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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 18/03/2025

Ozymandias

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Now that English is the official language of the United States, I look forward to everyone understanding the difference between “your” and “you’re,” “their” and “they’re,” and “to,” “two” and “too.”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This seems fitting. 😒

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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025

I cannot emphasize enough how stupid it is to publicly threaten DOGE employees with violence. You might think it's fun to blow off steam, but trust me: the FBI raiding your home at 5am is not fun. A federal criminal case will bankrupt you and ruin your life and career.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It struck me today that every work of dystopian fiction I've ever read involves a future without books. Maybe that's all it takes.

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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 27/01/2025

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. CARL SAGAN

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The USAF has reversed itself "after uproar." We must continue to pay attention. We must continue to preserve & share the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen & the Women Airforce Service Pilots. I promised them I would always tell their stories. You can too. Knowledge is power! www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Copy of book "The Women With Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II," by Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Ph.D.. The cover is a black and white photo of four women walking between two rows of airplanes while wearing dark blue pants and light blue or white shirts, holding parachutes over their shoulders. The letters of the title are bright blue - representing a bold, sunny sky.

A color picture of Katherine Sharp Landdeck, arm and arm with WASP of WWII Mary Regalbutto Jones. They are in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the summer of 1997 and standing in front of a banner made by WASP Shutsy Reynolds saying Oshkosh 1997, having the symbol of the Women Military Aviators, and filled with signatures of everyone who had entered the WASP tent that week. Kate had interviewed Mary, they had become fast friends, and Kate had promised Mary to tell her story and the story of her fellow WASPs far and wide for the rest of her days.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 25/01/2025

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is awesome. This is how to fight them, at every turn, with those who can stepping up. Thanks to The Skimm.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's good for our collective sanity when we remember who to be mad at. Sometimes when we're all riled up as a group we take it out on each other, instead of directing anger at the actual villains in our story. Part of taking care of ourselves is reserving the anger for the actual enemy.

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Alison1972 @alison1972.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

💯💯💯💯💯💯 Stay Safe Everyone

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Chris Rolik @chrisrolik.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Happy Caturday! This is Socks, one of the first TNR kitties in our local colony. I call him our “feral fail” because he’s learning how to be a friendly house cat.

Socks, the “feral fail” cat, relaxed and napping after breakfast

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

from today's post — link is here: bit.ly/4hfssJg

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Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

There's an event in the Oakland hills this weekend where experts will show homeowners how to harden their buildings against fire. Looks valuable. 🔥🏘️🦺

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Chris Rolik @chrisrolik.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

So, when did “forecast” become “forecastED”?? Some linguists (I’m looking at you, ghost of Geoffrey Nunberg) would have us believe that, with enough common usage, any word or expression becomes accepted as correct (nuclear - nuk-u-lar). I am having none of it. Feh.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

a friend texted me this and I felt I should share it

cat ignoring 3 bowls, text: tfw you have wet food and dry food and water but you want a secret fourth thing, something nobody has yet imagined or invented

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/01/2025

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

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Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says

The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"We need to call privatization what it is: adding a profit tax onto a public good. A public post office puts all its resources toward delivering mail. A privatized post office will divert a large chunk of its income to shareholders. In what universe is that better?" @snmrrw.bsky.social

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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Let me dust off this evergreen tweet from 2019

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