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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Five things to remember about war:

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thinking of all the students and families applying to college, or registering for college, or attending college, who have no idea if they will have access to grants and loans. This is grotesquely destructive.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I guess it’s time we encourage all the good kids to go to law school. (Something I never thought I’d say.)

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

News is absolute shit but the earth (dear earth) is still beautiful.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I am hearing the same everywhere I turn. Devastating on so many fronts.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I believe this is called Speculative Presidenting. Which is fucking terrifying.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2025

A second person who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by U.S. immigration agents after overstaying a student visa, federal officials said on Friday.

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U.S. Arrests 2nd Person Tied to Pro-Palestinian Protests at Columbia

The action came less than a week after Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate and a prominent figure in campus demonstrations, was arrested.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We need to salute courage wherever it appears. The official snow reporter at Vermont's Sugarbush, where JD Vance came on a skiing vacation this weekend, pointed out in her snow report this a.m. that the Trump team is ignoring climate change. Her report was pulled down kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...

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Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter

JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Yes! I shop mostly at my local unionized food co-op. (Also not cheap but I supplement/grow food/buy from farmers/make do…I like knowing my money goes to my neighbors.)

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Remind shoppers who they’re supporting (with their hard earned cash) w/ signs & protestors outside the doors.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Glad to hear! I hope that’s happening all over.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Reminder: WHOLE FOODS is owned by Amazon/Bezos. I bet the majority of their shoppers are dems. Boycott…forever!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers.” Gift link wapo.st/43aVQg1

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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan

Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The economic boycott is a practice run. Let’s turn up the heat.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Nurture the hell out of the seeds of the future you want because they too are sprouting in the chaos.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My daughter is starting to look at colleges and we will be paying close attention to which schools support DEI, support trans students, and stand up to fascism and tyranny. I am sure we are not alone.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I was up north for a medical appointment so went to Still North Books & Bar and purchased these beauties. #thesebooksareantifascist

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

A quote from an article by Timothy Snyder titled "What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?" published in The New Yorker. The quote reads: "It is predictable ... that he will give free rein to the oligarchs who, he knows, will continue to generate the social and digital bases of a politics of us and them. It is predictable that, in returning to power, he will seek to change the system so that he can remain in power until death. It is predictable that he will use deportations to divide us, to accustom us to violence, and to make accomplices of us. It is predictable that he will create a cult out of the martyrs of January 6th. It is predictable that he will cooperate with similarly minded rulers abroad."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

what the actual fuck (my posts will just be swears from now on)

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Which National Park will we each choose to defend?

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I was just in Montreal and everyone there was so kind. They said things like, “We are so sorry…we will get through this together…,” all with lovely French accents. It was the most soothing neighborly solidarity.

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

sharing a moment from the last @workingfamilies.org mass call i got to participate in. keep creating and learning loves.

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Jessica Spiegel 🍉 @andiamo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The both/and here is important—things are bad in ways that we can’t control on an individual level, and there are things we can do on an individual level to soften the blow for ourselves and our communities. When we despair, we must have actions into which we can pour all of that energy.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I am so sorry…sending solidarity and hope for good outcomes to all.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

My friends are starting to lose their jobs; their partners and children are losing their healthcare. The ripple effects of this destruction will be so wide ranging, I can’t even fathom. I’m planting a big garden this summer; ready to be part of my local safety net. It’s time to be all in.

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Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

On winter, gardening, and resiliency. (For those of you no longer on the other places.) open.substack.com/pub/robinmac...

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Mid-Winter

{dreaming of green}

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

German marine biologist Ernst Haeckel, born on this day in 1834, was only in his early 30s when he coined the word "ecology" and forever changed our understanding of nature. A year before he did, Emily Dickinson wrote a poem about… ecology

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The Birth of Ecology: Ernst Haeckel, Emily Dickinson, and How Life on Earth Came Abloom

How flowers gave rise to life on Earth and made possible the human consciousness that came to see a world “thronged only with Music.”

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

“On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs. Essential personnel expected to continue working will be informed by Agency leadership by Thursday, February 6, at 3:00pm (EST).

For USAID personnel currently posted outside the United States, the Agency, in coordination with missions and the Department of State, is currently preparing a plan, in accordance with all applicable requirements and laws, under which the Agency would arrange and pay for return travel to the United States within 30 days and provide for the termination of PSC and ISC contracts that are not determined to be essential. The Agency will consider case-by-case exceptions and return travel extensions based on personal or family hardship, mobility or safety concerns, or other reasons. For example, the Agency will consider exceptions based on the timing of dependents’ school term, personal or familial medical needs, pregnancy, and other reasons. Further guidance on how to request an exception will be forthcoming.

Thank you for your service”

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Trump just announced that the United States will be “taking over” Gaza and will “level” it to the ground. He said Palestinians should not live there anymore.

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