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@etherealsnailfish.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, mental health professional, fan of democracy and the biosphere.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
Tread on me, daddy.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/09/2026
Famed social movements expert @chenoweth.bsky.social says you’re doing a great job! Check out our full conversation: youtu.be/vffFEEIVDKc
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How a movement can check an authoritarian, w/ Erica Chenoweth
YouTube video by Indivisible
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026
We are more organized and informed than we’ve ever been before — and that’s why we’re going to win the midterms.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/09/2026
What DraftKings is doing with their targeted promotions is just one example of how online behavioral advertising causes real harm to real people.
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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Champaign County Indivisible 📎 @cc-indivisible.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From the Pride Strategic Alliance, a Champaign County Indivisible team: C-U Pride Fest is Oct. 11-18 with LGBTQIA+ events all week. Fair and parade are Saturday, Oct. 17. Browse the fair from 1 to 5 p.m. Bring your “No Kings” sign and come march with us at 1 p.m. @unitingpride.bsky.social -LM
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have driven past the exit for El Paso, Illinois, but did not know its place in the history of voting rights, really cool!
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.”
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Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...
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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Let everyone you know know that #Votesafe .org is a scam run by Musk to steal your data. Safe websites for voter information include vote.org and 866ourvote.org. You can also text VOTER to 59798 to get a link for your state to check your registration from Indivisible.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Listen to the sounds of insects from 165 million years ago. Using what they know about current-day insect vocalizations, a team of scientists created a Middle Jurassic soundscape. They analyzed fossilized insects and used AI to extrapolate how their ancient wings might sound if rubbed together.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We've know for 22 months that Trump was going to try to sabotage the midterms. But he's going to fail because we're going to stop him. Now's the time to prep for No Kings on Oct 17th. Connect with your community. Prepare to organize against it. We will win. www2.thedailybeast.com/desperate-tr...
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Desperate Trump Makes Supporters Vow to ‘Cheat Like Hell’ to Save Him
The president is now a fan of voter fraud.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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The Beginnings of Your Election Protection Plan
I’ve felt simultaneously preoccupied and blank at times lately.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
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Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Champaign-Urbana people--if you are looking for low-cost professional therapy, our interns at Bodhi have immediate openings and are seeing clients at low sliding scale rates.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Feels like a good day to share this. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-and-wh...
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How and why to de-Google your life
Plus, a data center rebellion erupts in Canada, Gen Z says it's sexy to be a Luddite, and the push to paint anti-tech activists as extremists. This is Episode 2 of the BITM show with guest Paris Marx.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sometimes you just need to throw down with AI by writing some haiku about fast food... katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/three-burg...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/08/2026
DHS has been abusing administrative subpoenas to go after people who criticize ICE online. If this happens to your accounts, know your rights.
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When the Government Demands Info About Your Online Accounts
The First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all Indivisibles who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure e...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/08/2026
No matter where you live or if you’ve never organized before, you can have a national impact on election protection. At our upcoming Election Protection 101 training, we will cover how you can mobilize to defend voting rights and ensure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot.
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Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all Indivisibles who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure e...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Solve M.E. @solveme.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We're thrilled to share the news of the latest Solve-funded study by Rob Wüst. People with ME/CFS and Long Covid are often told that their reduced exercise capacity and muscle abnormalities are the result of physical inactivity.
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Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest - Nature Communications
Low aerobic capacity in patients with long COVID and ME/CFS is often attributed to physical inactivity. The authors show that long COVID and ME/CFS patients have distinct skeletal muscle changes that ...
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“…the things that prime people to be vulnerable to authoritarianism, that weaken us like a nutritional deficit setting someone up to get sicker when the virus comes…”
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The Exhaustion of Small Moral Injuries
In a recent conversation, someone repeated a phrase I’ve heard many times, something like “There is no moral consumption under capitalism.” There’s a lot I like about this idea—it gives us permission ...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The White House posted on Facebook claiming that 198 Democrats voted against banning members of Congress from trading stocks while in office. What they don’t tell you is that House Republicans attached the SAVE Act to the bill.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
When the AC in your car isn't working and you drive around with the windows down when it's hot, you start to feel a strong sense of camaraderie with the other people with their windows down, whose AC also doesn't work, and with whom you are suddenly sharing music selections and liminal space...
