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Meagan Smith, PhD

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of AI to remove books en masse: pen.org/press-releas...
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Nearly 12,000 School Book Bans Nationwide in 2025-2026—Biggest Number in a Single Year
PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...
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Democrats @democrats.org · 18/09/2026
This November, Virginians can pass constitutional amendments that protect the freedom to marry, to vote, and to control their own bodies—no matter who’s in office. Make your plan to vote at IWillVote.com.
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state's next election.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We need to educate fellow progressives who are enamored with #AllPartyPrimaries about why they are so dangerous. Watch this fantastic video from @jonathancohn.bsky.social. 💡 Hot tip: any campaign bankrolled by private equity firms is NEVER good for democracy. #NoOn3 #MaPoli
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Meagan Smith, PhD @meagan1081.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans check your voter registration, especially those in Dallas, Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties. From the article: Suspended voter registrations span the whole state, but these Blue/Blue leaning counties are targets: Dallas: +129,000 Collin: 56,000 Denton: 56,000 Tarrant: + 73,000
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Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Medicare for All. Abolish ICE. Tax the Rich. We don't just need a democratic majority in the Senate. We need a progressive majority to deliver on the most pressing issues of our time.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 27/07/2026
Trump just quietly approved the construction of a #DataCenter on #PublicLand in southern Nevada — the first data center allowed on public land. We've already filed an appeal against this dangerous development, but we need your help to show the scale of public opposition ➡️ bit.ly/4fGlM7W
Photo of a rocky, desert landscape with prickly desert plants closer to the camera. Text over the image reads: Breaking News: Data centers coming to public lands.
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Indivisible Melrose Wakefield MA and Beyond @indivisibleinn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Protect Haitian TPS Thurs. July 23rd noon Boston City Hall Plaza - ACLU, MIRA and more
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Updated graphics of ICE watch hotlines in every New England state. Please share widely!
Did you see ICE?
Remember ALERTA. Be ready to report Activity, Location, Equipment, Requests for Aid, Time/Date of incident, and their
physical Appearances.

Rhode Island Defense Line
401-675-1414
Vermont Migrant Justice:
802-881-7229
NH Solidarity Network Hotline for Raids
978-219-7586
Mt. Washington Valley Rapid Response Team
603-726-6680
Maine Immigrant's Rights
207-544-9989
Coalition
LUCE Immigrant Justice
Network of Massachusetts
617-370-5023
Unidad Latina en Acción
475-323-9413A map showing service areas for each hotline

Unidad Latina en Accion is in Connecticut 

Mt. Washington Valley Rapid Response is in the center of the Map


Rhode Island Defense Line, Vermont Migrant Justice, NH Solidarity Network Hotline for Raids, Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition, and LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts are in those respective states
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Link to the most recent Delaney Hall letter, which includes links to previous letters at the bottom: www.lahuelga.com/comunicado
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Don’t Give Up: A Third Letter From Delaney Hall
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Eligible voters of the United States! The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections. You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 15/02/2026
We are about 30,000 whistles away from having shipped THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION whistles out to anyone that asks. To give you a sense of scale and speed, we hit half a million A WEEK AGO. This rag-tag band of whistle printers is incredible, fast, and ready to get you whistles. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's a sequence of poems written as answers to questions that children from Gaza asked the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK)
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 12/02/2026
Boston es un hogar para todos. Conozca sus derechos y ayude a mantener su comunidad segura. Encuentra más informacion en miracoalition.org/KYR.
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Cyclamen in the Crimean snowy forest
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now
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Jeff Schuhrke @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Seems like an appropriate week to announce that the new book I'm working on is a history of general strikes around the world. Coming soon via @haymarketbooks.org (maybe not soon enough but I'm trying my best!).
Publishers Marketplace 
Deal Report
January 28, 2026

