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DanaMPatton

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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 · 7h

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

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Mona Agent 99 @monaagent99.bsky.social · 7h

youtu.be/__ApIgw93v4?...

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

I love that!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

do you hear yourself my lord

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 8h

It looks so gorgeous.

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 13h

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 · 8h

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

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 19h

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

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Jersey City Mutual Aid Society @jcmutualaid.org · 9h

Our monthly distro at The Sharing Place is coming up and we are desperately low on baby diapers, sizes 2 and up. If you have any extras let us know and we’ll arrange pick-up. Or if you can, buy some through our registry and have them delivered to us directly. www.jcmutualaid.org/donate

Donate — Jersey City Mutual Aid Society (JCMAS)

www.jcmutualaid.org

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 9h

RIP MTV
I was in a play in Birmingham AL directed by Alan Hunter. My character had to snort cocaine (B vitamin powder). 1st time I laid out a GIANT pile of powder. Alan said "no no no here let me show you how it's done."

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 9h

I want to swim in that so badly.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 15h

Bread and Jam for Frances
NATIVE #MUTUALAID💸💕

#IndigenousPeoplesDay Edition
#settlersaturday #helpsky

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 4d

Bread and Jam for Frances #MUTUALAID💸💕

I've been housing insecure for months. I found an apartment but need help for rent/deposit. I can handle monthly if I can get the first $1500 payment. Anything helps. I'll hug you the next time I see you. Pay QR codes below. Mvto!
#settlersaturday #helpsky

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Frybread Riot @napeskanskan.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

If you're inclined to donate to Indigenous mutual aid today, I am housing insecure and saving while also trying to pay some medical debts.

Venmo/cashapp: napeskanskan
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/hoppingmagpiedesigns

Pilamayaye

John Trudell in Smoke Signals, talking into a microphone

"It's a good day to be Indigenous"

A mother bison (The Ancestors) nuzzling her calf (me)

love
power
courage
wisdom
strength
resilience

A black and white photo of John Trudell, he's looking down and off to his left a little, and the wind is blowing his hair into his face.

"I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human." -John Trudell

"A ceasefire isn't enough

I need to witness the collapse of American imperialism"
[imposed over a fireball raising through the air]

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 11h

Beaded #sciart by Ruth Cuthand for Indigenous Peoples Day www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/ruth...

Beaded Images of Disease Explore the Impact of Colonial Trade

In her series Trading, Saskatchewan-based artist Ruth Cuthand creates a visual metaphor that outlines how early settler/Native relationships influenced First Nation people’s living conditions and well...

www.thisiscolossal.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 9h

Someone I follow here posts indigenous mutual aid requests but I can't find it 👀👀👀👀

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 17h

I know it's the bestttttt

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

I love the chandelier and the fabric monster and the flower with the eye!!! These are all so great!

DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

the thing I saw that i keep laughing about is "music for cop wives"

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 19h

I thought someone kept ripping down my sunflowers like wth, but the other day my husband saw a SQUIRREL mid sunflower stealing. Glad I took pics at least to enjoy them.

A big red sunflower grows in front of a grey house with Caribbean blue doors and window casing

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Olivia @oagennaro.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway. I’m a special education teacher. I don’t have words except I’m tired. Protect our children.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 1d

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 1d

I need inspiration please.

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