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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The USA is indeed in trouble.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This YouTube video by Senator Patty Murray is is informative and inspiring to know what she is doing to expose the lawlessness of this regime’s actions. Not to be missed! youtu.be/ubqIF37t1ZQ

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Senator Murray and Former HHS Department Heads Raise Alarm Over Trump & Elon's Massive Cuts at HHS

YouTube video by Senator Patty Murray

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

As a post script to any other post about our allies not trusting us enough to share sensitive information, what do you think they think now, after the group chat war room debacle?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/02/2025

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

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Grace Tinsen @rdpanda.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is what they voted for!!!!!! How many billionaire magats are there???

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

tRump thinks anyone working from their home would be a lazy ass mf like he is. If he believes he can stop everyone in this country from working from home, we then have solid proof of his insanity. How much is going to have to be spent to obtain new office space? What a total loser this fool is.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Let’s make sure this worm-brain is never confirmed by the Senate. These letters make a huge difference & don’t take but a minute. Click below to send yours!

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Tell your Senators: Oppose Kennedy for Health and Human Services Secretary

Please contact Congress now!

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Kash Patel is an unfit sycophant who should never be director of anything. Agreed? Then write your senators here and let them know:

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Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's dangerous pick of Kash Patel for FBI Director

Contact Congress today!

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Snake oil salesman “Dr” Oz has no business running Medicare or Medicaid. Click below to write a letter to your Senator, urging them to vote no on Mehmet Oz.

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Tell your Senators: Oppose Trump's selection of Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid

Contact Congress today!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Trust me, bro.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.

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Coca 💙 @cdp4nature.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We warned you. We were not overreacting. We told you so.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Gotta love the British press.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Just saying.

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The second taking of an oath you already took and broke, is a completely meaningless act.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 19/01/2025

Mr. Smith murdered his wife today, a powerful way to stop her from leaving him that legal experts assailed as murder

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The anti-Trump³⁴ crowd in DC today -- and chen in the cold -- was hands down larger than the pro-Trump³⁴ crowd will be at Monday's inauguration! LFG! Never let up! We need to flip the House in 2026 and slow Trump³⁴'s fascist roll!

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We all have magic we need to perform now. Write inscriptions that change people’s minds and you change the world. Write on!

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We are having a confirmation hearing for administrator of the EPA, to see if the nominee is “qualified,” yet this is an agency tRump wants to disband. His various poor choices for these agencies that he wishes to do away with like education are each like a worm virus designed to take down a system.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Cease fire deal imminent

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Caliga @caliga.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This👇🏽

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Trump's attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, has now multiple times refused to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget Pls do the same.

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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🥰

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Nights of SKIES of BLUE (sound up🎵) DAY 9 2025 Every Night, I post a song Tonight, HONOR & HOPE DONATE IF YOU CAN LOS ANGELES THE FIRE FIGHTERS 🔥 Who are Tirelessly and Fiercely Fighting holding back exhaustion We Send Our Love to ALL OF THEM and the People of Los Angeles HEROES ALL

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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Please!!!🙏🏾

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

LA is looking like Lahina. It is incredibly distressing to see such loss. My heart goes out to everyone affected by these crazy fires, and whatever my praise matters, I send it out to all of those on the front lines of these fires. It has to be dangerous, exhausting, heroic and heartbreaking work.

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David Alan Arnold @neonomas.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Clearly, tRump’s appetite for Canada, Greenland, Panama AND the Gulf of Mexico, are just a few of the very simple-minded ideas he generated in fallacious efforts to grab more land than his friend Putin!

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Oh It's that one guy @ohitsthatone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Jessica Denson @jessicadenson07.bsky.social goes over Kaitlin Byrd's @gothamgirlblue.com brilliant, actionable plan. Time is extremely tight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-m...

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Congress MUST STOP Trump's ILLEGAL Presidency │ Lights On with Jessica Denson

YouTube video by Jessica Denson

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

ABC’s abject capitulation in Trump’s extremely weak defamation suit encouraged him to file his utterly baseless suit against the Des Moines Register, its pollster, and Gannett. Each surrender begets more blatant attacks on freedom of the press. Each attack ups the ante for us all. Courage is needed.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I know I'm gonna love having Randy Rainbow here on @bsky.app! (@randyrainbow.bsky.social) Laugh! (so you don't succumb to projectile-vomiting)

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