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Lakelander

@lakelander.bsky.social
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Book publishing long-hauler. Work won’t love you back. Join/form a union. Also: reader, knitter, friend to birds, hiker, loafer, cat herder. she/her/hers “I am haunted by waters.” —Maclean

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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Despicable behavior that will cause lasting harm to this family.
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David Zack @davidzack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's not the phones. It's the sellers of the phones hoarding all the wealth and making living unaffordable for everyone else.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.
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MadMarvin @marvinm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
HR is to protect the company. Union is to protect the worker.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 21/02/2026
The people of Roxbury don’t want this facility in their community. They've made their concerns heard and I will continue to stand with them. We must continue to hold DHS accountable. These agencies work for us, and they need to be responsive and responsible to the people.
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Roxbury Announces ICE Purchase of Warehouse for Immigration Processing Center
Roxbury says ICE has closed on deal to buy a Ledgewood warehouse for use as an illegal immigrant processing facility
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UAW @uaw.org · 20/02/2026
History made in Chattanooga 💥🎆🎉
Volkswagen workers celebrating after ratifying their first historic contract, raising fists in unity outdoors.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
now that's the power of a union
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The pattern for the red Melt the ICE hats has now raised $650,000 for immigrant aid groups in Minneapolis, according to the local yarn store that designed it. www.instagram.com/p/DUYSbKskVL...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On general strikes 🧊 lithub.com/kim-kelly-on... @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
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Kim Kelly on the Difference Between a General Strike and a National Shutdown (And Why It Matters)
On January 23, thousands of people across the state of Minnesota took part in a massive day of action to protest ICE’s violent occupation of their home. Despite subzero temperatures, the day saw be…
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
actionnetwork.org/forms/no-rox...
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Get Involved!
We need your help to stop ICE from converting Roxbury warehouses to jails. By signing up, you will receive our emails
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California Federation of Labor Unions @californialabor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Say it with us: #NoContractNoCoffee
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 09/01/2026
I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
No Kings rallies in Goshen and Middletown, New York
Crowd of people standing in a grassy area split by a walkway under orange-leafed trees at No Kings rally in Goshen, NY Protesters including someone in a squirrel costume standing along Route 211 in Middletown, NY Protestors along Route 211 in Middletown, NY including a person wearing a Trump mask and orange jumpsuit followed by a drummer and another protestor carrying a sign that says “No Racist USA.”
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beefunwellington.bsky.social @beefunwellington.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Oligarch generated human weathervanes.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
it is no coincidence that the worst fuckin people u know are utterly incurious, proudly anti-science, and completely lacking any sense of humor
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When you open a surprise package to find a book you preordered and forgot about—the best kind of gift from a few-months-ago you to current you. And not for nothing, what fantastic timing. Grateful for the efforts of @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social in putting this together.
Photo of a book cover. The cover has a blue photo background of gathered people. Type overlaid on the photo reads: The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith.
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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 03/08/2025
I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Ria Claassen🍁 @riaclaassen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
From The Netherlands: #IStandWithUkraine
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
#LunaLuna at #theshed
lit up letters reading “Luna Luna” against a dark curtain, leading into a room with carnival swingsKeith Haring mural from Luna Luna exhibitBasquiat ferris wheel from Luna Luna exhibitlit up big swings and ferris wheel from Luna Luna exhibit
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Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Spent the morning shoveling snow with my kid. We talked about how--because the world is increasingly stupid, unkind, and selfish--we need to work hard at being curious, kind, and helpful to others. Even if we're just starting with shoveling the walk for our community.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
1/ In 2018, @smencimer.bsky.social investigated the link between alcohol and breast cancer. Today the Surgeon General has issued a warning about just that: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Drinking may have given me cancer. The alcohol industry has worked hard to downplay it.
The science is clear that alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer, but boozemakers have downplayed the link.
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This is how it’s done. There are a lot of ways to fight back against moral panics, but enshrining protections in law is one of them- thrilled to see NJ keep the witch hunts at bay & preserve access to books (and protect librarians!) statewide. 💪💪💪
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder On Tyranny Lesson One: “Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” #OnTyranny #DoNotObeyInAdvance
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22/11/2024
Please read this if you consider yourself pro-choice and are ever inclined to say out loud that nobody wants an abortion or that nobody is pro-abortion
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Drought but now with snowstorm?!?
Ruler in snow up to 8 inch mark
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Casual reminder to ignore the anti-union propaganda from corporate America. If unions were actually bad for workers, corporations wouldn't need to spend millions of dollars on union-busting.
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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Incredible that we don’t have laws preventing a convicted felon and insurrections from running for president but here we are.
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Tall Rob @grandrobert.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
The way this Tressie McMillan Cottom reply blew my hair back…
Image from NYTimes.

Healy: If Harris wins, are there steps she could take to unify the country? Or do you think unity will be out of reach?

Cottom: Why would a President Harris be expected to unify a country that was never unified before? I want her to expand the court, make care work part of American infrastructure and use the bully pulpit responsibly. I don't care about unity.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Philadelphia’s District Attorney has a warning to anyone who tries to intimidate voters: “F*ck around and find out.”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Really tough choice this election, between a prolifically corrupt rapist who keeps saying “I am literally Hitler and want to do Hitler stuff” and a woman who has failed to prove herself a communist.
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
Aurora!
pink glow of aurora above trees in northern NJ
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Trump is a racist. He isn’t “fascinated” by anything
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
I think they ought to start naming them after major corporations who contribute significantly to climate change. Hurricane British Petroleum. Hurricane Nestle.
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Lakelander @lakelander.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
Picking back up on the rail trail now that the buggy months are over.
72 miles to Jersey City rail trail mile marker
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2024
Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap, The one in fear to lose what they enjoy
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
DONALD TRUMP DID NOT PEACEFULLY TRANSFER POWER IN JANUARY 2020 GO FUCK YOURSELF JD VANCE.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
i'll say about Vance what I keep saying in every other context- never elect a person who has no self respect, he does not respect himself and so is 100% incapable of respecting you or anyone else
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WeirwoodTreeHugger @weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
I wish the framing was more around men choosing not to be the sorts of people that women feel safe and comfortable having children with. Because a lot of men still expect that they shouldn't have to contribute more than sperm and money to raising children.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Good Lord, no, it does not expose a "fault line" or a "motherhood divide." It exposes the misogynistic, eugenecist natalism and religious extremism of *one* side in this election and nation, not both. Read history. Wake up and smell the Lebensborn, #BrokenTimes.
The Politics of Motherhood Become a Campaign-Trail Cudgel
The presidential race has exposed a fault line in American political culture over the deeply personal decision to have children.
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་ @riwoche.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
It's so good:
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Cats know what's up
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