Mary Byron

Mary Byron

@mdbyron.bsky.social

Quilt shop owner, lover of cats and community

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

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Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

Important 🧵👇. Thanks @bambooshooti.bsky.social for your educational content. I learn so much from you.

Shooti@bambooshooti.bsky.social

#ResistanceRoots Owen Whitfield was born on this day in 1892 in Jonestown, Miss. He was a preacher, union organizer and civil rights activist who led the 1939 Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration, maintaining interracial solidarity by shifting the focus from race to class exploitation. /1

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Deb Haaland
@debhaalandnm.bsky.social

My grandparents survived the terrible abuse of the Federal Indian Boarding School Era. That trauma wasn't isolated to the past—it was carried down through my family all the way to me. And there are so many families like my own across Indian Country.

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦
@corrina.sheshed.rocks

🧡 September 30. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🇨🇦 Today we honour the children who never came home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. May we listen, learn, remember and continue the work of reconciliation. #EveryChildMatters #SheShed

Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

Thank you @eddsmitty.bsky.social for this important lesson. I’m afraid the conditions in today’s immigration concentration camps are eerily similar.

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ Attica Uprising—REVISITED 🧵 Fifty-five years ago today, the Attica Prison Uprising begins. For many, it is a story of resistance. We're going to do a deep dive and meet the men who led it. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/12/a...

themarshallproject.orgWhy ‘Attica Day’ Still MattersFor decades, New York prisoners have refused meals on Sept. 13 to mark the end of the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Inside a ritual in decline.

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Shooti
@bambooshooti.bsky.social

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1988: Lee Roy Young is sworn in as the first Black Texas Ranger. The Texas Rangers weren’t just segregated within their ranks. They had a history of enforcing white racial hegemony across the state. Young’s appointment altered the course of the agency’s history.

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

🧵 I'm going to clarify why the Black community has had it with the wholesale tap dancing taking place in America today—be it in politics and/or across social media platforms. While I have no problem with Black conservatives—the "performing" for racist whites is the issue. (cont)

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 "Black Is Beautiful" wasn't just a slogan—it was a powerful movement. It shaped Black identity and more. Today—you will meet the movers and shakers behind this cultural revolution. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

I love learning about the people who feed me. Thank you @ufw.bsky.social for these profiles!

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social

"Martin" likes his work in the sweet potato workers in Merced county. He gets up at 3am and begins work at 4 to avoid the heat. We take the sweet potatoes from the conveyor belt and sort them by size and quality. We have to be careful and precise with this work." #WeFeedYou

Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

If you’re not following @eddsmitty.bsky.social, you are missing the hard history they don’t want you to know. Thank you for another important lesson. 👇👇

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Did you know that Puerto Rico became a U.S. laboratory for reproductive control, sterilization, eugenics—and the birth‑control pill? It's true. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory digpodcast.org/2019/05/12/c...

digpodcast.orgChoice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto RicoIn 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to en…

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Zinn Education Project
@zinnedproject.bsky.social

#tdih 2016 Philando Castile was shot to death 💔 by a police officer in a suburb of Saint Paul, Minn., at a traffic stop. Castile was known as “Mr. Phil” to students at the elementary school where he was a nutrition supervisor. #BlackLivesMatter #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ph...

zinnedproject.orgJuly 6, 2016: Philando Castile is Killed by PolicePhilando Castile, an African American, was shot to death by a police officer at a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Castile had worked as a nutritional supervisor at an elementary school.
Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

👇👇👇 Thank you for telling the story of this hero @eddsmitty.bsky.social I look forward to your posts!

