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Kelsea McBelsea (She/Her) @kelseamcbelsea.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Why am I asking my followers and friend to help me pack @yellowfund.bsky.social Mobile Resource Center? It’s been on a big ass trip! Each of these hearts represents a community that received free diapers, period products, safer sex kits, and lunches. Help me pack the bus! a.co/feO0YqY

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded. DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Crockett: I want to be clear about one thing. Women's issues, they are all of our issues. Because the last time I checked, we all came from a woman.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

After Green interrupted last night, another Democrat should have done the same thing. And then another, until all of them had to be removed. Delay the speech by a few hours. Or walk out en masse. Anything. Calling Trump an existential threat means nothing if you can’t meet the fucking moment.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 05/03/2025

Nothing but respect for my president.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

- now, attacking Democrats in this way, is what happens in failing democracies. I've seen it throughout my work, and I want to be clear about that. This isn't just a Trump thing we can shrug about. This is very much a failing democracy sign post, and we have to call it for what it is.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/02/2025

I am a ROMANCE NOVELIST. I write FICTION. I have more fidelity to historical context and background in my "let's take a break for a few hours" books than these ghouls do in their attempts to redo Dred Scott so they can rip citizenship from the arms of literal babies.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

What a remarkable self-own. It’s like watching a bunch of firefighters stand around looking at a burning house, annoyed because people keep calling them about it. “What do you want us to do? We didn’t set the fire! Call the arsonist.”

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12/02/2025

People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing” I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

*taps the alt text*

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It was always obvious that the right-wing moral panic around universities had nothing to do with "free speech". It was about delegitimising critical & dissenting intellectual activity, with a view to suppressing it altogether. Far too many liberals were taken in by this transparent, reactionary scam

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The scale and nature of this breach is insane, but under the current regime (no congressional oversight and no law enforcement) it’s unclear to me how any of the damage can be verifiably reversed.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And what got us here is “the president can’t do that because the parliamentarian said so”* * if the president is a Democrat

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …

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Lucy Parker @lucyparkerauthor.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

✨ MISDIRECTED is out today, available now on Audible. Narrated by the fantastic Nicola Coughlan and Gwilym Lee. Thank you so much if you pick it up! 💕❤️

Promotional image for Lucy Parker’s Misdirected, an Audible Original romantic comedy. Features an image of the cover, which is bright green with pink and white title text and black silhouettes of a woman and man. There are also photographs of the narrators, Nicola Coughlan and Gwilym Lee, including one where Nicola sits at an Audible microphone, holding an iPad as she reads aloud.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 07/11/2024

Just a reminder that people used to put paint and formaldehyde into milk and there had to be a huge movement to get proper food regulation, and without it people will die www.eater.com/2020/1/28/21...

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We Owe Food Regulation to a 19th-Century Chemist Who Poisoned His Colleagues

The Poison Squad, as they became known, was a group of men who willingly consumed dangerous substances to force the government into consumer protections

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think body slamming one of these DOGE guys through a table when they show up at your little part of the Department of Agriculture that weighs cows would actually have an impact

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Wish I knew somebody who was in one of the two halls of Congress right now.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Is Musk is *just now* being made a “special government employee” just confirms how illegal this has all been!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted. Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dems need to obstruct and delay by every means at their disposal

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Melanie/Mel @melonreads.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

PREACHER! One of my favorites by Ms. Bev, this is a steal at under $2. Definitely don’t sleep on this one!

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summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Although everyone in my feed is sharing this source with a clear opinion, more mainstream coverage does not disagree on facts, FWIW www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/o...

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OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research, nuclear weapons security

OpenAI on Thursday said it's signed a partnership allowing the U.S. National Laboratories to use its latest line of AI models.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you are in DC, the folks who are at USAID putting themselves on the line need help right now. Please join them if possible. USAID at 555 12th street NW And if you are press, please go cover this!

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Seeing a letter like this from a U.S. attorney is deplorable.

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Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · 03/02/2025

I just found out about this deal! 🤩 ONE IN A MILLION, book 2 in the series, is out Mar 18, so this is a great (cheap) time to try TOKEN. 😊 #Romancelandia #Booksky PS-Nate is a genuinely wonderful tech billionaire. I wrote this before they became persona non grata www.bookbub.com/books/token-...

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Token by Beverley Kendall is only $1.99 - BookBub

An insightful and witty romance that will knock your socks off (BuzzFeed): Kennedy is tired of being the only Black woman at work, so she opens her own PR agency! When an ex needs help repairing his r...

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Jim Henley Music @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

To apologists demanding, “What would you do, smart guy?” The first thing that comes to mind is, submit a resolution instead and park yourself in front of the cameras demanding a vote from “spineless Republicans” *today* and just disrupt all other business you can get away with.

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Turtleberry 🐢🍓 @sweetturtleberry.com · 03/02/2025

it's still on sale you NEED to read this book! it was so damn good! #romancelandia #BlackBookSky

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I think about this ALL THE DAMN TIME. Republicans responded to arguably the most popular electoral platform in American history as an OPPOSITION party & successfully took back the House & Senate!

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Crucial angle on Elon Musk's takeover of Treasury's payment systems that people are missing: It's happening as a debt ceiling crisis looms, when you need nonpartisan people monitoring outgoing payments. Former Treasury and OMB officials explain this to me here: newrepublic.com/article/1910...

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 03/02/2025

In case you're wondering if anything is happening about *waves at everything* all this, here's a list of current legal challenges against Trump administrative actions. www.justsecurity.org/107087/track... h/t: @inkgrrl.bsky.social

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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions

A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

if this stands and/or goes unpunished, the constitutional order is effectively over. are the democrats interested in protecting democracy or are they happy to be the govt equivalent of the token lib on a fox news panel?

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