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Karen Schubert

@karen-youngstown.bsky.social
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Poet, author of "The Compost Reader" (Accents), "I Left My Wings on a Chair" (Kent State University Press), winner of Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Prize Founding Director Lit Youngstown LitYoungstown.org Founding Chair LOOP Youngstown LOOPYoungstown.org

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Hitchcock made films today.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
DELAWARE GOV. MATT MEYER: “Haitians, immigrants on Temporary Protected Status are here LEGALLY— history will view (ending TPS) how we look at things like Japanese internment camps.” Families came fleeing harm, many worked in ag for a decade… sent to countries they know little about.
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Ellen Austin-Li @ellenaustinli.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another reminder that September 1st is coming up fast! Don’t miss poets @Rikki Santer & @karen-youngstown.bsky.social at Poetry at Artifact! We’re in the gorgeous Radio Artifact space in Urban Artifact. Come on in, and bring a poem to share in the open mic!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Does it ever feel like you're in a cage being watched? Well, you are. By Flock cameras, thanks to Mike Rogers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BOSTON…😕 ✈️
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: 4th Circuit STRIKES DOWN South Carolina law that only allows voters to vote absentee if they are over the age of 65 or fall into several limited categories for violating the 26th Amendment by denying the right to vote to many voters under 65. www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
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🚨 Grant v. Knapp
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🔥 FLORIDA State Rep. @AngieNixon : “If believing a mom shouldn’t have to work 3 jobs to keep a roof over her head is extreme, call me extreme… Ashley Moody can call me whatever she wants— but in November she’ll be calling me ‘SENATOR’.”
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Karen Schubert @karen-youngstown.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I've seen this! Quite wonderful.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder: progressive is mainstream
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Mycena subcyanocephala, a tiny, bright blue mushroom species, was discovered in the tropical forests of Taiwan.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
WOW. New data just revealed that ICE agents arrested 3,800 Minnesota residents this winter – averaging 33 arrests every day. More than 75% of those arrested had no criminal record. ICE agents are not just going after the worst of the worst, and they are not making communities better off.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/03/2026
We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is
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U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says
The Interior secretary said Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, wants foreign investment in the country's mining sector.
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Karen Schubert @karen-youngstown.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yeah!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Interviewer: "What's your take on how he's framing the economy?" Me: "It's that he's lying."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/02/2026
This is immoral. Trump officials gutted USAID and cut off food aid to refugees. Clinics closed. Warnings poured in and were ignored. Rations collapsed. Children starved to death. 👉🏾Agency staffers even celebrated the cuts with a sheet cake while lifesaving programs were being shut down.👈🏾
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The government should not have unlimited access to our private data—here's what Congress can do to rein in ICE's surveillance practices.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Trans women on HRT have zero advantage in sports. The XY endocrine system collapses without testosterone, whereas the XX endocrine system doesn’t. Trans women athletes have been “weaponised” in the press, and politics. www.220triathlon.com/blog/explori...
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Exploring the debate on transgender athletes in sport | 220 Triathlon
The debate about transgender athletes in sport has raged on in recent months. Here, we take a look at the current state of affairs and how triathlon is responding
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.
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Democrat Christian Menefee wins election for US House, narrowing GOP's slim majority
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Abolish. ice. 💔
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 24/01/2026
🚨BREAKING NEWS FROM 1955: Get the polio vaccine.
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Dr H Stattos @physologius.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
c/o Demon Flying Fox 🔊 The Greenland resistance! (video number three) #Greenland 🇬🇱 #Denmark 🇩🇰 #NATO
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Rachel Maddow: The people, by and large, stand in opposition to Trump — his approval ratings have fallen through the floor & then down into the basement & then through the basement floor into the bedrock — He is just despised as a political leader in this country in almost unprecedented terms
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
ICE is allegedly hunting for Hmong people in Minneapolis and as I watched video of the incident lo and behold @whstancil.bsky.social was on the scene
ICE agents stop a car at the light by Tao Foods and Midwest One bank. Across the street from Uptown Natural Care Center. A witness said the agent asked the driver “where the Hmongs at”. Agents left after about 5 minutes. The driver was not detained and drove away after the agents left.Image of Stancil on the scene
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Karen Schubert @karen-youngstown.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What the everlasting fuck
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What about Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is breaking the Epstein Files Transparency Act AT THIS VERY MOMENT.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/01/2026
What the KENNEDY Center used to be… Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, wehave effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 20/12/2025
Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
(1,2) I intentionally waited until after the killer was caught to share my interview from earlier this week with @nicollewallace.bsky.social . Why? To return focus to the families and survivors and what to do next, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-j...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water. AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects. So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends. See how this works?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 01/12/2025
“That sounds illegal”
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Without naming your job, tell me something you say 20 times per day at work
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Key graf
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