Julie Libarkin
@holdingupthesky.bsky.social
Access, inclusion, equity, and justice - ALWAYS. Lives among the Anishinaabe peoples on occupied lands
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I am feeling more and more my grandmother’s family story - disability saved them. She immigrated before WW1 but everyone else stayed. Her grandfather was deaf and had been sent as a youth to school in the city (maybe Vilna). 1/4
A TRIBBLE ON HIS HEAD BWAAAAHAHA HA HA HA
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A TRIBBLE ON HIS HEAD BWAAAAHAHA HA HA HA
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Good 🌎 news. "It became one of the leading facilities that transfers coal from rail to ships on the Great Lakes .... [T]he facility set a record loading 22 million short tons of coal in 2008" but shift from coal-fired plants led to 75 percent reduction.
www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...
www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...
Wisconsin coal terminal to close after 50 years as clean energy saps demand
Midwest Energy Resources Company, a subsidiary of DTE Electric Company, will not renew its 50-year lease with Koch Industries as of June 30 next year.
www.wpr.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Good 🌎 news. "It became one of the leading facilities that transfers coal from rail to ships on the Great Lakes .... [T]he facility set a record loading 22 million short tons of coal in 2008" but shift from coal-fired plants led to 75 percent reduction.
www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...
www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
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Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is bullshit! What are the charges?
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
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It’s no wonder why the Trump Administration is trying to hide economic data.
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
It’s no wonder why the Trump Administration is trying to hide economic data.
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We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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TRUE THIS, they are NATIVE AMERICANS!!!
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
TRUE THIS, they are NATIVE AMERICANS!!!
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That nurse and her hospital should be humiliated right now. I doubt that they are. She knew she was being recorded.
(I’ll add that feeling pressure in your rectum is a drop-everything-baby-is-here-now situation, which every nurse knows.)
Here’s how you actually handle this:
(I’ll add that feeling pressure in your rectum is a drop-everything-baby-is-here-now situation, which every nurse knows.)
Here’s how you actually handle this:
November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
That nurse and her hospital should be humiliated right now. I doubt that they are. She knew she was being recorded.
(I’ll add that feeling pressure in your rectum is a drop-everything-baby-is-here-now situation, which every nurse knows.)
Here’s how you actually handle this:
(I’ll add that feeling pressure in your rectum is a drop-everything-baby-is-here-now situation, which every nurse knows.)
Here’s how you actually handle this:
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Alice Wong's passing is a hard one for the disability community to hear today. Her and I chatted once for my podcast, and then the audio got deleted by accident and we never did it again. She was a powerhouse and challenged how we look at disability and able-bodiness. May she rest in power.
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Alice Wong's passing is a hard one for the disability community to hear today. Her and I chatted once for my podcast, and then the audio got deleted by accident and we never did it again. She was a powerhouse and challenged how we look at disability and able-bodiness. May she rest in power.
THIS!!!!
Not just profs - this is true for any professional. If it’s not on my calendar, it doesn’t exist!
Pet peeve: when someone invites you to a meeting but instead of sending a calendar invitation, they just send a zoom link in an email.
If you want profs to actually show up for meetings-- send a calendar invitation!
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
If you want profs to actually show up for meetings-- send a calendar invitation!
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
THIS!!!!
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Whoever is making these hilarious memes should be ashamed of themselves.
Just stop it.
Just stop it.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Whoever is making these hilarious memes should be ashamed of themselves.
Just stop it.
Just stop it.
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The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
Eye opening experience in my very early 20s (1990s). I volunteered for Travelers Aid Society in Tucson AZ. The social worker who I trained with in helping unhoused folks…was on food stamps because his salary was so low. Let it sink in.
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Eye opening experience in my very early 20s (1990s). I volunteered for Travelers Aid Society in Tucson AZ. The social worker who I trained with in helping unhoused folks…was on food stamps because his salary was so low. Let it sink in.
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Good morning
This day is getting closer
This day is getting closer
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Good morning
This day is getting closer
This day is getting closer
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From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities
Michigan's Indigenous communities harvest wild rice, or manoomin, every year as part of their cultural heritage and modern-day work to restore the plant.
www.wkar.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
From Lake Tawas to a wild rice camp: how manoomin is harvested by Michigan Indigenous communities.
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
www.wkar.org/wkar-news/20...
Larry Summers is…🤢
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Larry Summers is…🤢
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If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.
What the fuck is wrong with our media
What the fuck is wrong with our media
October 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.
What the fuck is wrong with our media
What the fuck is wrong with our media
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We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.