Scholar and author of BLUE-COLLAR EMPIRE and NO NEUTRALS THERE Jeff Schuhrke’s SHUT IT DOWN: A GENERAL HISTORY OF GENERAL STRIKES, an account of general strikes across centuries and continents, arming a new generation of workers with the knowledge they need to leverage their power and transform the world, to Charlotte Heltai at Haymarket.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Scenes from the Alex Pretti vigil tonight in Minneapolis.
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Meagan Smith, PhD @meagan1081.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street.” Amen.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency that this state is exhibiting and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional absolute abomination that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing on these streets."
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Meagan Smith, PhD @meagan1081.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My guild is part of the CWA and I couldn’t be more proud of my fellow union members today.
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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For the first time in a hundred years, there is a general strike in America: www.iceoutnowmn.com I stand with the Minnesotans protesting these lawless assaults, kidnappings and murders. Ordinary Americans are not going to let democracy die. We need politicians in Washington who will be as brave.
iceoutnowmn.com
ICE OUT OF MN
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/01/2026
"I know that speaking up is essential to prevent people from ending up in a state of screaming fear." In her own words, Rümeysa Öztürk writes about her hopes that one day, no one will have to scream like she did when she was unlawfully arrested by ICE, or endure ICE's horrific detention conditions.
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Hearing My Own Scream
For months, Rümeysa Öztürk has been haunted by the cries of ICE detention — those of scared children, grieving mothers, barking guards — and her own.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/01/2026
These Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem: Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/01/2026
Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” - Anne Frank, 1942
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Never forget. 🇺🇸
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UNC Press @handle.invalid · 05/01/2026
We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.
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OUP USA Guild @oupusaguild.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from the OUP USA Guild. Looking ahead to 2026 with hope and solidarity 💚
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 01/01/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The billionaires are the welfare queens!
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/12/2025
The richest 0.001% own 3X more wealth than half of humanity. That’s 56,000 people holding more than $4 billion combined. The richest 10% own 75% of global wealth. The bottom 50%? Just 2%. This isn’t inequality — it’s engineered injustice. We must, and we can, TAX THE RICH.
Protesters holding a sign that reads 'Tax the Super-Rich, End extreme poverty' during a demonstration. News article title Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
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ilovelibraries.bsky.social @ilovelibraries.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: bit.ly/4496W4V
Photo of a banner featuring the logo for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Photo credit: Shannon Finney / Institute of Museum and Library Services. Text below reads: "ALL PREVIOUSLY CANCELED FEDERAL LIBRARY GRANTS HAVE BEEN RESTORED: Following a court decision, the Institute of Museum and Library Services—the federal agency that provides funding for America’s libraries—announced it had reinstated all grants that it had previously terminated." Logos for I Love Libraries and the American Library Association.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 25/11/2025
A painting of a bird beside the text "my horseshit tolerance is down to single digits"
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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Reminder: today at 5 PM is the cutoff to sign up to testify in person or virtually on Tues. morning in support of: * Immigrant Legal Defense Act * Dignity Not Deportations Act If you can’t testify live, submit written testimony for these bills & the Safe Communities Act. Find out more 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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NSP Action Alert: Testify In Support of Key Immigrant Legislation
Earlier this week we reported about three key immigration bills that will be discussed at hearings this Tuesday, November 25th. This article outlines how to attend these hearings and how to submit tes...
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North Shore Progressives @nsprogressives.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Join us TONIGHT at 7 PM at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem to support our trans, nonbinary, & gender-fluid neighbors and their loved ones. Trans rights are human rights! 🏳️‍⚧️💜 www.pem.org/events/trans...
Screenshot of promo for the Transgender Day of Remembrance event at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem on November 20 at 7 pm. There are logos for NAGLY, the North Shore LGBTQ+ Network, North Shore Trans Support and the PEM. There is a photo of lit candle against a black background. Roses in pale blue and pink adorn the upper corners of the graphic.
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Happy Friday! In order to continue fighting on behalf of all books, all authors, & all readers Authors Against Book Bans is fundraising. No donation is too small & all are tax deductible!
authorsagainstbookbans.com
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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Meagan Smith, PhD @meagan1081.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
BU recently ghosted me after a second round in person interview for a job I was really excited about. I’m starting to feel like I dodged a bullet. This is utterly despicable.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Support workers! #NoContractNoCoffee
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I feel the need to shout this from the rooftops AGAIN
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