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adriaq.bsky.social
Award-winning Nuyorican kidlit writer. Published poet. Author of MI TIERRA, an early-reader-in-verse, available NOW from Reycraft!
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Conservatives love Big Govt when it gives white Americans exclusive economic security, free land, unlimited immigration, free education, social welfare, & generational wealth. But when Black & brown Americans seek the same—Conservatives remember "Small Govt." www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-...

Fuck you, John Roberts. Fuck you. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...

@calltoactivism.bsky.social I need EVERYONE to repost this ASAP! The Dept of Education is now accepting tips from the community to root out “divisive ideologies” that are happening in our nation’s schools. I think we all understand the assignment… enddei.ed.gov

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

It's beyond Obama. The bigger truth is about Black progress in America in the 20th/ 21st century-- Black advancement helps open the doors for so many other marginalized groups to rise. They want to kill the path of govt/educational/ career advancement for EVERYONE not white, straight, and male.

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

I don’t mean to be rude about this, but since Musk isn’t the DOGE administrator, under what authority is he ordering this? If this is an order from Trump, where is it written up and why isn’t it implemented via Cabinet secretaries?

They all sound like novel titles.

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

“ Trump fired all the women and Black people” So did your newsroom / tech space/ funding/ firm You watched Black women slip away tap out be shoved to the side in almost every space you are in And “didn’t see” your racist colleague. The theft of ideas , the precarity Do you get it now

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

Target loses 15.7BILLION$$ since ending its DEI initiatives. Keep it up. I'll try a short vid while doing domestic shit in a bit.

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Real talk. x.com/maddenifico/...

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

I think we really need to repeat, and keep top of mind - The federal employee firings are NOT ABOUT SAVING MONEY. What is spent on those employees is peanuts compared to most of the money in the government. Firing federal employees sows confusion, depletes morale, and degrades government service.

Kamala staffer voted for Trump and says that SHE “can’t win.” She threw marginalized people under the bus and complains about how she’ll be treated. Acting as if it was for “principles.” The audacity.

We're mobilizing towards a March 4 Day of Action to #ProtectOurKids from the Trump administration’s plans to gut the U.S. Department of Education and slash federal funding would devastate millions of students. Join the call tonight to learn more! event.on24.com/wcc/r/486529...

Current American foreign policy is about draining power from the US and its allies, thereby creating atmospherics in which Donald Trump feels good and Elon Musk converts lost state capacity into personal profit. The weakness, in other words, is the point. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ...

I wish some of the biggest accounts here on Bluesky would use alt text more. It really doesn't take that much time to do. Here's a link to a quick explainer. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Someone please call winter’s mother. They need to leave.

Oh, FFS: DOGE dweebs don’t understand COBOL. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

This is huge—CMS has so much info. Thanks @charlesgaba.com @niemanlab.org and @angierasmussen.bsky.social !

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

Politico helped Trump launder lies during the campaign and he’s been on a week-long rampage against them anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What pains me the most about this week has been the sheer scope of the silence from the women’s sports world as trans women and girls are being banned.

I write a lot of poetry but rarely submit—not because of rejection but because it’s REALLY hard to figure out WHERE to submit! But an exhibit in Washington Hts about hair? That’s for me! Thank you, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance., for selecting my poem Raices!

Hey, cat lovers! This is a good time to keep your cat indoors—keep you *both* safe. 🐱😻

The way they say “the first President to attend the super bowl” like this is an achievement—although in this case maybe it is?

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

As someone who has studied autocratization elsewhere, I can tell you that you need to keep your eyes on THIS. Changes to the partisan balance of bodies overseeing elections or changes to the electoral system is key to how wannabe autocrats become actual autocrats. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

Y esto no para, tenemos a @romyngoldberg.bsky.social con @adriaq.bsky.social autora y @judithvaldesb.bsky.social ilustradora, de libros que ensalzan las raíces más profundas y entrañables. @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWIwinter25 #scbwi #kidlit

Part of the message I sent them: As a Jew, I’m deeply offended that you would make a deal with someone who just two weeks ago publicly did a Hitler salute.

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

“When the Supreme Court eventually weighs in on the order, we will not learn whether it is constitutional. We will learn whether the Supreme Court is prepared to follow the Constitution.”

I’ll be sharing a lot of these requests. We need a safe way for insiders to get word out and brave journalists to do it.

Hey NYers, an easy call/email for you today (legislation slated for vote 2/11). Link has detailed info as well as a place to look up your state reps.

Me, lurking at the SCBWI kidlit conference in NYC today.

calling is real. calls work. they don’t always get what you want — nothing in life does. that’s not a reason to not try, if you can.

Russ Vought promised donors that a second Trump admin would put career civil servants "in trauma," according to a recording of a private speech obtained by @documented.net and @propublica.org. It's now clear he wasn't bluffing.

CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS: Dígale a sus hijos de que si la migra llega a sus escuelas, no tienen que responder a las preguntas - incluso si un adulto les dice que está bien hablar.