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B Smith

@Aobius

I work with refugees. Historian. I believe in humanitarian action, in helping others, in making society better for the most marginalized.

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B Smith@Aobius·
Police brutality Unequal education Maternal mortality Child welfare involvement These are all systems in which, and are not an exhaustive list, of the ways in which systemic racism is *quantifiable*. This is what we want with BLM. This is what needs changing. Not murals painted
NowThis Impact@nowthisimpact

Black women are 243% more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications than white women — this father brought his heartbreaking story to Congress to change that

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@mcnuggetmel So, why is it that other countries who don't use homework continue to outperform our students?
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✨ Mel✨@mcnuggetmel·
Hi teacher here, so the actual issue is the parents and lack of effort at home… I have students that don’t do any hw, don’t do the projects, don’t study etc and that’s a direct relation to lack of parent involvement. I can teach all day, I can sit down 1:1 with a student but
Dennis Hipples@CuzzinDennis619

@reyxmarie maybe the teachers would get paid more if they were better at their jobs. the amount of kids graduating now a days who barely understand basic curriculum is at an alarming rate.

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B Smith@Aobius·
@KeruboSk Depends on the day. But I *am* happy knowing I didn't bring a kid into this hell hole that we have created for them to live worse lives. Are you happy outside of your child? Do you have an existence or find happiness in the world that isn't about them?
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Sophia ❣️@KeruboSk·
People with no kids… be honest, are y’all actually happy?
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⚡︎@_sorrengailll·
Lowkey wanna see AI crash the same way NFTs did 😭
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sarah@sahouraxo·
BREAKING: Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages. This is not a battlefield target. It is a critical water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide.
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Tom Steyer@TomSteyer·
Judge me by my enemies. Corporations like Chevron, PG&E, and Meta are spending nearly $50 million against me—and only me—because I'm the only candidate who will take on the corporate interests ripping off working people and families. Game on.
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Israel Exposed
Israel Exposed@xIsraelExposedx·
President Truman explains that Zionists wanted the whole of Palestine and that the peace deal was a scam to take the land in small doses. May 14, 1948.
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B Smith@Aobius·
Along with veterans, former foster kids are one of the biggest populations of homeless folks in this country. PLEASE spend my tax dollars giving them all a safety net of a basic human need. Stop sending my money to Israel to commit genocide and spend it on youth here
Mike Young@micyoung75

The “big beautiful bill” cut $187 billion from SNAP while extending tax breaks for wealthier Americans and corporations. Here is what that produces at the individual level. A young adult who aged out of foster care at 18 - no family to call, no one to navigate the paperwork with - must now document 80 hours per month of work, training, or volunteering to keep food benefits. Job hunting does not count toward those 80 hours. Miss the threshold for three months: lose SNAP eligibility for three years. The prior exemption protecting former foster youth from this time limit is gone. A Brookings Institute researcher who studies safety net policy put it plainly: young people “don’t turn 18 and are given a job.” This group is more likely than any other to be penalized under these rules - and they’re the ones with the least to fall back on. A quarter of former foster youth become homeless during the transition to adulthood. They are subject to the new requirements regardless. Indiana’s DCS has documented the challenges facing foster youth aging out of the system for years. The mechanism above is not hypothetical - it is coming for a real population of Hoosiers. Meanwhile, states face a financial incentive starting in 2027 to drop complicated recipients rather than help them meet requirements. Arizona has already removed nearly 500,000 people from its rolls. The clock is running everywhere.

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Clarence Hill Jr
Clarence Hill Jr@clarencehilljr·
Perfect reminder about this administration on Memorial Day Powell was a republican too Denouncing. Racism is not political And supporting and/or ignoring racist policies is not just a difference of opinion
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B Smith@Aobius·
@suboxoneshawty Some people hate sand more than they hate the scorching. Because with sand you have to go wash off before heading to do other things. It's like a pool. 🤷‍♀️ Lucky for Chicago folks - they have both a concrete and sand beaches and so people get to choose.
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Give A Shit About Nature
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature·
An owl can eat over 1,000 rodents in a year. If you poison the rodents, you poison the owl. And almost every raptor in the US is already being poisoned. A 2020 Tufts Wildlife Clinic study found that 100% of the red-tailed hawks they tested were positive for anticoagulant rodenticides. Every single bird. A follow-up study of 46 hawks, owls, foxes, and coyotes from a Massachusetts rehab center between 2022 and 2024 found the same thing: 100% had been poisoned. Rat poison works by preventing blood clotting. The rodent doesn't die immediately. It bleeds internally for days, becomes lethargic and easy to catch, and gets eaten by something hungry. The poison moves up the food web in their gut, their liver, their carcass. A single bait box can take out an owl, a hawk, a fox, even a bobcat. The pests you're worried about (mice, rats, voles) are the same pests an owl can take 1,000 of in a year, for free, forever, if you let her. Use snap traps indoors only away from pets. Seal the entry points and lock food away. Put up an owl box. Keep cats inside (they get poisoned eating poisoned rodents too). Rat poison sales need to drop to zero.
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B Smith@Aobius·
Your random thing of the day to learn: all bagpipes (accordions, Scottish Highland bagpipes, Central and Eastern European bag pipes, etc) ALL originate in what is now Iraq. One of the oldest types of instruments
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Talia Ben-Ora
Talia Ben-Ora@taliaotg·
@Aobius which led folks to try blocking ICE from transporting people, as that is how ICE is believed to be breaking the strike.
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Talia Ben-Ora@taliaotg·
ICE back at Delaney Hall, arriving in a bearcat followed by about 6 SUVs. Agents are wearing ballistic helmets, some with batons out holding a line as others behind remove a barricade. About two dozen agents in total.
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Talia Ben-Ora@taliaotg·
@Aobius Additionally, there’s been ongoing support for people newly released and newly brought to Delaney for the past year (since Trump’s deportation tear started up) so there was infrastructure for folks to support the strikers. That support grew with news of the strike,
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