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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An unidentifiable gynecological condition which causes excruciating pain. Sexual pleasure replaced by agony. Alternative health. Internal medicine. Vulvology. Biofeedback. Anti-depressants. Creams, ointments, numbing agents. A dead vagina. Sexual pressure. Sex life annihilation. #Booksky #Readthis

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Gender Equality. The tranforming force of education and self image. Breaking the rules. Barriers. Unpaid work. Control of one's sexual health and reproduction. Supporting disenfranchised communities by listening to their needs. Equal partnership. Lifting each other up. #booksky #books #readthis

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Cape Cod. Solitude spent in a Fo'Castle built by the sea. Sea birds. Marine life. The struggle to survive and the circle of life. Lighthouses. Coastguard patrols and rescues. Shipwrecks. Survivors and those swallowed by the sea. Classic American Nature Writing. #booksky #readthis #naturewriting

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Nantucket. Oppulence. A beloved restaurant bequeathed to three sisters by their grandmother. A regular who anonymously spreads her wealth to locals in need. Good food, friendship, holiday cheer, and lots of wine. A love triangle. A jilted wife, who finds love, again. #Booksky #libraryjunkie

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Jimbocho, Japan, a historical town of bookstores. A jilted lover. Reconnecting with an uncle who ultimately saves her life. An enchanting city street with loveable characters. A weekend trip in the mountains to visit a temple. Love and redemption. #booksky #booklife #readthis #satoshiyagisawa

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Need to travel, but your budget won't allow it? Europe. Notre-Dame. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Switzerland. Vienna. Yugoslavia. The Danube. Belgium. Norway. Milan. Austria. Bill Bryson revisits picturesque Europe. Have Google Maps ready to tag along! #booksky #billbryson #neitherherenorthere

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Key West. Shipwrecks. Old money. An Author. A mysterious death. Pirates. Treasure. Robbery at sea. Love. Greed. A greenhouse full of orchids. Phyllis A. Whitney was known for her extensive research. I felt like I was in Key West. Find this book! #booksky #phyllisawhitney #dreamoforchids

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Unrequited love. A mistress. A garden. Losing everything and starting all over, again. Middle-Age crisis. Regrets. Grace. Forgiveness. Quirky, loveable characters. Couldn't put it down! Read it. #booksky #elizabethbuchanan #revengeofthemiddleagedwoman

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.

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Hope @lettepaul.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This 🤨 MAGAts are in a cult and their extreme devotion to the cult leader has blinded them to truth and to reality.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

No matter what RFK Jr says, I will oppose amputations anesthetized with whiskey, bloodletting and surgeries performed by candlelight. I am not nostalgic about the illiterate Middle Ages.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a great piece.

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Aallyah Wright @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The Smith family owns 600 acres of land, which has been passed down since the 1920s. A superior court judge recently ruled that a railroad company could seize their property. They are now appealing the decision to the Georgia Supreme Court. capitalbnews.org/georgia-fami...

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This Black Family Won’t Back Down After Court Allows Railroad to Take Their Land

After a judge ruled that a railroad could take their land, landowners in Sparta, Georgia, are appealing the decision to the state’s Supreme Court.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"This was more than just a rap performance; it was a critique of American culture...with the symbolism of the perils of the inner city...decrying the results of racial profiling...[and] alluding to reparations." - Jason Jones on Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show

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Kendrick Lamar entertained, sprinkled symbolism during 13-minute Super Bowl performance

Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show featured Kendrick Lamar mixing thinking points with entertainment.

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Picked up my library hold. I'm going in, cover me! #Books #Booksky #Blacksky

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Vivi @vivisamuels.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"You cannot be great without the greatness of others."

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Hope @lettepaul.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And 🤨 I’m going to repost everyday your Jan6 video of the insurrection that racist lying convicted felon planned for months then incited that MAGA mob that morning to attack our nation’s capitol.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-…

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

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Aallyah Wright @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The dock tragedy on Sapelo Island forces the Gullah Geechee community into a state of alert, as they face displacement, neglect, & rising property taxes. Yet, the descendants remain resilient, as they continue to fight to protect their culture, heritage and land. capitalbnews.org/sapelo-islan...

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The Battle for Land, Identity, and Survival of Gullah Geechee Communities

Four months after a dock tragedy, residents on Sapelo Island continue their legal fights to protect their homeland.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As a former federal prosecutor who worked for the Justice Department for 25 years, I cannot fully express how outrageous and corrupt it is to amass a list of every person who worked on a case, with an eye to firing them because the president didn't like the case. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

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FBI turns over names of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue | CNN Politics

FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with a list of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Intuit, the owner of Turbotax, is against Americans being able to do for free what Turbotax can charge them for. Intuit made a $1,000,000 contribution to the 2025 Trump Inaugural Committee. Trump and Musk don't care about helping Americans, it's all about helping themselves--preferably to money.

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The Girl Who Can't Stop Reading 📚 @cheriieephii.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I had to read this real slow, twice.

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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. Read diverse books every month. #BookSky #BlackBookSky

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Hope @lettepaul.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

LOVE THIS 🤗

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ronald E. McNair: Father, Husband, Physicist, NASA Astronaut, Pioneer in the Field of Lasers (SO COOL). We tragically lost him in the tragedy of the 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle. He was selected to become part of NASA group 8, the first class that included both women and minorities. 🧵 1/4

A smiling Ronald E. McNair holds his son, they both wear NASA uniforms

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately reassured Republican lawmakers Monday that Elon Musk and his team do not have control over a sensitive government system that manages the flow of trillions of dollars in payments, according to five lawmakers in the room for a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, rejected the idea that Musk allies’ access to the payments system was as limited as Republicans and the administration are claiming.

“Why on earth should we believe that, particularly when he is saying the exact opposite, loudly and repeatedly for everyone to see?” Murray said.

Musk in recent days has said on X that his DOGE team was “rapidly shutting down” payments to Lutheran charities that provide refugee services. Musk also suggested — without offering any evidence — that career Treasury officials were breaking the law in approving some payments and had approved payments to known fraudulent organizations and terrorist groups.

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David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

1/ Chester Himes wrote poignantly about African Americans’ migration to Pacific Coast port cities in search of shipyard work in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Besides his novel, If He Hollers, Let Him Go, he wrote a short story entitled “The Song Says ‘Keep on Smiling.’” books.google.com/books?id=F1s...

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Happy Black History Month to all my friends in the federal government. Learn about Civil War hero and politician Robert Smalls www.nps.gov/people/rober...

Robert Smalls was born in 1839, enslaved by a local planter in Beaufort, South Carolina. By the time he was 23 years old, Smalls had won freedom for himself and his family, and was a famous war hero. He became a prominent leader in the community during the Reconstruction era, including service in both the state and national legislature. His story illustrates the transformative potential of Reconstruction throughout the southern United States.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

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