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Phebe Jewell

@phebej.bsky.social
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Teacher, writer, kid sister, boxer, prison abolitionist. Friend of dogs, bicycles, and trees. Novice qi gong practitioner. Literary Saints: James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Italo Calvino. Publications: phebejewellwrites.com

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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Please join me in signing: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
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Block Flock and Protect Americans' Privacy and Data!
Communities across the country are organizing against Flock’s mass surveillance. At least 56 municipalities have deactivated, canceled, or rejected Flock contracts this year, from North Carolina to Ca...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Commit to Resist
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.writersresist.com/2026/06/24/s... Thrilled to have this story appear today in such a wonderful journal! I wrote this back in March 2025, when everything was starting to unravel in our democracy.
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Something So Small – Writers Resist
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Dear allies of America, please don’t confuse with president for us | Robert Reich www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dear allies of America, please don’t confuse with president for us | Robert Reich
We are trying our best to resist him, contain him and remove him from office as quickly as we possibly can. Thank you for your patience
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Quote from Eisenhower... someone with a little more experience with war than the current person occupying the White House!
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada | World Economic Forum share.google/hdAzuBESGqE3...
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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada
Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Delighted to have this story appear in the latest issue of "New World Writing Quarterly" - thanks to the editors for supporting my work! newworldwriting.net/phebe-jewell...
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Phebe Jewell ~ The Young Man Who Will Kill Me - New World Writing Quarterly
The first day of fall quarter I meet the young man who will kill me. Dressed in black, the stone-faced boy stomps past me to the back of the classroom. He
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Join me at Seattle Free America Walkout & March action.womensmarch.com/events/seatt...
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Seattle Free America Walkout & March
Seattle Free America Walkout & March January 20, 2026 2pm Walkout and Rally at Seattle Central College Staging for march all along Broadway March at 3pm to Downtown Seattle. Speakers and live mus...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Seattle Night Lights.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible
Join us Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country. We will talk with local and n...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
So excited to have these two stories up at the delightful "Does It Have Pockets?"! Thanks to the editors. www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/pheb...
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Phebe Jewell — Does It Have Pockets
Wings | The 16th of Every Month I Check My Mailbox
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer
Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Seattle No Kings 2.0” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Seattle No Kings 2.0 · Mobilize
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thanks to the team at Bright Flash for publishing this piece! brightflash1000.com/2025/10/03/t...
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The Zorba the Greek Liberation League
By Phebe Jewell Prufrock checks his smartwatch before stepping into the crosswalk. Pulse and blood oxygen good. On track to meet his daily steps. He could sprint and easily beat the light wi…
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Gernika, Spain.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Street art in Aviles Spain.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “Seattle "Good Trouble Lives On" March & Rally” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...
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Seattle "Good Trouble Lives On" March & Rally · John Lewis Actions
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Trump's civil war open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Trump's civil war
And our new birth of freedom
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Rest in Power, Bill Moyers.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Call or Email Now - No War with Iran! - Seattle Indivisible
OFFICIAL DAILY ACTION FOR Tuesday, June 24th! Call or Email Now – No War with Iran! From our friends in Indivisible Washington’s 8th District – The “No New Wars” President has recklessly, dangerously,...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Juneteenth: Teaching Outside the Textbook
Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom from slavery in the United States. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be ...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Seattle Proud! 2 miles of protesters marching from Capitol Hill through downtown and on to Seattle Center. Over 70,000 people out today, peacefully, joyfully exercising their right to speak up against tyranny.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Only direct, sustained protest will protect us. Everyday people standing between authoritarianism and our freedom scare the administration. They reveal the greatest informal mechanism for democratic enforcement: not kings, not former presidents, but the power of the people."
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Opinion | Obama Isn’t Going to Save You
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Seattle friends! Join me this Saturday. Stand up for democracy now. Exercise your First Amendment rights while you still can! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS Seattle · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...
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We demand legal representation for ALL immigrants!
Just days ago, three U.S. citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 canc...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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The Price of Silence: Gaza's Famine and the Erosion of Our Humanity
By Ramzy Baroud
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others." -Heather Cox Richardson
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Seattle Proud! On the light rail heading to the Space Needle riders sang We Shall Overcome! So great to feel the momentum against fascism and hear inspiring speakers like Pramila Jayapal!
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"This is not right or left, it is right or wrong. This is not a partisan moment. It is a moral moment. Where do you stand?” -Senator Cory Booker, April 1, 2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker and Susan Crawford... what a beautiful day!
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Want to join me for this Hands Off event? mobilize.us/s/RLz45P
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Hands Off! Seattle Fights Back · Hands Off
**Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Seattle is fighting back.** They’re taking everything they can get their hands on—our healthcare, our data, our jobs, and our services...
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
therealnews.com/new-rumbling... The roots of resistance, resilience, and solidarity run deep!
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New Rumblings in Aztlán: Has Trump’s mass deportation sparked a Chicano Power resurgence?
A network of organizations across Southern California is building people power against ICE—and many of these groups draw on a rich history of Chicano activism.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Yes! Yes! Yes! youtu.be/8peiLVFsLdw?...
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We Will Survive
YouTube video by Jesse McFaul
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Prologue - "Down This Yellow Brick Road"
Concrete Mama: The Podcast · Episode
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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Phebe Jewell @phebej.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thank you Timothy Snyder for so clearly detailing what many Americans are feeling after that disastrous, childish, and dangerous display yesterday in the Oval Office. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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