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Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Gov. JB Pritzker

Gov. Tim Walz

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

I absolutely hate it here.

My favorite episode yet! Katie versus everybody!

We also did a case study on them in our strategy class. It’s sad to watch it crash and burn.

I don’t have words.

I see mine today and she’s literally the only hour I have where someone can hold processing space for me because my job is nothing but creating processing space for folks right now. Don’t feel bad, use your space! I’m sure they have theirs as well. 🖤

We learned that lesson last year

As an educator, I’m appalled and terrified by what’s coming. After reading P2025 last year, this has been like watching a train wreck happen in slow motion, wanting to get off the train but not having the means to do so. #edu #wearecooked

We’re so cooked.

My #Kobo needed a travel sleeve and I had the perfect fat quarter in my stash. It’s always a good day when two of my favorite activities come together for a joint dopamine session. I also might be slightly addicted to #sewing bags. 🖤

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Just saying.

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Where do Elon’s kids go to school?

If Y.A. dystopian literature taught me anything, there’s a 16 year old out there about to hear the hero’s call. The question is, will we all survive while they go through the journey? Time will tell.

It’s horrors are always a new adventure.

My Kobo came today! I love her so much! The page buttons are magical. The color? Fantastic.

It took me less than five minutes to turn it on, activate it, connect my library card, and start reading. I’m happy I made the switch and kicked Amazon to the curb.

#booksky #kobo #fuckbezos

Made it past the chaotic heel! My pattern was written for one sock - magic loop and I decided to do two at a time. I’m loving how these are turning out. Onward and toeward!
#skykal #knitsocks #knitting #2aat

Judge blocks OPM, Education Department from sharing personal info with DOGE The order is the most wide-ranging block on DOGE’s activities to date.

Big news for anyone with federal student loans: after we rang the alarm, a judge stopped Elon Musk and his team from seizing your personal data.

This is why we get in the fight.

Over 50 episodes of MTV Unplugged, many unavailable for over two decades, are now streaming on Paramount+ → cons.lv/feYgIU

Project 2025 was just the stuff they were willing to put into print.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

I need this joy RIGHT NOW

Today’s caring for myself looks like Emergent Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and working on my knitted socks. I needed the words “Nothing in nature is disposable.”

We are not disposable. We deserve love, care, and spaces for rest.

#knitsocks #joyisresistance

My bestie loved their very belated Christmas gift! She looks adorable in it!
Pattern: Wild Oleander Scarf
Yarn: Lion Brand Mandala

#crochet #fibersky #cowl

This. This was the joy my life needed right now.

As a limited-income, white, non-traditional student, with children DEI programs kept me persisting and retaining at my community college, state university, and private-religious grad school. I chose a career path to give back to the programs that helped me.

Now I might be jobless at anytime.

In the states, it’s rare for a #highereducation institution to sponsor and hire a staff member who is an international applicant. I’d love to hear from current higher education staff members in #canada and the #uk if it’s a possibility for me as a DEI #sapro in the US to look internationally.

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth