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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Mar 27

You truly could not make it up.

You could not.

Screenshot of Times article with headline: "Florida may loosen child labour laws to fill gap left by migrants"
The article explains a law has been proposed in Florida to allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts in agriculture & constraction to make up for lost migrant labour. Yes really.

Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Feb 11

Where are good accounts/publications to get info about bird flu? Now that I can expect the US government to keep as much under wraps as possible. 🙃

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jan 29

Trump announces an executive order authorizing a 30,000 capacity migrant detention center in Guantanamo.

"Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back, so we're going to send them out to Guatanamo Bay."

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 29

I can still enjoy at-home coffee for now and love on my people. Fiction books (intentionally avoiding most dystopian stuff for obvious reasons) have also been helpful.

Audrey is a white woman with dark brown-black hair wearing clear-rimmed classes. She is softly smiling with pressed lips. She has her hair pulled up in a clip and is wearing an oversized sweatshirt that says “to write love on her arms” and holding up a DSA coffee mug that reads “the best coffee is union-made” with DSA’s rose mascot.

Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 29

I don’t know what to do besides get involved in local community/mutual aid structures, or how I feel besides overwhelmed. My daily prayer is to hold on to hope with as much spite as possible.

What’s keeping you going? What do you need? What can we help each other with?

You are wonderful & loved!

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Jan 27

“how is this lowering the price of eggs” as a gotcha is totally empty!! when have they cared about hypocrisy!!! they campaigned on punishing the freaks and they’re doing it!!! shut da fuck up!! how about showing some solidarity instead!!!!!!!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jan 26

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 26

No wonder you’re working toward a doctorate 😁

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · Jan 20

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s “The Butterfly Effect” reminds us that small actions shape the world—a truth reflected in Dr. King’s legacy. On MLK Day, we honor his bold dream of justice, equality, and love, carried forward by collective action. Read the full poem at bit.ly/4jlWJrM. #MLK #UU

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Conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · Jan 26

White cishet male converts to catholicism and orthodoxy are overwhelmingly converting to have patriarchal power and not to have a relationship with Jesus. ⚓️

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Jan 26

"When they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"

Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its 'Bottom Line'

Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after it issued a statement condemning some of Trump's executive orders.

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 26

How do I say “my parents + SBC church + post-9/11 upbringing were authoritarian af and I realized that maybe that was dysfunctional and maladaptive” in an academic way

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 26

I am working on a project for class that involves reflecting on the “roots and branches” of my leadership style. Lemme tell ya, reflecting on the roots of my understanding of leadership and power is giving me tension headache after tension headache.

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 22

The good news is that we don’t have it be. God is. 😉 lord knows my list gets longer by the day…

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 22

Dang! Is this is NOLA?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 13

Martin Luther King wasn’t asking people to do community service. He was asking folks to liberate oppressed peoples.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jan 20

You could look up your local unhoused and underserved community resource group, Planned Parenthood, &c, & ask them what kind of help they need. Or search for other volunteer opportunities near you. Or even just talk or plan w/ friends about what you want to work at making different.

Anything helps.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Jan 19

This would be quite a thing: Id this happens, Trump would be taking the oath of office on a Bible with his own name on it — not as the owner of the Bible, but a “commemorative edition.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 19

blasphemous grifting -- Lee Greenwood says Trump may take the oath of office on a new limited edition Trump bible that is going to be released tomorrow

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 20

What will tomorrow bring? It’s hard to say exactly, but I do know one thing: Love on your people. Every day. Forever.

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 20

A wonderful teacher to look at for how to respond to a growing empire and tyranny is none other than Jesus of Nazareth. How do I interpret his teachings? We must continue, and we must continue in love.

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 20

It is both inspiring and terrifying: Clearly there is an “after” because this cycle of tyranny and emancipation has happened many times before. That also means it has happens. Many times. Before.

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Audrey 💖 @auddiemac21.bsky.social · Jan 20

Thinking a lot tonight about all of my Unitarian forebears who did not mince words and were willing to take up arms against authoritarianism and injustice. Thanks, @john-marx.bsky.social, for the push in that direction.