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Maria Browning

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Books, dogs, birds, music, art, wild things & human rights — not necessarily in that order

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 35m
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Jon Bailiff @jonbailiff.bsky.social · 16h
Saddest on the rampage. Had enough? #GeneralStrikeNOW
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Susie Bright @susiebright.bsky.social · 20h
Once upon a time, there was an underground female outlaw pamphlet about how to use guns to protect yourself and other women — a practical little manual. I re-read it after 50 years . . . susiebright.ink/publish/post...
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Extrajudicial Justice
Women With Guns Looking Into It
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21h
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Excerpt: In One Photo, Two Different Lessons About White Supremacy
In her new book, “Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children,” Dr. Stacey Patton reflects on an event that continues to haunt a Black family generations later.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Story here: “Her recovery is medically unprecedented." nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/06/c...
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Christa Pike is awake, talking days after botched execution - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike is conscious and speaking following a failed lethal injection execution attempt last week, lawyers say. Her long-term prognosis remains unclear.
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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Helen's choice of #BirdSupermodel for the #BirdOfTheDay can mean only one thing for me … Roberto #Robin, adored by my lovely wife, was the perfect model. They are both gone now but the pictures remain a comfort. #ForJanet #BirdPhotography #EastCoastKin #iPhonePhotography
European Robin redbreast on wet fence post. Bright-eyed, alert  and ready for that Christmas card photoshoot. Background blurred greens and tans.
Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 06/10/2026
alright I'm off to bed early so I can get my steps in before the heat. 😴
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haven't seen this get much attention here: Turkey's government has massively escalated a push against visible queer life and LGBT+ advocacy over the last month. Hundreds of social media accounts and websites recently blocked in the country, hundreds arrested from prominent orgs and news outlets.
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Türkiye’s crackdown on LGBTI groups and activists is part of an escalating rights crisis
On 13 September, I woke in southwest Türkiye to news of a large-scale operation targeting LGBTI organizations and human rights defenders across the country. Since then, police have arrested at least 1...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026
Slow motion pelican coasting above the coast bliss. 🪶
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s Sunday, and we listen to Joni, even when it feels like it might shred your soul into tiny, unrecognizable, pieces. Joni, always. 💫🍂 youtu.be/0YuaZcylk_o?...
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Joni Mitchell-A Case of You
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Kort Duce @kortduce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A male red-winged blackbird sings atop a dead snag at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red #ECK #bird #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #BirdsSeenln2026 #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #blackbird #blackbirds
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A male red-winged blackbird sings atop a dead snag at a nature area in Longmont, Colorado.

In this vertical color photograph, a male red-winged blackbird stands in right profile atop a dead tree broken in half, its beak wide open as it sings. The tree rises into the frame from the bottom, with a small branch extending upward from the lower left. At mid-frame, the blackbird is balanced on the rounded top of the snag. The background is filled with soft gray clouds, creating a simple, muted backdrop that emphasizes the bird's dark plumage and vivid red shoulder patch.

A beautiful portrait of a male red-winged blackbird along the edge of a wetland habitat vital to its survival.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 04/10/2026
I've seen a couple shots of black phoebes with rainbow wings similar to hummingbirds. I've been trying to get this for about a year now but can never find one at the right level where it's reoccurring foraging and flying through the sunset. I came close tonight, but found it a little bit too late 🪶
A black phoebe flying in front of a green tree line and yellow colors in the bouquet above a bench. This was after sunset so I never really had a major opportunity
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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great Blue Heron English Bay, Vancouver #photography #birds #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Vancouver #birdsky
A Great Blue Heron framed by a crescent moon.
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This isn't a story about rape. It's just a story about the countless everyday sexual assaults young girls and women face that make them think, "Oh, I'm lucky. It wasn't rape...I guess." When I was 20, I lived in FL for the summer.
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Garrett Epps @garrettepps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We should not ignore the role of the Supreme Court in the ordeal in Tennessee. The Court of Appeals had ordered a stay; the majority voided it with no explanation.“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport"—KING LEAR
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026
dinner and a view.
A squirrel eating dinner on a tree with another tree in the distance giving it a black frame on the bottom and left with a yellow sky above
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026
Alright that's enough of me for the night. signing off with this duckling ❤️ 🪶 🐣
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19/07/2026
Look how happy this duckling looks to be foraging!!! 🐣 🪶
a duckling in a lake about to scoop up a piece of a flower, their mouth is big and open and joyful
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Few sights gratify me more on a long equinoxical walk than an eerie weather-ravaged tree playing conductor to a screaming sky.
an eerie weather-ravaged tree playing conductor to a screaming sky
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Samuel Alito’s opinion in Glossip ought to go down with the worst ever handed down by the nation’s high court. The man who believes women can’t be trusted to make their own decisions thinks a state’s right to execute people is sacred and infallible, whatever hell takes place in the death chamber.
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Steve Cavendish @scavendish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A lawyer for Christa Pike confirmed to the Banner that she had been administered both doses of pentobarbital and was still alive. It appears the State of Tennessee has another botched lethal injection.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No matter what LLM technology could be or might be, it’s becoming VERY apparent that in the hands of the current techbro and Republican oligarchs, it’s going to be used for whatever evil purposes they can get away with.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Maria Browning @marbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Governor Lee, Reconsider Clemency for Christa Pike. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...
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Governor Lee, Reconsider Clemency for Christa Pike
Given the Christa Pike's stay of execution, now is the time to ask Governor Lee to reconsider clemency.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we're in this preposterous place where a stupid spatt involving 12 people woth no power, halway around the world negatively defines progressives but the horrific consequences (& political failures) of government policy are not felt to invalidate their approach of appeasing the far-right
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 29/09/2026
After a fight for equality in the 1980s, Chattanooga civil rights activists prepare for new effort
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After a fight for equality in the 1980s, Chattanooga civil rights activists prepare for new effort
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Afternoon light slipped through the curtains of a dimly lit room on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Chattanooga. Black residents, clergy members and activists gathered in early May to organize opposition to Tennessee state lawmakers’ congressional redistricting effort, aimed at eliminating the last Democratic-held seat in the state.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been fascinated lately that we seem to be in a period where ppl are administrating & conducting sex offences, as well as on end-to-end encrypted services, on *facebook*. Like, they don’t feel the need to go to great efforts to hide it - to police investigate and *immediately* there it all is.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After further thought, I actually wouldn’t mind if a bird messages me to say it’s running for office and needs my support. TREE SWALLOW FOR SENATE #birds 🌿
A dark blue bird the white throat and belly stands facing the camera, appearing to look fiercely at the photographer.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want.
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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Insect eggs, probably Hemiptera, stacked like tiny barrels on the edge of a leaf. 🌱🌿
Pink insect eggs stacked in an alternating pattern like barrels. Each egg has a tiny white dot
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a minor celebrity monk in my province who does his alms rounds in a boat full of stray dogs left at the temple
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Thai Temple Dogs Join Monk on His Daily Alms Collection|TaiwanPlus News
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
A picture of Amina Seck in her Kentucky State jersey on a basketball court.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 24/09/2026
GREBELINGS ON TIMELINE 🪶 🐣
A western grebe with 3 babies on their back
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine accepting these first two sentences from the NYT piece as a normal feature of American life: "What can a laid-off worker over 50 do to get health insurance? Besides staying healthy until Medicare kicks in at age 65, the answer is: Not a lot."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 22/09/2026
In years of walkies I’ve never managed to capture an American Painted Lady butterfly. Until today
Said butterfly, in black and orange and gray and white, sits atop a pink flower with yellow center and spreads its wings showily
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