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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
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Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
After a (very) long and (very) winding road, Dear Mr. Smallwood is almost here! I can't wait to finally meet this book in print in a few weeks.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I came seeking this. Was not disappointed. Robert Redford was what I have in my mind as a wonderful American man.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This, too, is genocide.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/09/2025
"we are all being cast as unwilling actors in the drama of a man who used reality television to achieve real power, and is now repeating that procedure with dramatically higher stakes. This show is on every channel and nobody can turn it off." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/symbolic-b...
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Symbolic Battlefields
Fighting to tell America's story.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don’t think I will get to the Bonavista Biennale this year and I am sad. Please everyone go for me. www.cbc.ca/arts/every-t...
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Every two years, Canada's art world looks to the craggy cliffs and town halls of Newfoundland | CBC Arts
The fifth edition of the Bonavista Biennale, running through Sept. 14, brings contemporary artwork by locals as well as national and international talents to communities across the eastern peninsula.
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J Blue @jd-14.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Almost 60 years later, this song is so relevant again. youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
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Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
it's time to get the UN Headquarters out of the USA.
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US denies visas to Palestinian Authority leaders for UN general assembly
Step comes when France is leading a push to recognise Palestinian state after Israel’s unyielding bombing of Gaza
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Homemade cream of mushroom soup. Gorgeous.
Nothing like homemade mushroom soup for supper.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Enjoyable book! Whipped through it.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
New hens in the pound last night. Interacting well with Mr Coombs and First Hen.
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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
In case you’re in the area… www.timeout.com/london/news/...
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A Viking longship will row up the River Thames next week
A 1,000-year replica boat is heading into central London.
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Lostcatdog @lostcatdog.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Part of a report by Emma Murphy. It's genocide.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
When will Ralph Fiennes get an Oscar? I am watching Conclave again. Has he ever been in a bad film? Deserves far more recognition than he has.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Finding it difficult not to post re offspring’s birthday as I love them so much and am very proud of them but respect their right to limit social media exposure. Secretly proud of myself as well for keeping them alive…. lol anyways happy birthday my darling. Even if you won’t see this.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Heard at airport, “I’ve been with my wife since Grade 8 so I know she’s a girl.” 😬
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The first guy who figured out that hot air holds more water vapor looked like this. We've known that warming temperatures mean heavier downpours for a very long time
Photo of a nineteenth century French man glaring disapprovingly at some paper
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is one of the most important pieces I've written and I hope you'll read it. Politicizing the military is dangerously destabilizing for democracy-learn more from the vantage point of people who have served. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Why We Don't Politicize the Military
When I started working on this piece, it was in the context of Trump‘s announced decision to bring the National Guard and the Marines into Los Angeles to quell protests against ICE.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I have no skin in the game here but I have never heard a clearer political candidate. Good luck to her. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Independent candidate says Poilievre's byelection win isn't guaranteed
Power & Politics speaks to Independent candidate Bonnie Critchley, who's running against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the upcoming Alberta byelection. Critchley says if Poilievre does win, ...
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Israeli-American Omer Bartov is one of the world's top Holocaust historians.
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Women's Peace Network @womenspeacenetwork.org · 15/07/2025
"'...I don’t feel like we are safe, we are Burmese & we will always be subordinate.'" ➡️ Safety, protection, livelihoods & respect must be ensured to all #Myanmar civilians, including women, youth & ethnic minorities, seeking refuge in neighboring #Thailand. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
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“I’ll Never Feel Secure”
The 48-page report, “‘I’ll Never Feel Secure’: Undocumented and Exploited Myanmar Nationals in Thailand,” examines how the Thai police frequently stop and interrogate Myanmar nationals and extort them...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This line from Chris Keuleman's essay on Srebrenica... “It would have been better,” Emir writes, “if I had not survived. Because I was dead anyway. My life had already ended when it was suddenly returned to me and I had no idea what to do with it.” bylinetimes.com/2025/07/14/s...
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Srebrenica: Thirty Years of Denial
On the anniversary of the Srebenica massacre, Chris Keulemans reflects on three decades of trauma, insult and neglect
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A reminder about the prohibitions in the Geneva Conventions against starving civilians, destroying foodstuffs or drinking water installations, or forcing civilians to move away. Here's the text of Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Convention (alt-text is embedded in the image):
Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Convention. 
1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited. 
2. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.
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Fabiola Truci @ftruci.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#ancientbluesky 🏺⚱️ greekreporter.com/2025/07/13/u...
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UNESCO Adds Minoan Palaces in Crete, Greece, to World Heritage List - GreekReporter.com
UNESCO has officially added the Minoan palace centers of Crete to its World Heritage List, recognizing their global cultural significance.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I may never take a better photo of my son.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is so romantic and sweet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Newfoundland couple's love note in a bottle found 13 years later on Irish shore | CBC News
More than a decade ago, a romantic message in a bottle was thrown from the cliffs of an island off of Newfoundland. It was found in Ireland this week.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I'm so proud to be part of the History Workshop project, supporting a brilliant team of Early Career historians who have built the best site for radical, engaged history online. Do consider applying for this opportunity! www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out canoe Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...
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Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
June 24, 2025 marks 3 years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade. Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch was face of the law that led to that decusion. i wrote about her and other white Christian women who’ve destroyed abortion rights in U.S. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-...
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Essay: The White Women Who Destroyed Roe v Wade
The tag team of white Christian women who helped build a theocracy
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
An excellent article. “We do not need more reviews, cultural change programs or champions. We need leadership rooted in integrity, not reputation….We need leaders who are not only brave enough to listen, but brave enough to act.” womensagenda.com.au/latest/never...
We do not need more reviews, cultural change programs or champions.  We need leadership rooted in integrity, not reputation. We need systems that prioritise the safety of individuals over the protection of institutions. We need leaders who are not only brave enough to listen, but brave enough to act.

Exceptionalising or ‘fixing’ women is not the answer. Too often, the focus of reform lands on women themselves. How to make them more resilient, more ready, more able to thrive in an unchanged environment. This misdirected approach pathologises women instead of addressing the deep structural failures of the institution. It asks those already carrying the pack to grab more and add to the weight.
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Yes.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
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Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A bizarre runic carving in northern Ontario. Not medieval, but younger, 1800s, the Lord’s Prayer carved in bedrock, possibly by a Swedish worker of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and buried under inches of topsoil. Good article. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Mysterious carving found in northern Ontario wilderness | CBC News
Seven years after it was discovered in the northern Ontario bush near the town of Wawa, a carving in the bedrock remains an archaeological, mystery. But plans are in the works to develop it into a tou...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
June 15, 2025
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June 15, 2025
Yesterday began with the horrific news that a gunman had shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in what Minnesota governor Tim Walz said appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”...
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Final line: "The leadership of Trump and Netanyahu show in different ways that the extremist right wing populism poses a greater threat to democracy in the contemporary world now than modern versions of fascism."
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is cool
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Nine Stones Close, near Harthill in Derbyshire. #standingstonessunday
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Earl Noble @noble41.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
BREAKING: Adalyn Skinner, 8, missing on Random Island since yesterday afternoon has been found. The RCMP have confirmed that she has been located and is safe. NTV News will have more information as it becomes available. ntv.ca/missing-chil... #nltraffic @ntvnewsnl.bsky.social
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Missing child on Random Island has been found
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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thousands in Canada’s Manitoba ordered to evacuate in wildfire emergency There are more than 130 active wildfires across the country, half of which are considered out of control www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Canada wildfires: thousands in Manitoba ordered to evacuate as state of emergency declared
There are more than 130 active wildfires across the country, half of which are considered out of control
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'
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‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity
This paper presents the first diachronic analysis of the appropriation of archaeological themes in British far-right politics, focusing on the British National Party’s publication Identity from 200...
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Very sad news this week. Archaeologist Birgitta Wallace has passed away. I will miss her terribly. www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obitua...
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Birgitta Ferguson Obituary - Halifax, NS
Celebrate the life of Birgitta Ferguson, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of JA Snow Funeral Home.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We have the 1661 charter granted to the Royal Burgh of Kirkwall by King Charles II in 1661, the same year he became King. It still has his wax seal attached. This was written 364 years ago by people long gone, but these things still survive because we are lucky enough to have #Archives. ❤️
A large old handwritten document on vellum with a wax seal
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is what happens when you review a book about a horse burial. AI is great innit?
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Good morning. #nlwx
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Shannon Lewis-Simpson she/elle @smlewisimpson.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Mani-Pedi and Style for the girls today. All geriatrics, between 10-18 years old.
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