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Marijo Cook

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 1h
Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 18h
A painting of a bird beside the text "it's okay, thinking isn't for everybody"
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Marcus Lupo @acropoet.bsky.social · 22h
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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Power to the People Music concert..Joan Biaz, Jack Black,Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello,Foo Fighters,Dave Mathews,Dave Grohl and tons of others promoting Voter registration and take back our country!
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i know which one i am
coreenahhhh on ig
coreena lewis http://stampfans.com/creator

WHAT DOG aRe YOU TODAY?
NEVERENDING
HUNGER
NEEDING A LIL TREAT
GIVE ME ATTENTION
ADVENTURE
READY
FEELING THYSELF
TOTALLY ZEN
BUSY DOING NOTHING
ABSOLUTE ROYALTY
SO BUSY
NOT READY TOR FALL
COZY MODE
MORE COFFEE PLS
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What in the AI slop is going on with Turning Point USA’s voter guide lmfao??
The TPUSA freedom ticket 

Vote freedom down the line
Statewide

Governor 
Andy Biggs

Secretary of State 
Alexander Kolodin

Superintendent of Public Instruction 
Tom Horne [the image beside is a woman and not tom horne]

Corporation Commissioner
Dr. RAALPH WZGP

State Mine Inspector
Les Presnik 

Lieutenant Governor 
Sine Kerr

Attorney General
Kristen Petersen [the image is neither Warren Petersen nor Kris Mayes]

State Treasurer 
Kimberly Yee [the image is a white man]

Secretary of State 
Alexander Kolodin

Superintendent of Public Instruction 
Tom Horne [the image beside is a woman and not tom horne]

Corporation Commissioner
Dr. RAALPH WZGP
Attorney General
Kristen Petersen [the image is neither Warren Petersen nor Kris Mayes]

State Treasurer 
Kimberly Yee [the image is a white man]
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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TENNESSEE VOTERS: There are 3 Amendments to the TN state Constitution on the November ballot. I had already planned to vote against all 3, but here is what State Senator Heidi Campbell shared about them:
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
your honor, you cannot charge these crows with murder without caws
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We get an extra hour of Halloween this year. If we must change our clocks, this is most definitely the day to do it.
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Had to take a break in the middle of reading this @wired.com article about the "burnerverse" (in the print edition). It sure sucks to be a young woman in the USA these days. Look out for it online.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What is so outrageous here is that in a way, Rufo is exposing that the white supremacist hierarchy is not natural and must be violently enforced. THAT is the scandal.
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Tara 🐢 @4jinxremoving.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"What's up with this drag queen shit? What did drag queens ever do to anybody? What did trans people ever do to anybody?" -Sturgill Simpson/Johnny Blue Skies, last night in Nashville.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“My Bible says ‘thou shall not kill’ — It doesn’t say ‘unless you’re governor’.” @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social tells @thisisnashville_wpln she’d extend the moratorium on executions @govbilllee just put in place (after multiple botched executions) if governor (Marsha wants to bring back the chair)
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do not install this on your devices.
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
nytimes.com
Tennessee Prison Commissioner Resigns Days After Failed Execution
Frank Strada, who oversaw the process that left Christa Pike unconscious and hospitalized, quit as an independent review begins.
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It bears repeating: "The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens."
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitled jrnl.ie/7179130
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Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitled
The rape allegations emerging from Cornell University in the US are raising the question about what we are teaching young men about consent, violence and women.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And again, gender theory, queer theory, critical race theory - all university level subjects - you are not going to encounter them at primary or secondary levels. What these muppets want is to shut down any age appropriate discussion of sex, sexuality & identity in 1st & 2nd schools.
Cornell shows us we cannot keep telling our girls to be careful while teaching boys to be entitle
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
theimpactmagazine.com
The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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Alt Library of Congress @altlofc.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
Obsessed with testosterone, but grossed out by beards 🤣
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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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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Sages said: Let him die."
Screenshot: Miriam Anzovin

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter.

The Sages insisted: Let him die.
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fish just wanna be free.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anyway it is very obvious that this tech gets us further from not closer to the flourishing envisioned by those who dreamt of time to cultivate learning, movement and self-expression. It just gets us closer to consuming simulacra of these things — along with health, wealth and security — on a screen
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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timberwolfpoint.bsky.social @timberwolfpoint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fresh new pots now online! www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide shipping available
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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 28/09/2026
A 2024 Tennessee law seeking to prevent minors from traveling out of state for abortions has been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
nashvillescene.com
‘Abortion Trafficking’ Law Killed at Federal Level
A 2024 Tennessee law seeking to prevent minors from traveling out of state for abortions was struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, citing a conflict with the First Amendment.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Climate.gov averaged 1M+ visits a month before its team was disbanded. Now former NOAA staffers are rebuilding it as Climate.us. 
niemanlab.org
The Trump administration killed Climate.gov. A new website is resurrecting it.
Climate.us, spearheaded by three former NOAA staffers (two of whom are sisters), is picking up where the government site left off.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
The important thing to know about the Starship launch today is that Elon Musk is directly responsible for an unfathomable number of people dying preventable deaths and has never faced a single consequence for it.
cnn.com
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't think Trump qualifies as an actual communist, in spite of his infatuation with Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un. I don't think he has any idea what the word means. But he's definitely interested in taking our freedoms away, e.g. as in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is it that everything I hear about China doing is just some progressives dream here?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This guy built a squirrel city with over 1,000 homes, complete with cameras to capture how they behave. Original post
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comrade @nowarbutclasswar.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
Sign in a grocery store

Do not touch yourself ask the staff for assistance
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hailey @hailey.at · 27/09/2026
this is posting
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Josh Colletta ($18 / $8,000), professional loudmouth @joshcolletta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you've never read juno's work before, now's the time, and this is the piece to start with.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 1958, they were arrested in their bedroom and exiled from Virginia just for being married. Nine years later, Richard and Mildred Loving relaxed on their porch after winning the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage across America. Original post
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Katrina Green, MD FAAEM, FAMWA (she/her) @kgreenmd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy 925 Dolly day from downtown Nashville!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.
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Marijo Cook @marijocook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I went to see about this, and they are playing ads *instead* of the Peele interview, not just interrupting it. It doesn't even start.
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