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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Public library organizing is abolitionist organizing.
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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
On Friday, workers across the Mid-Continent Public Library system gathered to hold a press conference to announce that they are forming a union with CWA Local 6360 in Kansas City!
Library workers gather at their press conference.Library workers gather at their press conference.Library workers gather at their press conference.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 27/03/2026
BREAKING: Librarians and staff in the Mid-Continent Public Library system have announced their intent to unionize. They want better wages and workplace protections. With more than 700 workers, it could be the largest library union in Missouri.
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Mid-Continent Public Library staff are unionizing. They could make Missouri history
Librarians and staff in the Mid-Continent Public Library system have announced their intent to unionize. They want better wages and workplace protections. With more than 700 workers, it could be the largest library union in Missouri.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/10/2025
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence. This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/06/2025
A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw
A black card with white text that reads: "Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, Gov. Tim Walz said, and killed her husband. The gunman also targeted a state senator and his wife in 
a separate shooting. June 14, 2025"
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A sign of the times right now is working in libraries and helping more and more people in their 60s and 70s apply for jobs online for the first time in their lives.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis has died at 88. His final message: a call for a Gaza ceasefire. “This is cruelty. This is not war,” he said after Israel killed 7 children in Jabalia. He called Gaza’s suffering “deplorable” — and made nightly calls to Christians trapped there.
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.
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James Patterson & MrBeast Penning Thriller Novel; TV & Film Rights Attracting Serious Heat
The rights to the book from the unlikely pairing are currently subject to a bidding war.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years. It’s not remotely close.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college. The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/02/2025
seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Shout out to the friends and comrades @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social who are fiercely making the public case for regional transit funding. Kansas City-area residents deserve robust and reliable buses, but instead the people with the power to act seem content to let our transit system wither away.
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 27/01/2025
NEW: Today marked the third protest in just one week from Kansas City-area climate activists, who demand that Jackson County step up to fund the KCATA. One protester was detained and more than 50 activists were removed from the legislature's chambers.
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Transit activists interrupt Jackson County Legislature to demand bus funding: ‘Do your job’
Monday marked the third protest in just one week from Kansas City-area climate activists, who demand that Jackson County step up to fund the KCATA. One protester was detained and more than 50 activist...
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“We have materials here that are not available anywhere else,” Ruiz told the Kansas City Star in 1996. And that’s important, she said, because “books open up a new world to you.” www.kcur.org/history/2024...
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Kansas City librarian Irene Ruiz refused to let the city forget the Westside
Armed with a tape recorder, Kansas City librarian Irene Ruiz captured the evolving history of the Westside and made the library a more welcoming place for the Mexican immigrants and Latinos who lived ...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/01/2025
THREAD: What We Know About the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal in Gaza
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I can’t begin to express how bad these fires are. Friends have evacuated to our house and other friends are packing up what they can to evacuate and we are wondering if we are going to have to evacuate too. It’s such a colossal shitshow.
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Can we talk about the smooth tortilla at ALDI. Every bag always has one tortilla on the end with one very smooth side. Why Is It Like That.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...
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Luigi's Manifesto
Exclusive: read Luigi Mangione's 262-word manifesto on the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Leonard Peltier is still in federal prison. He is 80 years old.
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Well, now I know we made the right decisions
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I currently have this checked out! Last year’s anthology, Afterglow, is excellent.
Book cover, showing an artist’s depiction of a young person holding a shovel turning towards a pink-ish light. A natural scene is depicted in the background, rendered in classic mid-century sci-fi style and colors (yellows, pinks, blues, greens). 
Cover text:
AFTERGLOW
CLIMATE FICTION FOR FUTURE ANCESTORS
EDITED BY GRIST
with a foreword by adrienne maree brown
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I HATE LEAFBLOWERS
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
the use of the history of Japanese internment as a manual rather than as a cautionary tale really sums up where we're at politically
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I like India as a player and he has the kind of OBP the Royals desperately need in front of Bobby/Vinnie/Salvy, but a 1-for-1 swap for Singer would be an overpay
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am constantly impressed online and in life how many people think they are blocked or not invited or whatever because others can’t handle their brilliant philosophical analysis and not because they are just mean jerks who make everyone feel uncomfortable
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/11/2024
The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palest...
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dªwsºn sᶦms @d-j-sims.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my first post #onhere, please enjoy this picture of a western ratsnake in the library
A photo of a juvenile western ratsnake on the floor of the library. The snake’s head is pointed toward the camera, almost as if it is posing.
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