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NPR @npr.org · 27/07/2025
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities. Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 22/01/2025
if they’re closing planned parenthoods in fucking illinois and you think people deserve reproductive freedom, local and regional abortion funds are going to need your help you help pregnant people.
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Planned Parenthood of Illinois Will Close 4 Clinics That Offered Medication Abortion
The affiliate said the influx of patients traveling to the state post-Dobbs and more patients needing financial assistance contributed to the decision.
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Tess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?
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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/01/2025
There’s no reason to fill in the space around the future autocrat with our own obedience before it’s even demanded. Let’s decorate it with resistance instead.
truthout.org
Our Fight Against Trumpism Must Center Respect for Human Dignity
We must do this work collectively in organized ways, but we can also do it individually in small ways.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We will never have free speech OR safety for marginalized people on platforms owned and controlled by billionaires & monopolists. My cranky ass opinion is we should spend less time worrying about what Zuck says and more time building a movement to dismantle Big Tech & build the Internet we need
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/01/2025
If you work at Meta and support LGBTQ+ people no you don't.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A right-wing think tank that helped draft Project 2025 plans to target volunteer editors on Wikipedia with malicious tracking links who it alleges are "abusing their position." The right hates Wikipedia because they can't be bullied like Musk and Zuck. www.rawstory.com/heritage-fou...
rawstory.com
Right-wing think tank plans to target Wikipedia editors via malicious links: report
A right-wing think tank that helped draft Project 2025 plans to target volunteer editors on Wikipedia with malicious tracking links who it alleges are "abusing their position" by publishing antisemiti...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Reskeet this until it breaks. Then reskeet it again. We need to flood Congress with phone calls TODAY to make sure they don't slip the dangerous and misguided Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into a must-pass year end bill. This bill would make kids LESS safe and threatens LGBTQ ppl & human rights.
fightforthefuture.org
Stop KOSA Sneak Attack
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Quite a weird timeline we’re experiencing, isn’t it?
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
just wanna retire and go live in some quaint seaside town with my cat where i run a little bookstore that sells magical potions and spells that turn idiots into frogs and maybe help solve a local murder every now and then.
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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
we are aware of the situation
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Talk to me about how chronic pain has affected your politics and political life.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, for real this time.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
happy "unearthing the bizarre politics of the shooter" day to all who celebrate the great American tradition
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/12/2024
Every conservative columnist right now.
The image features a cropped screenshot of an article headline, authored by Alice Thomson, titled "Don’t replace the culture war with class war." Below the headline, a crying man meme is superimposed with text saying:

"Bro please don’t worry about why you pay more in taxes than billionaires. Worry about the War on Christmas & The Trans Agenda. Please bro. Stay distracted bro."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/12/2024
This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
CNN convened a panel of transgender youth to get their thoughts on the Supreme Court and the 2024 election. 10-year-old Violet: "My self is not an opinion. It is a fact."
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/12/2024
Oh fun, time to block @jessesingal.com
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The CEO of an amoral health insurance company has been assassinated, leading to celebrations from an angry populace, moral debates, and a citywide manhunt. Critics are calling it "preachy Oscar bait that wades into heady topics without much to say about them". 49% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Mood. Cross-stitch embroidery by @wendyenthomas.bsky.social
Copyright @wendyenthomas - cross stitch saying “This too shall pass but like holy fuck”
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I am weeping
"Some children suffer incredibly with
gender dysphoria, don't they?" Justice
Sonia Sotomayor asked Solicitor
General Elizabeth B. Prelogar


L.W. raised her hand, too low for
anyone but her parents to see. In her
preteen years, before she told her
family she was trans, she felt as if she
were underwater. She looked around
and everyone else seemed to be a fish.
They knew how to swim, how to
breathe, but she did not. Every day,
she felt like she was drowning