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Solidarity Social @solidarity.social · 18/07/2026
votingrightslab.org/election-ris... choosedemocracy.us/blog/liars-l...
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2026 Election Risk Heat Map
A tool designed to identify where the conditions for election crises are most likely to emerge this year.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/07/2026
We’ve got 15 weeks left to do the organizing work it will take to overcome the regime’s election sabotage — trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, blocking vote-counting, and even attempting to ban states from encouraging people to vote.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A white bunny with dark patches around its eyes sits on the floor while looking at the camera.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's election lies and authoritarian threats (and Republicans' tacit and explicit support) are no surprise, but they are a good reminder to start thinking now about threats to elections this fall. Two things I'm doing... 🧵
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Illinois Public Media @ilpublicmedia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ward 3 in Urbana has been without a grocery store for over four decades, according to Angela Bradley. Bradley has been fighting food insecurity in Champaign-Urbana for 20 years, first as a food pantry director and now as the CEO and owner of HeartStrong Grocery.
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Urbana community grocery store location finalized on Lincoln Avenue - IPM Newsroom
HeartStrong Grocery CEO Angela Bradley has signed a lease with Urbana to build the grocery store at the intersection of Bradley and Lincoln avenues.
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Katarina Hit 🐀 she/her @katarinahit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taco Bell is really good and one of the most vegetarian-friendly fast food restaurants and the diarrhea jokes annoy me because it doesn’t deserve them, both because it was a supplier issue and they took action even before that was pinpointed and because the food is good!!
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No matter which conspiracy theories Trump peddles tonight, we know he's just trying to come up with an excuse for unprecedented election sabotage. Trump is desperate, and the GOP will do everything they can to cling to power. The way we stop them is by getting into election protection formation.
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Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
ICE continues to kidnap, torture, & kill. ICE cannot be reformed—it must be abolished. We have championed legislation to immediately abolish ICE, hold abusers accountable, & repair communities. Your support is crucial to getting these bills passed. Sign & share: actionnetwork.org/petitions/aaactnow
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Smile Politely @smilepolitely.com · 15/07/2026
The Champaign County African American Heritage Trail and the Experience Champaign-Urbana foundation have developed an app for residents and visitors to explore the trail and create personalized self-guided tours, which is available to download now. 📲
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Explore the Champaign County African American Heritage trail with a new app - SPlog
The Champaign County African American Heritage Trail and the Experience Champaign-Urbana foundation have developed an app for residents and visitors to explore the trail and create personalized…
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The hidden cost of @aarp.org membership? #Palantir
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ACLU @aclu.org · 15/07/2026
Read the new report in full.
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"You're Only Getting Out Deported or Dead:" Abusive US Immigration Detention at Ft. Bliss | American Civil Liberties Union
The 84-page report, “‘You’re Only Getting Out Deported or Dead’: Abusive US Immigration Detention at Ft. Bliss,” documents conditions at the largest immigration detention facility in the United States...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026
Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
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Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say
Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"If solitude was fragile when I had that conversation back in the 00s, it has become a critically endangered species by now... The attention economy’s existential threat to the self is that it leaves us never truly alone and rarely truly together." katherinemaurer.substack.com/p/solitude
Quiet scene of a wooded lake inlet.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here's why you may not know that: 64% of Memphis residents are Black. There are other reasons, but mostly that.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes. We need to be ready to send up and protect elections.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 2 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/qTjQP
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "2 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Two white bunnies are curled up together inside a cardboard box.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The face of Modern Diarrhea www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...
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CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.
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etherealsnailfish.bsky.social @etherealsnailfish.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Great article questioning the current hand-wringing over population, consider following @popnbalance.bsky.social if this interests you! wvd.org/pronatalist-...
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Pronatalist Misinformation Fuels Low-Fertility Alarmism – World Vasectomy Day
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Climate.us @climate.us · 10/07/2026
What is Climate.us? It’s a new independent, nonprofit climate information website with a simple goal: keep trusted climate science easy to find, easy to understand, and available to the public. Climate information is a public good. Climate.us is here to help protect it. Explore Climate.us 🌍️ 🧪
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