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Erin Shhh (she/her)
@erinshhh.bsky.social
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Lettering artist 🖋️ living in SoCal ☀️ with Long Covid. 😷 I used to work in politics, but now I can’t stand it.
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sludge.bsky.social
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social
Here is a drawing I did, color pencil on cardboard. Abolish ICE.
Here is a drawing I did, color pencil on cardboard. It is a drawing of a bird saying “Abolish ICE”.
January 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
ICYMI: Genocide scholars are warning that the U.S. is in the process of genocide against transgender Americans.

“So it’s not so much ‘will genocide happen?’ as ‘we got to stop it from happening.’” — Dr. Henry Theriault, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2017-21)
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jan 5
NEW from Important Context:

Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.

www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans
Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.
www.importantcontext.news
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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tvsadam.bsky.social
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
We're really close to $10,000 raised for Black Zine Fair. It's 50% of what we need to raise. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
gogetfunding.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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esqueer.net
Democrats should be drawing up immediate articles of impeachment to file. This is an illegal war. There's no supporting this. Everyone needs to protest immediately as well. We cannot allow this to continue.
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 AM
erinshhh.bsky.social
I am getting drunk. You should call me.
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through.

CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM

—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws

CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK

BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇

www.badinternetbills.com

Call and tell your rep:

—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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robertcruickshank.com
Wakefield’s research was fraudulent. It wasn’t a matter of debate or interpretation, he made shit up and lost his license as a result. Fuck RFK Jr. for trying to validate him. And where are Congressional Dems on this? Where’s the bill to impeach RFK Jr.?
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Nov 21
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is crowing about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s CDC pushing debunked vaccine misinformation.

“Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions,” he says.

Wakefield’s paper was *fraudulent.*
Sen. Ron Johnson: Time to conduct science with integrity. Time to apologize to Dr. Andrew Wakefield and all the others who were maligned and vilified for simply asking the right questions.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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originalsp.in
You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was.

You made a difference—so much of a difference.

Rest always in peace, and always in power.
This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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elierlick.bsky.social
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
erinshhh.bsky.social
I made new block prints today. ☺️ I’m learning LESS IS MORE when it comes to ink.

I hand drew this “font” from scratch (Not a font, but not going to get into that right now.), hand carved it, hand inked it, hand printed it. 🎉
Multicolored block prints that say “FUCK YOUR A.I. SLOP”
October 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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propublica.org
A new Idaho law makes it illegal for state and local governments, private businesses, employers, schools and daycares to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive any other “medical intervention.”

➡️ Read the full story: https://propub.li/4oz4JYj
Excerpt from article: The law runs against one of the hallmarks of modern public health: that a person’s full participation in society depends on their willingness to follow certain rules. (Want to send your child to public school? They’ll need a measles vaccine. Want to work in a retirement community during flu season? You might have to wear a mask.) The new Idaho law flips that on its head. It not only removes the obligation to follow such rules, it makes the rules themselves illegal. The new law sets Idaho apart from even conservative-leaning South Carolina, where two schools recently quarantined more than 150 unvaccinated children after measles arrived. A person can spread measles for four days before symptoms appear. During the South Carolina schools’ quarantine, five students began to show symptoms, but the quarantine kept them from spreading it, the health department said this month. That precaution would now be illegal in Idaho.
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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jlynch13.bsky.social
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
drugmonkey.bsky.social Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Oct 19
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · Oct 14
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
LEAVITT: obviously it wasn't all president trumps shit. maybe if you were interested in telling the truth you could see that this entire administration is working hard to shit all over the american people together. mr homans shit was in there. so was mine. we all proudly shit in the plane
October 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
erinshhh.bsky.social
I’ve discovered printmaking
Prints on black cardstock that say “SURVIVE OUT OF SPITE” in white text
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
that last line
Under Dr. Mermin’s leadership, new H.I.V. infections in the nation dropped by 36 percent, and resurgent sexually transmitted infections showed the first signs of a plateau nationwide. He also directed health departments to spend the bulk of their money on prevention. It was “a very precise and scientific and logical approach” to make the biggest impact for the least money, said Greg Millett, who worked as a deputy for the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Obama White House. Now, however, Dr. Mermin is spending his days at home with his chickens and his misbehaving cat. The fate of the H.I.V. division hangs in the balance, and he worries that lawmakers may not realize its importance. “What if no one cares?” he said.
October 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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junlper.beer
this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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junlper.beer
just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly
Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost. The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how. The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation. In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing. The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process? Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve. Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
Here’s all you need to know about her without the sanity filter of WaPo editors:

www.importantcontext.news/p/trumps-new...
October 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
erinshhh.bsky.social
Did Gavin Newsom write this
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 AM