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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I was writing Open Minds, fascism had not yet risen in America, but I understood fascism says *those people* are The Bad Ones, to be feared, that we must take away their rights. So I wrote that story: In a world where everyone reads minds, I made a sub-class of humans who couldn't.
Open Minds: Mindjack One by Susan Kaye Quinn
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Ellen Mellor 🏳️‍⚧️ Preorder Wiz Duos #4! @samarcand.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are some surprisingly moving events and unexpected twists and turns that put this book well above the standard YA Dystopian novels. The examination of discrimination and fear of the other - even when (especially when) that other is technically less powerful than you (as is the case with the /4
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Ellen Mellor 🏳️‍⚧️ Preorder Wiz Duos #4! @samarcand.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
She is a Jacker. And she's not the only one. So begins a battle both against the criminal Jackers who want to use her for their own purposes and the authorities who want to use or destroy her. This is a fun, fast-moving dystopian novel of a teenage girl fighting against all the odds. /3
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Ellen Mellor 🏳️‍⚧️ Preorder Wiz Duos #4! @samarcand.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
#115 Open Minds by @susankayequinn.bsky.social This is the first of a YA trilogy. In the future, almost everyone is telepathic. Those few who aren't are called 'Zeros' and are, if they're lucky, ignored. Kira is a Zero. Or so she thinks until she discovers that she can control people's minds. /2
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Amendment @amendment.app · 20/08/2026
Financial disclosure, divestment from conflicting businesses, no payments from foreign governments: limits most people assume bind the presidency, and mostly they’re custom, not law. A bill to make them binding has sat without a vote since January, and every House seat is on the ballot in 2026.
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We need to legislate "norms" into law
We long assumed that certain limits on presidential power needed no enforcement — that any occupant of the office would respect them out of basic decency. That assumption has proven naive. What was once custom must now be law. We call on Congress to enact binding statutory requirements: full financial disclosure, divestment from conflicting business interests, and a hard prohibition on gifts and payments from foreign powers.
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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AI is making everything worse
The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The CA Democratic Party voted to stand with We the People by supporting the One-Time Billionaire Wealth Tax (Prop 40). Prop 40 will be on the ballot for all Californians on November 3rd. A vote for it means a vote to fund healthcare, education, & more proof that taxing the rich works!
50501 - No Kings!

BREAKING NEWS

CA DEM PARTY VOTES TO SUPPORT PROP 40, THE ONE-TIME BILLIONAIRE WEALTH TAX!
In the 2nd round of voting, 62% of delegates voted in favor of Prop 40 after only receiving 59% of the vote in Round 1.
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Amendment @amendment.app · 02/08/2026
Delaware just became the only state in the country with an active ban on private equity buying its nonprofit hospitals, and any deal that tries anyway is void. It catches creeping control too: a minority stake, the right to name executives, even a single board observer seat.
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SB313 Delaware: An Act To Amend Titles 16 And 29 Of The… (Passed)
Delaware SB313 imposes a moratorium on transactions involving nonprofit acute care hospitals to prevent private equity firms from gaining control.
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A school board in North Carolina has silenced a valedictorian because their speech was "too political". What do you think? m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DKdjFM1... Missouri wants to know the menstrual period data of the young women in their school systems. What can be done about this attack on women's privacy?
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump has broken his own record for the lowest presidential approval rating at the 100-day mark. app.sosha.ai/s/bxxpzM4l
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Trump is historically unpopular
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2025
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
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A crow's math skills include geometry
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
House sparrows go completely silent and disappear from my yard whenever a hawk flies over. They don’t help the hawk. I wish US voters were as smart as birds.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/04/2025
🧵There’s a lot of people out there saying that measles is being brought to the US by immigrants, specifically undocumented immigrants crossing the southern border. Let’s talk about measles and migration. ✈️ TL:DR: Measles in the US comes from outbreaks started by unvaccinated traveling Americans.
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Cannaman @midem.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The SAVE act was designed to take away a person's right to vote. #HandsOff
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Resistbot @resist.bot · 12/04/2025
🔥 Top Campaigns, Last 24 Hours: 1️⃣ “Stop the SAVE Act!” (+1,873) 2️⃣ “Protect 1st Amdt! Immigrants are deported for dissent, arresting CITIZENS next?” (+1,526) 3️⃣ “NO to the "Save" Act. It's a harmful Jim Crow vote suppression stunt.” (+1,209)
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Resistbot Petitions
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Passover Satyr: A Wiccan's Journey into Jewish Tradition aspentradition.com/2025/04/12/t...
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The Passover Satyr: A Wiccan’s Journey into Jewish Tradition
The Wheel of the Year turns, marking the cycles of nature, but sometimes, the journey brings unexpected invitations. This year, Miriam’s family sent out invitations for their annual Passover Seder—…
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Vote ➡️ Resist #resist #riseup #grandma #freedom
TikTok video by grandmaelli
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Check out this map of what a U.S. high speed rail network could look like. It would be an awesome way to make travel more equitable and sustainable while creating millions of jobs! sites.google.com/site/califor...
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California Rail Map - US High Speed Rail System
Want to modify it and put your town on the map? Download Editable PDF File at this link.
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Tell Amazon: there's still time to reverse course
Amazon has the power to make a meaningful stand against the Trump Administration—instead, they have rolled back their DEI initiatives and continued to move off-track with respect to their climate comm...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is so symbolic 😳
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Canada Goose Fends Off Bald Eagle Attack In Viral Photos—And The Symbolism Is Off The Charts
Wowww 😳
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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1 in 8 COVID survivors still have symptoms 2 years after infection, researchers say
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Education pays for itself.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Lady Petra @ladypetra.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is such a beautiful idea and now I want to do this with my own twist.💜
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
True!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I’m shocked by this. Trump can read?!
The image is a screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar
). The text of the post reads, "holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)." Below the text, there is a photograph of a person in a suit holding a piece of paper. The paper is titled "TESLA PRICING - Full Self Driving!" and lists various Tesla models with their prices, such as "Cybertruck $81,000," "Model X $112,400," "Model 3 $40,000 (Gray)," "Model Y $50,940 (Blue)," and "Model S $96,000 (Red)." The background of the image is dark, with a glimpse of a red object, possibly part of a vehicle, visible.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Firing half of the Education Department’s staff only hurts America’s children. Children with disabilities will lose out on resources they need to learn. Schools in low-income areas won’t have enough teachers or updated books in classrooms.
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Education Department to cut roughly half its staff
Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the country.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 12/03/2025
In her blog, UCS’s Omanjana Goswami explains the impact of the Trump administration’s trade and tariff war on food and agricultural products. “The US relies on other nations for its food supply, and jeopardizing international trade relations can have serious implications for food security.”
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Farmers Will Pay More for Fertilizer Because of President Trump’s Tariffs
Farmers that were hurt by the first Trump administration's trade war are bracing for a repeat of the same policies, but on a broader scale.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Sign a petition urging major philanthropies to help fund the gap left by USAID
The ones who will undoubtedly suffer the most without this funding are the residents of the developing countries that rely on it to advance public health initiatives, prevent new infections and diseas...
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conniesh.bsky.social @conniesh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-scien...
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Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists
Scientists working for the federal government need safeguards to do evidence-based work and to inform our nation’s policymaking without political interference. Urge Congress to support the Scientific ...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/03/2025
UCS’s Delta Merner attended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Hangzhou, China. Despite slow progress in some areas, “the IPCC remains a cornerstone of global climate science, shaping the foundation for climate policy and action worldwide.” Learn more in her blog:
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Delays and Disagreements: The IPCC's Struggle to Stay on Course
Weakening of scientific language, delayed deadlines, and a failure to reach consensus on the most fundamental areas of research.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/03/2025
“The EPA’s decision to roll back the Risk Management Program puts the health of workers and fenceline communities in grave danger,” said Darya Minovi, senior analyst with the Center for Science and Democracy at UCS. @earthjustice.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Moves to Redo Chemical Disasters Safety Protections, Putting Millions at Risk 
Half the U.S. population lives in harm’s way as Trump’s EPA says it’s starting over again on safety 
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Congresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"I walked out when he started lying about Social Security, and we know what's really happening...I couldn't take that." Listen to my radio interview with KCBS on why I walked out of the President's Joint Address and how I'm focusing on #CA12.
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
North Vietnam did not commit a second attack on American vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. Iraqi soldiers did not dump Kuwaiti babies out of incubators. Iraq was not involved in 9/11 and did not have weapons of mass destruction. Canada is not a major source of fentanyl in the US.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
As Orwell predicted.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/03/2025
Tadaa.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/03/2025
Black and white drawing of a crown with a circle around it and line through it; underneath are the words "NO KINGS" - underlined. The lines of the drawing are rough and repeated, with multiple lines for every line giving it an angry, dynamic feeling.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Human kindness is the way ...
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Cutting funding to NASA and giving government grants to SpaceX may not have been so "efficient" after all.
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