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Nature. Books. Music. Art. Kindness. Retired and loving it. 🏳️‍🌈 💙 "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." L.M. Alcott

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 18h
He’s going to keep saying increasingly offensive things because it earns him attention and…if he’s lucky…it will turn Americans against each other before the election so he can justify a show of force. Don’t fall for it.
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Tamela Ehlinger 🇩🇰🇨🇦🇵🇦🇲🇽🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦 @tamela.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It will not intimidate me. What this does is piss me off & makes me fight harder for democracy 🖕🏻 Rump & his goon squads
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YES IT IS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers.
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Curious Doubter 🌍🕊️ @curiousdoubter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Personal impact directly triggers our survival instincts, personal consequences, and emotions.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I discussed this this morning with Heather. When it comes to motivation for resistance and opposition, immorality matters much less than personal impact. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTE...
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What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
THIS IS THE WAY. Not only are they showing solidarity and pushing back—they’re depriving him of airtime and press coverage. I have to say it. It’s about time.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A brief statement w/a lot of outrage. The Kennedy Ctr is ours. What DJT is doing is theft. I encourage folks to remember what this feels like. Because someday, we’ll be among those who have to work to make sure what’s happening under this regime never happens again. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZROz...
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Hands Around the Kennedy Center: Be Angry, Push Back, and Never Forget
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/09/2026
I just had a phone call with President Zelenskyy. Tomorrow we will disburse €3.3 billion for missile and drones in Ukraine. Full read-out ↓ link.europa.eu/Qrd6KX
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Read-out by President von der Leyen following her call with President Zelenskyy
I just had a phone call with President Zelenskyy.\nRussia is relentlessly targeting Kyiv, trying to make daily life impossible for its inhabitants.\nWe stand with them. And with all Ukrainians.\nTomor...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will share more details on this as they develop so people in the area can join.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Seeks to tilt.” Right. Try: “Tries to steal” Just state the truth, folks.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This. This right here. Let's prove them wrong.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland understood the assignment! ✊💚
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Beyond the prolific reading (& writing), the CTL is famous in the education world for several radical structural and cultural choices that challenge traditional schooling. 97% of its alumni go on to attend university. 📚✨ #EduSky #Education
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Educator Nancie Atwell won the inaugural $1MM Global Teacher Prize in 2015--and donated every cent back to her school. She founded Maine’s Center for Teaching & Learning in 1990, a non-profit K-8 lab school, where kids choose their own books & read an average of 40 books a year. 😮 🧵 #Education
A beautiful photograph of American educator Nancie Atwell, born 1952, the inaugural winner of the 2015 Global Teacher Prize. She is positioned slightly off-center against a bright, softly blurred natural background under a clear sky. Captured from a low angle looking upward, she smiles warmly with an expression of joy and fulfillment, looking off to the left of the frame. Her wavy, shoulder-length grey hair caught gently by the wind frames her face, and she wears a simple pearl earring. Her attire consists of a crisp white jacket layered with a silk, ocean-blue scarf draped loosely around her neck, featuring a subtle, dark marble pattern. The natural lighting highlights the texture of her clothing and hair, creating an uplifting and triumphant mood. The composition emphasizes her pioneering contributions to education, notably her founding of the Center for Teaching and Learning, encapsulating a lifetime of dedication to student-centered literacy.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Zeemeermin @zeemeermin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So Musk is sueing because he wants to make child porn. Let's call it what it is. By the way, this is banned and criminal in almost every country in the world.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Make The Planet Great Again... @turquoisemarble.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m angry. Enormously. Today, during another russian attack, a building on the grounds of the Sophia of Kyiv National Reserve was damaged. Yes, this is where the 11th-century St Sophia Cathedral stands. Luckily, it wasn’t damaged. russian barbarians.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rando story: 40 years ago, I was on a subway reading her essay, “If Men Could Menstruate.” Noticed a guy reading it over my shoulder. So before I turned a page, I glanced to see if he was finished. Figured the more men who read her work, the better. The essay: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565...
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If Men Could Menstruate
In this satirical piece, Gloria Steinem scrutinizes the sexist social constructions dominant Western attitudes towards menstruation by imagining a world in which men, not women, are menstruators. Thro...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They literally don’t want your vote. They’re eliminating polling places and working against mail-in ballots. The majority is against them, and they know it.
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Gary Rogers 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦⚛️🎨🖌️ @garyrogersartist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This would explain the hatred of Mail in ballots....
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇
