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Involved Jersey City community member. Pushing fully funded & equitable schools, deconstructing Florida lies we were raised with, moving further to the left every day. Writing, teaching, organizing.
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Is my power company a motivational speaker? PSE&G: Power Restored Back on? Reply ENERGIZED. Still OFF? Reply OFF. Unsure? Reply IDK. Text STOP to cancel text messages.

At least 51 people were killed and more than 200 others injured by Israeli fire as they waited for aid trucks to arrive in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

Hey @cnn.com, ‘we will kill you’ is not a “stern warning”. It’s a death threat. A sheriff is threatening the lives of the community he swore an oath to protect. For exercising their rights to peacefully assemble. Stop being stenographers for fascists.

It must be terrible to think you know what is causing your life to be hard, vote to address that, then realize that wasn’t the problem. And now your life is worse. Whatever you are afraid of confronting, I promise it’s so much easier than living in the dark about how our country and world operate.

I hate that they are re-kidnapping these ICE detainees who escaped.

The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/ A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN. And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.

My grandmother (96yo) broke her neck and finally agreed to go to a nursing home. Mom is cleaning out her place & sent me this pic. My grandfather, who quit Dickinson High School at 16 to join WW2. Then worked for Ma Bell & retired w/ his FULL SALARY AS HIS PENSION. Workers deserve that again.

What scares me more than almost anything else? Evangelicals who sincerely believe the end of the world would be really great, actually, and who then get to work trying to make it happen.

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Every banned book leaves children more vulnerable to abuse. If you can’t read and talk about it you can’t identify it. Books about puberty, books that talk about consent, rape, physical abuse, emotional abuse etc. Every day a pastor is arrested for child sex abuse but Christians want to ban books.

“I have shot video all over the U.S., all over the UK, and in Japan. I’ve never seen anything that bad,” Wilson said. “The amount, the size of the plume…it’s really, just horrible.”

Jesus we need freedom schools in every state every summer. This is wretched.

One hundred percent. Developing chronic foot pain has really brought home the fact that every person living without disability is only temporary abled.

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“Jacksonville probably has like 10 abandoned schools. If you go to any small town there’s an abandoned school.” Did not expect an episode about urban exploration to break my public school heart. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

In 2019 we were accidentally in Belfast for 12th night. We were struck by how much it was like a maga rally. The loyalists were marching for Brexit. They were setting fire to Irish flags and palates. Hatred of anyone not exactly like you at the heart of it. Confederates wishing for an uglier time.

Is this public safety?

I will never, ever stop reminding people that Liz Bruenig once called me "incapable of love" because i said i expect my partner to do some of the housework.

"This is the total dismantling and annihilation of Gaza's population. That's what we are witness to". Rohan Talbot from Medical Aid for Palestinians at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee this afternoon👇

At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown. He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

Honey, I found where all the tiny slurs are coming from.

if there’s one pleasure i wish i could convey to younger people it’s the feeling of leaving the house with this device knowing you’ll be listening to Garbage’s self-titled debut the entire day and won’t have the option of a different album

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

White Christianity is to blame for so much.

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My husband did a radio show in Alabama in the late 90s. He would get hate letters and read them on the air. One particularly memorable one started with “Dear N——- Lover”

"Overall, if one included all the books sold in the US, indie bookstores account for about 4% of those sales." - I didn't know this. open.substack.com/pub/notesfro...

The first and easiest rung of abolishing the police should be county sheriffs departments. Why does each town need police AND also county cops. We can start with Hudson County New Jersey.

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

This Wednesday at 4-5:30 PM ET: If you’ll be working with young people this summer, we invite you to join us for this online session where we’ll be walking you through our new resource that compiles abolitionist activities and tools to use with young people. Learn more + join us: bit.ly/abosummer

#Florida sheriff who threatened to kill "No Kings" protesters has a history of corruption, racial profiling and bribery accusations www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...

People will deadass try to say hating queers to death and believing your religion condones any willful violence "isn't political"

State can seat grand jury to probe clergy sex abuse, New Jersey’s top court rules — "This institution — and any other, not just the church — that deals with the public should not be above the law or free from public accountability." newjerseymonitor.com/2025/06/16/s...

Was anyone else in New Jersey joining the mass movement immigration zoom? It was supposed to start at 5. Wondering if it got moved/canceled.