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Planned Parenthood @ppfa.org · 13/10/2026

Consent is as easy as FRIES: Freely Given Reversible Informed Enthusiastic Specific If you're not getting active consent, you don’t have it.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

As a college student, I used every cheap trick in the book to increase word/page count for my papers. It's so weird to be an adult in a graduate class, trying to pare a paper down to a page limit, resenting double spacing with every fiber of my being.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How the fuck is this not satire

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Bread and Puppet telling it like it is:

A woodcut print with the words "not in our name and with our money" and an image of a fighter plane heading towards the ground (where there are buildings, trees, and a human figure). The ground and plane are in black ink; there are red flames erupting along the horizon.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It was snowing when I left for work this morning. I audibly gasped on the drive home when I saw that the snow had stuck in the highest fields. I love it here in #Vermont

A landscape with green grass in the foreground, deep green fir trees behind that, and snow-covered hills in the distance, all under a moody grey sky.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I can't stop thinking about how this will affect all working people, and also how the shutdown is forcing dems into a trolley problem in which the "less bad" side just keeps getting worse.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

So many town names! Barre, Calais, Montpelier, Wolcott... not to mention "Vermont" itself (that's a glottal stop at the end, thank you very much).

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Alright, #forager friends. If you were as lucky as I was, and stumbled across a massive bloom of chicken of the wood #mushrooms, and had the gumption to shimmy your under-muscled behind up a tree to harvest it, how would you prepare the bounty? I am thinking sauté with butter. Please advise.

An outstretched hand over a wooden table holding a massive shelf of chicken of the woods mushrooms

A kitchen scale with 1.938 lb of chicken of the wood mushrooms on it

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I'm in NYC and it's such a delight to finally whomp some spotted lantern flies (which, mercifully, have not made it up to VT just yet). I really feel like I am part of something.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Important reminder that when you make banana bread, instead of flouring the pan, you can coat it with cinnamon sugar and then the banana bread will have a sweet, crisp crust and the world will seem one iota less terrible.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I'll never forget waiting at a crowded street crossing in Paris and suddenly spotting Own Wilson approaching in the bike lane, saying "hey, that's Owen Wilson on a bike," and seeing him glance at me before he zipped away. Now I am joyfully wondering how many folks I share this experience with.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Alison Bechdel, 31 yrs ago

Mo from Dykes To Watch out for saying: The country is slipping into a conservative coma! People would rather bash immigrants, blame, queers, and build bigger prisons than face the real problems: the widening gulf between rich and poor, untrammeled corporate greed! And … Walmart.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Happy pride! It's been a rainy spring and there have been a lot of rainbows, but I've only managed to get a picture of this one:

A landscape with green grass in the foreground and green trees behind. There is a layer of mist sitting on the hilltops, and a short blaze of a rainbow bursts into the sky just beyond the mist. The sky is grey, but around the rainbow it has a warm, bright glow.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It is worth noting, also, that "leery" is a synonym for "wary," and I think that is part of the problem.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Spring felt very springy today. Happy birthday to a new friend and hooray for trillium in bloom.

A deep red trillium in bloom in the foreground; white sky and leafless trees in the background.

A very pretty loaf cake decorated with grated carrot and spring flowers on top of a whitish glaze. The cake is on a blue and white oval plate, on a wooden table.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Perhaps the regime might look to the military for someone to lead the military. I'm no expert but it is a thought.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In 2010, when we were in high school, my friend Fern Feather asked me to write them a song, so I did. The trial for Fern's murder started this week and I am thinking of her, so here is the song.

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Mavis MacNeil, Roy MacNeil · Library · Song · 2023

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

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Mavis MacNeil @mavismacneil.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm reading "The Spectator Bird" by Wallace Stegner. I don't love it as much as "Crossing to Safety," but the prose is still fantastic.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“Sorry VP, sold out”— JD Vance met with pro-Ukraine protests as he tries to go skiing ⛷️ in Vermont

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

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