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Megan Robertson

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It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. (William Carlos Williams)

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Red Wine & Blue @redwine.blue · 29/06/2026
Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) is joining us on Zoom this Wednesday, July 1, at 7:30 PM ET for a conversation about reclaiming America’s 250th in a way that honors our full history and helps us build a better future for all of us. Hope to see you there!
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Join historian and bestselling author Heather Cox Richardson to talk about how we can reclaim America's 250th birthday in a way that honors our full history and helps us build a better future for all...
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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Bike Happy Hour shifts to Ankeny Rainbow Road🌈🏳️‍🌈🚲 Wed June 10 4-7PM 2728 SE Ankeny June 10 also when BikeLoud officially becomes the permanent host of PDX's weekly bike community gathering. p.s. many @bike-summer.org @shift2bikes.bsky.social rides start at this bike gathering. See you Wednesday!
Shift2Bikes calendar listing for Bike Happy Hour and related rides.
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Erwin Hattingh @erwin-hattingh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/01/2026
BREAKING: Greg Bovino has reportedly been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large." This is another clear signal that the Trump administration is feeling our pressure to stop federal agents' cruelty. We're not letting up until ICE and CBP stop terrorizing our families and our communities.
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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The Stranger @thestranger.com · 19/11/2025
1 5 gift ideas that won't make the billionaires richer:
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15 Gifts You Can Make, Buy Locally, or Find in a Drawer, So You Don’t Have to Give Money to Billionaires This Holiday Season
We’re done passing meaningless tokens back and forth to fill some arbitrary holiday obligation.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
NPR: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Oh no. Tom Lehrer gone. At his great age, it’s not a tragedy, I know, but it just does feel bad not having his genius in the world.
Photograph of Tom Lehrer
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/07/2025
The ADA was signed into law 35 years ago today, and remains the most comprehensive civil rights law protecting people with disabilities. This anniversary comes at a time when the health and dignity of disabled people are under attack by the Trump administration.
Graphic with text "The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law 35 years ago today." Above the text is a photo of two people in wheel chairs and two people standing behind them next to a desk where former president H.W. Bush is signing a piece of paper.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A lesson on how to write a headline.
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Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/07/2025
While the Trump administration explores ways to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse the United States’ falling birth rate, a new poll finds that relatively few U.S. adults see this as a priority or share the White House’s concerns.
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US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds most Americans do not want the government to focus on increasing birth rates, despite efforts by the Trump administration to make this a priority.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This is what’s on CNN right now, an hour after Republicans passed a bill stripping healthcare from 17 million Americans, gutting food assistance to the tune of $300 billion, and exploding the deficit by $4 trillion.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Can we start talking about the war on children?
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Andrea Learned | Name & Fame host Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I am proud to be a fanatical member of the #KEXP community. “I almost am overjoyed that this happened, because it showed what we could do as a staff and as a community when everything seemed impossible,” @djjohnrichards.bsky.social current.org/2025/06/slee... #PublicMedia #Radio #Leadership
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KEXP hosts 27-hour marathon broadcast for public media - Current
KEXP's community turned out to show support for the station and public media.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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Alexis Howell-Kubler @lexh-k.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Just in case anyone is looking for it:
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m really proud of my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, & I hope you’ll read & share as we have much to learn from how the early 20C built to the (previously) most exclusionary period in our history. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/06/cons...
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Considering History: How Individual Ideas and Policies Built America’s Most Exclusionary Era | The Saturday Evening Post
A climate of exclusion doesn’t happen in a vacuum; decades of racist views and policies shaped America’s attitudes toward immigrants throughout the 20th century.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025
the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There it is. The first ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska. This is the first year it has been an option. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listen to this great American. This nation is privileged to have a man of this character in the United States Senate. Thank you @padilla.senate.gov. We stand with you.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Aside from the questionable conclusion of this answer, which is both stupid and dangerous, Mike Johnson was literally a constitutional lawyer before becoming a lawmaker.
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Alexis Howell-Kubler @lexh-k.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A win! A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Job Corps a Department of Labor program that provides job training to young people entering the workforce.
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Megan Robertson @megan72.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“GenAI can simulate all of the steps: it can summarize readings, pull out key concepts, draft text, and even generate ideas for discussion. But that would be like going to the gym and asking a robot to lift weights for you.”
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Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is happening in Florida.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
! The CDC is keeping COVID vaccines on the recommended immunization schedule for kids, contradicting RFK Jr.'s announcement that he was taking it off. But CDC's guidance for pregnant women -- who are at high risk for scary stuff if not vaccinated -- is "no guidance." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
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C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The latest Covid variant (razor blade throat) seems to have increased transmissibility resulting in more people ending up in hospital. Most healthcare systems haven’t adopted clean air standards or mandatory respirator use. Hospital acquired COVID has a 10% fatality rate My guide to avoiding it
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How to Stay Covid Safe When in Hospital
A guide to navigating the risk of hospital acquired Covid - as well as how to manage overall risk of nosocomial infections and hospital derived complications.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/05/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Maybe we need US Senators who aren’t actually rooting for you to die.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/05/2025
Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/05/2025
The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wearing a suit and tie, is sitting at a table. A headline reads: "White House Health Report Included Fake Citations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
For starters, Democrats need to actually field a candidate against Mike Johnson, unlike the 2022 and 2024 campaigns when they let him run unopposed. The odds of unseating him will be long, but use the campaign to put him on defense and make our version of Pierre Poilievre sweat a little.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Trump administration has just canceled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna that was meant to develop a bird flu vaccine.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
HHS, led by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., just canceled a $766 million contract with Moderna to fight potential pandemic flu viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. Moderna had just announced positive interim results from an early-stage trial of the vaccine. www.huffpost.com/entry/flu-va...
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Trump Admin Cancels $766 Million Moderna Contract To Fight Pandemic Flu
The cancelation came as Moderna announced positive interim results from an early-stage trial of a new shot.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Charlie Kirk's followers overwhelmingly do NOT want to give money to Israel. What the fuck are we doing America? Even right-wing conservatives agree with me.
Charlie Kirk posts a Twitter poll asking how the U.S. should respond if Israel strikes Iranian nuclear sites. 

