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@ria748.bsky.social

❤Mom🧡mental health advocate💛Queer💚BLM💙recovering🩵chronically ill💜Lover of humans, nature, books, dogs, science, dinosaurs, travel, harm reduction, kindness, and coffee🩷

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Latest posts by ria748.bsky.social on Bluesky

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

28.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 43609    🔁 14458    💬 1591    📌 948

#NeverForget

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The saddest part and most frustrating part?

We had the advantage of the opportunity to learn from the mistakes made in Germany-

But our fellow citizens didn’t care.

They either voted for a proven madman or couldn’t be bothered at all.

26.01.2025 19:27 — 👍 249    🔁 86    💬 7    📌 7
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Anne Frank exhibit opening in New York amid US debate over antisemitism First full-scale replica of Frank’s attic annexe goes on show next week on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Anne Frank exhibit opening in New York amid US debate over antisemitism.

First full-scale replica of Frank’s attic annexe goes on show next week on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

#DoNotForget
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

25.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 217    🔁 82    💬 9    📌 9

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

25.01.2025 12:16 — 👍 26891    🔁 10534    💬 1886    📌 986
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If you don't 100% unequivocally support trans rights, unfollow me. You will find no comfort here.

24.01.2025 02:07 — 👍 16191    🔁 2497    💬 279    📌 196
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

22.01.2025 21:16 — 👍 93406    🔁 30357    💬 2440    📌 1763

The Revolution Will Not be Televised
-take more Polaroids, take pictures with film
- put an actual pen to actual paper
- talk to people in person
- preserve banned books and science books
- participate in community gardens
- run for office or school board in your town

21.01.2025 06:57 — 👍 10701    🔁 1767    💬 154    📌 60
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Trump Inauguration Ratings: 24.6 Million Viewers, Down From Both 2021 and 2017 24.6 million viewers watched Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration, down 27% from 2021 and 21% from 2017.

👏🏼🖕🏼

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

22.01.2025 02:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Banned Books ThriftBooks offers the largest selection of new and used banned books online. Discover a banned book title at the best price here.

Now's the time to stock up on your banned books!
Remember:
- physical media is best (because unless you own the PDF/Epub, Amazon can take it from you!)
- Shop local, thrift stores, used bookstores, or independent sellers
- Thriftbooks is not owned by Amazon and supports independent bookstores.

20.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 3034    🔁 715    💬 59    📌 33

Remember—if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.

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OPERATION 'TANK THE INAUGURATION'
To tank the inauguration TV ratings (something the orange guy values a lot) we were advised to keep the TV on but have it on HGTV, the Food Channel, or National Geographic - any channel that IS NOT broadcasting the inauguration.

Continued in comments below…👇

19.01.2025 23:19 — 👍 62    🔁 24    💬 9    📌 2
19.11.2024 02:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
EVER WONDERED 
WHAT YOU WOULD
HAVE DONE DURING
THE RISE OF FASCISM?

YOU’RE DOING IT 
RIGHT NOW.

Black and white background with a rose 
POPMOB

EVER WONDERED WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE RISE OF FASCISM? YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT NOW. Black and white background with a rose POPMOB

17.11.2024 15:35 — 👍 30    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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"Caged"
#raven #caged #portrait #surreal #surrealism #photomanipulation #skyart #manipulatedphoto #photoediting #art #creative #birdcage

17.11.2024 21:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’m also seriously contemplating spending a small fortune on physical books right now.

Banned books. Reference books. Classic books. I feel like a hard copy library is somehow very very essential and I know how doomsday that sounds but…yeah.

15.11.2024 14:39 — 👍 3265    🔁 162    💬 314    📌 19

I just learned that Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. An alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform (and yes it's really easy to transfer your lists from Goodreads to StoryGraph). You know, while we're moving things.

14.11.2024 19:53 — 👍 4910    🔁 1010    💬 166    📌 68

I can’t think of a single dystopian novel or movie that imagined our government filled not with aliens but ignorant conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, sex criminals and grifters.

14.11.2024 21:17 — 👍 26496    🔁 2424    💬 1151    📌 154
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Sums up the current state of the US politics

15.11.2024 16:40 — 👍 59940    🔁 6520    💬 698    📌 292
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Welcome to Blue Sky.

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