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S. A. Marshall

@appalachianeditrix.bsky.social
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(she/her) Writer & editor. History Buff. Activist. Married to my soulmate for 35 years. Retired unschooling mom, doodler, fluid artist, amateur cruciverbalist. Inveterate spewer of profanity and sarcasm. Striving for joy in dark times. Vive la résistance!

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Mainers are not happy with Collins. Demonstrators in Biddeford protesting ICE’s killing of a Colombian workman this morning swarmed her office
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Kristen @kristen10.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nice
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026
“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Another 121,000 acres of your land go up for auction Tuesday. The corporations that take them will pay less than ever for the right to ruin them." morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-governme...
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A Government That Learned the Price of Its Land and Forgot What It Was Worth
Another 121,000 acres of your land go up for auction Tuesday. The corporations that take them will pay less than ever for the right to ruin them.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I live in NC. The most delicious part of ALL of this, is that Phil Berger redrew his own gerrymandered congressional map, and then lost it. 💀 #karma
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Via @scootercaster.com ICE agents seen running, scurrying, and attempting to hide from photographers at JFK airport in NYC. Monday, 23 March 2026. Video by Diego Luzuriaga.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Tomorrow (Monday, March 23) is the deadline for public comment on the Bureau of Land Management's plan to quadruple logging on 2.5 million acres of western Oregon’s oldest forests. Link to public comment site in article. (2/2)
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Amid the many horrors in this frenetic news cycle, this administration is moving quickly to decimate our public lands... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/you-have-2... (1/1)
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You Have 24 Hours to Save Oregon’s Last Old-Growth Forests
We built something to help you fight back. The comment deadline is Monday.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
How to Upload Your Ebook: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872250
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RogueNOAA @roguenoaa.altgov.info · 14/03/2026
“In a social media post in December, Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the Colorado center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
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Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
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Sam Levine @samrlevine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/02/2026
About a quarter of all trans people in this country have moved states in possibly the largest internal migration of a particular minority group since the great migration. This is a full blown crisis.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
3/3 🧵 As this kakistocracy moves to rob us of our national parks and other public lands, squandering them for the benefit of the ultra-wealthy, please don't look away.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
2/3 🧵@naomiaklein.bsky.social has written about how, during times of crisis and chaos (which this administration has created aplenty), people in power will quickly move to dismantle things that are in the public interest. #ShockDoctrine
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
1/3 🧵Trump has nominated Steve Pearce, who has pledged to get rid of our public lands, as steward of our public lands. (Pearce has been nominated as head of the Bureau of Land Management.) Please read the article and consider the call to action. #USPublicLands #USNationalParks #Environmentalism
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Stop Steve Pearce
The most consequential public lands confirmation fight in a generation is here.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)
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The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever
This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Friends! The New School has cancelled one of its most popular graduate courses, Global Soccer and World Politics. We want to host this course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Interested? Fill the interest form here! www.resistancestudiesseries.com/worldcupwait...
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World Cup Waitlist — RESISTANCE STUDIES SERIES
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This has become a genocide of Black and Brown people in the United States. It is simultaneously shocking, horrifying, and devastating and completely on brand for this country.
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
And these things are certainly not mutually exclusive. :-(
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm researching the history of the coal industry in WV, including the so-called Coal Mine Wars, as part of a book I'm writing. The first paragraph of this article alone is infuriating & heartbreaking. Of course, that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Thank you so much for the work you do.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)
morethanjustparks.substack.com
The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever
This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Yes. And this is why I have consistently disagreed with calls to impeach Trump. Unless the entire regime is removed, this would only hasten our demise. Vance is younger and smarter and has a longer attention span. And he understands the assignment.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This makes me physically ill.
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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 27/01/2026
Help out if you can. And donate to the ones that have the least please.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible
Join us Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country. We will talk with local and n...
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nighthawk1989.bsky.social @nighthawk1989.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Next reading: Hofstadter on the Paranoid Style in American Politics.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I'd definitely watch that movie.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
LYING: It's the Lord's work!
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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🚨The MAGA Cult wants to destroy PBS because they don’t bow down to their dear leader like 60 minutes does.
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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I’ve been thinking about you, imagining how agonizing this must be for you. 🙁
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 21/11/2025
Mississippians who rely on SNAP to afford food are still waiting to receive full November benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues with 40-year-old computer systems. There’s no guarantee full payments will arrive by Thanksgiving or even before December.
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Mississippians Still Waiting on Full SNAP Benefits
Mississippi SNAP recipients are still waiting for full payments more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
My god. After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck. The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this. Which means this is not an isolated case. Trump's Lynching America
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Stay classy, Donald.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
James Comey handed the 2016 election to Donald Trump by announcing a sham investigation against his opponent, causing people to forget the "Access Hollywood" tape & doubt Clinton's honesty. Today, Trump thanked Comey by corruptly indicting him. To Donald, loyalty & gratitude are one-way streets.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I recently resubscribed to WaPo *only* because I wanted to have access to Karen Attiah’s articles. Karen is an exceptional journalist and educator who is passionate about good journalism, telling the truth about history and the current state of the world, and educating people about racism.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Here's how to support my work: I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/09/2025
We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek. ‘tragos’ = goat ‘aeidein’ = to sing So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.” Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is a wonderful article, so beautifully written! Thank you for writing it. I came in contact with people of this mindset when I was a homeschooling mom, and I have been deeply troubled by it ever since. The amount of damage this man and others like him have done is incalculable. 😕
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/08/2025
🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has just unlawfully placed signatories to the Katrina Declaration on administrative leave. See the letter below…🧵
A memorandum from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, dated August 26, 2025. It is addressed to a redacted recipient and issued by Joseph A. Scallan, Chief of Staff, Office of the Administrator, FEMA.Page 2 of a FEMA memorandum on administrative leave. The document advises confidentiality and directs questions to FEMA’s employee relations email.
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Just for the record, “orange wanktrumpet” is NOT Scots for “President of Europe”, someone was lying to you
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 19/08/2025
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Imagine your family member about to be disappeared and someone yelling at you about some files and that your family member’s disappearance is a “distraction”.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 09/08/2025
I'm delighted and honored to be up for a Dragon Award in the category of Best Alternative History Novel. To see all the nominees and vote for your favorite in all the categories, click here: awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/ Voting requires free registration. Winners will be announced at Dragon Con.
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2025 Ballot – The Dragon Award
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S. A. Marshall @appalachianeditrix.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Stay classy, Junior.
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