brifacekillah.bsky.social
Former Broadway seamstress turned WIC Coordinator. #UBI #FoodEquity #OCD She/Her My opinions are mine not my employers.
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pretty pointless. They announced a march on March 15 www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
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augh exactly.
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yes, oof sorry to hear that. I have Nicolas Langworthy 🤮
I hope they have some good ideas tonight!
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nice! i'm in a very rural and red county so it's hard to get organized here.
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no, i got the link from my small town's democratic committee
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yes, i figured it would be like that though so i wasn't surprised.
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tbh i was a little tuned out. the resolution did pass the house last night so i'm not sure. maybe he was talking about the next round?
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hopefully the organizers on the call bring some energy
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This hits hard. I am only a year older than her and feel like i grew up with her.
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I've seen no reports or anything mentioning him so far. I asked him why he didn't vote tonight but he's not very active here so I doubt I will get an answer.
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@repraulgrijalva.bsky.social from Arizona
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we lost. it's down to 3 no votes but we don't have enough to beat them. ðŸ˜
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I'm not really sure why i made this thread, i guess just to document our slow progress. So thanks for reading if you got this far!
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She asked if one of her friends was black (he is absolutely a pasty white boy) and she expressed concern for two of her friends that are black. We talked about racism being very much alive today and that we don't judge or hate anyone. We have a long way to go, but i'm looking forward to our talks.
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She asked a bunch more questions and we went off on all sorts of tangents, at one point with me explaining the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and showing her sketches of what slave ships looked like. She took in every word i said, and kept asking questions.
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I explained to her that it's done on purpose, to make it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it was and that her Grandmas were alive at the same time, color photos absolutely exist, and that it wasn't that long ago. She couldn't believe it.
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"that guy in all the old pictures that made black and white people ok with each other". I told her black and white people are absolutely not ok with each other but i pulled up MLK's picture and she said "Yeah him!" Then i looked up "MLK color photos" and she was blown away they existed.
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There's a lot of catching up to do, and who knows what we can expect her to learn in school at this point, even in NY. Yesterday she came home and told me that she saw someone in her book today but she couldn't remember his name so she said
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Prior to this, we have never spoken to her about politics, racism, sexism, transphobia, or anything really. A privilege and a failure on our part. She is obsessed with learning about other countries and probably knows more than i do about some of their relationships. So we've been talking.
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Since then, she has come to me every night (partially to get out of going to bed on time) to ask me "What did Donald Trump do today?" and I have been brutally honest with her. She listens and takes it all to heart, but I never set her up to understand the implications of it all.
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and we do not support him in this house. She asked a few more questions and i was rather vaguely saying things like "he is taking away people's freedoms" and "he is trying to take over our country". She is smart as can be and knew there was more but didn't press her questions too much.
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I'll be there for ya'll that do! 🤣
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Bell bottoms came into style because of the Navy. They were a men's uniform. Both women and men adapted them as a sort of protest attire in the 60s and 70s.
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I am a WIC Coordinator in NY and as of today we are still fully funded. We are certainly worried but so far we are still ok.
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The cops are helping Elon. They are barring the federal employees from entering.
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yes and in a large part they spend it within their own communities, empowering neighborhoods too.
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A big reason why I first began understanding what a universal basic income could do for people was the many mental illness support groups that i went to in NYC from 2006-2012. All any of us really needed was money to get back on our feet after we fell. it's not enabling, it's empowering.
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And…
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stickers and pins/buttons, i think. my daughter also likes patches for her jean jacket but i think most kids like high quality waterproof stickers and enamel pins.
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Defeatism is for the privileged.
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my friends in college gave me this nickname and I've used it online ever since. that was probably circa 2005.
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no no, Polio's only job is to Make America Healthy Again. It's Polio plus forced pregnancies that Makes America Great Again.
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I thought about starting an OCDSky but I looked up #OCD and it's all just people joking about it or referring to being organized. Very disheartening. OCD is so misunderstood by society. Bipolar too. Nothing like having every move you make be criticized just because you're bipolar.
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Hehe I would totally keep it but I like junk. I would decorate it!