Christine Shultz

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important:

Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

#surviving

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

Not going to lie, this is one of the hardest times of my life. Going through divorce after 18 years with one person and at the holidays when the kids are with him. How do you all cope with these things? #copingskills

If you’d told me on Jan 6th 2021 that the man responsible for that horrific attack would end up returning to the office he tried to steal that day, and that he’d do so after calling the attackers “heroes” & “hostages” he was going to pardon, I’d have thought you were out of your damn mind.

And yet…

It’s a #madworld

And the Department of Education is going to be dismantled 💔

Twitter was bought and dismantled to remove the influence we all had on our own governance and with each other. We aren't just building community or reading the news on #BlueSky , we are learning and with information comes the ability to prepare, adapt, and overcome. knowledge is power.

Twitter didn't gain relevance by being the biggest platform, it gained relevancy through the quality of the content and individuals. The main goal for everyone here should be to encourage global defender, media, and establishment accounts to transition to #BlueSky. That'll provide legitimacy.

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The last slide of the presentation I gave to Twitter in my proposal for how to build Bluesky.

2. Here's an image from a presentation I gave to Twitter, representing the Twitter bird freed from a closed platform to fly in Bluesky's open ecosystem.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Okay, Day. Let’s do this!

“bluesky is an echo chamber” the echo is sanity.

Let's learn from history....

YouTube video by Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams How Do We Get Through This? Stacey Abrams on Finding New Strategies for Future Elections

Excellent episode about where we are and what needs to happen: youtu.be/U4YfxckXnSU?... . With @hcrichardson.bsky.social

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly BlueSky for Beginners

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.

I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.

Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

It’s not me…

If you can’t leave the leaves, move them to the Pumpkin & Pollinator Garden.
#LeaveTheLeaves

Friendly reminder as more and more leaves fall from the trees.

#LeaveTheLeaves!

You’ll have more fireflies, butterflies, and bees. You’ll have better soil. Your plants will thank you.

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Came over from FB

Palm Springs OKs $5.9 Million in Reparations for Black and Latino Families Whose Homes the City Burned | KQED In a unanimous vote, the City Council approved a settlement offer of $5.9 million to an estimated 1,200 surviving former residents and descendants of a Black and Latino neighborhood the city burned do...

In a historic move, the Palm Springs City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to approve a settlement offer for the surviving former residents and descendants of a Black and Latino neighborhood that the city burned to the ground 60 years ago to make way for commercial development.

Of misogyny, Musk, and men Women are not okay. We're furious.

“Women are walking around, suspicious and guarded and apoplectic, knowing that some in our families or neighborhoods voted us back into second-class status, and wondering what else they’re ready to go along with.”

By me.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I used to love Twitter before it was ruined. So grateful people are finding their way here!

We’ve gone off the rails…

“In moments like this, our salvation will come from the local and state level.” Thank you Pete Buttigieg,
United States Secretary of Transportation

Democracy Playbook 2021: 10 Commitments for Advancing Democracy To advance a democratic renewal locally, nationally, and globally will require effort, collaboration, and commitment.

It’s ok to just feel your feelings post-election— at least for a while

But when you are ready, here are 10 steps to protect US democracy from our Democracy Playbook

A thread👇
www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

US judge declares Louisiana's Ten Commandments law unconstitutional A federal judge on Tuesday declared unconstitutional a Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms in the Southern state.

Louisiana's Ten Commandments law 'unconstitutional' - judge.

www.reuters.com/world/us/lou...