Katy Straight
@str8er816.bsky.social
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Grow your own food, feed your community. Wife to
@hillbillywoodcuts.bsky.social
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Nina Turner
8 months ago
If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.
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Max Berger
8 months ago
If you’re opposed to fascism and you still use X, then no you aren’t.
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T Watson
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NPR
8 months ago
Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?
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Masked officers in Tufts student arrest raise fears among immigrants and bystanders
Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5342428/tufts-student-arrest-raises-questions-about-masked-ice-agents
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Proud Appalachian
8 months ago
“Along the winding back roads and Appalachian hollers of West Virginia, in a state where Trump won 70% of the votes cast in November, his administration's vow to cut back on government spending is being keenly felt.”
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Trump funding cuts ripple through rural America
The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: Mountaineer Food Bank was ending Yates' butter contract, due to the federal government's funding cuts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-funding-cuts-ripple-through-heart-trump-country-2025-03-29/
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Klaire Smith
8 months ago
printing sounds for this little lino block 🌞 this one will also become a sticker
#linoblock
#printmaking
#artptocess
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Proud Appalachian
9 months ago
“Environmental injustice in the United States is deeply rooted in the ascension of profits over people in America.”
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The Trump EPA’s ‘Great American Comeback’ will actually mean filthy air, dirty water, and no sanitation for rural communities (Fast Company)
Catherine Coleman Flowers’s new book, Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, was published a week into President Donald Trump’s ...
https://l.smartnews.com/p-jH18Bao/Z42AzP
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Klaire Smith
9 months ago
carving carving carving
#printmkaing
#woodcut
#artprocess
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Noah Shachtman
9 months ago
NEW: The FBI's biggest, most important field office has been reprioritized to a single task: redacting the Jeffrey Epstein files. By me in
@vanityfair.com
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“Ludicrous” Situation: Epstein Case Review Takes Over FBI’s New York Office
The bureau’s New York field office normally chases drug dealers and spies. Right now, according to multiple sources, priority one is redacting the sex trafficker’s case files.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-case-review-fbis-new-york
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑
9 months ago
You need to be on the phone with your reps daily. If you need help knowing what to say when you call, follow
@jesscraven101.bsky.social
. What Tr*mp did to our ally Ukraine is deeply unpopular with Republicans, and they need to be flooded with calls from their constituents outraged over this betrayal
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Proud Appalachian
9 months ago
We shouldn’t just protest attacks on DEI, we should always call all of these things what they are - racism and bigotry. It’s all to foist White Christian Nationalist supremacy on us all.
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Art Museum of the Americas cancels Black & LGBTQ+ exhibitions after Trump’s DEI crackdown
“Nobody uses that word in art — terminated,” one of the curators said.
https://www.advocate.com/news/museum-pulls-lgbtq-black-artists
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"Peace is necessary. For justice, it is necessary. For hope, it is necessary, for our future." - Harry Belafonte
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑
9 months ago
I will remind folks every day for as long as it takes until working class Americans hear it and act: Elon Musk called you, me, your grandma, little children, veterans, disabled folks, farmers, ALL OF US "the parasite class". Everything they're doing is to make us suffer and die. It's eugenics.
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Call it what it is: MAHA is Eugenics
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
https://youtu.be/NfYHm1axCK8
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Stephen King
9 months ago
Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to.
#Resist
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑
9 months ago
"Use every tool. Join the resistance. Take to the streets. We're going to have to be in the streets of DC to stop this." - my senator
@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
at his town hall in Oregon City tonight. I have said it since Nov 6: Congress has no plan to save us, y'all. We must save ourselves.
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Ken Bardsley
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💙 Mythsa 💙
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Proud Appalachian
10 months ago
Do this. No need to go anywhere, no need to fight bad weather, no need even to get dressed. All you have to do is not feed the greed of the oligarchs. If you can’t avoid spending, spend locally.
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Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A grassroots effort is asking American consumers to refrain from making purchases at major retailers for one day in February.
https://buff.ly/4hP2tJd
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"This is the world you have made yourself; now you have to live in it." - Nina Simone
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Proud Appalachian
10 months ago
“Through the Bridge Project, babies can qualify for crucial financial support during pregnancy and early childhood in this new year.”
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Bridge Project initiative recently introduced to Appalachia
Through an initiative recently introduced to Appalachia, expectant mothers struggling to break free of generational poverty are getting a hand up rather than a hand out. Since Jan. 8 when the Bridge…
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑
10 months ago
Know your enemy: at the encouragement of several followers, I spent the last week digging into not only Curtis Yarvin, but also the PayPal Mafia and their racist, eugencist upbringing. I recommend you take a little time to learn who these men really are so you can learn how to defeat their coup.
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The PayPal Mafia and Apartheid South Africa
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
https://youtu.be/Gkk-x0DbaLs
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Brandy Zadrozny
10 months ago
New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/cdc-disease-detectors-fired-trump-administration-agency-cuts-doge-rcna192420
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Jacob Bogage
10 months ago
🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨 Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
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"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." - Galileo Galilei
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You all still think those “checks and balances “ are going to do anything about this coup?
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New board elects President Trump chair of Kennedy Center
"It is a great honor to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees. We will make the Kennedy Center a very special and exciting place!" Trump said.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/nx-s1-5294697/trump-kennedy-center-chairman
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Mark Cuban
10 months ago
Imagine if @aoc
@sanders.senate.gov
, every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Klaire Smith
10 months ago
Do any
#mural
artists know anything about using acid to etch a sidewalk to prep it for paint?
#publicart
#muralartist
#painting
#sidewalkmural
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Klaire Smith
10 months ago
STOP THE COUP!
add a skeleton here at some point
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Anne Applebaum
10 months ago
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/usaid-spending-trump-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Klaire Smith
10 months ago
I forgot I had started this block, I guess there’s no better time like right now to keep working on it.
#woodcut
#printmaking
#art
#america
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Chuck Schumer
10 months ago
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
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NPR
10 months ago
Stock markets around the world fell as President Trump imposed tariffs on key trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China.
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Global stocks slide as Trump imposes tariffs on imports
Stock markets around the fell as President Trump imposed tariffs on key trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/03/nx-s1-5284820/global-stocks-slide-trump-imposes-tariffs
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Candace Avalos
10 months ago
It's happening, the hostile takedown of our institutions and democracy is happening. It would be really nice to know if the Democrats or anyone for that matter has a plan to protect America???
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday morning on social media.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-says-trump-are-shutting-usaid-rcna190388
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑
10 months ago
Urgent!!! Crucial update from Indivisible: Elon Musk - a South African un-elected billionaire - is carrying out a coup in America, seizing control of OUR money and data and government offices. Right now. And we - the American people - can stop him.
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Klaire Smith
10 months ago
proofed 💀 proud heathen
#linoblock
#printmaking
#skull
#printsky
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Zoe Tunnell
10 months ago
All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
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"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." - Mahatma Gandhi
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So glad they left us armed and are making the targets easier to see
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