Screenshot of the top of a whistleblower disclosure titled "USPS Rushed Implementation of New and Untested IT Systems Threatens U.S. Ballot Mail Delivery." Addressed to Senator Blumenthal, the first point details how the whistleblower has "significant concerns about the USPS's secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed process for the creation and implementation of an entirely new and untested set of IT systems" intended for the 2026 midterms.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A truer post has never been posted.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🎈Happy Birthday Lily Tomlin! 🥳 Actress, comedian, writer & producer, Tomlin has been awarded/won: * 2 Tonys * 6 Emmys + 1 Daytime Emmy * Women in Film Crystal & Lucy awards * Mark Twain Prize for American Humor * Lifetime Achievement Award (SAG) Born #OTD in 1939. #LilyTomlin ❤️ #Comedy (1/2)
A four-panel grid collage showcases Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) through key phases of her celebrated career, evoking a mood of vibrant, versatile comedic brilliance. In the top-left modern portrait, Tomlin smiles warmly, wearing a black blazer and a blue-and-green patterned scarf against a "The CW" logo background.The top-right panel features a promotional still from her historically significant film, 9 to 5 (1980), alongside co-stars Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda. Tomlin holds a white rotary telephone receiver at an office desk, dressed in an off-white button-down shirt.The bottom-left panel shows Tomlin as Frankie Bergstein from the hit series Grace and Frankie. Wearing a bohemian patterned top, a denim shirt, and an orange patterned headband in her long, wavy graying hair, she holds up a pair of eyeglasses with a knowing, quirky smirk. The bottom-right panel displays Tomlin as her iconic Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In sketch character, Ernestine the telephone operator, wearing a vintage uniform with an exaggerated 1940s hairstyle, holding a vintage telephone headset to her ear with a classic, haughty, snorting facial expression.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great idea!
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Honestly—seems like a great idea. Rename the Democratic Party the Democracy Party. Non-Democrats don’t have to vote for “the” Democratic Party. It gets us past the “ARE THE DSA REALLY DEMOCRATS” problem. And it’s clear as heck. It would unite us all.
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Indivisible in South Lake Tahoe Ca @indivisibleslt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Women holding a sign with a couple of American flags on top that says "They found the antifa handbook! It's the constitution"
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thank you, Admiral. I hope that more esteemed individuals would speak honestly.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
I mean, seriously. Were there politicians back in 1945 who thought "Yeah we should just reform the Schutzstaffel. It would be politically foolish to say we should defund or abolish them. I bet we can reign them in by re-writing laws that already exist. I'm sure they'll follow them this time."
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
critical coverage. The future and necessity of symphony music in DC… why music matters
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Why the Crisis at the National Symphony Orchestra Matters
The orchestra has been around for nearly a century, but faces an uncertain future.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You can walk into 193 million acres of it tomorrow because somebody a century ago decided it belonged to you. Forty-five million acres of that is on the table right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2026
One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ripping it down will be ripping out the roots of dictatorship—and making a strong statement about the REAL character of our country.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
😶 Call it out. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Roger @rogercmcd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yes, we are all tired . And (not “but” it took me a long time not to use “but” in my writing, ) we will not give up. And after 12 score and 10 years, we continue: to make this experiment work. VOTE VOTE, and reach out to others to make sure we all vote 
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
UPDATE: @justinjpearson.bsky.social wins the Democratic nomination in TN-9
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Breaking: GOP Congressman Andy Ogles, who has said gay people have “no place in America” and “Muslims don't belong in American society,” just lost his primary in Tennessee. He will no longer serve in Congress.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions
The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
British chemist Dr. Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to "see" the 3D structures of complex molecules. After 35 years of work, she solved the incredibly complex structure of insulin, 1969. She died #OTD in 1994. #WomenInSTEM
This grainy, high-contrast black-and-white portrait captures British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994). The composition is a medium close-up, focusing on her head and shoulders against a dark, underexposed background that suggests a quiet interior or office setting. She is positioned slightly off-center, turned toward the left of the frame.

Hodgkin wears a dark, heavy coat with a prominent collar and a subtly patterned blouse or scarf underneath. Her gray hair is pulled back, softening her features and highlighting her thoughtful, serene expression. She gazes off-camera with a faint, knowing smile and clear, intelligent eyes, projecting a mood of gentle wisdom and quiet persistence.

The lighting is soft, illuminating one side of her face while the other recedes into shadow, emphasizing the texture of her skin and the gravity of her experience. This image carries deep historical weight, representing the only British woman scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964). It celebrates the pioneer who used X-ray crystallography to map the 3D structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin, revolutionizing modern medicine.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/07/2026
NEW: Mayor Mamdani announces that he has looked at all options and has determined he does NOT have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu under the ICC warrant if he comes to New York, but the feds do, and he encourages them to do so. He adds that Netanyahu is NOT WELCOME in New York City.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/07/2026
NEW: Olympian Davey Hearn - charged with damaging the reflecting pool - has asked for the charges to be dismissed arguing the government destroyed exculpatory evidence when it drained the pool again. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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