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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was.

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel.

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.

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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Happiest of birthdays to our favorite autistic grandpa!

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I feel like people forget that a lot of evangelical fundamentalists believe the Pope is the antichrist, and this kinda plays into their narrative a bit.

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“We don’t need their validation to achieve our liberation. In fact, if we sit here waiting for all of cis society to like us and not make fun of us, we may never achieve our liberation at all. And we will crush ourselves in the process.” Beautifully said, all of it.

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20/02/2026

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

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Gene Okerlund @malort.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Kind of feels like Madlibs anymore. “Oregon will not tolerate [_____ | noun, a crime]. We are [_____ | adjective, an emotion] and demand [verb, something that will continue to happen].”

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Practical Magic ✨ Aunty Em @strike26.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

New date for the General Strike. We demand: Stop ICE murdering, remove the regime and release Epstein Files. There are many different ways to strike: 1) BRING BACK MAIN STREET- 2) TAX STRIKE 3) JOIN LOCAL PROTESTS 4) JOIN MUTUAL AID GROUPS 5) CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES-

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

They are not! The 12 Values Collective runs on: 1) Anticapitalism 2) Antiracism 3) Decolonization 4) Anti-imperialism 5) Intersectional Feminism 6) Disability Justice 7) LGBTQ Liberation 8) Sex Positivity 9) 1312 10) Expansive Spirituality 11) Covid/Pandemic Realism 12) Revolutionary Love

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I don’t write voting guides for Deschutes county anymore, but I’m gonna tell your right now who I would vote for County Commissioner, by position: #1: Jamie Collins #3: Amanda Page #4: Maddie McKinney #5: Morgan Schmidt You have some amazing candidates! VOTE FOR THEM IN YOUR PRIMARY!!!!

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Graeme | WHM @graeme.blacksky.app · 10/01/2026

All that you touch You change All that you change Changes you The only lasting truth is change God is change -Octavia Butler

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like: “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Video of the cave.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

"We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us." —Robert Hayden

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amb @amb.fyi · 10/09/2025

This is deeply charming, and at a moment in which the rest of the internet feels full of dread and misery, you might need this little pick me up in which the next mayor of Seattle describes herself as “dumpy” and goes to Goodwill for a new wardrobe

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

DO. NOT. TEXT. AND. DRIVE.

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fuck this guy and may he rot in hell for the damage he caused to so many children.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The defunding of USAID was the American Wannsee, the moment the ruling party’s psychosis and disregard for human life led them to choose to kill millions of innocents for its own sake. There is no normal politics possible after that, and no one has understood that yet (not even me, at a gut level).

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 25/07/2025

Bill Clinton finally being removed from public life as collateral damage for destroying Trump is like when they overthrow Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi and Boba Fett gets knocked into the Sarlacc pit by accident

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/07/2025

We need to start talking about the fact that Gavin Newsom is unelectable.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Read the whole thread. Feel your feelings but don’t let them grind you down. Find your people and the thing you can sustainably do to build the future you want to see, and keep the hope. 💓💓💓

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 25/06/2025

Endorse this idea, big time

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The only reason there is a need for this bill is the insatiable greed of for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Demand an affidavit ballot and submit it. Your vote will count.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Where is DOGE when you need it?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Data from the last six years, including 1.5 years of Trump's first term, reveals how this is completely unprecedented. It also helps explain the growing backlash.

Chart showing "Percent of People In ICE Detention With No Criminal Record, among those arrested by ICE inside the country and sent to detention"

The chart goes back to May 2019. From May 2019 through spring 2020, when COVID hits, the percentage hovers between 9% and 11%. It then drops to around 5% during COVID, which continues to be the broad baseline throughout most of Biden's term, occasionally jumping higher for a few weeks/months, but often returning to the 5-6% baseline. Then after Trump is elected, it jumps straight to 18% for a month, and then rises to 23% as of June 1.

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Laura @mrscamacho.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Fun fact: when the midwife for my first kid suggested I bring a movie to watch during labor, Galaxy Quest was my comfort movie of choice. My labor was way too fast to even need it, but it was there for me! 🤣

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Heather M. Collins🗽 @heathersdesk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2025

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

So, allies, here’s the best thing for you to do if you encounter bigot protesters at Pride. Take them aside and ask them to teach you about Jesus.

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