Jason Arday was nonspeaking until he was 11—his attackers left out that part of his story. I work with non speaking children & adults—many of the most brilliant writers I’ve had the joy of reading or learning from had complicated relationships with language & speech. Hold your loved ones close 💔

💙🏳️‍🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️‍🌈💙@thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · yesterday

Jason Arday. Enough is Enough. Enough of all the HATE. Please, spread the word. Thank you, Ayanna Sanaa Davis for sharing this on LinkedIn. Award winning autism advocate, Founder of Black Autism Acceptance Day, Host of Black Girl Diagnosed Podcast #Pinks

“Protesters in Biddeford call for ICE to leave Maine, be abolished after deadly shooting.” “They claim Senator Susan Collins should be held accountable for votes to fund ICE.” wgme.com/news/local/p...

Protesters in Biddeford call for ICE to leave Maine, be abolished after deadly shooting

Protesters are once again calling for ICE to leave Maine or even be abolished.

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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

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The days of Republicans controlling the Senate are numbered.

Will Bunch: They want you to become comfortably numb to their death cult. The lethal drone attacks by Trump's CIA on innocent Ecuadoran fisherman is one of the worst war crimes from a criminal regime. There needs to be justice. www.inquirer.com/opinion/cia-...

We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas | Will Bunch

Reports that CIA drones attacked fishing boats off the Galapagos Islands may be Trump’s worst war crime yet.

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Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The U.S. government has repeatedly insisted that no one — and, particularly, no children — have died because of its funding cuts. But the AP has documented the deaths of women and children from Myanmar to Nigeria.

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“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Witch Week was one of my favourite books as a kid. Even when I was little and reading a certain other far less talented writer we’ve all moved on from, I thought oh hey I’ve already the much better version of this book.

Marcia Parks@mzparks.bsky.social · 12h ago

Remembering Diana Wynne Jones, British author whose beautifully written fantasies bridge the gap between "traditional" children's fantasies and those more politically and socially aware. (Guardian obit). Numerous awards, including Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1996. #childrensbooks #kidlit

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Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance

The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.

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NO LIES 👇 DETECTED, PATTY......

Babies were found with dead brain tissue similar to what follows cancer and the kind of bleeding seen after a stroke. Their autopsies all came to the same conclusion: Their deaths could have been prevented with the long-standard vitamin K shot. (Published May)

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Looking at Trump align himself with a dictator and going, “who cares he always says weird stuff” is incredibly dangerous and wrong. This is his direct announcement to the world that he wants to be a dictator. There is nothing to laugh about today. This is the day you know which side you’re on.

Politics as usual is over.

Rep senate candidate Tafoya thinks that kidnapping a 5-year-old child in Minneapolis, separating him from his family and sending him off to a concentration camp in Texas is a commendable activity. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Michele Tafoya claims that Liam Ramos, who was detained in Minnesota by masked ICE as he returned home from pre-K and then flown to San Antonio, was “treated very humanely, very kindly by a couple of ICE enforcement agents when they couldn’t find his father, and they took him to get some food”

good to see a campaign appealing to anti-corruption in this way: as self-defense rather than pearl clutching

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ken Paxton stole someone’s $1,000 pen. He’ll steal your tax dollars. He’ll steal your healthcare. He’ll even steal your pen. I'll be a Senator who puts money in your pocket — and I’ll never put your pen in mine.

"Please, get us out of here. I have a 10-month old that depends on me."

La Resistencia@handle.invalid · 4d ago

In this video, it was midnight and people still had not eaten dinner. When the food came, it was horrible food which was rejected.

More than 140 people have joined the hunger strike at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, @laresistencianw.bsky.social announced just now. The hunger strikers' only demands are the bare necessities to live: edible food, meals on time, hygiene items and medical care.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Please, get us out of here. I have a 10-month old that depends on me."

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unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 3d ago

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

It's not about plagiarism. It's about the hounding. It's about them wanting to mob up on certain people, and it's predictable who those people will be. If they cared about intellectual theft, we wouldn't be living in the world we are living in. This is about a hierarchy of who deserves to exist.

Seattle to provide free breakfast & lunch to all public school students. “Seattle’s public school students will be eating for free this year after the City Council approved $3.6 million in funding for school breakfast and lunch this week." www.commondreams.org/news/katie-w...

Led by Mayor Katie Wilson, Seattle Celebrates Universal School Meals for All Students Starting This Year | Common Dreams

Seattle's city council used a budget surplus to enact Wilson's proposal to provide free breakfast and lunch to the city's 49,000 public school students.

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Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Me and @hcrichardson.bsky.social in conversation substack.com/@muellershew...

Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill

A recording from Allison Gill's live video

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www.commondreams.org/news/corpora... Researchers found prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients.

Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment | Common Dreams

The authors of a new report have called prior authorization---which allows insurers to overrule physicians to deny coverage---a "corporate care veto" and found it drains tens of billions of dollars ea...

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“News outlets Stars and Stripes and the Navy Times reported that there had been multiple attempts by crew to jump overboard, citing the deployment length as a cause.” “Nicole Conrad, whose son is serving aboard the Lincoln, told the outlet that she has not seen his face in seven months.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“‘Family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln…’ one reporter stated. ‘No, no, that ship is moving. No, they’re not,’ Trump interjected.”

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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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