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Instructional Design | Higher Ed | Equity & Inclusion | Plant-Based Personal Chef | Historian | Writer | Books | Midwest

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Black text on light pink background: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Audre Lorde.”

Black text on light pink background: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Audre Lorde.”

Happy International Women’s Day!

08.03.2026 13:17 👍 105 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0
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DHS confirms ICE agent fatally shot US citizen in 2025 Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

DHS is only now admitting that one of their agents shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen, last March.

Another day, another DHS lie exposed. Congress must rein in this abusive, lawless agency.

25.02.2026 00:16 👍 588 🔁 235 💬 14 📌 8

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

24.02.2026 15:08 👍 11884 🔁 2359 💬 66 📌 134

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

21.02.2026 17:54 👍 3295 🔁 1066 💬 22 📌 0
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🚨Public libraries need your help! Newly-added language to SB 4 endangers the financial independence of public libraries, and could lead to them being defunded completely.

⏳ This bill is scheduled for Monday 2/23 - take action now!

20.02.2026 23:35 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 2

Absolutely! The Center I worked for was closed due to complying in advance and while it was a deep personal loss, it was a much deeper institutional loss that won’t be repaired anytime soon

19.02.2026 03:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A victory.

And….a reminder NOT to comply in advance.

19.02.2026 02:31 👍 537 🔁 116 💬 9 📌 4

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

18.02.2026 17:39 👍 41058 🔁 10834 💬 476 📌 1028

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

17.02.2026 00:37 👍 1668 🔁 436 💬 14 📌 0
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Sen Gaskill led efforts to slash our early voting window, which would lead to significantly longer voting wait times for voters - WITHOUT ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT!

Contact your Senator at 317-232-9400, or visit MADVoters.org/bill-tracker, and tell them to vote NO on HB 1359 as amended.

17.02.2026 02:07 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

My quote of the day

Kurt Vonnegut

15.02.2026 11:36 👍 192 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 0

People saying "but if we defined 'middle class' that way there would basically BE no middle class in America!!"

Me:

15.02.2026 14:31 👍 710 🔁 192 💬 2 📌 7

It’s really @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social who’s being unclear not @wajali.bsky.social tho

15.02.2026 04:28 👍 2056 🔁 462 💬 212 📌 37
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

15.02.2026 15:25 👍 13637 🔁 6252 💬 619 📌 349
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🚨 One of the best bills filed this session is on the verge of dying.
Help get SB 85 over the finish line by asking committee chairman Rep. Brad Barrett to add this bill to his committee’s schedule for Tuesday: h56@iga.in.gov or 317-232-9695.

#INLegis #indianastatehouse #madvoters #getmadindiana

15.02.2026 14:14 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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⁨📷⁩ ⁨Statehouse leaders have planned for the 2026 legislative session to conclude at the end of the month. Swipe to get a sneak peek of what’s coming up in the next 2 weeks!

🌐 Visit MADVoters.org/bill-tracker for the latest updates and schedule.

#indianastatehouse #madvoters #getmadindiana⁩

13.02.2026 15:22 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Pick.
A.
Side.

If you turn away from what's happening and have ANY political power, you've made your choice.

You're supporting the killing and kidnapping of innocent people.

And people around the US -- and the world -- are bearing witness.

25.01.2026 20:40 👍 2331 🔁 580 💬 33 📌 16

Every time you call out the lie.

Every time you call it murder.

You smack at totalitarian control.

Keep doing it.
Keep speaking the truth.
It matters.

09.01.2026 02:20 👍 1021 🔁 292 💬 16 📌 6

I feel like we’ve gone quite a few rounds of “this guy is unfortunately not the guy you want him to be,” and it never really sticks.

29.12.2025 12:25 👍 1186 🔁 169 💬 44 📌 2
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Meet Adam Kincaid: The Hidden Hand Behind the Texas GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab Read more here.

Meet the fascist who drew the redistricting map for Indiana.

And, naturally, he isn't even from Indiana.

(I just listened to the Indiana senate admit that "Adam Kincaid made the map" and that he didn't know where he was from).

Liar.

11.12.2025 19:15 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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List of Indiana House Republicans who just voted for mid-decade redistricting and the businesses they own. LIARS AND CHEATS, every last one of them.

11.12.2025 19:21 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

In case people forget. You should be boycotting Starbucks. Tomorrow starts their strike. Going to Starbucks is crossing picketing lines.

Be a better person and don’t go to Starbucks ✌🏼 it’s not that hard

12.11.2025 15:34 👍 581 🔁 217 💬 3 📌 32

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

07.11.2025 12:20 👍 5978 🔁 3006 💬 276 📌 143
Emergency Food & Childcare Crisis All-Call

Our friends @hoosieraction.bsky.social are hosting this important meeting next Tuesday.

secure.ngpvan.com/BgHMSQdqfE22...

07.11.2025 14:17 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background

Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

31.10.2025 09:56 👍 2196 🔁 543 💬 31 📌 99

NYC fam, pls get to the polls. Stop Cuomo.

29.10.2025 05:53 👍 250 🔁 75 💬 5 📌 0

40% of SNAP recipients are kids, 18% are elderly, 11% are disabled and of the rest, ~70% already have jobs. So unless your company’s hiring Junior Juice Box Interns, grandma and her walker, or knows how to fit more hours in a day, maybe cool it with the “just get a job” takes.

27.10.2025 00:53 👍 1431 🔁 477 💬 32 📌 14

YOUR PRESENCE IS PROTEST! ✊📣

Members of the community are mobilizing at the Statehouse in the coming days to urge lawmakers to vote NO to early redistricting.

Signs are encouraged, but remember they may be no larger than 24x24. No sticks allowed.

27.10.2025 12:35 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy.

This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.

18.10.2025 22:41 👍 2010 🔁 407 💬 24 📌 23
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11.10.2025 20:35 👍 33557 🔁 12821 💬 750 📌 683