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Jamie Donahoe

@jamiedonahoe.bsky.social
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Reader, Kidlit Writer, Traveler and Info Junkie: books, chocolate, travel, historic buildings, food, climate justice, geocaching she/her #kidlit #12x12PB #SCBWI

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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Swiss National Day! Happy Colorado Day! (I believe brownies will be an appropriate way to celebrate …)
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A secret colony? How cool! #history #UShistory
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New Sweden: The US's long-lost 'secret' colony
It was the smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived colony in the US. But despite being virtually unheard of today, it helped shape the nation's birth 250 years ago.
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today’s reading view… #amreading #bookishlife
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
A benefit of our mild #Colorado winter….purple blooms at least a month ahead of schedule
Purple hyacinth blooming 
Purple pansies
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/up...
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Uphold the rights of transgender people in Kansas and across the U.S.
This legislation in Kansas is just another example of how states, empowered by Trump’s federal rollbacks, are introducing policies that compromise our civil rights. And the people most impacted by the...
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
3000 people took to the streets in #Boulder yesterday. It was loud, it was creative and finally, finally the students are out in force. We need them in this fight for their future. #iceoutnow #indivisible
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I guess we now know the worth of a human in this country… E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The #StoryStorm Notebook tradition continues! My 2026 version is one I admired in a shop in New Zealand and was delighted to see appear in my Christmas stocking last year. Let the ideas fly! #storystorm #kidlit #picturebooks #writingcommunity
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I love this! This man serenades tourists in a Boston park with a taste of their homeland one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5615...
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🔊 Listen Now: This man serenades tourists in a Boston park with a taste of their homeland
Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 4:02
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Colorado showing up! #NoKings #Arvada
Sign at the No Kings protest that says “It’s a combover, not a crown“
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Interesting piece but it had no mention of the fact that US citizens living overseas are required to file Federal tax returns. No taxation without representation… shouldn’t that stop the argument right there?? @npr.org #gotv @demsabroad.bsky.social one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5574...
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🔊 Listen Now: Republicans Push Voting Restrictions On U.S. Citizens Living Abroad
The NPR Politics Podcast on NPR One | 15:11
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
People are taking to the streets in Chicago!!! Oh, wait. It’s the Chicago Marathon… Congratulations athletes and City of #Chicago on a great day! #ChicagoMarathon
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... An inspiration to millions, I hope her good works continue
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Sigh... #climatefighters #climatecrisis #urbanism #Basel www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emission...
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Swiss canton offers a reward to residents who give up their cars
From Monday, anyone who gives up their car can apply for a reward from the canton of Basel-City.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/09/2025
Three weeks from right now, millions of Americans will gather again to say NO KINGS. As Trump wields government power to censor free speech and threaten political opponents, we need to make October 18 a historic day of resistance. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wildlife sightings on this morning’s bike ride: 2 raccoons playing in a culvert 1 very dead skunk 1 small pile of bear scat (all I need to see of a bear) 1 rattlesnake curled on the road (no desire to check if it was alive or dead) 4 wild turkeys Too many prairie dogs to count #Colorado #cycling
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel wasn't suspended because of what he said. He was suspended because the FCC threatened his employer. That's state-sanctioned censorship and it is a GIANT RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 that authoritarianism isn’t *coming* it’s ALREADY HERE. Today it's Jimmy. Tomorrow it's the rest of us.
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I saw a freight train go by today, and all I could think was, America’s rolling stock is a laughing stock… It was slow and creaky and looked like a relic from the past… #infrastructurefail
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My “smile line” of the day: “Did it hurt? When you fell out of whatever Norse myth you came from…” (From A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna) #amreading #readingbringsmejoy
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Help stop this insanity: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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Don’t put Trump on Mount Rushmore!
A wave of recent Republican bills aim to glorify Trump by putting his face on Mount Rushmore and U.S. currency, and his name on airports, transit systems, and the Kennedy Center. One piece of legislat...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/09/2025
CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso... #Museums
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Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history
The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It doesn’t get much better than sipping a hot chocolate on an August morning that is most definitely trending toward fall while preparing for my #kidlit critique group! #amwriting #chocoholic
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
These books about #geocaching are very outdated but they provided great cover for this library cache…
Books about geocaching on a library shelf hiding a cache logbook
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Remember as a kid when you and your friends would “ride bikes”? That’s the feeling of a great gravel ride… #gravelbiking #Colorado #bigkidfun #cycling
A gravel trail running between fields with trees and mountains in the background
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Missing life in #Basel… www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/f...
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The Swiss Railways Clock That Still Keeps Travelers on Time
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Jennifer Buchet / Kidlit Author & Educator @buchetbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
CONTEST ALERT! #kidlitchat #contest
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I love being a Little Free Library steward - look what the community has added: Puppy treats and mystery books!! #littlefreelibrary #lovereading @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Interior of a Little Free Library book-sharing box with three wrapped books on the lower level and a jar of dog biscuits next to the books on the upper shelf
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We are a nation under duress. People are being taken from their homes, from grocery stores, from safe places. People with no prior criminal history. People who have active cases for citizenship or asylum.
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!
Two red Adirondack chairs on a porch white house with a red door with the Canadian flag hanging over them
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I discovered Team Caches yesterday in downtown Issaquah. Despite roping in a random stranger, we were unable to get it to work. Next time we’ll bring an entire posse! Love the concept though. #geocaching
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Liz Nealon @liznealon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So worth reading. Damn. It's tough to be a visionary www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/a...
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Jack Katz, Pioneer of the Graphic Novel, Is Dead at 97
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Today’s reading view…
View from a porch with red chairs and a table in the foreground and green trees and lawn in the background
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy Birthday Geocaching! How #geocaching became the world's largest game of hide-and-seek one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5342...
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🔊 Listen Now: How geocaching became the world's largest game of hide-and-seek
on NPR One | 3:44
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Spent a lovely hour or so browsing in @boulderbookstore.bsky.social this morning before deciding on my purchases #independentbookstoreday
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I know where I will be on Saturday!’
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@cswild.bsky.social Thinking of you today and hoping for a victory against hatred
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
It keeps getting worse… #handsoff
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Seeing this post right after reading HCR’s April 18 2025 post is pretty powerful stuff
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Books bring out the best in people… #loveyourindie #bookstores www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one
A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Competition was fierce - nothing stokes creativity like oppression- but this was my absolute favorite sign from #HandsOff #Denver
Hand-painted sign declaring “Trump is not healthy for children and other living things”
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Followed up my #handsoff action yesterday with calls to my reps today to demand they hear the millions of voices that rang in the street yesterday
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Another reason to love libraries!
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Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Happy Election Day, Wisconsin and Florida. Go vote like your life depends on it.
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Go, Cory, go!
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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Heather Stigall is offering a critique on a fiction or informational fiction picture book. Prose or rhyme is ok (no free-verse). 850 words or under please. To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three. Good luck! @heatherstigall7.bsky.social
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Jamie Donahoe @jamiedonahoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
More love from PB creatives
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Jenny Lynn Pease @kidlitjenny.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Lisa Katzenberger is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social
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