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Debbie Aliya

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Coaching Creative Critical Thinking for the Passionate: Build meaning through the unique insights that only you can share.

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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#fungifriends Dog Stinkhorn in Michigan. Under maple in hardwood mulch.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dog Stinkhorn in my mulch under the maple tree. Michigan.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Creative Critical Thinking: Part 5 When to disobey daaliya.substack.com/p/so-you-wan...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good Government Restricts the Greedy. Bad Government Rewards Them.
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‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen
Trump officials and Republicans are rolling back protections against heat-related illnesses and deaths
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#education What I loved about teaching night school at my local community college. Can't wait to learn more about this documentary. "...the key point about Paulo Freire’s philosophy is that everyone has knowledge. And teaching is about exchanging knowledge, and it’s about seeing the world..."
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Teach yourself to notice. The core of creativity. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Noticing Is The Core of Creativity
So You Want To Be A Creative Critical Thinker: Part 4
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Jeremy Prince (@jeremyprince)
My research and scholarship presents a geopolitical reinterpretation of the early Jesus movement, framing the rivalry between the Roman and Parthian Empires as the primary driver of first-century hist...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HUGE: Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to push private equity out of healthcare. The Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act would make it illegal for private equity, insurance companies, and for-profit corporations to own or control medical practices.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICE Doctors? What about the Hipocratic Oath? Kurdish hunger striker says ICE force-feeding ‘mentally broke me’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#fungifriends Check out Part 1 here: daaliya.substack.com/p/mushroom-f... Click on the image for Part 2.
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Violet Corts
More on the mushroom saga
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Mushroom Foraging Challenges, and A Note On Some Newly Relevant Sci-fi From The 1800’s
Robert Duncan Milne: A visionary writer, peering into the future
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Prescription Mayhem www.planetdrugsdirect.com/changes-to-u...
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Changes to US Import Regulations | PlanetDrugsDirect.com
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Minority Report (PK Dick) is here. :(
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Eating your own guts new requirement to enlist in the US Navy? Democracynow.org keeps us informed about the seriously troubling behavior of the regime. www.democracynow.org/2026/9/3/hea...
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Democracy Now!
A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Congress to Follow Students’ Lead on AI Rules for Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...
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Tell Congress to Follow Students’ Lead on AI Rules for Schools
Congress has failed to set clear national rules for how artificial intelligence should be used in K-12 schools. Students decided to take the issue on themselves. 98 students representing all 50 sta...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The American Prospect keeps us informed.
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Another Monopoly Allowed to Stand - The American Prospect
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they’re unwilling to break them up?
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Heart and Soul of Creativity. daaliya.substack.com/p/the-heart-...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#FungiFriends Fungi colonizing the fungi. It's been REALY wet in central lower Michigan.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Check out the latest on Creative Critical Thinking. Red arrow shows "hip ball joint" of a ladybug.
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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Good morning and happy Thursday #Blues If you are #NeverTrump follow me and want to be boosted leave a comment or meme. Please repost this post for more friends! Have an awesome day ❤️☮️ #Blues #BlueStormBoosts #BSC1
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please help stop the financial corruption in the US Congress gofund.me/2dc4229eb
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Where did Homo Saps Come From? A poem. daaliya.substack.com/p/where-did-...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Real Creative Critical Thinking open.substack.com/pub/daaliya/...
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Five Men and An Elephant
The essence of critical thinking
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
MAGA Gear Allowed at Michigan Polling Places per my Election Inspector Training on July 16, 2026. This is allowed, per my County Clerk, all across the State of Michigan, according to MCL168.744. But I was already doing election worker duty then, and we were told not to. I want to cry.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
MAGA Hats Allowed at Michigan Polling Places Really. I just completed my Election Worker training. I believe this is my fifth time, as the training is good for 2 years, and I think I first volunteered in 2018. Because MAGA "is Trump, not the Republican party, and Trump is not on the ballot."
