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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Lahaina has done the impossible & rebuilt itself after it burned to the ground. I hope our world, which is currently on fire, can do the same. Read my new #poem: compass.icwa.org/p/lahaina. Thank you @icwa.org & @cassmannes.bsky.social for making it happen. #marianazos

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

this list by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is excellent & helpful, & of course i hate that we need it, but we really need it. please read & share. everyone can do at least one thing from this list every day & that's a fact. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota

I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

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Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz

Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is something we can participate in from anywhere. Don’t go to work and/or don’t buy anything. If you have to do one, try not to do the other. Also, a moment of respect for the design on that poster.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California. This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 19/10/2025

My wild controversial opinion is that we do, actually, owe it to strangers to take basic precautions and engage in actions that ensure the safety and well-being of others, to make the world accessible and non-hostile and easy to navigate.

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Bex @wordofgreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

they are, in fact, allowed to do that

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Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · 07/08/2025

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." #ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

That Guardian article about AI tanking the graduate job market has an interesting comment from a recruitment consultant saying that the ability to read, write, and form an analysis without using the internet are now "elite skills." Wouldn't it be great if we had degree subjects that teach just that?

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Nothing says “Jesus saves” like a room full of Republicans locking arms and praying over legislation designed to cut healthcare for dying kids so rich donors can buy their fifth yacht.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/07/2025

Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.

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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace may they be disrupted every time they are in public may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA. The old guard ain't gonna cut it.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I get credited by name when I offer a solicited pre-pub blurb, but not when I choose to write about the book on my own. That's weird. "Salon" didn't say that about your author's book. I did.

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Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I forgot to post Book Launch pics! So cool to pack our local cafe with people I love! My art is (still) hanging on the walls! We sold out of books, almost sold out of art prints, and raised $200 for the local domestic violence resource center! Amazing. @cassmannes.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social

collage of photos of a reading at a cafe. Writer is a white middle aged woman in a black dress. She has brown hair and glasses. The photos are of her and various family and friends, food, and wine.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I know it's easier said than done but this feels like a really good time for people in positions of power at institutions and those who work for them to refuse to follow executive orders

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Lawlessness and grievance, that’s all he’s got. Fighting back has to be the answer.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2025

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

One small step news orgs could take is to start using "harm" instead of "impact" if all the impacts expected are bad.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 21/03/2025

Nicole Graev Lipson is bored by the tired notion that “girls and women are wired for rivalry.” buff.ly/5TWC54j

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Sarah Lyn @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"A book as deeply critical of interpersonal codependency as it is on labor-exploitative late-stage capitalism, this collection asks us to question our relationships and how they serve us." A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...

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Funny and Large and Wild: A Conversation with Sarah Lyn Rogers - The Rumpus

I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

From Kyla Jamieson's book, Body Count: bookshop.org/a/862/978088... #poem #books #writing #spring

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Owl_Sounds @owl-sounds.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The very best thing about Parker Posey is that she's been exactly the same for the last 30 years. She was like this back then, in that young person body, she was still this old weirdo.

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Julius Kim @juliuskim.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This, right here..

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 15/03/2025

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm really tired of hearing how Congress is afraid of Trump, Big Law is afraid of Trump. Corporations are afraid of Trump. Meanwhile, thousands of people with a lot more to lose are out on the protest lines every single day. Suck it up, already.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

a sobering graph showing that over the last five decades we've lost 43% of the grassland birds population via this article on the State of the Birds report: www.audubon.org/magazine/swe...

A graph of long-term population trends for America's birds. Data begins in 1970 and runs to the present. Percent increase or decrease in each category of birds is as follows:

+24% dabbling and diving ducks
+16% waterbirds
-4% sea ducks
-11% Western forest birds
-27% Eastern forest birds
-33% shorebirds
-41% arid land birds
-43% grassland birds

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Leslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

TBR: Nicole Graev Lipson on her collection that <explores the world’s strange & relentless desire to reduce women to stock characters & how easy it is to find ourselves complicit in this process.> @cassmannes.bsky.social www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2025/03/tbr-...

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TBR: Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson

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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. We mustn’t stay silent.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

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Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)

The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Don't be afraid to be a lone protestor. (Odds are that others will join in when they see you stand up--but as Rep. Green says, better to stand alone than not stand at all.)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

BREAKING: The National Education Association, backed by the ACLU, sues the Trump administration over its anti-diversity "Dear Colleague" letter issued Feb. 14. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Dear Colleague letter: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

INTRODUCTION
1. "The vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms is nowhere more vital than in the community of American schools." Keyishian v. Bd. of Regents of Univ. of State of N. Y., 385
U.S. 589, 603 (1967) (citation omitted). Our schools cannot fulfill their role as the nation's
"nurseries of democracy," Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L. ex rel. Levy, 594 U.S. 180, 190
(2021), without teaching students about the world, including the historical and lived experiences of people of different races, genders, and abilities. Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are critical to that effort by both expanding equal educational opportunity and providing students
with an education that prepares them to succeed in a diverse democratic society.
2. On February 14, 2025, the Department of Education ("ED") issued a Dear
Colleague Letter threatening schools and colleges across the country with the loss of federal funding in a matter of days if they continued to pursue vaguely defined "DEI programs" that
"teach students that certain racial groups bear unique moral burdens that others do not" and/or
"stigmatize students who belong to racial groups." ("Letter") (attached as Ex. A). The Letter radically resets ED's longstanding positions on civil rights laws that guarantee equality and
inclusion and impermissibly infringes on the authority of states and school districts over public
education as well as the First Amendment rights of educators and students.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The entire point of doing reviews is for us, the scholars, to THINK and read, and write and learn at the same time. Why are we devaluing all of that in academia? Shameful piece.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

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Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Help my high school win big! Join the Brightspeed Bright Future Esports Lab Contest and earn points for our school! wn.nr/PE2VQc3 Please vote for Orange High School if you see this! <3

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Brightspeed Bright Future Esports Lab Contest

The home for the Brightspeed Bright Future Esports Lab Contest Build By Stay Plugged In

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/03/2025

Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Our billionaires are not afraid of us.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

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