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Let's see what happens. I'm an artist based in Oakland, CA. Aikidoka. Www.deborahyoon.com
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A plague a’ both houses!

👍🏻✊🏻🙃 Good @nickkristof.bsky.social on proven, specific,viral anti-autocracy resistance methods around the world. Like mockery & humor, focusing on corruption and individual victims. And how non-politicians (e.g Walesa, Havel, Aquino) become movement leaders. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/o...

Behold, this amazing group of ladies who just won @npr.org Tiny Desk competition: youtu.be/IBOPNgYJ9_w?...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Always a good idea. Also, working for public institutions like museums, libraries, schools.

April 30th is International Jazz Day. Why not try the following: 1. head to thejazztome.info 2. click on a year 3. click on a cool looking album cover 4. click "listen to this album" 5. read about the album you're hearing Jazz fandom offers an incredible payoff to the curious. #jazzsky #musicsky

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

The first person to discover a link between increased levels of CO2 and #globalwarming was a New Yorker named Eunice Newton Foote. Read her 1856 paper, and how she went unacknowledged for more than a century, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #earthday #climatechange

Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?

Oakland showed up. #handsoff

I want a jet ready to rush Cory Booker to South Carolina once he has broken the record so he can drop a microphone on Strom Thurmond's grave.

The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally come for Europe to once again try its hand at hosting the spirit of the age.” (via @jeffjarvis.bsky.social) [zeit.de]