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Heather Sessler

@heathersessler.bsky.social
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Musician. Abolitionist. Book and dog lover. NYC based. P(OR)tland raised. Library Worker these days. she/her

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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
$53.5 million in NYPD misconduct settlements in the first half of 2026 alone, pushing the total toward $1 billion since 2018. "It fuels this cycle of impunity," one advocate says. #NYPD #PoliceAccountability
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NYPD misconduct payouts approach $1 billion since they became publicly disclosed in 2018
NYPD misconduct payouts have reached nearly $1 billion since public disclosure began in 2018.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sticker inspired by this joke from my new hour which I have spoiled slightly by doing it on tv already.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I haven’t moved on from Dolly Parton. More posts please 💗
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My mom spends most Saturday mornings protesting with a bunch of other grandmothers in downtown Salem, Oregon. Today an old man in a van drove by and pulled a gun on her because he didn’t like the sign she was holding. I’m so angry. She said she’s feeling better, but I’m still so angry.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My partner commutes to a music conservatory 5 hours away. He crams everything into 3 ridiculously long days so that he can be here in NYC to maintain an active performance career. He would quit in an instant if a policy like this was implemented.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
my debut for the @newrepublic.com! on Dolly, and how she was always entirely herself even in a world that wasn't ready for it newrepublic.com/article/2147...
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Dolly Parton Never Wavered
From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
M. Gessen has written a truly extraordinary piece about the "soft fascism" faced by transgender people in America, and by trans people in Kansas particularly. Beautifully written and reported, deeply humane. I really hope you'll read it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Calling in sick tomorrow for no particular reason…
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome story
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We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Series of Bluesky posts that point to the duplicity of an account "run" by so-called agentic AI
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 28/07/2026
We did it, we finally found the worst headline
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
I’m so happy and proud to announce that my nonprofit is awarding $100,000 in scholarships this upcoming 7th cycle of The Perry Second Chances Scholarship. The largest amount of money we have EVER awarded in one cycle. $10,000 PER WOMAN. Subscribe to thurmanperryfoundation.org to stay up to date.
THE PERRY SECOND CHANCES SCHOLARSHIP
$100.000
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'Everyone Deserves A Second Chance!
- Gabrielle Angelique Perry, MPH, Founder & Executive Director
The mission of The Perry 'Second Chances' Scholarship is to annually provide fiscal resources to formerly incarcerated women and the daughters of anyone who has been impacted by incarceration. Women who are currently enrolled or recently accepted into an accredited 2-to-4-year educational institution will be given a one-time, $10,000 scholarship, paid directly to their institutions, to support their education & needs in order to thrive in their educational endeavors.
Applications open 11.15.2026 and close 2.27.2027, at www.theperryscholarship.org
Learn more at thurmanperryfoundation.org
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Today a lady returned a small stack of children’s books. After I took the books and started scanning them in she took a photo of me like she was an Amazon delivery person?? I hope my disgust came across clearly in the picture.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I used to work as a band instrument repair technician. We would sometimes write “no dad!” on the ticket when somebody’s dad tried to fix it at home (please don’t). I can imagine it’s so much worse now!
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.bonfire.com/libraries-fo... I finally wore out my libraries are for the people shirt and bought a replacement for myself and another for a friend. I always get compliments when I’m working the circulation desk!
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Libraries For The People | Bonfire
Support For The People Leftist Library Project. Public libraries need our help. As reactionary forces target libraries through book bans and some liberal politicians ...
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ernie Sandwich could’ve been a contender.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This dude rules.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are so many guys out there! The numbers are good we don’t actually have to keep all the bad ones! There are endless guys! Toss the bad ones out I promise there will still be more guys! You’re not gonna run out of guys!
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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm looking for public and academic librarians and archivists to consent to reference interactions from Queens College LIS students in my info sources and services class. Let me know if you're willing and how they should contact you. 💜 you in advance! 📚 📜
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Awful news this morning — one of Oregon's best reporters has passed away, all too young. His absence will be felt by the media and by the public at large. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Zane Sparling, reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive, dies of cancer at 33
“He wanted his identity to be a reporter, and that’s what it was,” his father said.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Dylan Flesch @dylanflesch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
You HAVE to watch this video from my brilliant and funny NYC PLAN comrade, Anastazia. It’s a great recap from our recent rally at city hall for library funding. www.instagram.com/reel/DZIUgmq...
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black star reviews on Instagram: "standing up for libraries and standing with librarians to demand that mayor zohran mamdani deliver on the library funding he promised during his campaign. libraries a...
74 likes, 9 comments - blackstar.reviews on June 3, 2026: "standing up for libraries and standing with librarians to demand that mayor zohran mamdani deliver on the library funding he promised during ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If the administration has money in the budget for 600 ADDITIONAL cops, it has $100 million to adequately fund our public libraries. You should sign up to testify to this with us next Wed: bit.ly/June10Testify
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Testify on June 10 to Support NY Public Libraries
Budget Hearing for NYC Committee on Libraries The NYC City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Relations is holding a hearing on May 26, 2026 to discuss the executiv...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 04/06/2026
What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Ahhhh. So Portland is in Burns??
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
picked up a book at the public library then mailed a package at the post office and am about to use public transportation to get to the gym. I love Services
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Happy Pride!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
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“It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
 
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
 
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
 
Happy Pride, New York City.”
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Natalie says what I’ve been thinking about the White House but haven’t articulated yet
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There’s been a gentleman living at my Q stop for at least the last year. I hope he’s getting a good rate.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It’s a strange feeling to be reading Sonny Rollins’ recent biography when I get the news of his passing.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
While preparing for a career as a trombonist, my right arm gave out and never healed well enough to play again. Everything since has been a poor substitution.
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Heather Sessler @heathersessler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Few things hotter than a bass player with that perfect left hand position.
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