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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We got a new puppy. Last night, I dreamed it was litter-mates/siblings with a bunch of raccoons. Which pretty much tells you how this is going.

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Cute Raccoons Looking Up at Camera

Alt: Raccoons. One of them is jumping up to scratch you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So sad to hear this news. Jamezetta cared deeply about our public schools, knew her stuff, and always looked for solutions. May her memory be a blessing.

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Melody Joy Kramer @mkramer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

ProPublica is currently reporting on school voucher programs that allow private schools to receive public money, which lawmakers said would give families more options. Message us on WhatsApp by texting “schools” to 917-207-6447. wa.me/19172076447?...

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Game show idea: Stories about the executive branch and you just have to buzz in first and say whether it's "Grift? Or Graft?"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The media arm of the party that is running cover for a pedophilia sex trafficking ring that implicates their president thinks the *real* problem is that not enough teenagers are getting pregnant these days.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

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How to Film ICE

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 08/01/2026

This is how ICE agents responded after watching a mother of three bleed out in her car after they shot her multiple times in the head.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/01/2026

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The regime is actively working to make living by a deadline harder. Taxes, elections, healthcare, bills. All affected by this ridiculous policy. See next post for more information. FDT

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I have never been so sure something was parody and/or AI generated. Reader, it is not. So the theme of America's birthday party is "may the odds be ever in your favor." Nailed it.

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Every Child NC @everychildnc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's great to read about the ingenuity & resiliency of school leaders finding new ways to deliver basic mental health services to students. But again, it would be great if articles like this would note how the Leandro Plan would address these issues if legislators would simply fund the Plan #ncpol

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From pilot program to statewide model: How the Medicaid Learning Collaborative is helping districts expand mental health support for students

The Medicaid Learning Collaborative helps districts learn how to bill Medicaid for school-based mental health services.

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A little Friday PM humor slash horror! What a week, folks. G'night!

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

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Siembra NC @siembranc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This particular caravan of federal agents may have left, for now, but we still have work to do to create a state where everyone can live freely, with dignity and without fear. Join us tomorrow at 6 PM in Charlotte and Raleigh. Stay posted for next steps at defendandrecruit.org/nc

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/11/2025

Media orgs are confused and upset about last nights Democratic wins. I don’t recall a “questions remain” after Trump or GOP wins.

Democrats finally get to celebrate, yet questions remain about the party's path forward. Here are key takeaways from Tuesday's results.
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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Your Republicans in Congress are depriving our struggling neighbors of food to eat. Why? Well, they simply MUST make other neighbors' health care more $$$, you see. (My kingdom for a government that, like, gives a shit about people.)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28/10/2025

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Both of my kids played Jane Goodall in their 2nd grade wax museum. A family hero of ours. 💔

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 28/09/2025

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tuckermaymysteries My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life.

A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about.

We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility.

Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing.

I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.

Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

That power wasn't originally there then, but it's originally there now.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

COLUMN: Hillsborough mayor Mark Bell and former mayors Tom Stevens and Jenn Weaver write in support of the first amendment at a time where many feel that freedom is under attack. Read the latest Viewpoints here:

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Viewpoints: Be Loud for the First Amendment - Chapelboro.com

The First Amendment reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the ri...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2025

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

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The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling

The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

So so so proud of the learning and growth happening in OCS.

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Sarah Willets @sarahwillets.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is the value of local journalism. Chase (AFAIK) was the only reporter in the room, who noticed an unusually worded response from an official, and asked questions. AI can't do this. indyweek.com/news/northca...

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Valerie Foushee “Will Not Accept” AIPAC Money in 2026 Election

At a town hall this week, Representative Valerie Foushee shifted her stance on American-Israel PAC contributions and discussed her 2024 visit to Israel.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. ✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP... 🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p... 🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!) #31days

Use and adapt our drafted comment below or write your own!

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. The science is clear: greenhouse gases unequivocally harm our health and our environment. Weakening or repealing the Endangerment Finding will make it harder, and costlier to protect our communities from pollution and from the effects of climate change.

Optional: I care about this issue because [insert your personal reasoning here -e.g. "my father has COPD," "I recently lost my home to a devastating hurricane"]

I urge you to keep the Endangerment Finding in place and to apply science to protect our health and our environment for generations to come.

****Remember, if you want to cite research to upload the paper as a file.****

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I mostly browse bsky to be a better-informed citizen, but I enjoy the miscellaneous content as well. So, a contribution: My 4 ft tromboncino! This majestic, season-fluid vegetable can go summer or winter squash. A delight.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

the difference between Dem politicians like Beshear & Walz (who say supportive things about LGBTQ ppl) and the Newsoms, Emanuels & other Dem politicians/pundits throwing trans ppl under the bus isn't "strategy", it's that the latter group is transphobic

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

SCOTUS majority once again revealing themselves to be a bunch of chickens. Explain yourselves! (Not a lawyer, but like...also it would be good to understand their reasoning? For like, posterity and future legal decision-making and stuff?)

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

let's take stock here: (Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it. Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

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Sarah Smylie @sarahsmylienc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Well! That was the most hopeful thing I've read on the 2025 internet. I needed that.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2025

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Rubio has paused the scheduling of interviews for J1 temp medical Resident Visas for foreign doctors. The reason is purportedly to allow for deeper vetting of their social media accounts. Soooo, loyalty to Trumpism is now a prerequisite to becoming a U.S. trained physician? 🎥 @gilbert.md.rn Insta

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

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