S.O.S.
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Independent reporter, florist, steward of the land.
Mission: To rage and love against a dying world.
“I have to write. There’s nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.” ~Olamin
- Travel with a burner & keep your original in a faraday #safetravels
- Reposted by S.O.S.JUST IN: A federal judge has orderd the Badar Khan Suri may not be removed from the United States without further order of the court. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Reposted by S.O.S.The reason Civ 7 sucks is because they didn't have Luigi around to fix it
- Reposted by S.O.S.When you send innocent people to a foreign gulag, you are not fighting terror. You are practicing it.
- Reposted by S.O.S.To be clear: While Trump’s administration cannot unilaterally shutter the Department of Education without approval of Congress, starving the DOE has been a right-wing goal since the days of Jim Crow. This is a reckless and illegal move that puts 50 million students’ futures on the chopping block.
- Reposted by S.O.S.And trans people deserve life and dignity and that everyone must abandon ANY political party that dehumanizes them and scapegoats them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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- The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
- Reposted by S.O.S.Omg, US government, you’re like, obsessed with me or something. :flips hair: :cries:
- If you’re queer, you’re here, but also there in DHS’s surveillance www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...
- Reposted by S.O.S.Please RT this thread🗽⚖️: Nation’s Defense Bar Concerned Over Actions Against Covington & Burling, Citing Right to Counsel The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) expresses its deep concern regarding the recent actions taken against Covington & Burling,
- "You are exactly right in your call for negotiation,” he wrote. “Indeed, this is the purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront an issue.”
- Grand jury recommends abolishing Alabama Police department because of a 'culture of corruption' after 5 officers were arrested
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- Reposted by S.O.S.he's not trolling. he means what he says even when it makes no sense.
- Reposted by S.O.S.Ta-Nehisi Coates in Seattle about the Democratic Party in this moment: “If you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”
- Reposted by S.O.S.Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
- Fun fact, there was a lightbulb cartel that utilized planned obsolescence to shorten the lifespan of bulb tech, creating needless waste, entirely for profit. The cartel was incorporated by US companies in the 20s.
- Reposted by S.O.S.I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc
- Reposted by S.O.S.COVID is not just a respiratory virus. It’s not a cold. It’s not “mild”. It’s a multi system vascular virus that can do damage throughout your body. The more we learn about what it does to the heart, the more convinced we should be to mask up.
- Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) showed subclinical myocardial injury in 85% of a sample of Covid survivors with symptoms like shortness of breath and chest pain. Subclinical myocardial injury, thus, can be common in #LongCovid with such symptoms
- Reposted by S.O.S.Maybe you should just have some actual values and fight for those.
- Reposted by S.O.S.And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.
- This is what Musk & Trump are up to
- Reposted by S.O.S.The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.
- Reposted by S.O.S.WashPo [Feb 18] -- Kansas overrides Dem Gov. Laura Kelly's ban of pediatric affirming care bill. Follows a 2024 move in Ohio when lawmakers overrode Rep Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a similar ban. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
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- Reposted by S.O.S.JUST IN: Minnesota declares ‘state of emergency’ after outbreak of three diseases. Minnesota declared a state of emergency after three viral infections were detected at commercial farms, indicating a widespread bird flu outbreak which will result in an even larger egg shortage.
- Reposted by S.O.S.I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
- What will you do to protect this world? The soil, the creatures, the fauna, the people? What is more precious than life itself?
- Reposted by S.O.S.We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.
- Reposted by S.O.S.Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...
- Reposted by S.O.S.BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by S.O.S.JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by S.O.S.Super great that one of the major funding bodies that supports my physics research is now officially in opposition to me being the one to do it.
- Reposted by S.O.S.PJP's @profpasha.bsky.social talks about the importance of prison journalism and why incarcerated people deserve their stories to be just as loud as everyone else.
- Reposted by S.O.S.On Luigi Mangione’s next state court appearance, People Over Profit has called a protest “for healthcare reform & justice for Luigi Mangione” outside Manhattan Criminal Court. Per POPNYC, demo is for universal healthcare, an end to medical corruption, & against the “bogus charges” against Mangione.
- Reposted by S.O.S.A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.
- Reposted by S.O.S.Those swept up in raids are dedicated family members and employees, their lives deeply woven into their communities. None appeared to pose the risks to national security or public safety Trump promised he’d target during his campaign. #coup #resist calmatters.org/justice/2025...
- "These effects may be long-lasting. 'You won’t see the impact of that until 10 years from now, when you notice that there’s a gap of four years of data,' says Jacobs." www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/07/1...
- Reposted by S.O.S.A virus does not differentiate between parents who are anti-vaxxers and parents who just didn't get around to it. Make an appointment, it's still flu season.
- Reposted by S.O.S.They already took the DEI Office pages off their website. www.pbs.org/about/about-...
- Reposted by S.O.S.scoop: PBS is closing its DEI office in response to President Trump’s recent executive order. Note from CEO Paula Kerger
- Reposted by S.O.S."Israel had already displaced 90% and 80% of the populations Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps, respectively, leaving them nearly empty." #HandsOffPalestine mondoweiss.net/2025/02/isra...
- Reposted by S.O.S.This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!
- Reposted by S.O.S.Star Trek did say the 2020s were gonna be a little rough
- Reposted by S.O.S.I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
- Reposted by S.O.S.even newsmax doesn’t know how to spin this one www.newsmax.com/amp/newsfron...
- Reposted by S.O.S.Oops 😬
- Reposted by S.O.S.Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.
- Reposted by S.O.S.🚨 Israel is carrying out mass expulsions of Palestinians from their homes in the illegally occupied West Bank.
- Reposted by S.O.S."The C.I.A. sent an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order from President Trump to shrink the federal work force." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
- Reposted by S.O.S.The CIA might've just doxxed itself while sending the Trump administration an unclassified email containing a list of every person the CIA hired over the past 2 years.
- Reposted by S.O.S.Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
- Reposted by S.O.S.Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
- Gender-neutral IDs remain valid in Massachusetts, despite federal ban 🌈
- Reposted by S.O.S.Pandemics do not begin with official announcements. They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern." Pay attention.
- Reposted by S.O.S."Coup Klux Klan" feels like a keeper
- Reposted by S.O.S.It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate
