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Maker, Mentor, Muse @makermentormuse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maker, Mentor, Muse is proud to host Audrey T. Williams. There's still spots available. Join us for one or both sessions. @maryvolmer.bsky.social @mawsheinwin.bsky.social

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution” THAT PART! Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

He knows the life of one of my heroes, Nellie Bly! If I didn't already love him! ❤️ This is so well done, and spot on.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 "Majestic beauty…A great blue heron at sunset"

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Even Mother Nature is done with Felon47’s bullshit.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2025

Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?

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Cara Burnidge @burnidge.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“food was one of the top 10 causes of death in the 19th century. That's not true today. …These rules have made us safer, so we don't wanna undo them. We don’t have to repeat every mistake we’ve ever made.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2025

Walz: "This is how government is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be one old man in the Oval Office sending out middle of the night tweets that shock markets into free fall. It's not supposed to be a bunch of 20 somethings unelected and firing everyone. It's not supposed to be chaos."

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Maker, Mentor, Muse & Alta Mesa Center for the Arts’ present Poetry as a Tool for Wellness: Self-Nurturing and Radical Resilience led by Audrey T. Williams on Sunday, April 13th, 4pm-5:30pm PDT. www.tickettailor.com/events/maker...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/04/2025

💙 DC never disappoints. #handsoff

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.” —Rick Rubin, THE CREATIVE ACT

“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not.

It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.

It’s like saying, ‘I’m not good at being a monk.’ You are either living as a monk or you’re not.

We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.

The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.” —Rick Rubin, THE CREATIVE ACT

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This literary salon is not to be missed! Join Audrey T. Williams's salon, POETRY AS A TOOL FOR WELLNESS on April 13th at 4:00pm online. www.tickettailor.com/events/maker...

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

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Mark DeSaulnier @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The Trump Administration’s cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration are making our skies less safe as we’ve seen over and over these past few weeks (1/2).

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 18/02/2025

"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying." - Anton Chekhov

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it. For others, it is to share and spread also those words that are meaningful to us. But primarily for us all...

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope, that first, there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This too is happening. A quiet fog laced morning.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If only there was a clause in the Bill of Rights pertaining to this issue.

In United States law, the Establishment Clause! of the First Amendment to the United
States Constitution, together with that Amendment's Free Exercise Clause, form the constitutional right of freedom of religion. The Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise
Clause together read:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge The Prisons We Choose To Live Inside buy Doris Lessing 20/20

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

While the only woman appearing member of their Howard Law class, Murray wrote a paper arguing that segregation violated the 13th & 14th Amendments. Murray’s professor, Spottswood Robinson, shared that paper with colleagues, including Thurgood Marshall. That paper contributed to overturning Jim Crow.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 08/02/2025

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

On July 22, 1939, Jane Bolin became the first Black woman to serve as judge in the US & for 20 years she was the only Black female judge in the country. She was also the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law. She was a children’s rights & education advocate ensuring integrated child services.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Nat’l Assoc. of Diversity Officers in Higher Educ. v. Trump, D. Md., No. 25-cv-00333 Challenge to Trump DEI focused executive orders because the vagueness of the orders have a chilling effect on speech. Democracy Forward representing higher ed & restaurant organizations & Baltimore officials.

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City of Baltimore sues Trump administration over DEI program cuts

The City of Baltimore filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday over an executive order that halted federal DEI programs.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In 1872, Charlotte E. Ray became the first Black American lawyer in the US, first woman admitted to the DC Bar, first woman to practice before the DC Supreme Court, & first woman to graduate from Howard Law. Her admission was used as a precedent for other women to practice law throughout the US.

Artist rendering of Charlotte E. Ray. ©2022 Baba Adelana.

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Maker, Mentor, Muse and Alta Mesa Center for the Arts hosts Elizabeth Costello, author of THE GOOD WAR on Feb 9th at 4:00pm (pacific). Click here to register: bit.ly/smallseeds

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Nothing short of dangerous.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Please listen and share. Amplify this quiet, courageous, powerful voice of wisdom and moral authority. youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?...

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1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde

YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Home Ground by Lynn Freed 19/20

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Mary Volmer @maryvolmer.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Women Talking by Miriam Toews 18/20

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