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Melanie Siebert

@melaniesiebert.bsky.social
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Poetry, adventure, swimming, planting, rewilding, decolonizing, therapy, heartbroken justice-doing as best one can, movement trying to know movement. She/Her

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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wish we could all spend the morning like this. #caturday
Orange cat lying belly up with the top half of his body covered in a pile of blankets and hjs legs sticking out.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is I book I need, stat. I wish I would have written it! But Kamath & Packer seem brilliantly positioned to dig into how our prejudices muck up our relationship with the beautiful proliferation of beings.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 27/03/2025
To get a real sense of it, I'd urge you to watch the raw video with the sound on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-fS...
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Video shows masked federal agents handcuffing Turkish student at Tufts University
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“Columbia was just such a warning,” he said. “I just became very worried because I didn’t see a strong enough reaction in other universities .... I see Yale trying not to be a target. That’s a losing strategy.” Yale Professor who Studies Fascism Flees to Canada www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Looking forward to hearing these voices. I take so much ♥️ in Mandelstam. He lived in a time of fear, repression, the state dictating the confines of what could be said or written, sudden arrests, sentences without trial, exile, death….and yet he kept writing, kept free in his mind, in his poetry.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety of their families.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's Freedom to Read Week in Canada. Here's one way people are taking a stand against book bans, supporting libraries and queer youth, and speaking out against anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry. www.antihate.ca/sending_love... #ftrw25 #freedomtoread
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Sending Love: Canadians Standing Up For the Valleyview Library
Since February 11, we have received close to 200 letters. We heard stories from people who grew up in rural communities, parents of trans kids, and community members themselves. Their message was clea...
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Keats adores my Brandi Bird pick! Such a nice morning prepping for a writing workshop for LGBTQIA2S+ youth at Foundry later today. ♥️ writing and spaces that help us preserve our freedom of thought, being and the full rainbow of emotions including joy & wonder. #booksky @babydollbird.bsky.social
Tuxedo cat with the most adorable tiny black spot on her cheek poses luxuriously with Brandi Bird’s brilliant book of poetry THE ALL + FLESH.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.
Resist List

They want us to think we’re alone. We are not.
The Resistance is Everywhere.
Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup.
Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact.
Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.
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The Dead Poets Reading Series @deadpoetsreading.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Super thrilled about our March 9th reading at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social! featuring Jen Currin @jencurrin.bsky.social, Arleen Pare @arleenpare.bsky.social Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social and Ali Blythe @aliblythe.bsky.social 🤩 Reminder this is a masks-required event. See you there!
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EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If there is no event organizer, you are the event organizer. Go when and where you can.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.
Hi, my name is [NAME], I'm a constituent in [ZIP CODE]. I'm calling because I saw that [TERRIBLE THING] is happening. I think this is appalling. [PERSONAL STORY, if you have one.] I want you to do everything you can to stop this. I will remember your actions when I cast my next vote. Thank you.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is an extremely worthwhile listen. @dahlialithwick.bsky.social is, as always, on point and @kimlanelaw.bsky.social offers a clear-eyed analysis of how America is on the fast-track to autocracy.
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is a smart and clear-headed take on what it means for the US to be sliding into autocracy. Lots of excellent examples from Hungary, Russia, and Venezuela help paint a comparative picture.
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Yes! These State AGs refuse to bow: “Gender-affirming care is essential, life-saving medical treatment…”
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our Keats likes fresh laundry too!
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This won’t ease any impending sense of doom, but Erica Frantz’s research on how democracies erode from within is clarifying.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. The political scientist Erica Frantz describes the regime change the second Trump Administration represents. open.spotify.com/episode/3TPI... youtu.be/fP77tAIkRvA?...
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Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
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Melanie Siebert @melaniesiebert.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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