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Reader. Writer. Gardener. Library worker. Living on Wabanaki land.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is honestly the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reminder that the administration's position, argued by DOJ in court, is that a president could demolish the Statue of Liberty or Washington monument by personal order, at any time, and no court would have any authority to intervene
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
That's how we ended up with the richest man on earth slaughtering hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children for the lulz: hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 17/08/2026
If preservation of books, especially printed books, is important to you, make sure your local library is FUNDED. Get a library card and use your local library; this also helps their funding.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I didn't take a picture of my #coffeewithhunter this morning but I was at a diner where a man fairly randomly gave me something pretty special. I ❤️ NY
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Well! This is a hard hitting morning read… The Zombification of America www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...
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Opinion | The Zombification of America
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Happy Caturday from Jack, and our equal opportunity black lab, Friday! #caturday #caturdayisforeverybuddy
70 lb. black lab and 7 lb. orange tiger cat sleeping on a dog bed in my office doorway
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Birding Fella 🐦🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...
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Save a Vital Refuge From a Trillionaire’s Takeover
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is home to some of the United States' most critically endangered species. But now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to hand over more than 7...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hey, does anyone with a subscription feel like chucking me a gift link? I'd like to read this and share it with the ukulele group at my library ...
Screen shot of an article from The Economist titled, "Is playing music good for the brain?"

( I think it is.)
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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Rutgers has played a key role in the OOI since inception-horrible to see such a fundamental monitoring system being demolished for no reason. Perhaps Congress might like to weigh in on the waste of money if we tear down something we already built? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Block this trash on sight and follow the REAL publishers of actual human creators instead. go.bsky.app/C2tf7oZ
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Jen Chaney @jenchaney.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
An excerpt from an NPR interview with Stephen Colbert, in which Colbert describes why he loves Elvis Costello's "Jump Up," performed tonight on the last Late Show.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
An excellent read, and a concise cautionary tale about the impact of AI. I foresee myself sharing this article A LOT.
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Welp, here I go. It's Candidate's Night in my small Maine town ... and I'm running for a seat on the Board of Selectmen. The election is next month. Please wish me luck! 🦞🇺🇸
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The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Breaking - Pope Leo on Friday picks formerly undocumented immigrant who was smuggled into the United States in a car trunk to be bishop of West Virginia Gift Article wapo.st/3RcUTj8
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Pope Leo picks formerly undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics
Pope Leo, who elevated Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala and the Rev. Robert Boxie III, has drawn a clear contrast with the Trump administration on immigration and the Iran war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
"From a legal standpoint, this indictment is crap. From a political standpoint, it’s an effort to avenge the KKK and enshrine white supremacy in America. Both should be dismissed with prejudice." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Trump DOJ will avenge the KKK by taking out SPLC
The racism is not subtle.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2026
In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2026
adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
State secretaries slammed President Donald Trump and Republicans’ sweeping anti-voting bill, the SAVE America Act, warning Thursday that it would set off chaos if it became law before the upcoming 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Like a bomb threat’: Election chiefs decry SAVE America Act, Trump’s attacks on voting
“It is unheard of for something this sweeping in scope to take effect immediately," one state secretary said.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building
Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trump’s face going up on outside of DOJ building
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat from New Mexico, and Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, introduced legislation Thursday that would ban so-called surveillance and surge pricing in grocery stores.“ Stop this now or the tech bros will enshitify the rest of your lives. Do not normalize this.
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Dems Want to Ban Surveillance Pricing at Big Grocery Stores
Is dynamic pricing the future of grocery stores?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.
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The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Would someone with a subscription please post a gift link??
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní @luisferre7.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
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New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Powerful, important commentary from the outstanding @cathywilcox.bsky.social. 😔 🎨 #EpsteinFiles #ChildAbuse #VAW #crime #USA
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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zulustudio @zulustudio.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We all believe in intellectual freedom, and the right to read what we want... don't we? Come together for a screening + community-driven conversation of @IndependentLens’ The Librarians on Saturday, February 14th. RSVP here: www.parsonsmemoriallibrary.com/.../the-libr... #IndieLensPBS
Flyer featuring the Indie Lens Pop-Up logo, a book with the line, "America's war on books is more than a war on words." showing and a library card in the background. Text reads: The Librarians; Parsons Memorial Library invites you to a free film screening; Feb 14, 2026 @ 1:30pm at Alfred Parish Church; Followed by refreshments, community conversation, engagement activities and give-aways! With QR code and Parsons Memorial Library logo.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This morning I wrote that DOJ’s ballot seizure in Georgia looks like a dry run for 2026. My advice and request: Sign up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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