Amara

Amara

@bloomandfeast.com

Food photographer/videographer, recipe developer, and creative strategist. Taurus. Eldest daughter of immigrants. Here for community, creativity, food, and some nonsense.

1K followers74 following287 posts

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Bryce Covert
@brycecovert.bsky.social

It is shockingly common for child welfare agencies to remove children from parents because they can't afford housing. Billing them for the foster care really is just beyond the pale. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com“Nobody Blames the Landlord. They Just Take Away the Kids.”All too often, when parents can’t afford safe housing, the solution child welfare services offer is putting their children in foster care.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.

wabe.orgGeorgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster careGeorgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

Replying to @banditelli.org

omg I got DOZENS of crows in front of the Moon, mostly like this shot. can't wait to go home and find the best one. tho. I can. because I need to buy some broth first. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

That slip will always show lmao.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

Everyone on this website who was upset that people said they had never heard a Kendrick Lamar song when he performed at the Super Bowl is yelling they don't live in a bubble when confronted with the fact that they don't know any Ed Sheeran songs or the longest running #1 hit in America, ever, lmao.

Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

Saw a video of the Migos AI trend but using Nolan Wells and his mother. Such overstepping, mindless behavior from strangers. Just gross. 😕

Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

Man on the Inside (Ted Danson, Netflix) is the perfect cozy, low stakes mystery series. Thoroughly enjoyed all the characters and storylines.

Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

The children yearn for digital community. lol

This American Life@thisamericanlife.org

Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until someone from a younger generation cracked the code. Hear the story: link.podtrac.com/78g1b584

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Trenton Hoshiko | Filmmaker & Entrepreneur
@trentonhoshiko.bsky.social

Just remember, that if you live long enough you will become disabled in some way or another. Vision or hearing loss, back pain making it hard to play with your kids, knees hurting when you have to climb stairs, new food allergies that make it impossible to eat food you dont cook, fatigue, falling..

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Brian Beutler
@brianbeutler.bsky.social

AI is unpopular. The public overwhelmingly supports aggressive AI regulation; it overwhelmingly opposes further investment in AI infrastructure. Naturally, Dems are telling frontline members to ̶d̶o̶ ̶p̶o̶p̶u̶l̶a̶r̶i̶s̶m̶ curl into the fetal position to appease the mean tech men. There is another way.

offmessage.netA.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In PoliticsYou can’t make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties.
Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

Another day, another pizza. Homemade dough, whipped feta base with pesto, artichoke bruschetta, italian sausage, red onion and mozz. Not the prettiest, but very good! #pizzasky #foodsky #breadsky

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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babs ✨
@itsbabs.bsky.social

“It’s possible, even likely, that one or more of the other explanations for longCovid’s pathology is … viral persistence leading to immune dysfunction, for example, which then prompts inflammation or interferes with mitochondria & causes cellular damage.” it’s hubris to think it won’t happen to you

Patient-Led Research Collaborative@patientled.bsky.social

PLRC member @julialmv.bsky.social was just featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social — discussing her journey as a #LongCovid patient advocate and her work with PLRC. "The paper that collaboration yielded... has since been viewed online two million times, and it has been cited 4,000 times"

smithsonianmag.comFor Many Americans, Covid Is Still a Chronic, Disabling Disease. These Scientists Are Working Tirelessly to Bring Them ReliefLong Covid saps the strength and vitality of patients, who have little recourse to fight it. A team of specialists—including an afflicted researcher working mostly from her bed—is looking for answers

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Kelly
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Tierra Walker died from pre-eclampsia because healthcare workers refused to intervene due to the Texas abortion ban While suffering seizures, a HCW said to tell her husband: “Can you go tell him that this is all in her head?'"  They psychologized a life threatening complication until it killed her

cbsnews.comFamily blames Texas' "merciless" abortion ban for woman's death, files lawsuit targeting Paxton, doctorsThe family of 37-year-old Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, saying she was denied an abortion that could have saved her life.

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ℳatt
@matttomic.bsky.social

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

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Dicey "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" June
@diceyjune.bsky.social

Some people treat "Trans" as a singular issue. And "ICE" as another. And "global warming" as another. All of them completely unrelated and separateand in vacuum. And it's blatantly obvious that they think that doing juuuust enough of these, but not too many cos they wanna minimax, is the smart move

Jon Walker@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social

There is always a special subset of people on the left who are on the lookout for new and exciting "this is why we can't vote for Dems and need to let the GOP win" Even in year 6 of Trump it is wild.

Amara
@bloomandfeast.com

A little pizza sitch. Home made dough, white sauce base + a layer of pepper bruschetta, topped with sausage, red onion, fresno peppers and whole milk mozz. #foodsky #pizzasky