Alba Machado
@albamachado.bsky.social
Booklover and bookseller at albasbooks.com 📚💕 (she/her)
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Dolores Huerta’s legacy reminds us that justice is never handed down from those in power—it is built by the people who organize, resist, and refuse to accept that inequality is inevitable.
Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies
She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Dolores Huerta’s legacy reminds us that justice is never handed down from those in power—it is built by the people who organize, resist, and refuse to accept that inequality is inevitable.
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Had re-activated Facebook to help hire babysitters and do marketplace stuff but even that feels gross now. What a nightmare.
If you haven't been following the new Meta terms discussion, according to their new terms, anything you post and anything on any site you link to, even if it isn't your site, they will be claiming the right to use to train their "AI" as of October 30th.
Since you can’t talk to a person, I asked the Meta AI business assistant if the new terms coming into effect on Oct 30 apply to professional creator accounts:
Yes
Then I asked if Meta would use the content on my blog and the music on my website to train its AI:
Yes
Yes
Then I asked if Meta would use the content on my blog and the music on my website to train its AI:
Yes
October 17, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Had re-activated Facebook to help hire babysitters and do marketplace stuff but even that feels gross now. What a nightmare.
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The kind of stuff that will take the “competitive” out of “competitive authoritarianism” pretty quick.
(AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent target of Trump administration criticism, as part of a criminal investigation.
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
October 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The kind of stuff that will take the “competitive” out of “competitive authoritarianism” pretty quick.
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ALERT: Stay away from Vote Safe . Org, which pretends to be a voter resource, but is funded by Elon Musk's PAC, and appears to be harvesting voter information.
October 11, 2026 at 4:56 AM
ALERT: Stay away from Vote Safe . Org, which pretends to be a voter resource, but is funded by Elon Musk's PAC, and appears to be harvesting voter information.
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Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
July 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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Please do what you can to resist a federal book ban in schools. It will prevent schools from teaching any materials with lgbtq+ characters and severely limit the works kids are able to be taught. authorsguild.org/news/update-...
Update on H.R. 7661: Help Us Stop the Federal Book Banning Bill - The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild is actively opposing HR 7661, the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.” The bill would link federal school funding to specific reading requirements—including a narrow, decades-ol...
authorsguild.org
May 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Please do what you can to resist a federal book ban in schools. It will prevent schools from teaching any materials with lgbtq+ characters and severely limit the works kids are able to be taught. authorsguild.org/news/update-...
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Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
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A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.
how (if at all) can we support the minnesota general strike on friday from afar?
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 AM
A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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recorded this last week
Why Congress Needs to Treat ICE Like the Ku Klux Klan
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
recorded this last week
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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
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Turns out, everyday Americans can be braver than I ever gave us credit for.
January 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Turns out, everyday Americans can be braver than I ever gave us credit for.
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In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
for the union makes us strong.
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
for the union makes us strong.
January 13, 2026 at 2:16 AM
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
for the union makes us strong.
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever,
for the union makes us strong.
Genuinely curious. Why is AP saying Dugan "falsely" said an administrative warrant was not sufficient grounds for arrest? Isn't it by now common knowledge that a judicial warrant is required for the arrest of an undocumented immigrant who has not committed any crimes?
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Genuinely curious. Why is AP saying Dugan "falsely" said an administrative warrant was not sufficient grounds for arrest? Isn't it by now common knowledge that a judicial warrant is required for the arrest of an undocumented immigrant who has not committed any crimes?
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In case y’all thought the boycott was going to be boring.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
In case y’all thought the boycott was going to be boring.
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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True leaders.
JB Pritzker And Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Clap Back Hard After Trump Calls For Their Arrests
www.comicsands.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
True leaders.