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This chart, from a NYT story about racial disproportionality in police killings, shows that Native Americans are more likely to be murdered by police than any other group —yet the story it's part of does not mention these killings even in passing. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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"They were questions about who he was & who we were & where pleasure & beauty & hours with no quantifiable practical result fit into the life of someone, perhaps of anyone, who also cared about injustice & truth & human rights & how to change the world." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, Orwell’s Roses

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Important thread and it's extremely important to know that this isn't over. I particularly want to stress that if you are in a district Represented by a Republican who voted for the bill, an immediate thing to do alert the public and the media in your area. Indivisible has other suggestions.

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one thing i think is really cool about seattle is that they will run buses from the city to the middle of the mountains so you can hike to views like this car-free

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Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed as Israeli bombardment intensifies across Gaza, with starvation spreading and only limited aid allowed in under the ongoing blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/bsus2e

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extremely important update

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a short, worthwhile read— "If we lose the pillar of Medicaid it will be a domino effect. I will lose my job. I give care to those who receive Medicaid. If I don’t work, we don’t eat." www.thestand.org/2025/05/cutt...

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Ras Baraka elevated in 1 day for standing up to fascism. Democrats, learn from this.

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Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican ban https://twp.ai/4inGL0

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a wee response of the heart forward variety to the Seattle book release for Best Literary Translations 2025 (Deep Vellum), with a poem by Rosa Chávez, translated by Gabriela Romero-Chavez. the piece originally appeared in World Literature Today. heart-forward.ghost.io/best-literar...

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you need to really want to read this. the process to get past firewall and read for free is arduous. but I appreciate the piece. Said’s been an important thinker for me. www.chronicle.com/article/said...

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#MomSky knows that we must Protect Medicaid.

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yes. more of this, please electgirmay.medium.com/protecting-k...

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NEA Grantees with Terminated Grants or Withdrawn Funding: You have 7 calendar days to appeal, so for those receiving their letters late yesterday (May 2), you have until Friday, May 9 to appeal. We have put together a how-to guide drawing from available resources including @jasonrhody.bsky.social

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If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.

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"At every turn, functional federal governance is being jettisoned in favor of manufactured grievance, corruption, and ideological zealotry in service to unchecked corporate power and the authoritarian mission...."

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Former governor Inslee is not having any of this. We agree, and think it's time to start planning for what Oregon and Washington will do to increase autonomy if this gets worse. #Cascadia

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Great commentary on the value of protesting 👇👇👇👇👇

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yeah fuck it we ball Call for Work: Autistic Protest Poetry This call for work seeks poetry by autistic writers that is socially-engaged, politically-charged, and geared toward raising our voices together against oppression and erasure. Deadline: July 1st More details: medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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“Think about what you can do, not what you can lose.” Ghadir Shafie, Palestinian queer activist www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...

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hooray!

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"But their mowing down several NIH institute chiefs and thousands of NIH employees in one week tells you this is about retribution, not new freedom of intellectual inquiry."

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appreciate this—we are so far beyond this being a matter of “politics”

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Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.

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next week dear friend Mike Magrath of the Gage Sculpture Atelier will be in conversation w author Juliette Aristides around her new book, a guide to thinking, making, embodying the mind of a creative person. ticketing.townhallseattle.org/events/0194f... @townhallseattle.bsky.social #Seattle

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my monthly creative writing workshop w/ Pike Place Market Senior Center was @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social today—fave moment—my Turkish American student Samiye & I walk up to this Ai Weiwei art piece at same time, begin to take it in. seconds later Samiye says “the Parliament.” we burst out laughing.

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poem by Duoduo, from ‘Against Forgetting: 20th-Century Poetry of Witness’ (ed. Carolyn Forché)

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….But everyone who cares about fairness, freedom and the rule of law ought to be grateful nonetheless for these demonstrations of integrity….

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around 1000 in SeaTac and 400 a little bit further southwest of SeaTac in Des Moines we ended around the Detention Center in Angle Lake chanting—"No están solos; you are not alone" waterlandblog.com/video-photos...

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🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.

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So much good trouble in Kansas City today!

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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

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Oralè Los Angeles Floating Trump is up! Hands Off Los Angeles #50501Movement

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Here's an Upstate Third Actor at the Hudson Valley Hands Off! protest in Academy Green Park in Kingston, NY with a great sign! You're right, Upstate Third Actor, we don't need any fossil fools! #HandsOff Photo Credit: Robby Lynch