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Bibliophile, Librarian, Nature lover, 2 yrs cancer-free and planning to make the most of my “one wild and precious life.” I’m Pro-Books and I VOTE #FReadom Love is Love is Love

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 5h
5 Common Myths about Book Bans
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's what the AI chatbot Claude had to say about the AI security "deal" Trump and tech executives signed today. 😅
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who says they “don’t make enough money”? Compared to what? You don’t need to grant the far right authoritarian party’s premise. You can write that they’re using arbitrary numbers based on no standards that should not be taken seriously, & you can just say that plainly instead of stenographizing
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/09/2026
This stopped me cold. POWERFUL. #SheShed 🎥 IG: imitationbyjerell
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the ground at the epicenter of the measles outbreak, the clinicians doing the lifesaving work told us who they’re relying on: their colleagues, local health departments and state officials. Just as revealing was who they didn’t mention.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The human toll of this war is more than any of us could've imagined. Eight servicemembers across the USS Lincoln Strike Force attempted to take their own lives—and we wouldn't have known unless we pushed for answers. It's long past time for a public hearing on Trump's war.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bill Nye needs your help sending a Texas teacher to the U.S. Senate!  To join our Teachers for Talarico Coalition, sign up here: act.jamestalarico.com/signup/talarico_coalitions
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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This weekend the NE US is facing a strong, rare Sept Nor'easter. Wind damage & coastal flooding (worsened by sea level rise) are expected. In this 2025 blog, UCS’s @marc-alessi.bsky.social, explains how nor'easters are being influenced by warmer oceans, courtesy of climate change.
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Hurricanes, Nor’easters, Subtropical Storms! What’s the Difference?
Different types of storms explained.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Behind the rhetoric around measles are real patients, families and clinicians carrying the consequences. This week, I traveled to rural Pennsylvania to hear directly from doctors at the center of an unprecedented outbreak Their stories deserve to cut through the noise—and remind us what’s at stake
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s almost like they did not mean it when they said they would go after criminals only. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
Federal agents appeared in nearly every corner of daily life, carrying out operations at hospitals and airports, outside suburban schools and along rural construction sites and truck stops. They fanned out from coastal cities in Maine to desert towns in Arizona, across the open plains of Wyoming and down through the southern borderlands.

In Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, where the swell was strongest, they amplified their reach through partnerships with sheriffs and state highway patrol officers. In Democratic strongholds, they intensified their activities despite laws meant to restrict them.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More) @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's the 5th anniversary of Heartdrum, an acclaimed imprint featuring heartfelt, groundbreaking & unexpected books highlighting the present & future of Native peoples & strength of young Indigenous heroes. We've published nearly 50 books with more to come! #KidLit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
Celebrating Five Years of Heartdrum: an imprint centering Indigenous stories, authors, and illustrators! Graphic with geometric turquoise design against light yellow. Cover art showing: AN EXPANSE OF BLUE, JUST LIKE GRANDMA, A LETTER FOR BOB, STRONGER THAN, LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, REZ BALL, JO JO MAKOONS (BOOK 6), LOOKING FOR SMOKE, HEALER OF THE WATER MONSTER, RAVEN, RISING and WE STILL BELONG.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE!
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 25/09/2026
“The Test” tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test > They have debased themselves in public by following something completely off the rails marking themselves as obedient Tante hits the nail on the head in his explanation of why tech execs make these wild statements
tante.cc
The Test
Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa...
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Aunt Jules @japulver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1. Fuck Cornell 2. Fuck the Tompkins County District Attorney 3. It’s open season on women & no one gives a fuck. 4. Women are no where near angry enough. #AmericaHatesWomen www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Former Cornell University student sues school, 7 fraternity members over rape allegations
Cornell University and seven Chi Phi fraternity members are facing a lawsuit over rape allegations.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still no statement from DoorDash after ICE shot one of its drivers, Wilber Garces Perez, while he was making a food delivery in Austin. Silence confers tacit approval and is an act of complicity. $DASH
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE was in Morristown, NJ today! They took people on their way to work! Trying to feed their families! And where is Congress? Not at work! They were sent home by Mike Johnson. We cannot be an isolationist country! Your vote is your voice! #ProudBlue 📹: morristown.unfiltered/IG
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

