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@wisewillow.bsky.social
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She/her. Queer. Writing, appreciating the moment, doing way too much critical thinking about Jane Austen.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026
ended up talking to the 4th grader this morning about fascists, which can be hard to explain simply. i said fascists get mad the world isn't how they want, so they make up a story: things used to be good, but certain people ruined it, and if we just get rid of them everything will be good again
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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@shadowtodd.bsky.social loved the new SvS episode! Do you have any particular thoughts on Tales of Brave Ulysses? My brother had the Disraeli Gears album when I was a kid and for whatever reason I imprinted on that song *hard*
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@clairewillett.bsky.social my husband saw somebody on social media talking about sainthood via popular acclamation and how Dolly would totally qualify; as the resident Bluesky Catholic expert, thoughts?
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/08/2026
TL;DR: Missouri slashed state funding for the Imagination Library by $4 million, Indiana eliminated its $4 million matching funding, and Maine ended the program due to a lack of funding (Janet Mills, are you kidding me?) OTOH It costs Trump $13.1 million to fix the National Mall reflecting pool.
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🔜 NYCC - Drs. Smite & Evil, Inc. 🧬🦋🧪 @porgs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We don't need a Dolly biopic Instead, do an antiques roadshow documentary style show, except instead of people bringing in their antiques they bring in their stories of how Dolly Parton helped them
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I want to expand on this: Kidnappings are at an all-time high. ICE shifted recently from doing big showy raids, stops and checkpoints, to stuff like quietly taking individuals on their way to work at 5am, or while at appointments or running errands. [repost with less typos]
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
with alt-text (please alt-text your pics!)
sandwich board saying "IF 5-4 IS STAR WARS DAY CAN 9-25 BE DOLLY PARTON DAY?"
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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.
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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...
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Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It is also well worth reading Ebert's 1980 interview that inspired this reaction. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/d...
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Dolly Parton: Gee, she's really nice
Update, 2008: This 1980 interview is all quite true, but it entirely misses something. It must have happened at a different time, and I can't track down the
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 25/08/2026
Dolly 🥺😔🥀🕊️
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A Timeline of Dolly Parton’s Good Deeds
Dolly Parton is not only talented, but she's also charitable.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this thread is worth reading. my goodness.
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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I revere Dolly Parton much as I do Fred Rogers. They’re people who made it their life goal just to be gentle and kind to everyone that they met. They are prime examples of how we all should behave and live our lives.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 25/08/2026
NYC, if you, like me, are grieving Dolly and want to commit an act of service in her honor, might I suggest volunteering with Reading Partners? 💗 readingpartners.org/get-involved...
Our Programs
Our direct tutoring model includes high-impact, one-on-one tutoring for students in both in-person and online formats. 

Our volunteer-driven model engages community volunteers to support students in developing mastery of key reading skills. Volunteers are trained to implement our evidence-based curriculum rooted in the Science of Reading.

Our Powered by Reading Partners programs meet students where they are in the community. 

We provide community partners with engaging, high-quality educational materials and extensive training to implement effective literacy tutoring with students.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am eagerly waiting the updated ones for this year to be available so I can celebrate Dolly.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Interviewing Dolly Parton remains one of the highlights of my entire music journalism career. She truly was a rainbow in the dark ♥️ www.vice.com/en/article/e...
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Everyone Loves Dolly
At 70 years young, America's favorite working girl is still a rainbow in the dark.
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Dan | Commissions Open @danximenes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/07/2026
literally impeach him just for this
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.
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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
All the talk about Nolan's Odyssey reminded me of Wishbone and man, we do not talk about that show enough, everyone involved with that project deserves all the awards. A dog! Reenacting classic literature! In costume! With humans who act as if he is also human! Hook it into my veins oh my GOD
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Wishbone Knight
Alt: Close-up of a helmet from a suit of armor with a Jack Russell terrier popping his face out
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.
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Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's my view that those of us who don't usually need to worry about these things for ourselves have not just the right, but the *obligation* to loudly and aggressively insist upon these rights in situations involving CBP & related agencies.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/07/2026
I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms
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Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/07/2026
This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 19/07/2026
One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 18/07/2026
Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette
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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It's the last day of summer school and I've graded at least 300 (new!) assignments thus far; thank god for the @trungles.com Pride & Prejudice thread, if you're not following already you should!!! Pure joy 💕
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/07/2026
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/07/2026
I gotta sleep but everyone please take this moment as a prompt to check in with friends and make sure everyone is on the same page with your wishes: Do you want to be woken up when it happens or not?
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026
So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026
It is only when the crime is rape or sexual assault or harassment that suddenly, thinking people fail to understand that a woman's testimony is evidence. They say things like "there's no evidence!" Yes, there is. Her testimony is evidence.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/06/2026
I know the ratio on this is already ridiculous but I was still thinking about it when I got up this morning. We're not your resources. We're not your volunteers. You're the ones constantly asking for OUR money even though most of us have so little. We'll keep primarying anyone who doesn't get that
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Wisewillow (still 😷) @wisewillow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@krinsyn.bsky.social I was just re-watching Todd's Timothy video, and I thought I should let you know that your art still cracks me up every single time. The look on Joe's face when he decides to eat Timothy?!?!? 😳🤣😭 incredible, love your work
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...
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Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed
The Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering points in one direction only: Come 2028, Democrats have to declare a take-no-prisoners redistricting war on the GOP.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Once again: If we are to beat the Republican fascist movement, we all must view the Supreme Court as it is presently constituted to be completely illegitimate and all of its findings similarly illegitimate, and we should expect our elected leaders to hold the same view.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026
Vote for the baby y'all
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Mary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"“If you do not want us to share personal data or feel uncomfortable with the ways we use information in order to deliver our Services, please do not use the Services,” the policy states." But if it's the only mental health proided by your insurance... or the only one with openings <6 months out
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/04/2026
Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on
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