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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I just heard Netanyahu say “There is no starvation in Gaza.” He is straight up lying. He has lost all credibility when he claims that his government’s official policy is just to destroy Hamas, not to wipe out the Palestinians as an ethnic group. Total bullshit. This is GENOCIDE pure and simple.
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Anti-autocracy Handbook: pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Amber Nicole Thurman and her son at the beach
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margauxaf @margauxaf.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A vital new report that you must read: 19thnews.org/2025/06/hagu...
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Nowhere in the world to run: The international law ripping children from their mothers
The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it's often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 10/06/2025
Morning friends. It's Tuesday. Day 3 of full-on fascism in the streets of Los Angeles. Definitely coming to your town way sooner than later. I have not a single whitty, funny quip for today. I did find inspiration, though. Doecii at the BET awards. #SheShed #LA #ICERaids
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
June 8, 2025
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June 8, 2025
Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/05/2025
Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.
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Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case
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Politico @politico.com · 14/05/2025
AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts.
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AOC’s 3 a.m. comment over miscarriages sparks fiery exchange with GOP male counterparts
Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are engaging in a highly emotional debate over the future of Medicaid.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 14/05/2025
AOC shuts down GOP outrage—calling out their arrogance, their condescension. “I will not yield to disrespectful men.” No apologies. No deference. Just straight fire. And they couldn’t handle it.💥🔥🔥
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
No one gives someone a $400 million dollar jet for free without expecting anything in return. Be serious.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump's stupidity has power so you can always feel the danger of that stupidity youtu.be/ypky5SEoEJQ?...
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: 

Trump: "I don't know."
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Out now: "My Russia," by the fabulous @jilldougherty.bsky.social who has spent the better part of a half century studying and reporting on Russia and understands it better than almost any other American. politics-prose.com/search?q=Jil... www.amazon.com/My-Russia-Wh...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921, the painter's connection to the natural world is always apparent in her work #WomensArt
Stylised painting of a lakeside with hills and woodland area perfectly reflected in still lake water
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Louise Bourgeois, from her fabric book 'Ode a l’Oubli', 2004 #WomensArt
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EMILYs List @emilyslist.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
On Wednesday, House Republicans voted to give up their power to stop the devastating impacts of Trump’s on-again-off-again global tariffs. Republicans will never stand up to Trump. We’ll be replacing them with women who will. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2025
As markets melt down around the world, Congress could act right now to prevent an economic collapse before markets open on Monday. The only thing standing in the way is a few spineless Republicans.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Contemporary English painter Emma Haworth, known for her parks and semi urban landscapes with an added hint of magic #womensart #Spring
Painting of a park scene in sunlight with tall trees in new vivid green leaves, light green grass coveted in tree shadows and people sitting with picnics underneath
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
April 4, 2025
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April 4, 2025
The stock market rout continued today.
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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An Unsung Heroine of the Suffragists Can Show Us How to Deal With Failure
I recently spoke with students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Women’s Association at their annual Carrie B. Kilgore dinner—a gathering of budding lawyers and their professors united in h...
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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ERA Congressional Resolution Introduced on Equal Pay Day
An Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) congressional resolution was introduced around Equal Pay Day, March 25, to highlight economic gender discrimination and show why constitutional equality is needed now m...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/04/2025
Amy Coney Barrett's writings on the court give the impression of a law professor turned judge who is often exasperated by her fellow conservatives’ shoddy reasoning and corner-cutting.
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Amy Coney Barrett Isn’t What the Conservative Legal Movement Expected
The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/04/2025
Senate Democrats are launching a War Room to protect Social Security. Join us as we fight back.
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Senators Warren and Wyden Host Social Security War Room Press Conference
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William Henry Seward wrote an astonishing letter to President Abraham Lincoln.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 01/04/2025
The ruling — one of the first to explicitly address abortion-related travel — is a significant victory for abortion providers and supporters.
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Alabama can’t prosecute groups helping people travel out of state for abortions
The ruling — one of the first to explicitly address abortion-related travel — is a significant victory for abortion providers and supporters.
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 01/04/2025
EU brandishes ‘strong plan’ to retaliate against US tariffs
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EU brandishes ‘strong plan’ to retaliate against US tariffs
Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels could hit Big Tech services exports
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hi folks: Facebook appears to be taking down my posts. Please remember they are available for free here (no paywall), and can be received by email (also free-- just don't put in your credit card information). I guess if I'm being banned I'm doing something right?
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy
As the Trump administration’s attacks on women’s rights, reproductive access and LGBTQ equality continue in force, state executive leaders have emerged as potent frontline responders. Among the tools ...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We will not be distracted. We will not be discouraged. We’ve got our eyes on the prize. And we will build the prosperous, free nation for all that we deserve. The time to organize is now. OcasioCortez.com
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and screams.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart
Photo of a brown willow sculpture of a female archer holding a bow as if about to release an arrow, with hair tied back and in a long flowing skirt, the sculpture is on a path in a green woodland setting
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pippa Dyrlaga is a paper cutting artist and print maker based in England #womensart
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Trump administration removed some important web pages from the CDC website. At Planned Parenthood, we believe that all people should have access to the sexual and reproductive health care information they need. That’s why we’re posting these resources from the CDC here: p.ppfa.org/CDC-pages
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For Health Professionals
At Planned Parenthood, we believe that all people should have access to the sexual and reproductive health information they need.
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EMILYs List @emilyslist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Equal Pay Day isn't just about awareness — it’s about demanding action from those who continue to stand in the way of equality. While Republicans continue to prioritize tax relief for billionaires, it's vital that we continue to fight for pay equity for women across the country.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fine Feathers, 1939 by Laura Knight, portrait of Lilo Smith, who invited the artist to visit her Romany community on the common in Iver, Buckinghamshire, England #WomensArt
Painted portrait featuring a sitting white woman facing forwards in a hat with large feathers, a shawl and apron, with hands together resting on her lap, against a vertically striped background
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Sparkling Wizzle @liberalbadger97.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I absolutely love this new trend at town halls of speaking up and getting loud! 📣📣📣📣
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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It’s Time to Take Action—Even Though It Feels Dangerous
“Action is the antidote to despair.'I find this statement by the legendary activist/songwriter, Joan Baez, to be particularly relevant and inspiring in this time when it’s so easy to fall into despair...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/03/2025
Elon Musk called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," and wants to fire thousands of workers that keep the program running. That might be easy for a billionaire to say, but Social Security is a lifeline for millions of Americans. We must fight to protect it.
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DOGE wrecking ball could threaten Social Security for seniors
Nearly 90% of Americans older than 65 rely on Social Security.
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Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... Justices take an oath. Not to who nominated them to court OR to a POTUS. Their oath is to the Rule of Law.
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Justice Sotomayor defends courts amid criticism from Trump and his allies
At the same time, the liberal justice conceded the limits of the courts' "soft power," which relies upon persuading people that rulings are based on reasoned applications of the law.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 17/03/2025
A Houston-area midwife has been arrested on allegations she performed illegal abortions, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total abortion ban. From The Texas Tribune: bit.ly/41xFETK
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Houston-area midwife arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions
This represents the first criminal charges under Texas’ near-total abortion ban.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/03/2025
The Constitution is clear: the President can't arrest people he disagrees with. By detaining Mahmoud Khalil — a legal permanent resident whose American wife is 8-months pregnant — Donald Trump seeks to undermine basic freedoms. We must oppose this move toward authoritarianism.
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