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EC from DC

@notkarlsson.bsky.social
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She/her in DC. History teacher, reading, writing, languages, drawing, activism, tarot cards. Recent VCFA graduate. 💚🤍🩶🖤

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 27/06/2025
As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I know we’re all subject to the whims of the nostalgia cycle and recycled franchises, but did we really have to reboot the freaking Taney Court?
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I pass out early because of a week of newborn related insomnia, and I wake up to a blessed TL 🙏
A twist on an old Wide Awakes poster celebrating Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election, but with all instances of Lincoln and Douglas replaced with Mamdani and Cuomo, respectively
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy Pride to queer people who are just damned tired.
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The whole "the curtain is blue!" discourse has convinced half the population that artists have no themes or questions their work explores. People, this is not an English teacher conspiracy. Artists do include symbolism and subtext!
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
DC has enough to deal with this week (and I’m not ignoring it) and also FYI: www.popville.com/2025/06/brea...
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BREAKING: “DC Water Issues Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for Upper Northwest Neighborhoods” - PoPville
From DC Water: "DC Water Issues Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for Upper Northwest Neighborhoods Impacted neighborhoods include areas of Chevy Chase DC, Friendship Heights, Tenleytown, AU Park, Spr...
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Cat Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Huge news! The Oregon House just voted to pass SB 1098, our state's Freedom to Read bill!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 The bill is now off to the governor's desk for a signature. Thank you to everyone who testified, contacted reps, and helped to spread the word about the bill! We did it! @authorsabb.bsky.social
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Friendly reminder! If you want to support the right to read by purchasing a banned book or taking it out from the library your impact will be much greater if you choose a living author. Orwell is great and all, but he's not doing much with your money.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
there are powers that will do everything they can to convince you otherwise, but it should be said loudly that protest proves love. community is a conduit for love and oppression seeks to crush community. standing up to say no is an act of love
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Teacher who takes public transit here. I WANT MY COVID BOOSTER. You just want mass death.
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NOPE NEIGHBORS @nopeneighbors.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please join NOPE (Neighbors Defending Democracy) Democracy Online and love ❤️, share and comment on this post! We all need to do our part, raise our voices and amplify these messages.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).
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Meg Eden Kuyatt @medenkuyatt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
news.utdallas.edu/health-medic...
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Autism Researchers’ Rapport Study Refutes Social-Deficit Model
Psychology doctoral student Sarah Foster, who is autistic, is the corresponding author of a study that examined four-person group interactions among neurotypical, autistic and mixed groups of individu...
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

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Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 14/05/2025
Huge news out of Nebraska: Democrat John Ewing just flipped the mayor's office in Omaha, the state's biggest city. He successfully tied the GOP incumbent to Trump. She responded by claiming Ewing "stands with radicals" on "boys in girls' bathrooms and sports." It didn't work. Our full writeup -->
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Democrats just flipped Nebraska's biggest city
And it should make GOP Rep. Don Bacon nervous about next year
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Meg Eden Kuyatt @medenkuyatt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Selah is BACK! So excited for you to get to hang out with Selah at writer's camp next summer, and even getting to see a new side to Ezra from Pebblecreek... :)
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Authors talk about their experiences having their books banned. www.theheadlightreview.com/highbeams/ba...
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What About the Little Guys? “Banned” Books from the Authors’ Perspective — The Headlight Review
Many think that for an author, getting their book banned is a badge of honor. That their sales will skyrocket with the free publicity. But this is only true for “celebrity” authors, or authors who are...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 08/05/2025
Just having a good time with this while we can.
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Erica S. Perl @ericaperl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I had a school visit cancelled. Read on to learn why, and what I did about it. 🐌
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The ~700k people of DC: —Pay more fed tax per capita than people of any state; —Are more numerous than pop of WY or VT; —Have zero votes in US House or Senate; —Now being told by House GOP that we can't spend *OUR OWN* tax money, which we've already paid Cut the BS Thanks @vanhollen.senate.gov
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/05/2025
House Republicans created a disaster for D.C. with the CR — restricting the District's ability to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. My bill with Senator Collins to fix this passed unanimously in the Senate. House Republicans need to pass it NOW.
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Emily Krempholtz 📚 @writersofrohan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is the (windstruck) face of a woman who just stood behind the Governor of Colorado as he signed into law a Freedom to Read bill that places stronger protections against book bans for public schools within her state.
Emily, with her purple hair blowing wildly in her face, standing in front of the Colorado State Capitol building with a giant smile on her face and a celebratory hand in the air
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Cody Boteler @codyboteler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
it's May Day in Baltimore
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Wish I had an old photograph of my great-grandfather, an immigrant who was active in the Labor Movement, so I could post it on May Day.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you’re in the DC area and have an opportunity to see Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round at the Avalon next week, go see it! I loved it.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Scientists have done the research. Federal agencies are mandated to use that research—much of which was taxpayer funded!—to make evidence-based policies. This is an all-out assault on expertise, and as Dr. Tran notes, it’s all about grift. People talk about Big Pharma but ignore Big Supplement.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Is this the next prequel to The Hunger Games???
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Weird Bisexual Wooper @goldensama.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
To add to this; Roald Dahl is dead, so even if he were inclined to activism it doesn’t matter because he can’t do it. Rowling can and does, and as long as that remains the case, there is no ethical way to engage with her works. Any support of her is helping her transphobic agenda.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.
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Misa Sugiura @misa-sugiura.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just want to give a Friday shoutout to all the booksellers, librarians, and teachers out there on the front lines fighting for kids' right to read books that reflect their experiences and/or expand the boundaries of their empathy. #kidlit
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 25/04/2025
may we all have the temerity to reject the false urgency that modern society attempts to foist upon us.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Sometimes I think about christofascist notions of “headship” where they’d put my father in charge of my life in every way. And I think about how much my own father, as a person and a personality, Does Not Want To Be In Charge Of My Life And Finances.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 22/04/2025
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Read the replies below this thread, too; people are sharing awesome stories!
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Ann Muir @decoy007.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Mutual Aid campaign update! I challenged myself to tell at least ten people I know and pass on the flyer. How will you spread the word?
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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Wow. Imagine not embracing the reality that autistic people are a wonderfully diverse population with varying strengths and support needs. Imagine not believing that we all deserve dignity and good lives.
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What the.
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Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hey Blueksy, if you're looking for magic books and magic school books that *aren't* horribly exclusionary, let me share some fantastic examples with you. #BookSky 💙📚
A hand holding up a stack of books in front of blurry bookshelves. The books are, from top to bottom:

LIKE A CURSE by Elle McNicoll
ONYEKA AND THE ACADEMY OF THE SUN by Tolá Okogwu
MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTER by Janelle McCurdy, illustrated by Ana Latese
WITCHES OF BROOKLYN by Sophie Escabasse
WITCHLINGS by Claribel Ortega
THE MARVELLERS by Dhonielle Clayton
THE GRIMOIRE OF GRAVE FATES edited by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owen
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EC from DC @notkarlsson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oh my god it is LITERALLY OUR TAX MONEY CAN WE JUST HAVE IT TO FUND OUR OWN SOCIAL SERVICES.
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