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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026



right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother






right about now, the funk soul brother






check it out now, the funk soul brother
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books
Photo of a bookshelf filled with various books that have been banned or challenged, including "Maus," "Sex Is a Funny Word," "This Book Is Gay," "Persopolis," and "1984." Text over photo reads: "ALA Releases List of 150 Books Most Frequently Targeted for Censorship Since Tracking Began. American Library Association logo
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Voters got Orban out. Voters got Bolsonaro out. Voters got Trump out in 2020 (though other voters put him back in). Further back, voters got Pinochet out. You have to willfully shove your head in the sand to say voting can't do anything about this. In fact, it's probably the best way.
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Feels like the only sensible thing to do today is sit and read from 9 to 5… - Michael
I always loved books. I don’t remember learning to read, it was just something I always did - Dolly Parton
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L Chupacabra: The Pope Of Chili Town @lchupacabra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Go read a book and be kind to someone today. It's what she would have wanted
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We really did lose one of the best advocates for books that there ever was.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
NASHVILLE, TN (August 25, 2026) – Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.

 

Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). 

 

A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact.

 

At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at www.dollyparton.com.         

 

In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Ike Makos @ikemakos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
British Parliament, 1685: okay man, your dad got his head chopped off for being stupid and stubborn. but your brother ended up being a pretty chill dude. loved a party. didn’t make much trouble. can you be cool and keep the good times rolling? King James II:
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026
(That case also, convienently enough for great power rhetorical purposes, stands in contrast to the Chinese model where you gotta be Han to really matter)
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
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Miranda Marie @itsmirdaaa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Can’t get diarrhea lettuce from a cinnamon bun. Follow me for more health tips!
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in: California Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
and there’s the Mbappé banger, you simply cannot stop this man at the World Cup
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I cannot stress this enough: if your ideology is incapable of assimilating the fact that the American experiment has, thus far, succeeded in remarkable and world-historic fashion, you gotta chuck it and start over. That goes for the anti-immigration bigots as much as the hard Marxists.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Fourth and happy 250th. I find myself re-reading FDR’s third inaugural address often these days. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
Lives of Nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is threescore years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of government and a frame of life, is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate that, for some unexplained reason, tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future—and that freedom is an ebbing tide.

But we Americans know that this is not true.

Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock—but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.

These later years have been living years—fruitful years for the people of this democracy. For they have brought to us greater security and, I hope, a better understanding that life's ideals are to be measured in other than material things.

Most vital to our present and to our future is this experience of a democracy which successfully survived crisis at home; put away many evil things; built new structures on enduring lines; and, through it all, maintained the fact of its democracy.For action has been taken within the three-way framework of the Constitution of the United States. The coordinate branches of the Government continue freely to function. The Bill of Rights remains inviolate. The freedom of elections is wholly maintained. Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught.

No, democracy is not dying.

We know it because we have seen it revive—and grow.

We know it cannot die—because it is built on the unhampered initiative of individual men and women joined together in a common enterprise—an enterprise undertaken and carried through by the free expression of a free majority.

We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

We know it because democracy alone has constructed an unlimited civilization capable of infinite progress in the improvement of human life.

We know it because, if we look below the surface, we sense it still spreading on every continent—for it is the most humane, the most advanced, and in the end the most unconquerable of all forms of human society.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
have changed and will continue to change, but not necessarily in ways that we intend or want.” These are all from "The Purpose of the Past," but you could find equally great insights from any of his works.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"History, experience, custom-developments through time-give whatever strength and solidity the conventions and values by which we we live our lives have. Those conventions and values, however humanly created, are not easily manipulated or transformed. They, of course/
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
look at the world. History adds another dimension to our view of the world and enriches our experience. If it is a self-identity that we want, then history deepens and complicates that identity by showing us how it has developed through time. It tells us how we got to be the way that we are.”
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On developing a historical sense: “To possess a historical sense does not mean simply to possess information about the past. It means to have a different consciousness, a historical consciousness, to have incorporated into our minds a mode of understanding that profoundly influences the way we/
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
some my favorite Gordon Wood quotes: “History does not teach lots of little lessons. Insofar as it it teaches any lessons, it teaches only one big one: that nothing ever works out quite the way its managers intended or expected.” /
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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We love the library! #nationallibraryweek
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It doesn't get more purely gorgeous than this. Rogier van der Weyden, 1435, for the feast day of the Annunciation.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
How the Hell Did We End Up Here? From the failed ethno-nationalist revolt in the early 1990s to the triumph of MAGA extremism - A history of the Republican Party, Part II. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵
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How the Hell Did We End Up Here?
From the failed ethno-nationalist revolt in the early 1990s to the triumph of MAGA extremism - A history of the Republican Party, Part II
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Do not let idiots, sectarians, partisans, people who refuse to read books or learn from people who are more intelligent than they are—do not let them negatively polarize you into extremism. Remember that violence, while it may sometimes be unavoidable, never solves intractable social problems.
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Ms Alli Lux ❤️🌈 @msallilux.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” Victor Hugo, born on this day in 1802
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Yes, it should.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Close ICE, not the Kennedy Center.
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Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I don’t usually share such requests, but Aaron’s work is genuinely helpful:
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims. We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear. Never again means never again for anyone.
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/01/2026
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/01/2026
Nobody will forget nor forgive this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is basically how I view the subject. Like, no duh, the United States has done some incredibly awful stuff over the centuries. But we also have a very powerful strand of humanitarianism, especially in the post World War II era, and I will damn well lean into that part of our national identity.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026 Your activism will be even more important this year" @rbreich.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...
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10 Crucial Things You Can Do in 2026
Your activism will be even more important this year
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
They let these fucking crackers take over the goddamn Capitol lmao
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
At some point those on the American left who’ve spent the last decade running interference for Donald Trump are going to have to hold themselves to the same standards of accountability that they demand from Democrats
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