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Geralyn

@hailey57.bsky.social
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books, dogs, poetry, creating art and appreciating art, tourist in Nova Scotia for more than four decades, gardening with mixed results every year, favorite month is any month with a holiday calling for decorations :) That's every holiday, correct?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/10/2025
If you missed this training, join our next one on October 15 where we’ll cover our rights when protesting, de-escalation training, and more.
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No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training 10/15
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2025
Portland is ... right there. It's a real place. People live in it. People can go look at it. You could call someone there right now.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-p…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“Advocacy must shift from isolated book battles to defending institutional autonomy and resisting the ideological nationalization of censorship.” buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...
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The Quiet Creep of Censorship: How ‘Everyday Banning’ Is Reshaping American Schools - Bucks County Beacon
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The state did away with categorical funding for school libraries a couple of budgets ago. They cannot say they support literacy improvements while failing to properly fund our school libraries (and our schools for that matter).
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‘From a Goosebumps book’ - Seminole County’s skeleton crew libraries – Oviedo Community News
Seminole County school libraries have far fewer paid staff than neighboring Orange County, leaving volunteers to try to pick up the slack a few hours a week.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska; 270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina; 4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii --> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Attend an event. Read a banned book. Send an email. But more than anything, talk to your friends and neighbors about what’s at stake. If they can remove a book you loathe, they can remove a book you love. Make it a goal next week to inspire one new person a day into action!
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Exactly 👇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store. The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ. Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need. Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 03/10/2025
In the spring, Trump cut $500 million from aid to food banks. But they had already ordered 94 million pounds of food from the program — all abruptly canceled. People at food banks noticed. The cuts meant less meat and lighter pickups. We visualized it: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare www.richardhanania.com/p/no-democra...
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No, Democrats Are Not Shutting Down the Government to Give Illegals Healthcare
The completely fact-free debate over the continuing resolution
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Tasslyn - AKA Dr. Sasslyn @tasslyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Proud to work on this with some great folks fighting for the freedom to read. Of note - SO MANY ALLIES. @heykellyjensen.bsky.social @flfreedomread.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social!!!! pen.org/report/the-n...
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The Normalization of Book Banning
This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The NYT article correctly points out that the judge dances around a decision on “government speech” while siding with the rest of the district’s argument that it can viewpoint restrict as it chooses because patrons do not have 1A rights in our libraries. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...
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Florida Court Rejects Free Speech Argument in Book Removal Case
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 01/10/2025
I say, ef him! If Trump wants to withhold funding due to NY, Gov. Hochul should withhold our federal tax payments. NY is among the biggest net payers to subsidize red states. Let them pay their own way!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For over 60 years, Jane Goodall was a force for research about our precious planet—and climate change action to protect it—while breaking glass ceilings along the way. I'll so miss her courage and commitment to help expand what we know about our world and preserve it for the generations to come.
Jane Goodall holding a sign that says “Vote for Nature!” in a group shot
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In a decision issued October 1, 2025, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young includes a postcard sent to him saying “Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The only one out of the top 10 identified by PEN America not on the FBOE’s list of 55 is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. That said, over the last four years, we have seen that title challenged in over 25 of Florida’s 67 districts.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Sending thoughts & prayers to the war-ravaged city of Portland, Oregon now under siege from attack by Antifa & other domestic terrorists. Take solace in dear leader's words: "Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen." (and "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL"). Let the healing begin...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries. www.everylibrary.org/i_believe_in... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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I Believe in Libraries.
EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Question for Kash Patel. In two recent shootings, you quickly posted blame to fit your "leftist" narrative. This weekend was deadly in America with Michigan church shooting & NC bar shooting from a boat. Waiting for your posts assigning blame but not seeing them. Did these not fit your narrative?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it was terminating its labor contract with the union representing over 30,000 prison employees, marking the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to tighten control over the federal workforce.
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Federal Bureau of Prisons moves to end union protections for its workers
The federal Bureau of Prisons it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protection...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“My family and I have long understood that standing up to Donald Trump comes with a cost,” Comey said in a video. It’s a sentiment many of us know too well because sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NEW from PP: You know how Krista Noem has been bottlenecking disaster relief? Turns out, you can get them greenlit —if you‘re a Noem donor! After donor asked, Noem quickly cleared project. Then she flew to town and dined at French bistro with the donor. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 26/09/2025
Trump is proposing to give 15% of TikTok to UAE Sovereign Fund. Because that country has given billions worth of deals to him, his sons and Witkoff’s son in their crypto exchanges. No one in Congress or Wall Street is going to say something about this?
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
-cutting 10s of millions of $s for more than 50 autism-related studies -rolling back protections from air pollution, which studies link to autism -reversing bans on chemicals, including TCE, also linked to autism -Ending her autism research & gov career 👇 www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2025
Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"
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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
UNBELIEVABLE. DOJ deletes it's own report online that says the far right attacks have outpaced all other types of terrorism since 1990, committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far right or Islamic extremists www.thedailybeast.com//doj-quietly...
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Bondi's DOJ Censors Study Showing Who Commits Political Violence
The 2024 study is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Scientists Find New Evidence Planet 9 May Be Real by Lydia Amazouz. Simulations say hypothetical Planet 9 could be gas or ice giant smaller in mass than Uranus or Neptune b/much larger than Earth Est is between 400-800 AU from Sun & its orbit 10,000-20,000 yrs for 1 revolution tinyurl.com/33sh4xub
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We don’t have to send them to Russia (Ukraine would’ve been a better example). We can just send them to Florida where childhood vaccines aren’t required anymore.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Geralyn @hailey57.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
www.facebook.com/reel/6523728...
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230K views · 62K reactions | For our scientists | Elle Cordova
For our scientists.
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Sapient Librarian @22rabbit.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Tricycle: When we greet challenges w/determination to grow heart strong from lifting the weights lying heavy on our hearts and souls, we expand, and the true meaning and purpose of our lives unfolds. by Kamilah Majied, PhD, “Facing the Music of Our Times with Metta” tricycle.org/article/faci...
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Facing the Music of Our Times with Metta
Tapping into African American wisdom through song
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Branding failure 101 — is costly, is not accurate and makes us look pointlessly insane www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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Pentagon officials fume over Trump's Department of War rebrand
Employees could find themselves changing Defense Department seals on more than 700,000 facilities around the world.
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