & now. We urge you to take time today to learn about Indigenous people & how to best support their causes & organizations.
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If you're an educator in NJ please consider signing onto this letter in support of the Immigrant Trust Act. This bill helps ensure that immigrants can still access important services without fear of detention or deportation. When our students are afraid they can't learn.
forms.gle/wq4pCaaxF8Fi...
forms.gle/wq4pCaaxF8Fi...
Educators Demand New Jersey Legislators Pass the "Immigrant Trust Act" Sign-on Letter
Immigrant communities are seeing heightened ICE operations in New Jersey. New Jersey must pass the Immigrant Trust Act (A4987/S3672) to help protect immigration status information at sensitive locatio...
forms.gle
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you're an educator in NJ please consider signing onto this letter in support of the Immigrant Trust Act. This bill helps ensure that immigrants can still access important services without fear of detention or deportation. When our students are afraid they can't learn.
forms.gle/wq4pCaaxF8Fi...
forms.gle/wq4pCaaxF8Fi...
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I took this job because I believe in the values of Hell, I never expected all this pressure
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I took this job because I believe in the values of Hell, I never expected all this pressure
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So much talk about hostages, so little talk about how many hostages Israel takes and tortures, including children.
Apartheid state with an apartheid legal system
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Apartheid state with an apartheid legal system
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, from Florida, was detained by Israeli soldiers while on holiday in the occupied West Bank.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So much talk about hostages, so little talk about how many hostages Israel takes and tortures, including children.
Apartheid state with an apartheid legal system
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Apartheid state with an apartheid legal system
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here I am again... waiting for laundry to be done. Got my roasted potatoes going while I wait. Also can't even just be alone and enjoy a show while I wait, bc my dad is visiting and he will not fucking go to bed. If I have to be up doing my 56th chore, then everyone else needs to go to fucking bed.
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Here I am again... waiting for laundry to be done. Got my roasted potatoes going while I wait. Also can't even just be alone and enjoy a show while I wait, bc my dad is visiting and he will not fucking go to bed. If I have to be up doing my 56th chore, then everyone else needs to go to fucking bed.
Hey hows about you clean up your own house and WTF would you know @ partnerships btw men and women anyway
The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable, lifelong and exclusive partnership between a man and woman.
Vatican warns against rise in polyamory, saying ‘succession of faces’ does not rival exclusive union | CNN
The Vatican has issued a warning against the rise of polyamory, insisting marriage is the stable, lifelong and exclusive partnership between a man and woman.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Hey hows about you clean up your own house and WTF would you know @ partnerships btw men and women anyway
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And now, late at night before the holiday, the bill to gut the comptroller has dropped. Sponsored by Sen. Nick Scutari, whose buddies who run Union County were investigated by the comptroller. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
New Jersey watchdog warns proposal to weaken his office would benefit the powerful and undermine accountability • The Jersey Vindicator
Legislative leaders want to take away the comptroller's investigatory power.
jerseyvindicator.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And now, late at night before the holiday, the bill to gut the comptroller has dropped. Sponsored by Sen. Nick Scutari, whose buddies who run Union County were investigated by the comptroller. jerseyvindicator.org/2025/11/17/n...
Our water is out for them to work on a main. was not a water main break. zero warning. Just put soap all over my hands then no water. Out til 5am. A neighbor said workers told her part of this water/sewer work is at the request of a developer whose project hasnt even been approved yet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Our water is out for them to work on a main. was not a water main break. zero warning. Just put soap all over my hands then no water. Out til 5am. A neighbor said workers told her part of this water/sewer work is at the request of a developer whose project hasnt even been approved yet.
We can build a new world where we take care of people. Every politician who ever said we can't pay for things to help ppl has been full of shit.
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We can build a new world where we take care of people. Every politician who ever said we can't pay for things to help ppl has been full of shit.
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Sppd has left after shooting tear gas at the protesters.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Sppd has left after shooting tear gas at the protesters.
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This administration’s escalating campaign of mass deportation and related violence, fear and chaos, is having a profound and harmful impact on children and schools across America.
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This administration’s escalating campaign of mass deportation and related violence, fear and chaos, is having a profound and harmful impact on children and schools across America.
americasvoice.org/press_releas...
americasvoice.org/press_releas...