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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Please read this. Not for me, but for small-platform creative people who deserve that you do. It matters. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/please-do-...

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Please, Do Feed the Artists

Valuing Creatives in an Entitlement Culture

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I never thought I'd live to see this happen.

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Bronze Crow @fullerick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sad day for democracy!

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have no words for what went on in the White House today. I stand with Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Democrats need to get on it and hold a press conference WITH Zelenskyy before he leaves. Ukraine needs to know that the Citizens of the US have their backs even if our so-called president doesn't.

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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

You don’t often see what the bureaucrats do, how the civil servants are serving you but I can assure you they are. When they are gone you will miss them because without #civilservants, you will no longer have a civil society. 4/ END

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

all of the POC and other minority groups who read this, if anyone asks you questions about your or your parents immigration status, don't answer. MAGAS are already asking Latinos these ? and creating lists with personal details to hand over to ICE. It's happened to a friend of mine and her husband.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/01/2025

Just because trump’s transition team thugs were in a nearby office asking members of the National Security Council who they voted for DOESN’T mean they worked together on the ceasefire.

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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

“Talking about history means we momentarily abandon our obligatory silence to tell (without forgetting the dates) the suffering that others could not express in their obligatory silence —Reinaldo Arenas, “El Central”

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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The trailer for the last season of the United States is terrible. www.c-span.org/program/news...

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President-Elect Trump Delivers Remarks to the Press

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hahahaha my sewer backed up into my downstairs bathroom, causing a flood on the first floor. Happy New Year 2 me. If this is how 2025 is going to be, take it back. I don't want it.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It turns out Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aren’t anti-immigrant, at least when it comes to filling skilled jobs using H-1B visas. They even claim that Americans aren’t talented or motivated enough to fill the demand. And that’s got MAGA seeing red. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Just Don’t Come for MY Immigrants!

An online war has erupted over H-1B visas and giving foreign skilled labor jobs in tech, and it’s put Musk and Ramaswamy in MAGA’s crosshairs.

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas Skeeters! It was a day filled with lots of love the chaos of presents. May your day be filled with love and blessings.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Can you imagine having surgery under a time limit? What if there are complications? Well, then you pay the anesthesia bill instead of the insurance company. This is why we need Universal Healthcare.

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Big Insurer Sets Time Limits On Anesthesia Coverage During Surgeries

A surprise medical bill could be waiting for you when you wake up in the recovery room.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Even if you're not moved by the argument that Twitter is a rightwing cesspool thanks to its redpilled owner, the fact that foreign enemies are expressing concern that they won't be able to use Twitter to manipulate Americans anymore should be enough to warrant the exodus.

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My husband's homemade éclairs are a holiday staple at my house.

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Kindness given freely can mean the world to someone. You never know what someone is going through. When someone is kind to you, pay it forward. Let's make the world a better place.

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Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So, @propublica.org reports that Georgia's maternal mortality review committee determined that two women died after being denied access to care under the state's abortion ban, and Georgia's response is to dismiss all members of the committee. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

US lifespan in 1900 was 47.3 years. Leading causes of death included pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, diphtheria, smallpox, pertussis, measles, and typhoid fever. Vaccines are a big part of why we now live about 30 years longer. What fool wants to bring back deadly diseases?

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

New data from the Highway Transportation and Safety Administration reveals Teslas have double the fatal accident rate of other brands (5.6 vs. 2.8 deaths per billion miles). This challenges the belief that Tesla’s tech makes their cars safer—they’re actually the most dangerous on the road.

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Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents among all car brands, report shows

A new analysis of National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration auto crash data shows that Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Shame on every journalist that amplified Trump's Project 2025 denials- especially the fact checkers that took Democrats to task on this topic. You all knew Trump was lying to mislead & confuse voters and now there are at least 3 P2025 authors in the Trump admin. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20/11/2024

“Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.”— Liz Cheney

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Wild is putting it nicely.

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Everything that is happening with the new Trump administration is to scare you. To make you want to put your head under the covers and never surface. Do not. You are needed. Because they are going to face a resistance they were not prepared for. No more playing around. 🖖

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

LOL be careful with your spelling and make sure it's correct before you post. I don't see an edit button. I spelled definition wrong on a reply and I can't change it!

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

These past few months have been so unsettling that I've started watching cake decorating videos again. They can be so fun to watch.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This week’s Just for Xeets and Giggles (the “Find Out” edition) is out! Some say we shouldn’t laugh at a time like this. I say that fundamentally misunderstands what laughter is for. See the whole collection here: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Image of white people enjoying themselves in a hot tub, perched precariously high and supported by nothing but tall 4x4 posts.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2024

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This party has predicated so much of its identity on its supposed eagerness to root out pedophiles in government… and now these Republicans are poised to bury a report into Matt Gaetz’s alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor. The GOP is where any semblance of longstanding principles go to die.

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Mel @birchwoodqueen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Don't let this happen to you.

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