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🧵 I'm a high school teacher of senior honors and college prep English as well as AP Language and Composition in Chapin, SC. For years now l've been fighting censorship and advocating for the freedom to read. In 2023, Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me was removed in my classroom. #MomSky

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

This Passover hits deep.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

This calls for the Margaret Atwood truism: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Guns are the #1 cause of death for children & teens in the U.S. & these white gun industry executives are cheerfully celebrating a pro-gun industry administration that cares more about gun industry profits than our children’s lives. #KeepKidsSafe #EndGunViolence

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

South Carolina Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver is maintaining her stance on marginalizing people of color and the LGBTQ community and attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion measures. #MomSky (Included below are snippets of the memo.)

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump has been trying to bully Maine Governor Janet Mills. A fight he is not winning. Her unwillingness to back down, similar to Boston Mayor @wutrain.bsky.social, is a lesson that could be well learned by some universities and law firms in our midst. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/s...

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

1/5 “The key to challenging authoritarian regimes…is for citizens to decline to participate in immoral and illegal acts.” #MomSky

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Wouldn’t it be incredible if this amount of time and money was dedicated to building things that actually keep people safe? Imagine if this energy was invested in addressing housing, strengthening education and healthcare, and creating more youth programs? #MomSky

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I was so worried Trump would restart family separation at the border. He is doing it, just in a different way. Obviously through abducting immigrants, but also this… making immigrants afraid to go see their families, even at a time of mourning. It’s the same cruelty, just in another shape. #MomSky

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

And no matter when she is released, she will live with the trauma of this abduction for the rest of her life.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I know it’s been several weeks that have felt like years since Inauguration Day, but I still cannot comprehend Trump winning that damn election. My brain knows it but my heart doesn’t want to believe it.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I open the Boston Globe on my phone and these are the first three headlines I see. This is not what democracy looks like. This is what it looks like when cruelty dictates policy and hate dictates practice. #MomSky

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Immigrants are taxpayers. They contribute to our country through their labor and their tax dollars. They are now afraid that their contributions will be used against them. How cruel. #MomSky www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

RFK Jr. says he’s ending the “autism epidemic”—an epidemic that doesn’t exist. Straight out of the Trump playbook: invent a crisis so you never have to solve the real ones. #MomSky

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Precedence has been set Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported #MomSky

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

🚨CALL TO ACTION PETITION to STOP the SAVE Act "This bill could keep millions of people from being able to vote and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy – and it's just passed the House." #MomSky #HandsOffOurVote #HandsOffHerVote action.aclu.org/send-message...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

From the Boston Globe: “Lawyers for the Trump administration on Friday said they’re unable to provide information on the location and status of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.” Just when I thought I couldn’t be angrier at Trump… this.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

U.S. is now Nazi Germany. No warrant. No due process. We are all in danger of losing our rights. #MOMSky

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I can see it now. The people who holler the most about immigrants taking our jobs will also complain the loudest when their Cape vacations are ruined because no one is there to do the jobs. #MomSky

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Hey @bostonherald.bsky.social this is some real racist crap here. You have a long history of it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do better moving forward. So do better. #mapoli #bospoli

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Anyone else much happier back in the days when they never thought about the word tariff?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Guns kill people. That’s what they’re designed to do. Votes build democracy. That’s what they’re designed to do. But the GOP sees fit to regulate the hell out of access to votes and deregulate access to guns. We will all be less safe because of it. #MomSky

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

The Jewish community has long history of supporting immigrants and partnering with the Black community. Terrorizing immigrants and dismantling DEI in the name of antisemitism is a lie that is meant to divide our communities and disintegrate multiracial coalitions. It is a tool of white supremacy…

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“…the SAVE Act threatens election workers with up to five years in prison… if they register someone without the correct documents, even if that person is a citizen.” Jailing folks for helping people vote? Apparently guns are good but votes are bad. #MomSky www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The Jewish community has long history of supporting immigrants and partnering with the Black community. Terrorizing immigrants and dismantling DEI in the name of antisemitism is a lie that is meant to divide our communities and disintegrate multiracial coalitions. It is a tool of white supremacy…

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The museum was told that its grant was “no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the U.S.” Meaning: the lives and stories of Black people are not a priority and are not of national interest. Full on white supremacy. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/10/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I find myself wondering about the people who are good with the U.S. arbitrarily revoking student visas. How many of them have kids who study abroad? And think their kids should be entitled to study abroad? I bet it’s not an insignificant number.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments