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Oliviaaaah

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She/her | librarian by training, current corporate legal researcher by financial necessity | 🪐📚 | U.P.➡️Chicago➡️Milwaukee Fund Libraries! Hire Librarians! Hire me?

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Arizona Luminaria @azluminaria.org · 11h
Protesters had protected the tree for more than 70 days. It was cut down Monday to make way for a double border wall
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Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ Luminaria
Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after pro...
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 6h
I've been so sad about this all day.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 12h
What is the best October album and why is it Hounds of Love
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court's term. My yearly print preview of all the things the Republicans will take away from us this time, is now avaialble on Al Gore's Internet in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The People vs. the Supreme Court
This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 16h
Oh Alito, you are so loathsome. Fuck all the way off.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 16h
First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
jail
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of the dogs let out a long and soft awoooo in her sleep last night and it was so freaking cute y'all.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The wall has been stopped, albeit perhaps not forever, in Texas. It's also been stopped for months in Arizona. But over here in Ca our sacred and wild spaces are being desecrated and our politicians are doing the square root of fuck all. That doesn't mean we have to wait for them.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Goofert approves this message.
A handsome black dog sunbathes on a grey platform bed.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Salah Sarsour is a legal resident of the United States, has lived here more than 30 years, and is a pillar of the Milwaukee community. Yet he is being threatened for deportation for no apparent reason other than his advocacy on behalf of Palestinian rights. www.wpr.org/news/salah-s...
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Judge rules leader of Wisconsin's largest mosque can be deported
An immigration judge has ruled that the leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque can be deported, his legal team announced Wednesday.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thinking this morning, for obvious reasons, about Anthony Boyd, who was tortured to death by the State of Alabama just over a year ago.
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After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history.
Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Absolutely wild to me that there are SEVEN Catholics on the Supreme Court (I'm counting Gorsuch—the Church would) and six of them cosigned this. (Of course, I don't think their faith should come into play in decisions but THEY make it matter all the damn time)
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fucking barbaric. If I didn't already oppose the death penalty on grounds there is no way to make the process equitable and error-free, I would oppose it on grounds of it being state-backed torture.
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Uhh pretty mad no one in my MLIS program told me that Vampire Librarian was an option 🩸🧛📚
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Cathrine Schmid @schmidcathrine.us · 28/09/2026
I know that UBI wouldn't solve *all* of our problems, but it seems like a good solution at least to this AI bullshit would be for the folks in charge to be like "ok yeah we did steal all of everyone's ideas for all time, here's your cut"
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every single person involved in this administration needs to be exiled (at best) from public life.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.
A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.
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🇺🇸**°•.𝐅𝐀𝐅𝐎.•°**🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “We’re putting kids in detention centers where they have water that makes them sick and they’re being traumatized and the pediatricians I’m talking to are saying they’re being tortured. We’re torturing kids 0-3 when their brain’s rapidly developing. It’s a choice”
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cool cool cool. Brb, going to go slide more of my 401K out of the US market.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My scarlet runner beans have been flowering for months. Last year I tried letting the beans dry on the trellis (which = providimg winter forage for my local squirrels) and I hope to actually harvest some beans this year but even if I didn't I would keep planting them. So pretty 🌱
A huge mass of runner beans absolutely dominate a trellis, a flush of red flowers pops out here and there.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New climate denialism is a really accurate way to describe it. Being aware we're at the point of no return, pretending to care, and then doing the exact opposite to appease the oil and gas lobby
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have been monitoring/capturing someone's socials and website for over a year and I gotta say I fucking love her and want everything for her and I hope our client loses 💅 I so wish I could say more.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thinking about PKD's short story "Pay for the Printer" several times a week these days.
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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest blog post about Cree geographic knowledge in 17th-century cartography is now live with the British Library’s blog, focusing on some research that I completed this summer at the library as a 2026 Eccles Fellow. www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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Charting Indigenous lands and waterways
Cree geographical knowledge at the British Library and the early cartography of the Hudson Bay watershed.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I saw this yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3M Gallon Spill After the largest oil & gas spill in WI history, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations. Article at our site.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Love getting the $400 bill for my urgent care visit from when I had food poisoning where: -they ran a bunch of tests, including a $54 pregnancy test despite my telling the intake nurse I'm in a monogamous marriage and my husband has a vasectomy
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Damn, didn't realize the gender pay gap applies to sexual scandal payoffs.
Among the most prominent allegations are that Boebert conducted a four-year "romantic and sexual relationship" with a senior female staffer, named as Clarice Navarro Ratzlaff, then paid her $200,000 when Ratzlaff broke off the affair and threatened to file an ethics complaint of her own.

Additionally, Wheeler alleges, Boebert had a sexual relationships around the same time with Raven Finegan, a congressional employee and the congresswoman's district chief of staff, and Jeffrey Small, who was her chief of staff from 2021 to 2025.

The complaint includes detailed financial records of Boebert's congressional spending, and payments to staff that included more than $450,000 to Finegan to June 2026, and almost $780,000 to Small. Ratzlaff received more than $461,000.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a variety of wanton disregard for the lives of others that I see, in varying degrees, every day on the road. Reckless driving is one manifestation of a social sickness that I think many of us recognize and don't know what to do about.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh no, AI images have infiltrated the work intranet internal news feed 👎👎
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alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hell simply isn’t hot enough
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just stopped by my childhood donut shop, a local business, and learned that one of the local real estate barons is *building a fucking Dunkin Donuts literally next door* Not down the street, not in the same part of town, directly adjacent to the only donut shop in town. Fucking bastards.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser
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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*bangs pots and pans* NEW SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGING JOB JUST DROPPED (and it's at the University of Rochester, which is pretty great) rochester.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UR_Sta...
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Special Collections Metadata Librarian
As a community, the University of Rochester is defined by a deep commitment to Meliora - Ever Better. Embedded in that ideal are the values we share: equity, leadership, integrity, openness, respect, ...
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My nephew was at the Phoebe Bridgers show in Chicago and they sequestered their phones and he fucking loved it. The youths yearn to be freed of their devices.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Oliviaaaah @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Asters popping off
Violet and white asters in bloom.A bee hangs upside down from a water flower.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this
TOLKIEN Vs. LEWIS: ALLEGORIES


TOLKIEN 

PROFESSOR TOLKIEN! IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WROTE YOUR NOVELS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE
FIRST WORLD WAR? 

NO. NEVER. ASK ME THAT AGAIN AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE.

LEWIS 

IF EVEN ONE PERSON READING THIS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIG LION IS JESUS, I WILL SET MYSELF
ON FIRE.

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