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elenaperez.bsky.social
Mom, urban homesteader, geek, queer, animal lover, terminally online feral goblin, proud member of the professional left.
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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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I’ve started answering phone calls that open, “Is this [name]?” With: “If my name you want to see, then answer me these questions 3: Who are you? Why are you calling me? What is the average airspeed of an unladen swallow?” Which I feel is a cut above my former, “Who are you & what do you want?”

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i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.

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"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement." labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

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This is 100% the best thread on the Medicaid & SNAP cuts and how to actually stop them. I’m going to add my, “who might be actually movable” list under this to help people who want to prioritize who to call, with the caveat that constituent calls are what matters

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Trump administration is trying to delay this deadline until after Bukele has left the US SCOTUS issued a 4 page ruling, 2 1/2 pages were Sotomayor's statement. Shouldn't take days to unpack that. And, Judge XInis asked them to answer some basic questions.

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I no longer live in the south but this is my favorite southern holiday! A day replete with the hope and promise that the south can be a better place. It's also a great day to learn and sing "Marching Through Georgia"

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I love me some turnips, and I spent years figuring out how to feed myself and my kid on $1/meal, so I know from frugal eating, but it’s not as simple as reading a single article or picking up some neeps at the store

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This is high art

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You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

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So proud of Trump stronghold Knoxville, TN for a massive turnout that stretches at least six city blocks! cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

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Belfast, Maine. 😭 There are like 6-7k people in this entire town. (reposted with alt text)

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Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.

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CHATTANOOGA…

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"We are the guardrails now" – the Raging Grannies (including my mom!) - at Hands Off protest in Madison

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😂 I love this so much! Thanks for being out there today!

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