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@katemzz.bsky.social
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D.Litt. English Teacher/NWP Teacher Consultant/Mother/Former IT professional/Opinions mine alone

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 06/10/2026
Gatorade sold in 37 states has been recalled. #NJ is included on the list. Products contain unlisted food colorings Yellow No. 5 and/or Yellow No. 6. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Gatorade sold in 37 states has been recalled. See list
Over 120,000 cases of Gatorade sold across 37 states have been recalled due to undeclared food colorings that could pose a risk to some consumers.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now more than ever.
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katemzz.bsky.social @katemzz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
New levels of the absurd.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
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katemzz.bsky.social @katemzz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
So very excited about the publication of Aesthetics of Excess in Northern Irish Troubles Fiction: Terror, Trauma, and Affect. Palgrave MacMillan. link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Cover photo of a broken pane of glass, cracked in an irregular web-like pattern
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Amen. #BookSky
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Cheeky Alpha Monkey @alpha-aurora.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
CEO of Toyota just announced their solid state EV battery, with an 1100 mile range, that does not use LITHIUM! This is epic 😏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Try music !
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Workers’ Lit Podcast @workerslit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Despite it all, books still matter. They always will.
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Reading a book, seeing a word you don't understand and having to look it up, thereby allowing you to understand something that was previously opaque is sometimes called "thinking" and it's good for you. It's one of the nicer parts about being alive.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2026
The Obama Presidential Center is more than a museum; it's a space for those on the South Side and for all visitors from near and far to enjoy. Here's your sneak preview of the new Chicago Public Library branch inside — and a few books I would check out if I were you!
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Cora Peeta M 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇶🇺🇳 💙💗🤍💗💙 @coramcgladdery.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Semicolon moon
Twilight sky. Sliver crescent moon (right hand sliver) with bright star/planet aligned above
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Robert Reich has the answer… The ceiling on income subject to Social Security payroll tax must be raised. If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to Social Security payroll tax, solvency would be guaranteed forever, and also expand SS benefits. robertreich.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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They don't want you to know the REAL reason Social Security is in trouble
But I'm going to tell you anyway
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I don’t mean to sound dramatic or anything but everyone needs to pick up a book and start reading. We are living through a major literacy crisis.
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Kristin 🇨🇦🤓 @faierius.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I think an adult version of a scholastic book fair would fix a lot of my problems.
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katemzz.bsky.social @katemzz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Something awesome this morning
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/05/2026
UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students
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UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students
The University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit.
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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡
Goose chilling among the flowers
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply,not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades,
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I was reminded this morning of something IBM noted in 1978: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision."
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 24/04/2026
This is what Wisconsinites have to pay to watch the Brewers, Bucks, and Packers play, and it’s simply outrageous. My new bill will put an end to those sky-high costs, making local games free for local fans.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.
thelettersfromleo.com
“I Cannot Be in Favor of War” — Pope Leo XIV's Wide-Ranging In-Flight Press Conference From Africa
On the flight back from Africa, Leo addressed Iran, migration, the death penalty, and LBGTQ issues. He said he carries a photo with him of a Lebanese boy who was killed in the conflict.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months: "This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.
Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is
unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17.

¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of
Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr EITM In an extraordinary act of civil disobedience, 40 faith leaders LGBTQ+ advocates staged a 3-hr sit in at Gov. Brad Little's office to protest Idaho's super-harsh new bathroom law with 9 ages 34 to 84 arrested and later released.
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Demonstrators Arrested After Sit-In In Idaho Protesting Extreme Felony Trans Bathroom Ban
9 Idaho demonstrators were arrested after refusing to leave the Governor's office.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
#writerslife
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 25/02/2026
Extremism fuels political violence—but easy access to guns makes it deadly. We all must work toward a future where we resolve our differences with words, not bullets. #SOTU
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Kathy Hursen, RN, MS @67rn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
AI just got its toughest math test yet. The results are mixed Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers, and amateurs all gave it their best shot. The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians.
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First Proof is AI's toughest math test yet. The results are mixed
Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The U.S. Department of Defense has barred military personnel from enrolling in courses at many of the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. A leaked email is said to contain the full list of affected schools. Shared by MeidasTouch.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 09/02/2026
As countries across Europe roll out national programs to confront misogyny in schools, the United States still lacks a coordinated response.
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Misogyny Is Rising in U.S. Classrooms. Where Is the National Response?
As Europe rolls out national programs to confront misogyny and harassment in schools, the United States still lacks a coordinated response.
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 31/01/2026
🇨🇦 O Canada 🇨🇦 So honored to keynote at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference and deeply moved to receive an Intellectual Freedom Award. The kindness, generosity, and warmth were overwhelming. What a beautifully organized conference and an unforgettable time in Toronto. My ♥️ is full.
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Johan Van Weyenbergh @johanvawe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🧪 #LongCOVID is here to stay—even in children - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Long COVID is here to stay—even in children
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
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Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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Sim Barr @simpulse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🐤 🐤 "quack" 🐤 🐤
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Common Sense by Thomas Paine, published anonymously on this day 250 years ago.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/01/2026
Kay Cicellis’s reimagined Greek myths reflect literature’s continued interest in ancient mythology—and what in life is inevitable, versus what we can control, Rachel Vorona Cote writes.
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Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths
The fascination with these stories reflects an existential interest in what in life is inevitable, and what we can control.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
A USPS mailbox in New York City
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The History department at the University of Toronto is searching in the field of Ukrainian history. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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University of Toronto - Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History | H-Net
The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Ukrainian History. The appointment will be at t...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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Lorraine Miller @lorrainemiller7.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
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