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Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Anniversary of Revere’s ride.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy) @urrealism.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today’s ridiculous sketchbook. It sure is getting harder to smile.

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

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jds @jamesdavidsaul.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Eastern Phoebe, our springy flycatcher friend 🪶

A small flycatcher sitting on a branch with red leaves in a blurred background

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

White-fronted Bee-eater at Kruger National Park, South Africa. #birds #nature 🌿

A stunning small bird showcasing a magnificent color palette—warm rusty-brown head, striking bright orange throat, elegant black mask, and emerald-green wings. Its slender, curved black bill is perfectly adapted for nectar feeding. Perched delicately among soft foliage, this beautiful creature's vivid colors stand out against the blurred natural background.

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Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If, like me, you're feeling overwhelmed and saddened by the news of the day, you may want to read this piece. It contains such a simple but powerful suggestion to counter much of what we're facing, and in fact to change the world. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Rewind and be kind: what happens if you do one act of kindness every day?

When Bernadette Russell decided to perform one good deed every day for a year, it made a difference to the world around her but also had a big impact on her own life

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tolkien, with a stance all writers might share: “Some who have read [my] book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Women have served ... as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. [...] That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist ... upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge." V. Woolf

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Despite the district’s ruling, Inama refuses to remove the signs, even if it means risking her job. 'There’s no way I would be able to allow myself to just take it down and roll over to what I feel like they’re asking me to do.'"

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Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying 'Everyone is welcome here'

“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In addition to "Alone in Berlin," perhaps watching "The Manchurian Candidate" is a good idea right about now. And, of course, Kosinsky's "Being There." So much irony remains unacknowledged these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Zi... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL9U...

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The Manchurian Candidate

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out." Virginia Woolf

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I watch/read the news and think of "Alone in Berlin," starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson, a true story about a working-class German couple, Otto and Elise Hampel, who supported Hitler and then joined the resistance after the death of their son. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQaG...

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Alone in Berlin - Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In "What Are People For?" Wendell Berry quotes William Blake: "'You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.'" Both poets condemn the immorality of excess, and the narrow consciousness nurtured by excess.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My cousin Ramon Luis is a cinematographer in Cuba. The house is my late Aunt Carmen's home in Fontanar, a neighborhood in l'Habana. The weight of poverty is palpable. So too is the human spirit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPXl...

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"Laboratorio de arte cubano en Fontanar"

YouTube video by Fontanar TV

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I looked up what a group of Blue Jays is called, which is a "party" or "band." So here is a party of Blue Jays. (They do seem to like partying it up and causing a ruckus. I could see "a ruckus of Blue Jays" as a group name working too.)

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God @thegodshow.com · 12/01/2025

California’s on fire, and while the GOP is busy blaming DEI and concocting conspiracies, Canada and Mexico are busy saving lives.

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Thank You to Canada and Mexico

Bless you.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"In the press there is a very human tendency to compromise between giving the public what it wants and giving the public what it should want." Edward Bernays, CRYSTALLIZING PUBLIC OPINION (1923)

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Politics is deeply personal. Its role in human suffering real. In 1977, Carter lifted the 1962 US embargo on Cuba. My mother went to Havana to see her mother for the first time in 16 years. That would also be the last time she saw her. Reagan reinstated the embargo in 1982, and it continues today.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤 (Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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God @thegodshow.com · 01/01/2025

Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

An end-of-year win for the freedom to read! A US District Court has declared portions of Arkansas Act 372 unconstitutional, a law that would have subjected librarians and booksellers to potential prosecution and severely limited readers’ access to books. www.ala.org/news/2024/12...

“Together with authors, publishers, booksellers, librarians, and readers everywhere, we applaud the Court’s carefully crafted decision upholding the constitutional right to read.”

Joint statement from American Booksellers Association, Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild; Freedom to Read Foundation, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Pearl’s Books, and WordsWorth Books.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I've put THE EDWARD BERNAYS READER: FROM PROPAGANDA TO THE ENGINEERING OF CONSENT and Nye's bio of Bernay, THE FATHER OF SPIN, on my January reading list. Annie Leonard's video on how violence is framed out of our sense of how the economy works inspired me: youtu.be/9GorqroigqM?...

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The Story of Stuff

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - Emily Dickinson Here is the entire poem by Dickinson: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/... It helps me get through the news each day.

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - T...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/12/2024

Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, says Ukrainian civilians are "exhausted" nearly three years after Russia's invasion. While people "yearn for peace," the two sides' war aims make a negotiated settlement very difficult. www.democracynow.org/2024/12/12/jan…

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Taking a break from grading to finish Chomsky's THE RESPONSIBILITY OF INTELLECTUALS: "Privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities." Interesting that "to confer" means "to bestow." Responsibilities toward others are gifts not obligations.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

"If we are serious about justice, we will focus our efforts where we share responsibility for what is being done." I'm rereading Noam Chomsky in preparation for the new year.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

That's the last stanza of Auden's famous poem memorializing the beginning of WWII, when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. The poem was first published in THE NEW REPUBLC on October 18, 1939.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Auden's "September 1, 1939" Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"I admire poetry that confutes its own formal conditions--poetry that due to the exigence of its own matter exceeds its owN limits. Some of us do not read or write particularly for pleasure or instruction, but to be changed, healed, charged." C.D. Wright, COOLING TIME

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"If I wanted to understand a culture, my own for instance,... I would turn to poetry first. For it is my confirmed bias that the poets remain the most 'stunned by existence,' the most determined to redeem the world in words." C.D. Wright, COOLING TIME, poets.org/poet/c-d-wri...

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C. D. Wright

Author of numerous volumes of poetry, C. D. Wright served as the poet laureate of Rhode Island, and in 2013 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Completed my 90-minute writing session this morning with my WFWA friends. Working silently among a like-minded group of writers is extraordinarily powerful. The blank page/screen is a lot less intimidating. You feel safe and supported without anyone saying a word. #WFWA

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Elizabeth Huergo @elizabethhuergo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Mil gracias to @janefriedman.com. Her most recent issue of "Electric Speed" guided me to Bluesky and a much needed respite from the Muskrats.

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