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Maureen Egan

@maureeneganva.bsky.social
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Researching & writing about Ruth Henshaw Bascom with my sister Mary Eileen Fouratt. Author of Insiders’ Guide 2 RVA + Richmond’s Culinary History, Webinar Coordinator: SCBWI Mid-Atlantic. Paint on my hands, dirt on my shirt, crumbs on my lap. she/her

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h
Be sure and tell everyone you know how badly they want to keep you from seeing this film. Let's Streisand Effect it into massive popularity.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Such a beautiful and powerful book! #kidlit #kidlitart
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Putin, Trump and Musk all colluding to defeat Ukraine
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Understanding Trump's Russia oil deal is simple once you know that Putin invited Jared Kuschner and Steve Witkoff to participate in a buy-out of Russia's oil giant, LukOil. LukOil stock is currently almost worthless due to sanctions, but if they are lifted (wink, wink) it will be worth $billions.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yup
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 17/09/2026
Presidents are not kings. On Constitution Day, make a plan for the midterms — when we must all show up to the ballot box to restore checks and balances. democracyforward.org/work/research/the-peoples-guide-to-voting-rights/
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The People's Guide to Voting Rights
While some powerful institutions have yielded to intimidation, the people have risen to meet this moment. This People's Guide to Voting Rights is part of Democracy Forward's effort not only to defend people in court, but to help communities understand, ...
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All AI generated content can do is waste your time. It is, in this sense, stealing your life, the precious finite time you have on this earth from you, every second you are forced to interact with it, forcing you to look at its meaninglessness. It is a mindless vampire.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hate AI, too
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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
DO NOT USE THIS SCAM WEBSITE BY MUSK
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My sister, Mary Eileen Fouratt and I can’t stop (won’t stop) researching artist and diarist Ruth Henshaw Bascom. Tag along on our obsession by signing up for our 3 times (or so) a year newsletter—not in cursive! #herstory #amwriting #arthistory mailchi.mp/ruthhenshawb...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Again, I am just a man standing in front of the Democratic Party, begging them to make a bigger deal of this deeply unlikeable racist billionaire asshole who is constantly pushing things everyone loathes.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stillness of September—ha, jk—nothing much is still this month.
Reflection of green trees and blue sky in river, framed between two dark trunks.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These side by side images tell the story: Trump welcomes only white South Africans while ICE descends on Haitians who have fled violence & established lives here legally. By abruptly ending TPS for Haitians & initiating mass deportations, our government is gleefully enacting racial apartheid in US.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let’s keep her beautiful spirit going!
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A reminder that Gary, Indiana has been without power for just about 2 weeks now. Gary has 8 destructive data centers that strains their power grid. Over 70% of Gary’s population are Black. Indiana is controlled by fascist republicans. You do the math. Pay attention.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Aaahhhhhhh and Grrrr and all the guttural sounds
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16/08/2026
These AI detection programs are starting to look an awful lot like fire extinguishers sold by arsonists
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yeah, I share a birthday with another Maureen Egan. Idiots.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s worth watching her excellent interview. Her name is Carolina Molina and she will make your day.🫡
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Can't rave enough about the people at @elaboratories.bsky.social and the 7 days I soaked up more knowledge than I sweated out in C-ville last week! #digitalhumanities
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I went to Camp eLabs at UVA and I got a lot more than this t-shirt. #digitalhumanities
Black eLaboratories t-shirt with postcard of UVA Rotunda on it
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Agree!
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Gross
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Excellent episode! Listen up!
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Julie @mellendamerell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We rise together. Join Unite & Rise for Voting Rights on Aug 8 and be part of a nationwide movement for civic engagement and voter participation. www.lwv.org/riseforvotin...
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Unite & Rise for Voting Rights | League of Women Voters
On August 8, 2026, the League will host civic engagement actions across the country in honor of the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can we send Musk, Bezos and Thiel to check it out? gift article from The New York Times. . www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/s...
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Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet (Gift Article)
It’s the first potentially habitable world known to host an atmosphere, making it a lead contender in the search for life beyond our solar system.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Let me get this straight... Trump is blocking $1B in Medicaid payments to blue states over spurious accusations of mass fraud. Meanwhile, he's literally pardoned over 70 convicted fraudsters — including a nursing home owner who stole over $1.3B from Medicare and Medicaid. Hello?
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I weep for these people and spit on Meta.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
She is vile.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Great article here. I only learned about this history a few years ago. Shocking that no one talks about it. Just another event white folks want to white wash! time.com/5836444/blac...
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR CHATGPT FRIENDS
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Maureen Egan @maureeneganva.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This used to say something positive-ish but I think this works for me right now as is.
Black sign with red letters saying Hate amongst green leaves. Leaves blocking other letters
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/05/2026
If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
Notice they keep calling it a settlement agreement. Over and over. Sane washing the fact that this isn’t a settlement. It’s not pursuant to a lawsuit. It not approved by a court. It JUST THEFT.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
GIFT LINK NYT 5/11/24: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/05/2026
In any democracy, this would be considered illegal state funding of the president' s political supporters
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
“Women are facing an economic apocalypse. Democrats have no plan for them. Republicans have a plan, & it’s a one-way ticket back to housewifery. The girl bosses who once promised us we could have it all are now selling the same uncritical AI takes as the men.” Sobering by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Opinion | The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come
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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
One way to make a difference is to support Each Step Home, who are supporting families at Dilley who are being denied basic items like water, meds, and toiletries. Donate today: EachStepHome.org
Donate now and let a mother in Dilley know she's not alone:

EachStepHome.org
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Michelle Cusolito, M.Ed. ❌👑 @mcusolito.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Please read this thread.
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