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brief thread. since we focus on the role of local institutions at Bolts, one thing we knew we wanted to do when Trump won was: ramp up our reporting on how local law enforcement is responding — & why it matters. it's still early days — but some important articles from our team as patterns emerge:

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If you or your children enjoy coloring books, check out this beautiful (and educational!) free coloring book about trispots—threatened fish that are endemic to the rivers of Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee: mcusercontent.com/7239378d247b...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

I have zero fucks left. open.substack.com/pub/patricem...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

When David Jefferson's wife fell ill, a friend went out of her way to help the family cope.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Jeff Taylor went from the pulpit to the Red Cross & then to a college non-profit. His alleged victims are now speaking out, and the FBI is investigating. Once again, NOT, a drag queen you MAGA bigots www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Several red state AGs including mine are suing to dismantle 504s in schools. Please, call your reps and AGs to demand they let all children learn in public schools. The end goal is to delete all special education services. All accommodations.

submitted 24 days ago • 91 comments

Month-over-month inflation just hit its highest level in a year, and Trump is blaming Biden. What's his excuse when it's up again in March?

submitted 25 days ago • 285 comments

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

This is your reminder to USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY THERE'S BOOKS THERE AND MOVIES MUSIC PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET IT'S ALSO FREE

submitted 30 days ago • 145 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

submitted 32 days ago • 284 comments

1-30-25 Musk’s Tesla is in free fall, and its balance sheet propped up by BIDEN greenhouse clean energy tax credits and Bitcoin, because he’s not selling enough product as consumers have stopped buying Tesla’s and he’s making less and less profit on each. Popok Takes a hard look at the alleged....

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

PSA!

submitted 39 days ago • 45 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 41 days ago • 1092 comments

Keep fighting. Keep dancing.

submitted 40 days ago • 155 comments

🔥🔥🔥🔥 @maddow.msnbc.com Kash Patel was the chief of staff for ACTING secretary of defense Chris Miller on January 6th and DENIED 14 calls for the National Guard and lied about it.

submitted 40 days ago • 247 comments

#Booksky: If you haven’t already, export your data from Goodreads (an Amazon company) and import it into StoryGraph, a book-tracking app founded and led by a Black woman.

submitted 41 days ago • 227 comments

Excellent post

submitted 41 days ago • 2083 comments

Never forget Trump's immediate description of the "heinous attack on the Capitol." He was "outraged by the violence and mayhem," and warned "to those who broke the law, you will pay." Resister homework: Share this with someone who follows no political news. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSBP...

submitted 42 days ago • 18 comments

TRUTH: The massive fire that destroyed Altadena was not a “forest fire.” The fire had nothing to do with forest management or water policy. Three main reasons the fire exploded: 1. Drought-like conditions 2. Very low relative humidity 3. Santa Ana winds reaching 100 mph (Video by Stuart Palley)

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Hi, ASL interpreter of 30 yrs & a person w/ Deaf family here. In response to the anti-ASL horseshit going around: ASL and English are not the same language. ASL has no written form. Reading English subs is not = to seeing ASL & many Deaf ppl need sign to fully understand info.

submitted 56 days ago • 243 comments

#Januarty #Artshare Day 12| pink I love experimenting with various fabrics, beads & threads. This textile illustration was created entirely by hand. I cut out tiny scraps & hand embroidered them into place. Please share. #fabriccollage #embroidery #birdart #flamingo @bsky.art #sewing #quilt #art

submitted 56 days ago • 70 comments

While LA firefighters were running out of water… Rick Caruso, the real estate developer and former L.A. mayoral candidate, hired private firefighters to save his upscale shopping center in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday night. The question is: did he use public water for this?

submitted 58 days ago • 1200 comments

Any good resources that people know where we can donate that help people who are displaced during this tragedy?

submitted 58 days ago • 232 comments

Bye, bitch.

submitted 59 days ago • 1210 comments

I refuse to have my sons and daughters go to war to take Saskatchewan. Stop Endless Republican Wars!

submitted 59 days ago • 419 comments

Good morning and Happy Monday to everyone who was disappointed with this year's election results, but will NOT be staging a January 6th insurrection beating cops and attacking the Capitol, not today or ANY day. We love our democracy too much for that.

submitted 62 days ago • 247 comments

Let's support them as best we can. 💙

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

How is that a publication like Rolling Stone gets it right when so many other news orgs are failing at real journalism & keeping it real—and so damn obvious about it?

submitted 72 days ago • 1027 comments

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

submitted 77 days ago • 34 comments

Wait does the press really think its their job to "bury" President Biden in interviews? That explains a whole lot to be honest. Anyways, watch our interview that has the corporate media whining here 👉 youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc?...

submitted 77 days ago • 99 comments

They cut pediatric cancer research out of the bill after President Musk got involved. Pediatric cancer research. Merry Christmas.

submitted 79 days ago • 423 comments

#MorningVibe You will not be punished FOR your anger. You will be punished BY your anger. ✨Gautama Buddha Respond to the foolishness thrown your way with intelligence. Be mindful. #TheNationalInspirer

submitted 79 days ago • 30 comments

Right?

submitted 79 days ago • 525 comments

Report this account pretending to be me: @realgabesanchez.bsky.social Thanks!

submitted 79 days ago • 126 comments

Sending you ALL my LOVE 🫶🏽

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Merry and Happy Happy. Here's a video Christmas Card from the Newberry house to yours ... My song, "On This Christmas Day."

submitted 81 days ago • 11 comments