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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

GREAT news everyone! The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions. Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Apply or die!

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Careers at The Onion

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Timothée Chalomet and Ryan Gosling play them in the movie.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

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Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support

Changes could break the system, former officials say.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Democrats, Trump is increasingly unpopular and he will keep sinking as he destroys the economy. For the love of God, stand up and fight. Don't cave. Be an opposition party and reflect the anger of the majority. Win over people. It won't be as hard as you think. Stop being scared.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates

The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

A person may use a wheelchair because they cannot stand or walk at all. A person may use a wheelchair because they cannot walk for long distances. A person may use a wheelchair because they are recovering. A person may use a wheelchair due to fatigue. These reasons are all valid.

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

And now the second half of my exciting writing news! Your Body Should Be A Part of the World also won the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and Brain Mill Press first annual chapbook contest. I’m really honored and grateful to be in the company of these other wonderful Wisconsin poets.

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BMP & WFOP Chapbook Contest Winners 2024 - Voices

We announce the winners of the first WFOP and BMP chapbook contest for Wisconsin poets

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I feel so lucky to be able to share that my new poetry chapbook, Your Body Should Be A Part of The World, will be published by C&R Press in 2025. These are poems of crip survival, chronic illness, and the persistence of living. I can’t wait to share them with you. www.crpress.org/wsb24/

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C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Awards 2024 - C&R Press

C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl 2024 Chapbook Awardee, Shortlist, and Longlist C&R Press publishes 2-6 chapbooks of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and other creative writing genres through our Winter...

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

On my way back from very short trip to Philly to consult doctors at Jefferson Headache Center. Hopefully I will return in January for their inpatient program. Meanwhile my hair continues to expand apace. #Migraine #CripTime

A white woman with a lot of curly brown hair. Wearing a black mask and rainbow heart shaped sunglasses. She is in an airport.

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Part one of my exciting writing news is coming soon! Meanwhile here’s a crip holiday birb.

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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

My mom’s husband could not believe that, when he needed medical care, he could just walk into an Australian hospital and get it free of charge. Universal healthcare is not the Loch Ness Monster, my man. It’s, I dunno, elephants. Something that definitely exists that we just don’t have HERE.

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Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com · 07/12/2024

My husband has been in the hospital for a low white blood cell count, zero neutrophils, and plenty of opportunistic infections with no end in sight. I’m raising money to help pay for my lodging, which I’m doing to be closer to the hospital. NO PRESSURE at all, but if you’d like: gofund.me/23f3543a

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Donate to Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital, organized by Esmé Weijun Wang

My name is Esme Weijun Wang and I'm an author, speaker, and teacher. My hus… Esmé Weijun Wang needs your support for Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital

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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Shop small! Creating designs for apparel is my side-hustle because being DEI programs don’t actually pay. ¡Decolonize! All my designs are ON SALE now through Dec. 31! Use the code DTAB2025 for 10% off sitewide, because we’re all gonna need protest shirts: 🛒 www.bonfire.com/store/downto...

The Decolonization Collection shirts:

- I Don’t Just Want Civil Rights, I Want Liberation (inspired by Angela Davis), with a graphic of a silhouette of a swallow in flight
- Intersectional limited edition zip hoodie (“Inter” is horizontal in yellow, and “sectional” is vertical in rainbow letters, so the words form an intersection)
- America: Taking In Immigrants Since 1492 (featuring a black-and-white drawing of Columbus sailing in a Spanish caravel from 1493)
- Decolonize Education on a red shirt in the style of a Drink Coca-Cola ad
- FAFO (honoring Philadelphia with a reworking of Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE design)
- Decolonize Gender on a red shirt in the style of a Drink Coca-Cola ad

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So in the meantime here are some fall birb displays

Fall themed display of fabric birds at the pumpkin patch

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m not a person who’s very good at having news and not sharing it. This is notably not one of my strengths. I WANNA TELL YOU.

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Right now I have some exciting publishing news to share but I’m not allowed to share it yet 😍😬

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Belated intro: I’m a disabled writer, former academic, and full-time sick person. I’ll be posting content related to disability, chronic illness, and creative writing BUT ALSO pictures of my 11 year old wienerbeagle Krypto and my collection of #TargetBirbs. No bait, no trolls, no time for drama.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Well. While he’s pardoning folks….get all of the folks on death row pardoned, all those drug convictions for weed pardoned, etc etc etc.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Whatever your opinion about the Hunter Biden pardon, if it gets more attention than the Kash Patel nomination, it is one more instance of a failure to distinguish between fundamental and trivial threats to the rule of law.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Trump is one mood swing away from appointing Barron to the US Supreme Court and y’all are talking bout “we need to respect norms.” WE??????? THE NORMS ARE GONE, GIRL.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Read this medium.com/@LeslieMac/i...

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 26/11/2024

Medicare coverage for telehealth will end on Jan 1 unless Congress Acts. I can't drive due to my disability, and the cost for cans is prohibitively expensive. Please call your reps and ask them to continue Medicare coverage of telehealth. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Congress has one month to save a key Medicare benefit

Millions of Medicare patients use telehealth—but their coverage is ending abruptly.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Exactly this www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/11/2024

Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I’ve mostly been avoiding the news but I was awake in the middle of the night scrolling and did I see that Marky Mark is going to be head of the FDA?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/11/2024

This is also how the Nazis did the antisemitism thing which, you know, turned into a final solution So maybe stop dismissing it while we have time to stop total catastrophe from being visited on us

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Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How does that little poem go? “First they came for the trans people…” Sarah McBride is an elected Democratic member of the House. Will the Dems stand up for her?

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17/11/2024

We could have had a president who would have added long term care for the elderly and disabled to Medicare, a life changer for those like my father who suffers from dementia. Instead we have one whose HHS nominee wants to halt all research on Alzheimer and cancer cures beginning on day one.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to order stopping the development of new drugs for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and other illnesses for eight years on his first day as HHS secretary.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hey, folks! Someone ordered a “Protect - Defend - Affirm - Support Trans Kids” hoodie, and Bonfire is about to produce it. If you want this design and order now, you’ll get it in a timely fashion! Lots of styles to choose from. www.bonfire.com/protect-defe...

“When trans kids’ rights are under attack, what do we do?”

A black t-shirt with the message “Protect - Defend - Affirm - Support Trans Kids.” The design is arranged in the colors of the trans flag.

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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Not sure if bluesky is ready for BAT-TREK but it’s my birthday today so here’s my gift to y’all 😘

Batman, Robin, and commissioner Gordon as officers of the USS Enterprise, the starship in Star Trek

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

People who say they care about women’s and girls’ sports are noticeably quiet about how eliminating the Department of Education would end federal oversight of Title IX enforcement of the equal existence of women’s and girls’ sports

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The notion Democrats will unlock electoral success by throwing trans people under the bus runs into a few problems, including: Colin Allred took this advice, saying "I don't want boys playing girls sports, or any of this ridiculous stuff," then came up a million votes short against a bipedal worm.

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