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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

How often do we assign an entire imagined role—sometimes a villainous one—to a stranger? In @maggiedowns.bsky.social's essay, a group hike on the Inca Trail comes w both thinning air and thinning patience before things take a surprising turn. Read here: buff.ly/jC7Fjma

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Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The air was thin and the effort arduous on the Inca Trail. To make matters worse, another hiker ahead of @maggiedowns.bsky.social seemed to taunt her by carrying two backpacks. Why two? The answer, when revealed, left the author floored, just as it leaves readers breathless: buff.ly/C1ns1TM

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Ryan Romeike @romeike.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@maggiedowns.bsky.social and @zackbornstein.bsky.social I think we need to give this one more shot. Third time’s the charm, right?! We ride at dawn…I’ll bring farro and the kale. Although, maybe we need breakfast tacos and coffee instead this time?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/05/2025

"Finally—finally!—we can reroute those dangerous funds from writing workshops and elementary school jazz ensembles into more important things. Like tax breaks for billionaires. And tanks."

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Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding

“Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If there’s anything the past 24 hours have taught me, it’s that my group chats are boring

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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?”

So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It feels like if you shut down four airports by blowing up your science project, you should go to jail?

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

These ten Democrats should just quit. To censure Green when there have never been consequences for MTG for egregious behavior whereas Green was protesting fascism. We are drowning in shit.

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

About to get through yet another day by creating fictional people in my head and writing a rom-com about it

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

JD Vance strikes me as the guy who leaves his shopping cart in a parking space because “it’ll give the workers something to do”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A reminder for these times.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Started to type “it’s so fucked up that” and then I realized I didn’t even know how to finish that sentence right now

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taylor hatmaker @tayhatmaker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

2025 vibes at the vet

a sign at a vet front desk indicating that it has been 0 days since a dog pooped in the lobby

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is actually good news, frustrating as it is. People are so bad at thinking abstractly about risk, but as soon as a threat becomes real, they’ll act in the best interests of their children. It would be great if the rest of the country could see this and do the same!

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2025

Quit buying shit, write poems, live más

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

With all the other news, it’s easy to have overlooked this story about the Department of Transportation prioritizing communities with higher marriage and birth rates 🙃 finance.yahoo.com/news/dot-say...

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DOT says it will tie funding to birth, marriage rates

The agency issued a memo after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy authorized a series of actions to advance Trump’s agenda.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2025

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What do you suppose our well-regulated militia is doing these days

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Being a rapist wasn’t a dealbreaker. Being a convicted felon wasn’t a dealbreaker. Attempting to overturn an election by inciting an insurrection wasn’t a dealbreaker. The racism, the sexism, the inexhaustible idiocy … none of it mattered. But now that money is on the line? Let’s see who flips

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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The Sons of Liberty @sonsofliberty.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I know a lot of you are asking us or talking about the 12 IGs (Inspector Generals) being fired. They aren't stepping down until it's done correctly. This is how you #Resist

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you don’t have one already, go get a library card.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is your mission. We take our power back now at the local and state level. Stop waiting for a national hero. It’s you. Get to work.

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This morning I received an email from my congressperson praising the inauguration and extolling the 'rule of law' — which I found to be deeply disingenuous mere hours after T pardoned violent insurrectionists. I don’t know if it makes a difference anymore, but I wrote a letter back to his office.

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today begins four more years of me looking at news alerts and groaning, “This fucking guy”

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I think this might be the last time I use this mug

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caryroo.bsky.social @caryroo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In honor of the conceivable demise of TIkTok: A Portland, Maine bookstore finds off-color humor cloaked within many book titles, including mine. tinyurl.com/yy2533sx (Thank u @maggiedowns.bsky.social)

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Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Our Tanzanian guide, Godslove, led the way through darkness. “Try it without this,” he said, lifting the heavy backpack from my shoulders, hoisting it onto his own back. —"Summit Night" by @maggiedowns.bsky.social in case you missed it www.fiveminutelit.com/summit-night

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Dara Hyde @dzhyde.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Client projects 2024 2/ 🧵 Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social 50 Things To Do Before You’re 5 (Chronicle, March 2024)

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/12/2024

What I really want to know about Hunter Biden's pardon is why the Saudis gave Jared Kushner two billion dollars.

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One of my relatives just purchased a dog from a breeder and named it Tucker Carlson — so I have to believe I have slipped into another, far more baffling timeline

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🎶 “… later we’ll have some fuckin’ pie and we’ll do some caroling ..” 🎵

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Maggie Downs @maggiedowns.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Before the awful economic policies begin: What’s a good coffee subscription that would allow me to pay a year in advance?

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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey y’all! Here’s a big mega list of 160+ Black Owned Bookstores all over the U.S. + a few other countries as well! U can filter it by state. I posted about this on the clock app today, but figured I’d share here too! aalbc.com/bookstores/l... Happy Reading! 📚💙 #Booksky #BlackBookSky #BlackSky

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165 Black-Owned Bookstores in the US | Find Independent Bookstores Near You

Explore 165 Black-owned independent bookstores across the U.S. Find your nearest store and support local businesses today!

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Lee Goldberg @leegoldberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I talked to @maggiedowns.bsky.social at the Wall Street Journal about the importance of “the travel orgasm” www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Coworker suggested I should drink fewer than 35 cups of coffee a day so I threw him across the room like a javelin

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