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I went out today, bought a fresh watercolor sketchbook. I am two pages away from filling up my last one - the first sketchbook I've ever continued to use past 30%. The new sketchbook is bigger, and I'm going to combining painting and journalling in one place. 🎨✍️ It made me happy. That is all.

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Disgraced ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo’s now spent over $60 million of taxpayer money on his DARVO litigation against the brave women who spoke up about his sexual harassment. He is evil. Do not rank Cuomo. www.law.com/newyorklawjo...

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something to bear in mind: the us gov't is no stranger to disappearing citizens, esp protestors. they just usually don't brag about it so brazenly. thinking of DeAndre Joshua, Darren Seals, MarShawn McCarrel, Edward Crawford Jr, & Danye Jones today. don't forget them. & don't forgive their deaths.

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A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

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So thankful I went to this. Tried to leverage yt privilege to stop 🐷 from murdering a protestor by strangling & one punched me in the chest and knocked the wind out of me. TY to Mary, who saw my lips were blue and made me sit down. I intend to do it again. And again. And again.

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We demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. Hands off our students! ICE off our campuses! 📅 Today, Monday, March 10 🕓 4PM 📍Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC

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Absolutely fascinating that when I share posts from pro-🇵🇸 accounts on Instagram, they never quite finish uploading and no one ever sees them. Third time since the Nazis took office.

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Donald Trump won less than half of the popular vote—which, given the turnout, amounts to less than one-third of registered voters. His margin of victory was the tightest since 2000, the fourth tightest since 1940. So no, despite everything Trump claims, he does not have a "mandate" for any of this.

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Not a single soul backed up Al Green?! 😡 You're sitting there politely while the house burns around you? What a bunch of cowards. NOW IS THE TIME TO YELL. Deny. Disprupt. Depose.

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I know I'm a New Yorker* after more than a decade living here, because I feel viseral fury that Hulu named the show 'Deli Boys' and not 'Bodega Boys'. Get outta here with that shit. *occupied Lenapehoking

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Copeland, a disabled organizer and former policy analyst details their experience facing the lack of care in movement strategy around surviving the current administration. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE forgeorganizing.org/article/coll...

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At the end of Biden's administration, daily numbers on @resist.bot got down to only 2k, 3k in a 24 hours period. Today, over 47 thousand. 😍 I just restarted with @5calls.org as well. I can't make the government function. But I can make it really annoying for representatives to NOT do something.

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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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Today the NYC Campaign Finance Board announced our campaign will receive $2.82 million in matching funds. More New Yorkers have donated to our campaign than any other, by far. Now their small dollar donations will be turbocharged. We already had the momentum—now we'll have the resources to win.

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Flight attendants need massive raises.

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Thousands of people attended a Presidents Day protest in New York on Monday to oppose the Trump administration's policies, including major cuts to federal programs and staff. Demonstrations also took place in Washington, D.C., and other cities.

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I love when I wish for things and they've already happened 🤩📖

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ I will be first in line if @biidaasamose.bsky.social ever expands the concluding chapter As We Have Always Done into a book. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/eb00...

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a still relevent work that intro'd me to decolonizing culture in theory and practice. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a872...

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The vet gave Cat Damon exactly one stitch in a small cut, and now he has to spend ten days napping in the cone.

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Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass and Happy Anniversary of Captain James Cook’s death by Native Hawaiians today

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A friend pointed out Dems are very annoyed about all the calls, and that's good enough for me.

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Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #NoOtherLand is required viewing. boxd.it/8PaUTz

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WATCH AND CIRCULATE: Macklemore’s a real one for this video doing what the Democrats and their surrogates refuse to do youtu.be/sn9EKC9nqU4?...

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The Center for Journalism & Democracy that I founded at Howard U is launching its "Truth Over Power" training and speaker series. Up first, hands-on digital security training for journalists. Journalists: This free training will help you protect yourself & sources. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Is calling my reps an effective use of my activist spoons? As a millennial introvert calls are expensive 🥄🥄🥄. And my many, many calls during 45 and Biden were fruitless on every issue. My reps include both Schumer and Jeffries though.

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Submitted my petition to graduate 🎓😋

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Just switched my voter registration to affliate with the Dems so I can vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in the primary for mayor. I don't like having to switch registration, but Zohran has the right plans for the people of NYC.

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Students are pocketing "red cards" outlining undocumented immigrants' rights. Teachers are in encrypted chats, ready to signal sightings of immigration authorities. Volunteers escort undocumented kids to school. Together, the efforts paint a picture of NYC schools bracing for major disruptions.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I know I'm so late to the party, but wowwww does @nhannahjones.bsky.social throw a good party. It's been said a thousand times, but what an extraordinary work of journalism. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5ec5...

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Last time, you couldn't stop talking about seeing #LunaLuna. But tix were 💰 & I was saving for my next session with you. But I saw it today. Bought tickets as soon as I heard. Of course you loved it. Dance at your carnival of the absurd until we met again. I love you & I'm gonna miss you.

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This week's #MubiGo selection was a 1970's communist propaganda flick 👍🏼 with domestic violence that didn't age well 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 boxd.it/8GJhpz

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read the TWs before watching this film. The opening half was too long/slow, but this is an exquisitely sinister visual feast that leaves the viewer burdened with a terrible moral dilemma of who was actually evil. boxd.it/8G2tWf

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He is intentionally sowing chaos and despair. The theatrics wont distract me from the people here with me.

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I put together the mosiac lamp I tiled with my mom and sister at the Art Masterclass dot com class I got for the three of us as holiday gifts. My perfectionist struggled to trust the process and accept I was a beginner. But I'm proud of the result and will display it with joy.

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The fight is on the ground around me. Look up. How are my neighbors, especially the ones they don't want me to see? What is happening to my community while I doomscroll? I remind myself, again and again.

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Again and again, I remind myself. His orders get blocked by judges within hours. He wants us to think he has power that he doesn't and actually ✨give him that power because we believe he already has it.✨ He wants me to see the chaos and despair. I refuse.

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A dear friend entered hospice last night. She's been fighting in stage IV for over a decade. From the deepest, truest parts of my heart, fuck cancer. I love you, Sweet Sue 💔🦆

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First day of the final semester 📚 Final classes are predictive analytics, my thesis and a elective in urban sustainability 🌆🌳

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Sniffed the Amorphophallus gigas (aka corpse flower ⚰️🪷) at @brooklynbotanic.bsky.social this morning. Had the ripe pungent oder of overused and aged cat litter 😹

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I cried and was moved, no doubt. But this script (and the film) lacked internal conflict and subtlety. boxd.it/8ABf4T

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Saw @aiww.bsky.social's show 'What You See Is What You See' at Faurschou in Brooklyn. It was smart, sarcastic, and unflinching. Highly recommend.

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