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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Fellow allies... My emotional well-being has been struggling of late, and I know I’m not alone in that. I care deeply about all of you. When I return, I’ll be ready to come back even stronger. We’re in this together, and our strength comes from lifting each other up. Rest. Recover. Rise stronger.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Idle No More is a call to rise, resist, and reclaim what has been stolen. The government and corporations will not stop their destruction, so neither can we. Block the roads, shut down the pipelines, and disrupt the systems that oppress Indigenous peoples and lands.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What do we do? That’s the question... the one that keeps me restless. We’ve carved out this space to speak freely, to expose the truth. But talk alone won’t shake the foundations of what we’re up against. We see it. We know it. We need to find the line between dialogue and action... and cross it.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Good grammar is like great sex... clear, consensual, and best when you know where to put things.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Make it loud. Make it impossible to ignore. They want obedience, not just silence... so give them defiance. A boo carries more weight than a thousand quiet stares. #3E #SOTU

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In a diplomatic spectacle that could only be described as ‘art of the deal’ meets ‘art of war,’ Trump berated Zelenskyy in the Oval Office for being ‘disrespectful’ in defending his country against Russian aggression. After all, who needs allies when you can have adversaries?

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🇨🇦Perpetually Pissed Canuck🇨🇦 @tangusmac1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trump is in violation of the USMCA. The same fucking one HE DREW UP.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Coordinate a large-scale sit-in at government offices or corporate headquarters tied to economic injustice, refusing to leave until demands for policy change are addressed. Nonviolent disruption forces authorities to acknowledge public grievances while highlighting the power of collective action.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Organize a mass fare evasion protest on public transit to highlight economic injustice, urging participants to demand fare-free transit. This action challenges authorities to confront the inequity of criminalizing poverty while demonstrating broad public support for change. FARE-FREE TRANSIT NOW!

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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/01/2025

📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST (Expand this thread for feed info)

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

One key aspect of political protest is civil disobedience, where individuals deliberately break laws they consider unjust to bring attention to a cause. Its effectiveness depends on public support, media coverage, and the willingness of authorities to engage in dialogue.BREAK UNJUST LAWS FOR JUSTICE

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

An extinction burst causes fading behavior to spike before vanishing. In U.S. politics, outrage surges as losing groups resist change. This reaction reflects a desperate grasp for past influence. The old white male ideal is fading, triggering backlash from those clinging to it.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/02/2025

Republicans are too chickenshit to hold town halls. Shocker. Here’s an idea: Democrats, hold town halls in Republican districts.

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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

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Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library

Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services. We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions." www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...

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21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services

Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 26/02/2025

A funny for your evening.

A meme from Meanwhile in Canada that says, “I hope the world is as lucky as the Delta jet - everyone survives and the right wing vanishes.”

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

End corporate rule with campaign finance reform, strict lobbying bans, and election changes that break the two-party grip. Enforce term limits, crush corruption, and put power back in the hands of the people. Start local, build momentum, and turn small wins into a movement that can’t be ignored.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

We once broke free from a king’s grip, and we’ll do it again. The U.S. hoards wealth and power, but we won’t kneel... we’ll fight, rise, and take back our future! Their rule ends where our revolution begins. Freedom isn’t given... it’s taken.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🗣️ @aoc.bsky.social out fighting for the people & federal workers: “Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?’ — There is no act too small. Every action matters.” 🇺🇸

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is what we need. This is the byproduct of their ignorance. This is the fire that turns their delusion to ash. youtu.be/0ivQwwgW4OY

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Ren - Money Game (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Ren

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Burn the old world down, its towers built on stolen labor, its rulers fattened on our blood. They sip champagne while we starve, but the reckoning is here. No gods, no masters, only fire, fury, and the people rising. Tear down their palaces, seize what’s ours, and build something raw, real and free.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Medicine worships the common, but the rare festers in the shadows. I dissect medical zebras... misdiagnoses, neglected disorders, and the grotesque consequences of lazy thinking. If the usual suspects bore you, welcome to the differential that doesn’t blink.

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This photo is a powerful representation of mid-century medical education, emphasizing the dedication and learning involved in the field of surgery and nursing. The scene represents a time when medical education relied heavily on direct observation and hands-on experience.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

For #ValentinesDay, I'll be posting #HistoricalHearts Let's start with this life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck.

A heart made from papier-mâché showing the veins and arteries in blue and red.

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WIRED @wired.com · 13/02/2025

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

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DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big Twitter Ad

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

You ultimately decide, every day, whether or not your life will speak on behalf of the oppressed, or remain an inaudible but decisive tool for the status quo. Lisa Kemmerer

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Just had the most charming chat with Wells Fargo about a transaction dispute Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience, like finding a unicorn that overcharges you. Has the world officially flipped upside down, or am I just living in a sitcom I didn’t sign up for?!

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

At the very least, we would have a cunning villain worthy of serious consideration... rather than the blundering fool we’re saddled with now.

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fall @rainy-reverie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Save some space for me in your sky, I promise I will bring the light

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Elm Nearly @elmnearly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Priceless, and yet terrifying.

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Tiffany Drastic @pdxeleven.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Tony Bourdain talking about Putin in 2014🔥 I miss him every. single. day.

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

#GeorgianProtests ❤️‍🔥✌️ against #Russia and the vicarious agents of the Georgian dream party and accomplices ‪here #Tbilisi 12/3/2024 🔴 A girl at the protest broke through the wall of riot police shields, shouting: 🗣️"You trash people, I'm tired! What do you want?! Are you afraid of me?!"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

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Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...

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fall @rainy-reverie.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I know the ebb and flow The chaos these waters hold In them I will not drown once more

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Can't believe I was thinking about turning off DMs today.

DM conversation between me and a sad person reads

your a fag right

(Actually it's you're)

You guys on the left are to easy to trigger and fun to bully

Did I invade your save space

(Actually it's safe space)

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

(from T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’) “Last season’s fruit is eaten And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail. For last year’s words belong to last year's language And next year’s words await another voice.”

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