Yes, send more money - 27%
Still support, but no $ - 23%
No support and No $ - 50%
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This right here. WATCH and share.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
At 9:00 AM this morning the entire Pentagon got an email inviting them to a “Christian prayer and worship service” from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. A Cabinet member directly violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Brief respite ✨️
Deep inside a forest, a female knight in silver armour perches on the edge of a rocky ourcrop. At her feet, a golden mermaid raises up from a stream, placing her hand on the knight's and staring adoringly up at her.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 18/05/2025
In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont. We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.
Sen. Sanders speaking to a crowd at the Hardwick dance.Sen. Sanders dancing with Vermonters.Sen. Sanders twirling amongst the crowd at the Hardwick town dance.
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Reasons to wear an n95: 1) COVID never ended 2) Unmitigated illness is a tool used to harm marginalized groups & you don’t want to participate 3) You think disabled folks deserve safety & access 4) You want to avoid allergens & pollutants 5) Community care is punk AF Get/give mask mutual aid:
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Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/05/2025
Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt. buff.ly/gJGRAOB
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Moody's strips U.S. government of top credit rating over failure to rein in debt
Moody’s is the last of the three major rating agencies to lower the federal government’s credit. Standard & Poor’s downgraded federal debt in 2011 and Fitch Ratings followed in 2023.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Republicans just blocked their own "big, beautiful bill" that would kick millions of Americans off their health care...because it doesn't cut Medicaid enough.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The hypocrisy has no bottom.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
if a liberal fox existed this morning "Questions swirl about Trump mental decline after unhinged attacks on Taylor Swift, and the Boss. Our panel up next." "Trump grocery garble: Do we need the 25th amendment or is the president just an out of touch elitist? Special report after this."
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