CC BY-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez on Paramount-Warner Bros merger: “This settlement appears to pave the way for yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/09/2026
UCS’s Julian Reyes analyzes the Trump administration’s continued attacks on forestry research, federal land management agencies, and the scientific workforce that supports effective decision-making. A must-read for National Public Lands Month. Read his blog:
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What Teddy Roosevelt Knew and Trump Doesn't Get: Public Lands Need Science  
US Forest Service founders Gifford Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves knowing what has become of the world’s largest wildland fire research organization, the very institution they helped build. Teddy Roosevelt helped establish 230 million acres of public lands dur
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The Librarians Film @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join THE LIBRARIANS and Penguin Random House this Wed, Sept 23 6pm at the MLK Jr Memorial Library in D.C. for a FREE screening & conversation. A post-screening panel will follow. Join us for this impactful event in our nation's capital - register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-librar...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The response to Trump’s attacks on these outlets should be for every news outlet to boycott the Trump White House. They don’t need to stand there to do their reporting. See how Trump likes it when no legitimate news outlet shows up for his tantrums and lies.” www.americaamerica.news/p/is-trump-c...
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Is Trump Collapsing?
A Saturday Prompt
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/09/2026
We cannot let history forget what happens when a federal government uses law enforcement to terrorize innocent people.
 And let me say to any agent or administration official who thinks we've forgotten or that their cruelty will go unchecked: Illinois remembers.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The volume of hostile communications led the bench to create its own internal system for tracking people responsible for multiple threats, supplementing the U.S. Marshals Service, which normally handles judicial security..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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William K. Cody @williamcody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entirety of the Trump regime's commitment to & involvement in the deportation of CHILDREN is absolutely sickening & should disgust any decent human being. THESE ARE KIDS. They didn't get to choose their lives. Humiliating & torturing them should be obvsly very, very wrong to all decent people.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Disney and ABC said in a court filing that FCC Chair Brendan Carr has made clear he is carrying out Trump's specific directives ‘aimed at curbing speech critical of the administration,’” Reuters reported last week. The regime has been targeting Disney ever since this happened 👇
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was trying to figure out why Trump banned Politico from the White House along with CNN and MSNOW. Now I get it. This fascist regime can't have media outlets in the building that reveal to voters how Trump and Hegseth gifted our military technology to the Chinese.
politico.com
Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Blues Brothers Band 😎😎 w/ 'Joliet' Jake Blues and Elwood Blues, aka (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd), Live at SNL in 1978 #blues #harmonica #bluesharp #bluesmusic 🎶'Soul Man'
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Biased AI Decides If You Get Healthcare Under the new Medicare model, third-party AI companies earn more by denying care to patients. Mehmet Oz did it, despite calling prior authorization “a pox on the system” at Senate Confirmation. Anesthesia Optional? www.austinchronicle.com/news/ai-now-...
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AI Now Decides if Texas Medicare Patients Receive Certain Types of Care • The Austin Chronicle
AI Now Decides if Texas Medicare Patients Receive Certain Types of Care
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
This is how an authoritarian regime attempts to silence the free press.  Trump is step by step trying to strangle the Bill of Rights and tear up our Constitution. If anyone still doubts it, wake up! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico say journalists blocked from White House after Trump announces ban
President Donald Trump said Friday he would block MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House grounds. News outlets and press advocacy groups condemned the move as a violation of the First Amendment.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump does CNN & MS big favor by putting it so bluntly. Government discrimination on the basis of viewpoint is virtually always unconstitutional: “Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access…after Trump announced a ban on three news organizations because of reporting he disliked.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 19/09/2026
22 of our servicemembers have been killed in Trump's illegal war. Not 18 like we were told. The Pentagon hid four more heroes' deaths from us for months. Congress cannot let them get away with this. I wrote a bill we can pass to stop this egregious playbook immediately.
washingtonpost.com
More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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