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Jarvis Square Books @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Apropos of nothing, we still have a few of these @joseolivarez.bsky.social broadsides available.

"The Democrats Need to Stop Asking Me for Five Dollars" poem by José Olivarez

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Trumpism is bad, he doesn’t want to end foreign wars and he’s not gonna make things cheaper. Democrats, this is your moment to narrate what’s happening.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I sincerely pray that the weight of your mediocrity and cowardice weighs on your ballsack every night heavier than lead.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The Klan and ICE agents both wear masks. And they do so for the same reason.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

That’s terror you’re feeling.

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I’m over half a century old. I can guarantee that being “inconvenienced by strangers”(aka dominated by said stranger) has never once been okay. Please trust your gut on my “don’t-talk-to-me expression.”

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This alarm has been ringing in my chest since the Jan 6 coup attempt. Capitalism kills.

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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

to all of the Democratic senators who voted yes, on Bondi, how are you sleeping at night knowing that our government is kidnapping, torturing, and imprisoning innocent people?

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The clearest interpretation yet of this nonsense windbagging.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sen. @corybooker has committed to filibustering the business of the Senate to bring attention to the lawlessness of the Trump Administration until he can no longer stand or speak. The least we can do is keep him company for awhile. Watching www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

America: Where folks with power do nothing to bridle him because they’re *afraid of being yelled at* …while folks with zero power are afraid of not surviving.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Attacking knowledge, information, learning, science, libraries, schools: to keep people clueless and compliant. Fight back: read, speak out, communicate, learn, and share with others.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Buy and love this book as much as I do. ✨

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech." This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 05/03/2025

38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

NYC knows that we do not need another harassing egomaniac bully in office. We know he stands up only for himself and not us, not women and not the elders who he left to die while grandstanding. #hellNoCuomo

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And if everyone is wondering why this morning I woke up and started skeeting about taxes, and information, and democracy, this is why. Once again, DOGE is trying to share information from the IRS to other agencies. This is illegal and unlawful.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

as much as anything, yesterday was a perfect example of how the modern conservative conception of toughness is completely at odds with actual toughness

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

SAME. 🧵

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I owe the television part of my career to @joyannreid.bsky.social, as do so many other Black voices y'all never would have heard of if not for her. And *that's* why she's gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

So tax boycott, right? Muskie’s got it covered. Right? For, ya know, generations.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Too few of us understand how government operations works because for too long it has been explained to us in insider baseball terms layered with partisan political speak and contempt. I learned a lot about how these systems work when I worked in local government and this is Darkness at Noon bad.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Remember when we said Trump is going to do project 2025 and everyone said “no, he’s not.” Turns out …

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black History is American History.

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m shocked by how many people believe fascism is temporary. Alarming numbers of Americans genuinely believe we’ll still have a democracy in which to vote again. Octavia Butler tried to warn us.

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“she is thunderbolt” #notatypo 🩵 from my first book, Racing Hummingbirds

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rules can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.” - Ai Weiwei

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Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is one of a small selection of new creative nonfiction that I find particularly unnerving to publish. For anyone trapped in the jaws of this cycle, I see you. I honor your resilience. My gratitude to the kind folks at XRAY for giving this micro memoir a home. 👀 xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...

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ON THE NOSTALGIA OF DRIED APRICOTS AND OTHER GARBAGE by Jeanann Verlee

I am 41. Standing at the Formica counter of a roach-friendly Queens apartment five lifetimes ago, I crumble gorgonzola over flatbread dough, then stud it with gems of diced dried apricot and fresh thy...

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 17/11/2024

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

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