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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's up with @npr.org Steve Inskeep? First it was Steve Bannon, now Tucker Carlson on Morning Ed. Yesterday he allowed Ari Emmanuel to equate special education with low intelligence, in the same breath as he claimed neurodivergence. This guy's got to go.
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Sunsong23 @sunsong23.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Jerry Mander: "It's time to make science a thing again."
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Yesteryear a novel by Caro Claire Burke. Wow! #Booksky💙📚
book cover that reads top R to bottom L: New York Times Bestseller "Mesmerizing....Electric....An ingenious, exquisite, be-careful-what-you-wish-for." - The New York Times Book Review. A round, yellow sticker that reads "The good morning America book club- a GMA Book Club pick." Yesteryear: A novel by Caro Claire Burke. Cover is a photograph of a field of grain with a ranch, including a large barn, 2 outbuildings, a large house and some trees with a mountain in the distance behind. The image has been distorted and warped.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I LOVE THIS FOR US
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Keeping Down 🍁 @keepingdown.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
May there come a day when the weight of oppression is lifted so that people of conscience are not compelled to such extreme acts of resistance 😭 RIP Logba Rangzen None of us are free until all of us are free
theguardian.com
Tibetan man dies after setting himself on fire outside UN in New York, activists say
Exiled Tibetans say the man’s self-immolation was an appeal for Tibetan independence from China
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's of the utmost importance that @pbsnews.org force David Brooks to retract his statement on 7/3/26 and issue an apology that members of @socialists.nyc support H*mas among other evils. This is not the 1950s. We're not doing red scares. This cannot be allowed to stand. Thank you
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
USPS is independent but is now trying to become toady for trump. Public comment is open now. Can comment until July 2. Read within for where and how.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Love you forever, Bernie
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hope. No. We will have to sit in and occupy and push hard. No one is coming to save us. We keep us safe.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Hey @npr.org Any reason why this is not being reported top of the hour or anywhere in between???
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 07/06/2026
OPINION: "So, what do we do next? We start with what we know for certain: If the vote had no power, they would not be attempting to suppress it," Lakeisha Hood Moïse and Kamilah A. Pickett write.
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Opinion | Courts Continue to Attack Black Voting Rights in the South
Lakeisha Hood Moïse and Kamilah A. Pickett write about the fallout of Louisiana vs. Callais and what will come next for voting-rights activists.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#Booksky bookriot.com/book-bans-an...
bookriot.com
Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children's Publishing Right Now: Book Censorship News, April 10, 2026
Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's the result of book censorship.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Video: x.com/dllambo/stat...
Daniel Lambert
@dlLambo
Everyone should take 2 mins to watch this.
A father, helped by neighbours, digging for the body of his daughter.
Their home destroyed by Israel.
This is proper reporting and the reason Israel allows nobody into Gaza and targets journalists every day.
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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Today was the last day for my David Brancaccio to host the @marketplace.org Morning Report. 13 years of aural bliss and subversive pinko financial economics content 💕🙌🏼🐯🕊️📻📡 I recall listening on NPR in the 90s. I think he left Marketplace for awhile to become Bill Moyers' protegé on a pbs tv show. 1
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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tonight on @pbsnews.org
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Jesus H.! 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dear NPR, I believe your job is to report on what is actually happening in the world, not what the current Administration *says* is happening. Sincerely yours
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
would like to urge my Fellow Americans to not fall for the Tom Homan is a cuddly grandpa or even an “adult in the room” when he puts on the readers, as I’m sure some maga propagandist is trying to put forth. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There’s like 130K immigrants in MN, right? So it’s not a “crackdown.” It is not a crackdown. Please help me come up with different, more accurate words to describe the situation. Thank you
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@npr.org It’s time for an editorial policy change on “immigration crackdown.” When Americans are being gunned down, the term is no longer even pretending to describe reality. Sincerely, a loyal 📻 listener
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Perspective on PBS NewsHour 1/23/26 - same day as MN General Strike. 9 stories to begin- Natl weather 2 mins, trump NATO 45 sec, 🇺🇦 31 sec, FBI alleged “drug kingpin” 58 sec, Vance “March 4 Life” boost birthrate 39 sec, Philly display slavery 30 sec, Wall St. 13 sec, women ⚽️ 31 sec ( 1/3)
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@npr.org I’m listening live 📻📻to your top of the hour newscast. Why are you not reporting from MN on the general strike? Stop 🛑 carrying water for Vance in his propaganda/ disinformation campaign. Sincerely, a sustaining listener of 3 separate stations. Love U 💕
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Can anyone at @npr.org comment with reasoning for failing to air Jack Smith live today? The public is owed the chance to hear this. Extremely disappointed in the decision not to. Extremely
