Em
@roseforemily.bsky.social
History educator in the woods. She/her.
Incredibly town meeting coded to be fair
This meme has a wild school finance history: this guy’s name is Jim and he’s voting against the town of Arlington, VT selling a school bond to rebuild their local school in 1940. The building had burned down, but Jim didn’t want to pay more taxes. He was the only one voting no.
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Incredibly town meeting coded to be fair
I had a kid ask me today if I thought humanity could grow beyond the kinds of violence we do to one another & bc I was teaching (an inherently optimistic job) I said yes, if we could reckon with everything that has happened (a big if). But this is among the most evil things I have ever seen, so.
I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?
By @ahjohnson.bsky.social
By @ahjohnson.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I had a kid ask me today if I thought humanity could grow beyond the kinds of violence we do to one another & bc I was teaching (an inherently optimistic job) I said yes, if we could reckon with everything that has happened (a big if). But this is among the most evil things I have ever seen, so.
Obviously this is unconstitutional and won't happen BUT I do think it is very funny that if this passes, after a year of doing nothing with my birthright citizenship I could get deported to Canada.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Obviously this is unconstitutional and won't happen BUT I do think it is very funny that if this passes, after a year of doing nothing with my birthright citizenship I could get deported to Canada.
Reposted by Em
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
Reposted by Em
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the ‘war on terror.’”
US Enlisted DC Shooting Suspect in CIA-Backed Death Squad When He Was a Child
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who allegedly shot two National Guardsmen, had previously worked in a “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan.
truthout.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the ‘war on terror.’”
Reposted by Em
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
Reposted by Em
thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle
Reposted by Em
Everything seems so much harder lately. Just hard, hard, hard. (IT'S FINE IT'S FINE)
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Everything seems so much harder lately. Just hard, hard, hard. (IT'S FINE IT'S FINE)
Reposted by Em
Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
Reposted by Em
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
Reposted by Em
oh yeah. that's the good stuff
Truth Social users are not happy with Trump on this one.
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
“A Great Fuck'n Honor??? Have you lost your fucking mind?????”
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
oh yeah. that's the good stuff
Today I learned that VLACS, the dual enrollment program that our students can access via SNHU, had our partner educators watch this, the most horrifying AI-related product video I have seen to-date: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Zv....
Butterflies | A Film by Matter and Space
YouTube video by Matter and Space
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Today I learned that VLACS, the dual enrollment program that our students can access via SNHU, had our partner educators watch this, the most horrifying AI-related product video I have seen to-date: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Zv....
The list of people who need to be tried and convicted at The Hague for their crimes against humanity is so long I can hardly keep track of it. I genuinely believe we should all get time off when it happens to watch collectively and try to comprehend what these people have done to degrade all of us.
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The list of people who need to be tried and convicted at The Hague for their crimes against humanity is so long I can hardly keep track of it. I genuinely believe we should all get time off when it happens to watch collectively and try to comprehend what these people have done to degrade all of us.
Oh my god
![Social media screenshot:
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
[further text missing]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jrzyao2holfkgrsfbq2tue27/bafkreiga2xugyfyqaagrd3essidr6sktmwm72xodvy7aatg3yebuvygiyi@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh my god
Reposted by Em
I went back to a reflection from a year ago this week after reading @asv.bsky.social's Becoming an Everyday Changemaker and decided to lean on "Vent diagrams" again—a both/and practice that forces me to leave space in the center that I really don't have the words for.
Here's where I'm at right now:
Here's where I'm at right now:
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I went back to a reflection from a year ago this week after reading @asv.bsky.social's Becoming an Everyday Changemaker and decided to lean on "Vent diagrams" again—a both/and practice that forces me to leave space in the center that I really don't have the words for.
Here's where I'm at right now:
Here's where I'm at right now:
Dealing with my first fully hallucinated quotes in a literary analysis essay and boy does it make me want to kms! Grading and planning totally derailed for at least a day and a half now between investigation, meetings, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Dealing with my first fully hallucinated quotes in a literary analysis essay and boy does it make me want to kms! Grading and planning totally derailed for at least a day and a half now between investigation, meetings, etc.
Reposted by Em
If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI +
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI +
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
Reposted by Em
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
Reposted by Em
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
Reposted by Em
once again i am cursed with literacy
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
once again i am cursed with literacy
Reposted by Em
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Reposted by Em
This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.
Reposted by Em
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
Reposted by Em
We have a stunning story from @thomasbirm.bsky.social in @thenation.com. It's about how one of Israel's biggest companies, with deep ties to the IDF and illegal settlements, is taking over huge swathes of US real estate—with tenants paying the price. A MUST-read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Eviction Kings
One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate—and tenants are paying the price.
www.thenation.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We have a stunning story from @thomasbirm.bsky.social in @thenation.com. It's about how one of Israel's biggest companies, with deep ties to the IDF and illegal settlements, is taking over huge swathes of US real estate—with tenants paying the price. A MUST-read. www.thenation.com/article/soci...