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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 8h

USA needs to stop conflating wealth with intelligence.

They are often miles apart.

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 8h

Old yoga teacher once said: “When you absolutely feel like you must say something, that’s when to keep your mouth shut.”

Works like a charm.

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 15h

Will just remind everyone — vote with — and most importantly WITHOUT — your thumbs.

If you don’t like the new news director, don’t click any of the links. Don’t rage click. Don’t do it.

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 14h

Governor Moira Healy has to take some cues from Illinois Gov Pritzker

She has been anemic at best while ICE runs roughshod across the state.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 14h

(3) Terrified an incorruptible mayor will hold them to account

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 14h

a bald man in a suit and bow tie says no no don 't do it

Alt: a bald man in a suit and bow tie says no no don 't do it

media.tenor.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 14h

I am an enraged senior citizen & can confirm.

As retirees, We have all kinds of time to fight this toxic Regime & enough firsthand historical knowledge to know why it is so important to call out these mouth-breathing, flaccid sadists

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 17h

I love that you highlight these amazing farm workers & make viewers see them as individual human beings.

Bravo, Maria!

(I literally could not stay bent like that for more than 10 minutes.)

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 18h

My school actually stopped doing detailed “active shooter” drills b/c the “defend yourself” drill training itself was so disturbing to _staff_, we insisted we not subject children to that.

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 1d

All good wishes. 💐

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we're up against. Excellent, if discomfiting, piece on "pedocon theory."

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

gonna keep reposting this until i don't have to

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes it just feels like a poem was written exactly for you. I've read this one a hundred times, have even heard WB read it, but when I began to read it this morning the first line brought tears to my eyes.

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps you need this as much as I.

“Can you see the faces of the mothers of your past? Listen, they are calling for your healing.”

#Peace

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMl3...

Akaal

YouTube video by Ajeet - Topic

m.youtube.com

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 2d

Love Wendell Berry.

Just finished a gentle, humane novel of his, JAYBAR CROW, with many heart-in-throat moments like this poem, & a tribute to the quiet beauty of ordinary people.

HANNAH COULTER might be even more moving.

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

💯

“Punk” vs “troubled child”
“Ghetto” vs “low income neighborhood”

Plus the terms with racist history that are used nonchalantly:

www.fivecounties.on.ca/wp-content/u...

www.fivecounties.on.ca

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

If a person still insists on subscribing to (or working at) Washington Post, they are a huge part of the problem.

$tarve WAPO to death.

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel, he of the most punchable face (or “stanzbares Gesicht” in his birth country), is an immigrant.

Shouldn’t ICE thugs be scooping that tech lunatic?

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

That smug accomplice-to-murder has been jonesing like a crack addict to develop Gaza with tacky resorts

Former “newspaper,” NYT’s trustwashing him is very on-brand for that rag now

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

❤️

Truth & justice-loving Americans are on your side. ✊🏼

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

Letitia James has more courage in her pinky finger that the entire Tr*mp Regime has in its collective sick, twisted bodies.

✊🏼

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 3d

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 4d

That plastic brat’s body language is textbook condescension.

When he sips that whiskey out of the mug blinking those beady eyes? WOW. The imbibing equivalent of someone ready to launch into mansplaining bombast.

Newell Baldelli @newellbaldelli.bsky.social · 4d

When is Tylenol suing RFK Jr & 🍊🥺💩??

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