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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them)
@emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social
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Louisiana Creole Writer, Poet, Educator, and Researcher • MFA, PhD • Poems in the Penn Review, Witch Craft Mag, LaCreole Journal, Eucalyptus Lit, and elsewhere • here & queer 🌈 • Views are my own! Emilymgoldsmith.com
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · Jan 20
I’m new here and glad to join you in this space. My name is Emily (they/them) & I’m a Louisiana Creole person who was raised in S. Louisiana. I’m queer and nonbinary.

I’m a poet! I received an MFA in poetry from UKY and I’m currently an English PhD candidate at USM in Hattiesburg, MS.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1h
Literally things are so terrible and it takes a lot to function and there’s a lot of fear. But I have a home with a lot of love: an angel of a spouse and two angel dogs. I couldn’t be more grateful to be battling from solid ground.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1h
Their names are Felipe (lab mix) and Niko (Husky-German). Felipe will just come lay on your lap. Niko, however, wants occasional pets and then goes off to ponder the world.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 1h
I have two dogs and I love them! They are my buddies. They have strong personalities: one is a husky and German Shepherd who likes his space and one is a lab mix who is a clingy little snuggle bug. It helps my mental health so much to care for them! They’re just angels who live in my house.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
The propaganda effort at CBS News has begun in full force.

There's this absurd hit piece saying his election would cause a large exodus at the NYPD.
A paused CBS News video features a close-up of a bearded man in a suit speaking outdoors. Video controls are visible over the image. The headline below reads about NYPD officers worrying about someone becoming the NYC mayor. The CBS News channel name and subscriber button appear at the bottom. A news video thumbnail on the Paramount+ website shows a close-up of a bearded man in a suit speaking outdoors, with blurred greenery in the background. Below the image is a headline about NYPD officers expressing concern over a potential NYC mayor. The Paramount+ logo and navigation menu appear at the top. A CBS News webpage shows a headline about NYPD officers expressing concern over someone potentially becoming New York City mayor. At the top, a news image features NYPD police cars with flashing lights, alongside a headline screenshot from The Free Press. Text below provides a summary of a report discussing police reactions to a political candidate. The CBS News logo and navigation bar are visible at the top.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d
This is a very big deal 🧵
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d
I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d
FUCK ICE FOREVER
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d
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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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 5d
oh we are absolutely not bringing back Lavender Marriages, what the fuck is wrong with folks. Also this couple looks like they waited until their wedding day to have their first kiss lol
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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 5d
No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?
He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.
Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 7d
Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”
‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south
Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
www.theguardian.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d
Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.
Excerpt from an article discussing LGBT+ protections in California legislation. It states that Governor Newsom neither signed nor vetoed certain bills. One bill strengthened protections under Sen. Scott Wiener’s “State of Refuge” law. The highlighted portion reads: “At least four bills directly addressed trans protections,” followed by examples such as healthcare and patient confidentiality, streamlining legal name and gender changes, nondiscrimination in health insurance, and inclusive homelessness programs.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 7d
I don’t want to “discover,” I want to nap.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 7d
Our ancestors were called uncivilized because their connection to nature challenged the capitalist obsession with controlling land.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 7d
My mom last night:
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8d
LOOK AT THE MOON!!!!!!!!!
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d
The EFF obtained these docs and shared them with us. Their writeup is here:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...
www.eff.org
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d
Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d
This story is completely insane. After our first article, Flock and the police have aggressively asserted that the woman "was never under criminal investigation by Johnson County." Flock has used it as an example of "clickbait journalism" and its CEO has attacked the reporting multiple times
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 7d
You’ve heard of indescribable? Well, the smart phone thinks I’m untranscribable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d
we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8d
I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 8d
Got IRB on speed-dial 📞
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Emily M Goldsmith, PhD (they/them) @emilymgoldsmith.bsky.social · 8d
In my auto-ethnography era ✨
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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 10d
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10d
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 10d
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 10d
Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas challenged in lawsuit

www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas challenged in lawsuit
A coalition of unions, employers and religious groups filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to block President Donald Trump's bid to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly-skilled foreign workers.
www.reuters.com
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