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I feel so bad for Geoff Bennett when he has to normalize fascism by interviewing liars from the Hudson Institute (right wing “think tank “) on the leading story of the nightly news. #PBSNewsHour
Skinny white lady with long brown hair and a royal purple suit in front of a blue backdrop
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
😍🤩😎
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#PBS is airing a series #BreakingTheDeadlock to debate issues; this evening Choice and Life. The 2 staunch choice advocates Michelle Goodwin and Dr. Gunter were silenced by the Heritage Foundation guy & no one stopped him. It’s not debate, it’s a platform for right wingers. Gross
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Let’s have some clarification @npr.org @pbsnews.org on Greenland and NATO. We’re hearing about the Mad King and his correspondence. Can we get discussion on the what consequences we in the U.S. can expect if he manages to do as he threatens please. On air. Starting tomorrow? Tyvm
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
NPR 9am Saturday news is already sanitizing the ICE execution of a legal observer in Minneapolis with that same passive language the NYTimes has been using to excuse the war crimes by Israel against 🇵🇸.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The Pope is right. American Christians who are not saying this today ought to be ashamed.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Netflix costs $20/month for no ads. Netflix is trying to buy a whole azz studio with cash. This will cost industry jobs and affect residuals for artists. Quit them and give that money to PBS. Or keep some and buy a DVD player. But give to PBS. Link in comments. Netflix sucks. Remain Bless
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New Genre Suggestion: Spicy Ralph Nader Fanfic. Still from the new film ‘WTO 99.’ Plots could include: what happens if the people won the Battle of Seattle, if Nader beat Bush in 2000, cozy nights with the monotone populist ideologue, hot leftist nerds…🤣💕🌹🤩😎🥰 #booksky 📚💙
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is me doing that loud 2 fingers whistle. F’in Aaaa!! Standing up for people with DD! You love to see it. 🤩😎🌹
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Forefathers 4/4 Books I recently found thrifting. ‘American Earth/ environmental writing since Thoreau. Edited by Bill McKibben. Forward by Al Gore #booksky 📚💙
Cover of a hardcover book with a bald eagle made from a mosaic of white and black images. American Earth/ environmental writing since Thoreau. Edited by Bill McKibben. Forward by Al Gore #booksky 📚💙
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Forefathers 3/4 Books I recently found thrifting. James Baldwin - Another Country #booksky 💙📚
Vintage paperback cover says The great nation-wide bestseller at $5.95 now 75 cents James Baldwin Another Country
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Forefathers 2/4 Books I recently found thrifting. ‘In Our Time’ by Ernest Hemingway. 📚💙 #booksky
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway cover of a vintage paperback with a small stamp on the bottom left corner saying the Scribner Library
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Forefathers 1/4 Books I recently found thrifting. ‘When Angels Sing: The story of rock legend Carlos Santana’ by Michael Mamin- art by José Ramirez. 💙📚
‘When Angels Sing: The story of rock legend Carlos Santana’ by Michael Mamin- art by José Ramirez.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
#booksky 💙📚 True Biz a novel by Sara Nović. Don’t let the Reese sticker fool you- this is a srsly great book. Part instructional, part romance, punk rock, angry teens, many females who pass the Bechdel test…I want to know more about Elliot, Austin and all the characters- including the school!
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#booksky 💙📚 Don’t let the Reese sticker fool you- this is a srsly great book. Part instructional, part romance, punk rock, angry teens, many females who pass the Bechdel test…Brava! A wonderful book. I want 100 more just like it.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Anyone complaining about the health effects of “ultra-processed” foods who isn’t also concerned by global poverty, climate change, HIV, Tuberculosis, the abrupt ripping away of USAID funding: You’re not fooling anyone. Pack up your table and go home.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I love that the alcohol lobby (there’s an alcohol lobby?!) managed to sway Senators to support banning hemp but no existing lobby (health insurance, hospitals, churches) can even get the attention of same Senators to support Medicaid or SNAP to keep poor and disabled Americans safe, fed and healthy.
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
$1 billion on vouchers for religious schools. Unreal!
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
People! Please! You don’t actually need Google or a.i. You can call or go to a Library! Librarians know special languages to search for answers in all kinds of databases. And they don’t need a bunch of electricity or fresh water to do so. You might even make a friend!
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The writing is stellar and the atmosphere is remarkably drawn. In the first 4 chapters the plot is more depressing than A Series of Unfortunate Events. That’s right, Lemony Snicket is uplifting compared to Booth, which I finally had to quit bc I just couldn’t take it. #booksky 💙📚
Booth a novel by Karen Joy Fowler
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Could folks mispronouncing Mamdani actually be an indicator for their need of reading intervention? Having learned 2 other languages beginning in grade school …. SOUND IT OUT YALL!
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Amanda🌟🌊🌿🦉 @mzmanda.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If you are a person using the word “kiddo” with a straight face- please stop. When I was one, back in the Reagan administration, it was clear to me it was patronizing. Now, many decades later, it’s like saying ‘Daddio.’ Find a better word. ‘Children’ or even ‘kids’ will suffice. 🤦🏻‍♀️😎🤩🤣
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
progressive.org/magazine/in-...
progressive.org
In Defense of Home and Community Based Services
Medicaid-funded HCBS programs are extremely vulnerable to political whims. That's true now more than ever.
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