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"Do you hear the people sing?" Libraries, schools. Books esp WWII fiction, mysteries, children's. Celtic music. British TV. Art, photography. Learning French. Zoom-tutoring kids in reading. EU, NATO. Integrity. Justice. Kindness. North American near Boston

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Stephen Colbert closed out the final episode of The Late Show with an emotional performance of “Hello, Goodbye” alongside Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney symbolically switched off the studio lights one last time to the Ed Sullivan Theater. 🥹🥺
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Vet Voice Foundation @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Senator Kelly gives Pete Hegseth an opportunity to clarify what he meant when he said the U.S. would show “no quarter, no mercy.” In the law of armed conflict, “no quarter” means refusing surrender, something the DoD Law of War Manual explicitly forbids. Via @ucmjattorney.bsky.social
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/04/2026
🚨🚨 ALERT 🚨🚨 I finally got Andy McCabe to sign up on Bluesky @therealmccabe.com ! Please follow him here, share this post widely, then check out his first ever Substack article and subscribe there as well (no paywalls!)
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
…..WHAT?!?????? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Artemis II crew just gave us an 80's sitcom intro and it's absolutely hilarious! Freeze frames, cheesy grins, theme song energy. These are the four humans who are about to around the Moon. NASA said fun and we are here for it!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/01/2026
Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
To every legitimate law enforcement in America… This is the way. www.instagram.com/reel/DTTxpKy...
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MeidasTouch on Instagram: "Sheriff Rochelle Bilal: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask… You don’t want this smoke.""
224K likes, 9,258 comments - meidastouch on January 9, 2026: "Sheriff Rochelle Bilal: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask… You don’t want this smoke."".
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MS NOW @ms.now · 09/01/2026
BREAKING: Jack Smith to testify publicly before Congress. MS NOW's Mychael Schnell reports.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Boston. Wow.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I watched the towers fall on a grainy TV set in my office, unable to believe what I was seeing. I watched a nation come together in that moment, perhaps for the last time. I have since watched how fear and hate have consumed us. I remain watchful for the America we could be.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2025
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
What did it, Iowa? Masked thugs in our cities, rising self-inflicted inflation, nonsensical tariffs, blatant capitulation to Putin, the daily assaults on our constitution or covering for pedophiles?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 03/07/2025
Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out. It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly.
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Senate Democrats @dscc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
WATCH: Senator Elizabeth Warren slams Mitch McConnell for saying Americans worried about losing health care coverage will “get over it.”
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 28/06/2025
He flew there to pay his respects.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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IsDown.app - Is a service down? @isdown.app · 20/06/2025
Users are reporting problems with Duolingo. Is Duolingo down for you? RT if you are having issues. #duolingodown
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2025
Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."
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Ilanit (illy) @imanor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thousands sing "This Land is Your Land" during a 'No Kings' protest in Napa, CA.
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Allyson Williams Democrat 🇺🇦🌻 @allysonwilliams.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that governments may take books out of the libraries. Missing the point that library collections are maintained by professional librarians for all users.
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daily New Yorker cartoon 🤖 @newyorker-cartoons.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, May 21st, by Adam Douglas Thompson “. . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?”
Minimalist line drawing of a luxury yacht with two figures on deck, cruising through open waters.

“. . . and can you believe it only cost a hundred and eighty people their Medicaid benefits?”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Naomi Biden slams propagandist Jake Tapper over his filthy book about her grandfather President Biden. 🔥
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/05/2025
This is leadership. This is solidarity. This is good trouble. Democratic Senators Booker, Smith, and Schatz crash the House markup in protest of Medicaid cuts…
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
How are the masked ICE agents arresting people off the streets different from these guys I've filmed? Proud Boys, Blood Tribe, Patriot Front, Boogalo Boyz?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/05/2025
"Another officer, frustrated, says, 'They don’t need a warrant.' Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they’re concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing"—@billshaner.bsky.social in Worcester www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Breaking: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) has just been arrested by the Trump administration after he was protesting outside of an ICE facility.
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Drew @dschnoeb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Video of the woman being taken by ICE and the Worcester Police Dept helping them. From @billshaner.bsky.social
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org
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I grew up in Worcester! This is hitting home in a horrifying way.
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Still funny though!
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨 Today, a federal court granted a temporary restraining order to halt the administration’s dismantling of IMLS—a direct result of the lawsuit filed by ALA and @afscme.bsky.social. www.ala.org/news/2025/05... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries
Federal Court halts dismantling of IMLS in ALA lawsuit. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia grants temporary restraining order.
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Dr. Fauci is a gem, and we’re so lucky for his lifetime of service. Brilliant, wise, courageous. Awful what he has had to go through.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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ghlori.bsky.social @ghlori.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🤨🤨🤨
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/04/2025
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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Awful.
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Please phone your representatives to support library funding. If you love your libraries and don't want to see cuts to services including eBooks and interlibrary loans (and who knows what other horrifying measures), please make your voices heard.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Good news, we will have a Christian President paying his respects to the Pope after all. www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-e...
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Biden to attend Pope Francis' funeral
Pope Francis began his papacy in 2013 during the Obama administration, but former President Barack Obama is not planning to attend, according to a spokesman.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
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Happy and relieved to see @wellesley.edu signed this!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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