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@maaaans.bsky.social

South Asian Midwesterner living in Oakland. Organizer & researcher. Often thinking about a free Palestine, org structure & culture, labor, direct action, anti-Hindutva work, bridging, and how to be kinder to each other. They/them.

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screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

he's right and he's right to say it

25.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 33812    πŸ” 6465    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 171

Therefore, inviting people you don’t usually talk to or agree with to discuss this moment and pay attention is essential. Let’s focus on where we agree, we can work though tensions later as much as possible, huge numbers are needed to stop authoritarianism and huge numbers are furious!

08.06.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

07.06.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 28508    πŸ” 8657    πŸ’¬ 317    πŸ“Œ 253

Mini shaker.

Can we make East Bay Earthquake Bluesky happen?

02.06.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is β€œbring back that one innocent guy” and not β€œWHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

16.04.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 14675    πŸ” 3526    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 283

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

09.04.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 23477    πŸ” 4911    πŸ’¬ 291    πŸ“Œ 239
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California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers found.

California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether, a new study found.

13.02.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4169    πŸ” 773    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 68
Twitter screenshot of two posts:


Jersey Noah @JerseyNoahx

Today, a trans man received his documents back from a Massachusetts passport agency completely destroyed. His passport renewal, birth certificate, and legal gender/ name change order are shredded and burned. The documents arrived in a sealed UPS package

Second tweet:
This is the passport he received:
(Picture of a very defaced and torn us passport)

Twitter screenshot of two posts: Jersey Noah @JerseyNoahx Today, a trans man received his documents back from a Massachusetts passport agency completely destroyed. His passport renewal, birth certificate, and legal gender/ name change order are shredded and burned. The documents arrived in a sealed UPS package Second tweet: This is the passport he received: (Picture of a very defaced and torn us passport)

Reposting from Jersey Noah on twitter. Seems bad! Thread:

13.02.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 488    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 34
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Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events Company says listed holidays were not β€˜sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts

Remember all those warnings about β€œcomplying in advance”? This is what complying in advance looks like.

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

12.02.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 288    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
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The Corporate Coup in Global Context

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall

Monday, February 17th at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

12.02.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Federal employees union grows to record size amid DOGE attacks β€” and other labor news β€’ Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Membership swells as federal employee unions confront DOGE attacks; dairy farmer faces rare crimina...

The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, has now grown to a record size of 319,233 active members.

14,000 new members joined in the past five weeks.

That’s nearly as many as the previous 12 months.

minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/07/f...

12.02.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1974    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 44

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

10.02.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 116909    πŸ” 21220    πŸ’¬ 3702    πŸ“Œ 1094

I want the Eagles to win because I want my fictional friends at Abbott Elementary to be happy

10.02.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I’m gonna be honest, I had a lot of possible wild shit on my bingo card for this administration, but affirmative action for Afrikaners was not one of them.

08.02.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban.

Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

07.02.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7209    πŸ” 1610    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 75
ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours

ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours

ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours
theonion.com/ice-pro...

07.02.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3467    πŸ” 295    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 8

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

07.02.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 25699    πŸ” 7986    πŸ’¬ 896    πŸ“Œ 404
C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People
The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

07.02.2025 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2965    πŸ” 1330    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 119
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Miami-Dade teacher with DACA faces deportation after being detained by ICE A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher is facing deportation after they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, the teacher’s union confirmed Thursday.

It was never, has never, & will never be about β€œcriminals.” When administrations carry out mass deportations, their targets are immigrants they consider low-hanging fruit: people they can detain at hearings & check-ins. People on parole. Cities with large populations of undocumented immigrants.

07.02.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department.

People do not like Elon.

04.02.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8666    πŸ” 1739    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 76

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

31.01.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 20147    πŸ” 2611    πŸ’¬ 329    πŸ“Œ 62

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks.

Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

30.01.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 53768    πŸ” 7666    πŸ’¬ 1070    πŸ“Œ 527
Headline from reductress.com that reads β€œ'Joy Is an Act of Resistance!' Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance”, above a photo of a blonde woman wearing a denim dress and a wide brimmed hat, sitting on a stoop and smiling at the camera

Headline from reductress.com that reads β€œ'Joy Is an Act of Resistance!' Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance”, above a photo of a blonde woman wearing a denim dress and a wide brimmed hat, sitting on a stoop and smiling at the camera

30.01.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6898    πŸ” 1072    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 47

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.

Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.

We are not going anywhere.

Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.

29.01.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 8641    πŸ” 2130    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 59