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blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social
Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Non-profit extraordinaire, Gen-X, raconteur, fiesty yogi, and student of life. Writer. Send Harold's!
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Taking a beat to get the right facts still matters. The dude is scummy, but he wasn't the ICE agent in New Bedford. azmirror.com/briefs/milit...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Proud of my former client-employer. ⚖️ @harvard.edu

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Authoritarianism Consolidation 101: weaponize the tax services against civil society, universities, political opponents and dissidents.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

He did not deserve this. But he DID vote for it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 2 days ago • 993 comments

"People are going to die whether from the mindless automatons carrying out orders or the many ways this administration is looking to reduce the population, which now includes making it harder for poor, hungry people to get food."

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My latest on the blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/activism/pus...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Right, because Grandma is on X. This is corruption, plain and simple.

submitted 6 days ago • 618 comments

Not respecting history is going to be the end of this place.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

With all the chaos in Washington, it’s more important than ever that I have a chance to hear your thoughts and answer your questions. I'm excited to announce I'll be hosting two in-person town hall events next week: on Sunday 4/13 in the Rockland/Camden area, and on Monday 4/14 in Westbrook. (1/2)

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

It seems my colon is beautiful, no polyps, no nothing. I get to return again in 10 years for my next colonoscopy.

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Colonoscopy prep entails some level of privilege. I've only had 3 hours of sleep but I need to write this out.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Trump finally answers the question of "when was America great" and it's before we won two world wars, defeated the Nazis, ended segregation, learned to manage the business cycle, gave women the right to vote, or had a progressive income tax. Okie dokie!

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts has indefinitely blocked the court order requiring Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return tonight. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 10 days ago • 385 comments

Waiting for the first bottle of magnesium citrate to kick in. I took the day off, so I'm like, ok now!

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Today is colonoscopy prep day.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

I've been saying this. The fact that 2000 people from the Villages reportedly were protesting against Trump speaks to this. Solid Trump enclave in Florida. But when you fuck with the money. People have a tendency to wake up.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I want to like this site, but every single time I try to post consistently, inevitably, someone will say something that just irks my spirit. Someone read my latest blog post and asked if I had any offline organizing experience, and did I know the difference between an organizer and an activist?

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

submitted 11 days ago • 1672 comments

And this is why we keep our asses at home. Talking about this should be a collective movement but yall don’t know when to stop policing black and brown people.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Today at the protest downtown, white organizers with 50501 called the police on a vendor for selling Black Panther merchandise in their protest even though he only had a small table and stayed out of the public right of way. Here is the vendor’s statement:

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

Lol, I've been shaking my head all day over this. Threads has been on fire over this. Bless her lil heart. Apparently, she deleted her account.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

There's a lot of fear and fear mongering at this moment. I'm old enough to have lived through a few recessions, including 2008. Where I ended up filing bankruptcy. I'll just say this, no one knows what's going to happen because we've never quite been in this place. Breathe and ground.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Follow Shay and subscribe to her Patreon, allllll the wisdom and insight here. She might hurt your feelings because truth bombs but if she does the problem is you and you would do well to listen 😍.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My latest on the blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/activism/wha...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

How often are people needing to buy clothes, excluding folks with kids at home. Thrift stores, rummage sales, and yard sales are all great ways to obtain tariff free clothing.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

What percentage of people in the US even know how to sew? Perhaps people can just start there, lol.

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

I think this every day.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

A lot of the current organizing is being done by people new to organizing actions. As a result, they often aren't thinking big picture as far as let's not collect folks' info. They are using apps such as mobilize and others because they are considering ease of use, not oh shit, bad idea.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

I've been visiting with organizer colleagues across New England, and there is serious organizing and movement going on that isn't captured on social media. I get online, and it's cynicism and doom. Offline, I'm seeing deep concern, camaraderie, and care along with action.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

"Yarvin said that after a hypothetical authoritarian president was inaugurated in January, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April”."

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments