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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@theferocity.bsky.social Hi Saeed!💓 Waking up, brain brimming w/delights, questions, ideas…thanks to your INCREDIBLE zoom last night! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! And I want to learn more about combo-ing memoir w/cultural crit! Might be what am doing w/out even realizing it—mind blown!🤩

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 13/05/2026

Our remote trail cameras recently captured footage of a wild jaguar moving through a Sky Island mountain range south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. More information: biodiv.us/3Pks4AM

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/05/2026

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

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Randolph Potts @rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.app · 20/04/2026

Puleng Segalo, Professor of Psychology at University of South Africa reimagines psychological inquiry, not through lab experiments - through embroidery. Her work with women exposes hidden trauma & resistance. Read about her journey from Zamdela to the world stage mauabiomagazine.com/puleng-segal...

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

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Explore live radio by rotating the globe

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I love your work! So glad you post here! From a fellow ceramicist who has only recently managed to touch clay again for the first time in forever…thank you for inspiring me to dare to post a pic of this little pot I made!

A leather-hard, brown clay pinched pot on a brown banding wheel. The pot’s sides are perpendicular to its base and the rim has been carved with mountain ridgelines in mind. The outer walls of the pot feature textured wavy lines flowing diagonally between the top and the base, reminiscent of the motion of submerged sea grasses. Pot and photo by me.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 16/04/2025

Just so folks are clear - I'm waiving all donations for my contributions (training/convening) to this effort. All facilitators are volunteers - and I am hoping that they will reimbursed for their labors by donation But this is a space being created to keep us all going:

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Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers — What A Shrink Thinks

A quiet space to gather, rest, share & recover

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15/04/2025

These meetings are organized to support professional and *natural* helpers (caretakers, parents, activists, teachers, medical and mental health care providers, community organizers, advocates - anyone in danger of burnout, over-extension or demoralization

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Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers — What A Shrink Thinks

A quiet space to gather, rest, share & recover

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15/04/2025

We currently have about 9 active facilitators who have committed to holding a once monthly Gathered Meeting by donation - so I'm hoping we will be able to have a couple meetings each week for folks to be able to drop into or attend regularly

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 15/04/2025

Gathered Meeting is a space to sit still and in silence together, to draw on our shared strengths and resources, grieve and celebrate together when necessary, and stay grounded in the work in front of us. You are welcome to come sit with us as we build out a network of resting spaces

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Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers — What A Shrink Thinks

A quiet space to gather, rest, share & recover

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dear Hilary I would very much like to come to your party and so would Hilary. Thank you for asking us.

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

THIS THREAD!!! 💖💖💖

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?” Audre Lorde

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I would encourage anyone dedicated to the causes of academic integrity, social justice, and (funnily enough) free speech to sign this petition in support of a brilliant NU professor whose tenure application was denied for the baffling and contradictory reason that he stands up for his students.

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@doublewhammied @doublewhammied.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Any of my #cancer patient or research peeps had their grants revoked or #clinicaltrial stopped due to the new regime's #waronscience and #waronresearch? 👇

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One blessing in this process has been consistently being affirmed. One of the external tenure reviewers, Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, shared his evaluation of my case and gave me permission to share it. His assessment was ignored. You can read the letter here drive.google.com/file/d/11fm2...

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Please use the link in the post for a link to the full text shown in this image

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Reading this I gasped in agony & horror/moral injury. I feel this as the most intense punch to the gut (& soul) as someone who has had 3 separate breast cancers and who has been a fierce patient advocate. Please send my love to your friend. @jonrauch.bsky.social This is beyond unconscionable.

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A great read from @juliusgoat.bsky.social , plus it delivered the belly laugh I desperately needed on this miserable morning!

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<As example, let's talk about Senate Minority Leader and seventeen-time cover boy of Glasses Pushed Down magazine Chuck Schumer, > who best represents the present of this beached whale of a party that best represents this beached whale of a country.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Hey, ladies! I'm looking to talk to women age 65 and up about whether they still get screened for cervical cancer and why. Give me a shout!

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Laura E. Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

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Michelle 🧘🏻‍♀️ @itsamichellething.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Yes. I’ve started meditating and thinking “courage” on the in breath and “fear” on the out breath. Safety is a thing I used to cling to and the new regime has made me realize I’m better off clinging to courage.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 13/03/2025

When I was diagnosed with a mysterious cancer in my central nervous system- I had one professional regret: I wished that I had spent my professional life helping people feel brave instead of safe. I’ve been focused on that ever since.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...

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Stenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?

On February 25, the White House decreed it would decide which journalists have access to President Donald Trump in the press pool, a responsibility which for a century has been handled by the White…

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This whole beautiful thread! Must read! 💖💖💖

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 13/03/2025

We can't save the world with games, but we can be part of why it is worth saving. We can't save the world with art, but we can brighten it. We can't save the world with play, but we can be a reminder of our humanity. We can't save the world with joy, but we can be a reprieve before the fight.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 12/03/2025

The Trump Administration’s treatment of Mahmoud Khalil is inhumane and unconstitutional. Today, I was proud to join NYS Assemblymember Valdez, NYC Council Member Avilés, and 27 city, state, and federal officials to call for his immediate release.

Dear Secretary Noem,

On behalf of our communities, we urge you to immediately release Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia graduate student and lawful permanent U.S. resident, and return him to his home and family in New York City.

On the night of Saturday, March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and taken from his Columbia University apartment by DHS agents to an undisclosed location. In a statement on X, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the administration would be detaining Khalil, a green card holder, in connection to his alleged participation in pro-Palestinian protests. Khalil has been denied his Constitutional right to due process, and is being held without legal justification or evidence that he has violated any laws.

The treatment of Mahmoud Khalil by the Department of Homeland Security is not only inhumane, it is a blatant violation of his legal rights. He has been separated illegally from his pregnant wife, who is a United States citizen, and detained without due process thousands of miles from home. We see these actions by the Trump administration for what they are—a flagrantly unconstitutional attempt to suppress free speech and incite fear.

The administration's pattern of targeting the rights of students and immigrants to speak against injustice undermines democracy and makes everyone less safe. We're writing to urge his immediate release back to his family in New York City. We also call on the administration to remove ICE and DHS from our campuses. Finally, we urge Columbia University to cease any and all cooperation with immigration officials who violate our sanctuary city protections and put their students at risk.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

MASSIVE protest marching through Manhattan right now against the ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. Endless stream of people chanting “No cops, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Easily a thousand people. Zero NYPD presence.

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Pamela Fiore... and live alone in the bee-loud glade @pfiore8.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

i love this. and as a Jew, I love this (because this is who most of us are):

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

If you’re feeling demoralized, know that psychological warfare is part of the enemy’s tactics and manage your PUBLIC response accordingly

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Liza B @itsthebunk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I so very much needed these words from Katie Farris this morning. Chapter 8, “Hope and Grief Can Coexist,” of Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba opens thusly:

From Chapter 8, “Hope and Grief Can Coexist” (Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba)

Hope and Grief Can Coexist

“Why write love poetry in a burning world?
To train myself, in the midst of a burning world,
to offer poems of love to a burning world.”

—Katie Farris, Why Write Love
Poetry in a Burning World

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Hello friends. I'm launching a weekly newsletter for @thenation.com. Check out my first installment, where I have, among other things, *all the smoke* for Elissa's Slotkin's pathetic, Republican-coded nonsense. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Introducing “Elie v. U.S.”

A preview Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Because if it wasn't, the Western imaginary would have to reckon with the presence of African states long before European contact. Empires that exceeded in power and wealth those of Europe at the time. Societies deeply integrated into diplomatic and trade networks linked to the Med, Arabia and Asia.

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