She never felt like that anymore
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
galaxies are so beautiful 🌌
A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust.A spiral galaxy, seen face-on to the viewer. The bright center of the galaxy is crossed by a glowing bar, and it is surrounded by tightly wound spiral arms, forming a circular shape with relatively clear edges. Faraway galaxies are visible around it, along with a few bright stars, on a dark background. One star to the right of the galaxy is very large and extremely bright with long diffraction spikes.Slightly oblique view of a spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow central core and two spiral arms that wind clockwise from the center. The arms consist of dark reddish-brown dust trails that are vein-like and hazy clouds of blue stars. The outer regions of the galaxy appear bluer, with bright clusters of blue stars sparsely lining the outer edges of the spiral arms. There are a few foreground stars that have bright white or blue cores with colorful fuzzy halos and four diffraction spikes radiating from their centers.  Scattered across the dark background are thousands of faint objects that vary in size, shape, and color. Most appear as small dots, ovals, or lines in different shades of orange, red, and blue.A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Yes very much so. It’s why I get angry at posts like that one from earlier saying “No one was toxic towards DS9”. Nostalgia erases the struggles of the past, its traumas, and fascism says the pain you feel now can be fixed by returning to the (oft prejudicial institutionalized) norms of the past.
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Spotify: March was your Francophile Cowgirl Crush Punk phase Me: Uh huh that’s right Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment Me: I recall that, yes
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/12/2024
Reporting from the Supreme Court on transgender rights in the Skrimetti case and I feel the weight of the moment. I will report from the court throughout the day when I am allowed my phone. Thank you all for putting me in a place where I can do this work for you.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
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Loz ⚔️ @lozzagilbert.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Can we stop making live action remakes of everything and start making muppet remakes of every film and musical
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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I love the Charlie Brown Christmas special. There's an eerie loneliness that hangs over the whole thing. The music, Charlie Brown's depression, the dying little tree, the flatness of the children's voices, the inevitability of death. A Christmas masterpiece.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The main difference between Wicked the stage musical and Wicked the movie is that in the stage musical it’s obvious that Glinda is a lesbian and Elphaba is a bisexual woman. In the movie it’s the other way around
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/11/2024
1. News broke last night that Trump could be considering a Day One transgender military ban, potentially discharging 15k troops. SPARTA, the leading trans military advocacy org, says that decision could cost $18b, in an exclusive interview. Subscribe to support my journalism. Read the full story:
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Trans Ban Could Cost $18 Billion, According To Trans Military Organization
A potential trans military ban could cost the United States $18 billion in accumulated operational investment, with $1 billion in initial replacement costs.
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EliasJMcClellan @eliasjmcclellan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#WriterWednesday library-love moment.
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Brianna Aurelia 💙🌈♾🧡🤍🩷 @briannaaurelia.com · 20/11/2024
What I Support LGBTQIA+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ BLM 🖤 Free Palestine ☮︎ Indigenous People 🫶 Women’s Rights 💖 Pro-Choice ❤️‍🔥 Gender Identity 🤍 Mental Health Awareness 🎗 Autism Awareness ♾ Disability Awareness 🏥
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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Did your parents control what you read as a child/teen? Mine did not, and my life was not ruined. I grew up to be an academic librarian.
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Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com · 20/11/2024
Let’s band together for books, shall we?
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Leeja Miller @leejamiller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
House republicans instate bathroom ban to target first openly trans rep Sarah McBride, who of course handles it with grace and dignity even though it’s bs she shouldn’t have to deal with in her workplace thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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McBride says she will ‘follow the rules’ of House bathroom ban
Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), set to be the nation’s first openly transgender member of Congress when she takes office in January, said she will comply with a policy instituted Wednesday by Sp…
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Some lists of bad actors to block (click subscribe, then select block). Didn't create these, but I block 'em all! Up to you how you want to handle! MAGA Right Wing Propaganda Far right NFT/AI/Crypto More NFT/AI/Crypto British Bigots Nazis Content Scrapers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter/X. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Taking my Dune worm popcorn bucket into the Wicked screening and telling everyone it’s in the movie
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
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World of Engineering @engineers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Life tip: when someone has headphones in, they’re not looking for a conversation.
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