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Desert Prose

@desertprose.bsky.social
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Ate the fruit, left the garden, and the desert began to bloom. Post-Mormon pioneering a new life in the Mojave Desert. Passionate about democracy, equity, lgbtq+, science, art, libraries and conservation.

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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My freshman Honors English class was my illuminating ‘tree with the lights in it,’ introducing me to A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which itself, is like the stream that is new each time you return to it. My professor was a queer academic trying to fit into the BYU box— but her class was expansive. 1/2
Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - the version we read in my freshman English class.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Dying! I was trying to send a link to a piece of nude artwork in FB Marketplace to my sister-in-law via Messenger and accidentally “listed it” on my timeline. 💀
Dramatic two-tone purple/lavender woodblock print of a reclining nude woman with a potted plant strategically placed in the foreground.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026
ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The message tonight is clear: the era of spineless corporate Dems in safe seats is ending. We get the party we demand, and we're demanding fighters. And primary season ain't over. More endorsements to come!
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Leaders and citizens in Tennessee and other states disenfranchising black communities should recreate scenes like these, frozen like a photo, outside the state buildings. Dress in white and gray and stand there unmoving, forcing white legislators to walk past the image of themselves.
Famous image of hateful white protestors disparaging black students during the civil rights movement.
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VegasJake @vegasjake1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The more things change The more they stay the same.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We see this, #Target, and we’re not going to forget.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If we learn one thing from all this, it’s that Minnesota is metal as f*
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A writer worth following — at tom-cox.com because the publisher turned out to be a jabberwocky and the platforms are bandersnatching.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Remembering the time I had strep throat while pregnant. I was so miserable, I couldn’t sleep at all and gargled small sips of children’s Tylenol for relief. (Also took Tylenol for the aches and fever.) My kids are hella smart AND each neurodiverse in their own way— consistent with our family tree.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“Middle America” isn’t crazy in feeling they’ve lost something since the 1950/60s. They just believe the lies they are fed that what they miss about the post-WWII era is all the minorities being less privileged than themselves. Happy Labor Day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Attended the Back to School event with my social middle schooler and it was exactly the vicarious reset/start of the school year energy I needed. If I get a PhD it will be for the vibes.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The strength of our democracy and who our economy works for are intertwined. We cannot talk about one without the other.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“When all the good in you starts arguing with all the bad in you about who you really are, never let the bad in you make the better case.” — Andrea Gibson
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The eyes of someone who just sold their soul to the devil. Happy 249th America.
Sen. Murkowski against a swirling background with a crazed look in her eyes after changing her no vote to allow the BBB to pass.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Mamdani’s win has me in the mood to watch Barbie again. 🌱
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Rabbi Marisa James @marisaelana.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I'm not sure who turned my words into a meme, and included U.S. citizens (most of whom do not want a new war!), but I appreciate how many people are connecting with it. May all of us, in all of our different situations, somehow help bring the justice this world so desperately needs. 💔
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Three generations at the No Kings protest.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Strong turnout for #NoKings in Provo, UT!
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
What manufacturing in America means— Americans want: union jobs for an upwardly mobile middle class Oligarchs want: deregulation to devalue your service labor Trump offers: chaos
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I wondered where the red hair in my family originated and Family Tree tells me it’s the King of Scotland circa 1400s. Very like my dad to plug away at family history but never mention that tidbit. (It’s not a Mormon pioneer story and he wouldn’t want us to think anything of it!)
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Mother’s Day started at 6:15am when my 9yo woke me up with a request to turn off the nighttime screen settings (that ended at 6:30am)— and then wished me Happy Mother’s Day with a hug.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I hate fraud so much. I was lucky to be raised by a deeply ethical dad who worked in the real estate industry in Florida and so was constantly bringing home stories of the worst kinds of guys getting rich in ways that they felt were "illegal but fine" but were actually the worst kinds of theft.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We can connect to each other best when we allow ourselves to be human That is the secret Perfection was always a wall they told us to build, so we would never be able to touch each other, hold on to each other because together we are powerful and that matters especially now
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Couldn’t make it to Hands Off, but here’s my sign.
Trump and Musk pictured with crowns. Text reads: The true welfare queens . . . living off our tax dollars.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: no villains
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a man in a suit and tie is looking out of a window and says you 're making the biggest mistake
Alt: Kenneth the page from 30 Rock in a suit and tie is looking out of a window and says, you 're making the biggest mistake
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s my lucky day, I get to be the one to cast the hex on JDV.
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Tried watching School of Rock with the kids tonight, but the pace is apparently too slow to be of interest. Who doesn’t like Jack Black Jack Blacking?
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
As a dual citizen, I’m grateful that one of these countries is moving in a direction I can be proud of. . .
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 04/02/2025
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Front page of the nyt
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Desert Prose @desertprose.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sure hope everyone who is upset that China may have grabbed the AI market supports US investment in science and tech in the form of federal support for research and Pell grants. Where do they think the innovation comes from?
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/01/2025
Okay so virtue-signaling is considered bad… …but evil-signaling is considered good?
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Smoke inhalation — even for seconds - can impair consciousness. To anyone in the immediate vicinity of this unprecedented fire in the nations most populous county, urgently heed the evacuation orders NOW. Smoke is as dangerous as the flames behind them.
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