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Although there has been no formal announcement that Mahmod will be chancellor, reports suggest that Burnham consulted the City on the appointment, which is a wise thing to do when you rely on investors to buy British debt to keep the economy running." www.theguardian.com/business/liv...
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Government brings British Steel under public ownership; oil price rises to $85 as US-Iran tensions escalate
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Combating Ignorance about Women in Combat www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Hegseth's study of women in combat is designed to reach one conclusion
“It was a flawed design from the get-go,”
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For A Breath I Tarry A Prescient 1967 Meditation on AI Robots and Human Consciousness by the great Sci Fi writer Roger Zelazny. open.substack.com/pub/daaliya/...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If this isn't a reason to justify the "leftist Democrats" work for a no foreign and corporate money "purity test," then I don't know what would be. Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps prospect.org/2026/07/08/n...
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Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps - The American Prospect
DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Real Spirituality Bears Sweet Fruit Just what is the difference between religion and spirituality?
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Real Spirituality Bears Sweet Fruit
What is the difference between religion and spirituality?
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Make Better Mistakes! www.lulu.com/shop/debbie-...
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Creative Critical Thinking for the Passionate
As the world we knew crumbles before us, this workbook teaches us to embrace new ways to know and interact with what is emerging. Are you looking to get the most out of life? If so, Creative Critical ...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
CORY DOCTOROW: Unionize your workplace. Get involved in local politics. Be part of a movement. Systemic problems have systemic solutions. You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly any more than you can recycle your way out of a wildfire. www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/re...
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“How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More
Democracy Now! speaks with science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow about AI and his latest book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intel...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The wrong people are getting 50 year sentences. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The war in Iran began with a dream of violence. The question now is whether the nightmare that followed returns to the United States. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Utopias of Violence
The Unlearned Lesson of the Iran War
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Any ideas on what this brownish, largish, white spored, wavy gilled mushroom ID is? I spent an hour with David Aurora's Mushrooms Demystified and am still unsure. Hollow stems. Spore photo from Scanning Electron Microscope. They might be deflated / crushed. You can see umbilical.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Has Anyone Used EzyCourse? Looks like Udemy has gotten “enshittified.” Any thoughts are welcome. EzyCourse lets you make an app and share with multiple creators. Any interest in you other philosophers out there?
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#fungifriends Spores from mushrooms I identified as Bolbitus Vitellinus. Some are "deflated" due to hard vacuum used in scanning electron microscope.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#fungifriends I identified the mushrooms I collected these spores from as Wine Caps. Wine caps are supposed to have very distinctive rings on the stems, which I have never seen. Note the "umbilical cord" on the spore (upper right) and the germ pore at lower left. Mycellium grows out from pore.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Does Gemini get a dopamine hit when it figures it out???
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Does The AI Algorithm Get A Dopamine Hit When It Has an Idea?
Of course not!
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Distinguishing Fact from Fiction
and Truth from Bullshit and Lies
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Is there a young person trying to choose a career in your life? open.substack.com/pub/daaliya/...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thought I would add some creative writing to the mix. This is my attempt to rewrite one of the most depressing and distressing parts of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis 34. I wrote this back in 2012. Had it played out this way, a lot would be different today. open.substack.com/pub/daaliya/...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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The Means Determine the Ends
A meditation on the long trail of unintended consequences
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Lowell, MI” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Lowell, MI · No Kings
**We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. NO Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Law of Unintended Consequences NEVER FAILS! This is a consequence of the reality of dependent arising, a beautiful and true Buddhist principle. open.substack.com/pub/daaliya/...
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why
Assassinations provide a short-term political boost but lead to long-term disaster.
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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The Means Determine The Ends
People like to justify doing something they know is wrong to accomplish something that they think is right. It’s true that there are higher truths and mundane truths. Sometimes we might think…
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Debbie Aliya @debbie-aliya.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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A Time of Monsters: #1 of the BBC Reith Lectures from 2025
Can Western Civilization Be Saved?
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