Em
@emwils.bsky.social
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Basketball and abolition and human rights and dignity and anti-Amazon shitposts and so forth || she/her
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Big-time "lunatics, haters, and punk trash" energy
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Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”
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Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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🚨This is a week of shame in America. Four people are scheduled to be ex*cuted — one maintains a serious claim of innocence.

Regardless of guilt, every case deserves our attention, our compassion, and our voices.
The frogs are hands down among the most powerful political iconography of this century
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Death row inmate Robert Roberson's execution, scheduled for next week, has been stayed following a ruling by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. bit.ly/3IO5Nbx
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JUST NOW IN MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces his run for Congress: “Believe in me, because I believe you deserve the best. It’s about US.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1A8A...
New York City is so lucky to count this man among its own.
On this awful second anniversary of October 7th, as we come out of Yamim Noraim (the days of awe) and begin Sukkot, we need to conduct cheshbon ha’nefashot, an accounting of souls.
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An accounting of souls
You don’t get to t’shuvah just by accounting. You have to earnestly commit not to keep causing harm, and start working for repair.
open.substack.com
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Frodo: I wish it need not have happened in my time.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Frodo: I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic.
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Social media sites where people in the US get their news from:

Facebook 38%
YouTube 35%
Instagram 20%
TikTok 20%
X 12%
Reddit 9%
Nextdoor 6%
WhatsApp 5%
Threads 3%
Rumble 2%
Truth Social 2%
Bluesky 2%

Source: www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...
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America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"
ICE crosses another big, important line.
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
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Overwhelmed by Mr. Berry's bravery, keeping him, Mr. West, and their families in my heart today, and in awe of my friend @leahanelson.bsky.social for continuing to steadfastly add stitches of humanity to the gaping wounds of alienation and cruelty.
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William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of his mother's killer, Geoffrey West. Over the years, Berry said the lessons of a hard life pushed him toward forgiveness and has argued that West's scheduled death penalty would bring neither justice nor closure.
Son of Mother Killed by Geoffrey West Urges Alabama to Halt Execution
William Berry has urged Alabama officials to stop the execution of Geoffrey West, arguing that it would bring neither justice nor closure.
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"When I go to Holman, I want to speak with Mr. West heart to heart. I want to tell him I forgive him, that my mother forgives him, and that God loves him."

🗞️Read more of Will Berry's inspiring testimony of forgiveness 👉 thespectator.com/topic/dont-e...
Don't execute my mother's killer, I forgive him
I do not want the state of Alabama to kill Geoffrey West who shot and killed my mother while robbing the gas station where she worked
thespectator.com
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Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...
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Please watch this
Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...