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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Midlife clarity is realizing how much of our stress is engineered. I stepped away to think clearly and build a life that can’t be easily manipulated. New Substack post: I Quit on Purpose. #Midlife #Clarity #CriticalThinking

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I Quit on Purpose

On stepping out of engineered urgency and choosing a life that holds

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the race for NYC mayor!!!

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Not all grief looks like a funeral. Some of it looks like a wedding. I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried. And that’s the whole story. ⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up

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Still the One Who Showed Up

A funeral never held. A reckoning that wouldn’t stay quiet.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Ever feel like you’re emotionally composting in a society built on your unpaid labor? Same. Welcome to my rot era. 🥀✨ Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →

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🥀 FIELD GUIDE TO FEMINIST ROT

For the woman decomposing the myth of having it all

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

She blew up her life and applied to be a garden apprentice. Not a crisis. A reclamation. For every woman who woke up midlife and said: this isn’t me. Read : 🌱 Gray Area #GrayAreaWoman #MidlifeAwakening #NeurodivergentWomen #PerimenopauseTruth #ReclaimYourLife

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GRAY AREA WOMAN

What it looks like when you blow up your life and still choose to bloom

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Some of the deepest cuts don’t bleed. They come from the women we thought would open the door. This isn’t a callout—it’s a reckoning. For anyone who’s felt the ache of being quietly shut out, and is ready to build something truer—without dragging the old rules with them. #matriachs Read Here:

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Gatekeeping in a Gilded Cage:

On the women who didn’t help me, the part of me that still hoped they would, and what we all lose when we mistake performance for power.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

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Lydia Cornell Official @lydiacornell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This is UNACCEPTABLE & alarming. “Independent journalists are being silenced simply because their reporting may threaten the ambitions of their corporate owners,” Gomez wrote. “It will only embolden an Administration hell-bent on censoring speech and controlling content.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/m...

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CBS News boss exits amid Trump pressure | CNN Business

Wendy McMahon’s exit has some employees feeling “like a purge is underway,” one CBS correspondent told CNN on Monday.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Ever felt the sting of showing something brave—and getting “feedback” instead of belief? I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway. #feminism #unlearning Read Here:

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Why Women Stop Showing Their Brilliance

Because they already know how it will land. This is how I’m learning to risk being seen anyway.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s time we stop participating in a system that was never meant for us and time to take ownership of the power we have always had and stop with the lie.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The biggest gap in gender equity isn’t the pay gap—it’s the unpaid wife gap. Until we fix who does the hidden labor, everything else is a lie. #gendergap

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/05/2025

It’s not just Gambia. We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.

Article excerpt: In Bangladesh, U.S. diplomats pressed Starlink’s case “early and often” with local officials, partnered with Starlink to “build an educational strategy” for their counterparts and helped arrange a conversation between Musk and the nation’s head of state, according to a recent cable. The embassy’s work started under Biden but bore fruit only after Trump took office.

Their efforts resulted in Bangladesh approving Starlink’s request to do business in the country, the top U.S. diplomat there said last month, a sign-off that Musk’s company had sought for years.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

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Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship

A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Women aren’t breaking down. We’re coming back online. The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie. New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing. read: #somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth

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THE ANATOMY OF UNLEARNING….. What It Feels Like to Finally Stop Explaining Yourself

There was no epiphany.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Modern stake? It’s being labeled too intense, too emotional, too much. Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together. So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand. #PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025

Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness. Here’s what to know.

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What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I used to shrink myself to be lovable. Quiet Helpful Forgiving A buffer. Then I realized, they never planned to meet me. They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound

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“We Don’t Do That Anymore”

Aka: What Happens When the Scapegoat Stops Performing Emotional CPR

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

No Confusion here. Just awareness and awareness can be dangerous here……

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Waking up doesn’t always look like a breakthrough. Sometimes, it’s just standing in your kitchen, coffee in hand, realizing you’ve been quieting your own voice for too long. I wrote about that moment—the real kind of awakening, not the Instagram version. #FeministAwakening #RealTalk #Substack

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This Is What Waking Up Feels Like

Author’s Note

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I spent two decades shrinking myself to fit a life that was never built for me. I finally stopped. My new piece: “Third Time’s the Charm (Or So They Said)

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Third Time’s the Charm (Or So They Said)

By the time I was born, my family had already run through most of its big emotions.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I’m not burned out. I’m waking up. I stopped managing everyone else’s comfort and started reclaiming mine. This is what deprogramming the patriarchy looks like, starting at home. 🔥 I Can’t Pretend Anymore

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I Can’t Pretend Anymore

A personal revolt against the roles we were never meant to survive

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I’m not crying in the produce aisle. I’m debating democracy vs. dairy alternatives in front of a broken self-checkout, sweating through a hoodie and a decade of internalized expectations #LateStageCapitalism #PsychologicalSelfDefense #FeralAndFunctioning

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I lost the plot to my own story—and for once, that’s not a crisis. It’s a rewrite. A reckoning. A return. New Substack is out for anyone else who feels like the old narrative just doesn’t fit anymore. #midlife #rewilding #ADHD #burnout #feministawakening”

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I Lost the Plot to My Own Story — And I’m Taking It Back

I’m writing this from a place we rarely allow ourselves to inhabit for long: the middle.

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Ann—❌👑 @ambecks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is what democracy looks like! #HandsOff #HandsOffKC

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Damn Straight @damnstraight42.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#HandsOff DC! Fight! Resist! Protest! ✊

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Jaime @msjme.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#handsoff My niece in Boston.

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Susie & Midge w/ an extra Smidge @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We are READY! (Unless anyone’s got a brilliant idea for the other side of Midge’s Sign) #HandsOff

Two dogs sitting on a sofa. Underneath each of them is a sign.
Midge’s sign reads “No Bad Dogs. Just Bad Doge”
Susie’s sign reads “Paws Off the FDA”
The reverse of her sign reads “Make Dog Food Safe Again”

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

NEW: BOSTON HAS TURNED OUT! Thousands join the #HandsOff protest against Trump & Musk on Boston Common. #FiftyFiftyOne #Resist @youranoncentral.bsky.social handsoff2025.com (🎥 Activism Works)

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Mike Williams @mwilli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

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Mary Lawrence @mlawrence1027.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’m just sayin’. St Augustine FL is a town of 14,000. In a red county. And we’re doing this. #handsoff #50501 #April5 AND we have some spicy signs!

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

T-30 minutes from the start at #HandsOff Boston and Massachusetts is showing UP

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/04/2025

Those pants are super hiked

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Lodestar Project isn’t loud. It doesn’t sell hype. It builds power in unexpected places—where resilience, strategy, and quiet clarity live. We’re not influencers. We’re architects of a different kind of future—one that doesn’t need permission DM: “North Star” if you’re curious.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Just a white lady in matching loungewear, processing economic collapse under soft lighting and generational delusion. If the serotonin’s not back by Q3, I’m filing a grievance with my aura reader.

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✨Meg✨ @rootedmovements.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If you haven’t noticed yet, don’t worry. You will.

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Stop feeding the corporations that wouldn’t care if you starve to death

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