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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 44: Theo LeGro’s DON'T LET IT KILL YOU, from Persea Books. "LeGro turns the poem into a reliquary or sacred cache." Listen/subscribe/rate/share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v... redcircle.com/shows/c74b01...

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Episode 44: Theo LeGro's DON'T LET IT KILL YOU

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Benjamin Landry @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Amazing textile sculpture by Olga de Amaral (Colombia) at the ICA.

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Restorative Justice & Reparations @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Imagine if you spent your whole life paying taxes into your retirement fund only to have it wiped out by the worlds most obvious crook

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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 13/07/2026

If you’re on BlueSky scrolling, you absolutely have a minute to click on the link and comment. This gives political appointees, instead of experts the ability to pull funding for existing grants out of convenience and political ideology, instead of relying on career experts. #SheShed

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm alarmed by my alma mater's push to build their own data center in Ypsilanti. We shouldn't be building these data centers, period, but you know they wouldn't even dream of trying to build one in Ann Arbor. planetdetroit.org/2025/06/univ...

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Ypsilanti Township residents speak out against University of Michigan's ‘biggest, baddest’ data center

The $1.2 billion data center project by the University of Michigan in Ypsilanti Township sparks worries about water consumption, surveillance, and noise.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

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Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 43: Serena Chopra’s A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. "Surreal, enigmatic moments war with the confessional pain in a way that seems to make the suffering briefly livable." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 43: Serena Chopra's A CATALOG OF FUTURE MERCIES

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My April reading at Snowfort Books in Westport, NY. Amy and Adam have created a magical little cocoon of books and people, and you should make the trek to see them 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=West...

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Sara Schaff — Fiction Reading at Snowfort

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

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For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program

WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process

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Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This Verse Curious episode has made explaining my book to family 100% easier. I've shared it with all my parents. So grateful to Benjamin Landry for offering my work so much context.

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 42: Anna Nygren’s BLUSH/RIVER/FOX, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social. "[BLUSH/RIVER/FOX] is deeply personal and yet also high-wire daredevilry and in this strange combination, profoundly moving." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 42: Anna Nygren's BLUSH/RIVER/FOX

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Benjamin Landry @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

WOW, this is the 🎉FORTIETH EPISODE🥂 of VerseCurious!

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Benjamin Landry @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Have a listen this weekend!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/02/2026

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is how I feel about GOP defections to the Democratic Party. Dems love a good reversal story, but we need to be focusing on building and strengthening core progressive values--not on diluting them with conservatism.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/01/2026

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/01/2026

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

And Amy Klobuchar wants to be governor of Minnesota?!

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

There’s a reason Mamdani voted for himself under the Working Families Party. You’re seeing that reason why NOW. From now on, it’s @workingfamilies.org forward. May the old Democrat ways die.

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My daily struggle is to provide for my family and meet our basic needs. 💔 Any contribution helps put food on our table and keep us safe 🕊 We urgently need $110 for my family. Your support means hope, stability, and dignity.🥹 Donate if can and share if can't. 🔃

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Donate to Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives., organized by Natalie taffal

Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolde… Natalie taffal needs your support for Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.net · 22/10/2025

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

No surprise Elise Stefanik is tied to the racist Young Republicans group. During 1st Trump presidency, one of her closest upstate allies was Ava Ashendorff, leader of the North Country Women's Republican Club, who posted hateful & Islamophobic content on FB. Stefanik never distanced herself.

Photo of smiling Elise Stefanik with Ava Ashendorff in a USA hoodie.

Photo of a smiling Elise Stefanik with arm around Ava Ashendorff, in a hotel ballroom or conference room.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/10/2025

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social). "I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest." Listen/subscribe/rate/share!

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Episode 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS

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Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Saranac Review is Duotrope's listing of the day!

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Saranac Review is Duotrope's listing of the day!

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Please consider signing this petition calling for Professor Dixon’s reinstatement. www.change.org/p/reinstate-... @aaup.org #academicfreedom

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Reinstate Professor Dixon at UNC

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

The US has blown up another boat near Venezuela.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

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VerseCurious @versecurious.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

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Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 11/09/2025

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left.

Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

😹 look at this fuckin guy lol

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🦇Harper 🔜 ANE 🦇 @2manystripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

More reasons to be anti-AI

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

an active genocide funded by the united states

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

U.S. military strike on Venezuelan boat is properly alleged to be murder. How important is this as a matter of international law? On left: Rubio State Department's top accusation against Venezuela On right: US Congress in codifying law on extrajudicial killings

Section 1.

Life
a. Extrajudicial Killings
There were numerous reports Maduro agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings.

Official torture and summary execution violate standards accepted by virtually every nation. The universal consensus condemning these practices has assumed the status of customary international law.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Someone please kill me right now.

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes
MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0.

By Tom Bartlett

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

JB Pritzker's speech about Trump's threats to Chicago was great. -Called out the lie, didn't treat the BS pretext with respect -Cast it as a threat to his state's people -Threatened prosecution of personnel who break the law @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social break it down here:

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Trump Explodes in Rage as Dem Governor’s Harsh Takedown Draws Blood

As the Illinois governor infuriates Trump with an extraordinary response to his threat to send troops into Chicago, a political writer argues that pundits are wrong: Dems can challenge Trump on this i...

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