Ace Schwarz (they/them
outsidethebinary.bsky.social
Ace Schwarz (they/them
@outsidethebinary.bsky.social
Mx is pronounced "mix"
Asexual 🌈
6th, 7th, 8th grade science teacher 🔬
Curator of LGBTQ+ resources
GLSEN's 2019 Educator of the Year
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RIP Alice Wong, fiercest, finest, most fabulously dressed freedom fighter and friend. She changed the world a bit at a time every day and never stopped loving it. She taught me so much. I can’t believe this. I miss her bravery and clarity already. 💔♿️
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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"Outrage and betrayal"
AOC on House Dem.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Little wins + joys are more important than ever right now.

Like everything is bad, but my little orange cat has decided that between my legs is the safest place to sleep / purr for hours. And that is good, despite the horrors.
October 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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What reading the news feels like every damn day now:
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
August 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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SORRY (from Australia)
The USA should not be allowed to host the world cup next year 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.

Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.

This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Tell me something that brought you joy this week.

Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
August 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Natural hazards, tornado formation edition
August 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
August 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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BREAKING - Zelensky:

“Russia must end this war, which it itself started.”
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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This is genuinely a big part of my campaign’s structure.

I thought about how many clinics could be funded, how many food banks could be stocked with $1 billion.

So we’re using our resources to reach voters through back to school drives and park cleanups and our mutual aid work.
I see what Kat is doing with her campaign and i’m thrilled to see a better approach to what campaigning means

and then i remember Kamala spent $1 BILLION in 100 days and we’re all worse off as a result
This Sunday, we’re hosting a back to school drive in Evanston with 500 free backpacks, all-day free haircuts, and free food by two of the best restaurants in Evanston!

Drop by the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center this Sunday afternoon to start the school year with everything you need!
August 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.
August 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Cats are so gentle….🥹🥰
🐱
July 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM