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@emyrick.bsky.social
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Writer, lurker, introvert, worried mother, feminist, democrat. Works in philanthropy, gets lost in history, romance novels, sports, travel, nature.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Q: Is an (ACA)extension with abortion restrictions better than no extension at all #AOC: “An extension with abortion restrictions kills women — I will not accept women & the lives of women as some political cost for them being able to extend these things — Reproductive care is health care — Period”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference outside the Capitol
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/12/2025
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 27/11/2025
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/11/2025
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/11/2025
What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?
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𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 @sugarkat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Simple depiction of a green and white garbage truck with bathroom door figures of men stick out of the back where the trash . “Whole Man Disposal Services” is emblazoned on the backend in white sans serif font. Below the truck is the motto, “Yes, the entire man.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/11/2025
Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random... Literally go fuck yourself.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In response to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social incredible victory in the 2025 NYC Mayoral election please read JFREJ’s statement from our Executive Director Audrey Sasson 🎉 (1/7)
JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Yesterday New Yorkers made history by electing Zohran Mamdani as the Mayor of New York City.
Tens of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers were part of making that historic choice.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
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Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you. Keep it up. You’re doing great.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence. I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.
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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app · 29/10/2024
Hi Black writers! 👋🏽 I want to do something different today. Introduce yourselves, tell us about your books/writing, and most importantly where to get them!! I'll try to repost as many as I can. 😊
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Justice-minded folks have a habit of fetishizing youth participation and throwing masses of activated young people at a problem while pledging support and having reverence in the background. This leads to most of those young people getting ground under and burned out and leaving the work w in 5 yrs.
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

Who will stand up for our democracy? This
question, fraught in even the most peaceful
times, has only grown more pressing as our
country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Each passing day brings growing assaults on
essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process.
Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces
a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches
publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against
peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into
an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls
upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing.
Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation
desperately needs your cowardice.
Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure
passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It
was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can
too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant
wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and
women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power
and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was
stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived.
Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time
for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is
not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone
on about what’s happening to their precious democracy.
This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov-
eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and
have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing
assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave
of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about
getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama.
But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth! @freeblackgirl.bsky.social‬'s meditation on Ryan Coogler's Sinners and its devotion to Black intimacies is something you NEED to read today:
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'Sinners' Celebrates the Decadent Intimacy of the Black South
Ryan Coogler's latest film threads Black intimacies through time and space, all in one spiritually stirring night at Club Juke.
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers
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emyrick.bsky.social @emyrick.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Pay your interns.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is what I try to live up to, every day of my life
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Pushback works
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/04/2025
This is the only content i wanna see
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Mary Garvey Washington @3riverspa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As a person, I agree, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is really good, and maybe it will reach you at the right moment.
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Emergency Feel-Better Kit
A step-by-step guide to pulling out of a spiral...or just riding it straight to hell
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We all have a role to play. The key is knowing what your strengths are and then taking that to 11 and leaning in to where you work best. There's no one thing that needs doing in the climate crisis or in fighting fascism. There are a million things. Find yours.
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I was thinking about how something that's been annoying about Cory Booker over the years is his bouncy, game-show non-stoic energy. Almost childlike. He has seemed to want to command the convo at times, even when it's someone else’s turn. Love the guy, but he can be exhausting. But then.... 

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...We reach a moment in history on the brink

of the end of American democracy, a day

before a crucial election, and He. Exactly HE.

Is perfectly suited. To resist. HIM EXACTLY.

With the energy of a golden retriever puppy.

EXACTLY HIM. | think it's a reminder to just

keep being your annoying authentic self.

You're here and you're YOU for a reason, even

if it hasn’t happened yet. Your quirks will meet
your moment
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Corey Booker, a moment ago, after 22+ hours on his feet, compellingly : ‘Who are we, if you don’t think this is a moral moment where the character of our country is being tested?’
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Jesus Christ.
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Worker ownership is an effective model for local ownership and democratic control. Rather than having businesses shut down or sold to distant shareholders and corporate entities, they can be transferred to the workers themselves, allowing for jobs and profits to remain in their communities.
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 13/03/2025
Dr. Nirav Shah, Maine’s former CDC director and a top federal health official during the Biden administration, is returning to Maine to launch a public health education program at Colby College.
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Dr. Nirav Shah, former Maine CDC director, taking post at Colby College
Shah was most recently a principal deputy director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but his last day was Feb. 28.
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emyrick.bsky.social @emyrick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Academics only? Or open to regular folks?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025
It’s hard to reconcile the “they’ll go after ideologies they don’t like next” talk with the fact they’ve been openly targeting a whole suite of them associated with Black scholarship already. They’ve already threatened to defund any university teaching critical race theory. Why doesn’t that count?
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
they’re disappearing dissidents, i do not want to see one fucking sentence in your little op ed about “the illiberal left” or “the techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state” i swear to god
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Art and Science MATTER @myartboard.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great news!
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The smallest (and most delicate) of discoveries from our ongoing dig at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset is this 40mm long Iron Age sewing needle Carved from animal bone just over 2,000 years ago 😍 📷 June 2016 #FindsFriday
Tiny bone sewing needle found in an Iron Age pit at Winterborne Kingston in Dorset
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/03/2025
Can we please stop with the "why aren't Americans doing anything" Discourse that I keep seeing? I'm not even talking about people in other countries. I'm talking about my fellow USians who I see every day On Here bemoaning how we aren't protesting. 1. PROTESTS ARE LITERALLY HAPPENING EVERY DAY.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A German word for being embarrassed by the actions of someone else is Fremdscham, or “foreign shame.” A similar word from Icelandic is aulahrollur, which is quite tricky to translate but basically means something along the lines of “cringe quake” or “douchebag chills”
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23/02/2025
This Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for the time they spent in jail. Then commissioners voted to forgive over $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000. boltsmag.org/jail-de...
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This Pennsylvania County Wiped Out Millions in Jail Debt
After Dauphin County ended the practice of charging people while they’re detained in jail, Commissioner Justin Douglas pushed it to forgive more than $65 million in lodging fees.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is how it’s done.
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