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 He was one of the most decorated U.S. soldiers of the Vietnam War—yet many people never heard of him. Let me introduce you to Jorge Otero Barreto—the Puerto Rican Rambo. Pull up a seat.🪑 (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Ohio Capital Journal
@ohiocapitaljournal.com

President Donald Trump derailed a housing overhaul that he was set to sign into law Wednesday, canceling a signing ceremony for the broadly popular bipartisan bill until Congress passes an election security measure ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/r...

ohiocapitaljournal.comTrump spikes housing bill at last minute, refusing to sign until SAVE America Act passes • Ohio Capital JournalPresident Donald Trump derailed a housing overhaul that he was set to sign into law Wednesday, canceling a signing ceremony for the broadly popular bipartisan bill until Congress passes an election…

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Mark Hamill
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 There is well-documented historical proof that some police officers have framed Black and brown people by planting weapons or drugs. Today, we will go over some high profile cases. Pull up a 🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

👇👇👇 @eddsmitty.bsky.social bringing us TRUTH this morning. Thank you!!

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

For the model-minorities who love to dump on Black Americans: You didn't have our history. It was Black people who paved the way for your family to be here via the Civil Rights Movement and—as a result—the Immigration Act of 1965 was signed into law. www.history.com/articles/imm...

history.comHow the Immigration Act of 1965 Changed the Face of America | HISTORYThe act put an end to long-standing national-origin quotas that had favored those from northern and western Europe.

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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social

It was 2pm and 88° in Lamont CA where these farm workers were harvesting broccoli. This crew was hand-cutting broccoli heads and loading them onto conveyor system. #WeFeedYou

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
@theradr.bsky.social

🧱 happy Pride month 🧱 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱 and remember that us olds were the ones with the slogan -- not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you 😘 (not you, specifically, presumably) the queer fight against fascism has been long we have good tools joy is one-- but it's not a joy that forgets

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derek guy
@dieworkwear.bsky.social

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

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Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

time.comThe Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day StartedHistorians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

C'mon, California—not him! Chad Bianco led a culture of cover-ups related to inmate deaths on his watch according to whistleblower testimony. You can expect more of the same if he's elected CA's Governor. #XavierBecerraForGovernor @XavierBecerra.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

usatoday.comAfter an epidemic of jail deaths, this CA sheriff is running for governorA former captain under Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco alleges cover-ups and retaliation in a lawsuit and exclusive interview.

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company was the only all‑Black Ranger unit in U.S. history. They fought two battles at once: the enemy in Korea — and racism in their own Army. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory aaregistry.org/story/the-2n...

aaregistry.orgThe 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) is Formed*On this date in 1950, the 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was formed. This unit was a Ranger light infantry company of the United States Army active during the Korean War. As a small special o...

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MTgeo
@dhann.bsky.social

Montana GOP financially backs Wilson for SupCo, opposes nonpartisan judicial elections dailymontanan.com/2026/04/08/m... Montanans - please sign the petition for CI-132, the ballot initiative to protect Montana voters’ 90-year right to nonpartisan judicial elections.

dailymontanan.comMontana GOP financially backs Wilson for SupCo, opposes nonpartisan judicial elections • Daily MontananRepublican Party donated $20K to Wilson, due to a new Montana law allowing more direct political action in court races
Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

This is an amazing 🧵 I grew up Catholic, left the Church when I was old enough to understand the misogyny. Love the inside baseball!

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Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

I love the content @eddsmitty.bsky.social shares to educate us. This is so relevant to where we are right now still policing the movement of brown and black people. White people never stopped doing this.

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Many of us know of Jim Crow Laws(JCL). For the uninformed, it was a caste system that relegated Black people to second class citizens that lasted 100 years. What many people were(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory americarewind.com/13-jim-crow-...

americarewind.com13 Jim Crow Laws That Shock the Nation in Retrospect – America Rewind

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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social

"Raul" is working in the wine grapes on CAs Central Coast. He's lowering the wires so he can prune the vines without cutting the support wires. He has to exert a great deal of force to do this and he comments "It is very strenuous work." #WeFeedYou

Mary Byron
@mdbyron.bsky.social

Today’s important history lesson courtesy of the awesome @eddsmitty.bsky.social

Eddie Smith@eddsmitty.bsky.social

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Some of you may be old enough to remember this. In 1951, Harvey Clark Jr., a Black WWII veteran, rented an apartment in all-White Cicero, IL. When he tried to move in, local police physically(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory