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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been gone long ago
What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know? - Neil Young, Ohio

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 12h

"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."

A benediction of a poem by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who left us two years ago today www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”

www.themarginalian.org

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 12h

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 13h

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 13h

slop of a slob

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 13h

"rolling skullduggery" - great word smithing

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 14h

If you’ve ever wondered whether quiet resistance still matters...this story will remind you why it does. The video got grounded...but something much bigger...took off.🔥👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 14h

hospice services can also be predatory. so despicable

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 15h

fuckin hell

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 15h

More reasons to like him. Thanks.

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Human Reform Politics @humanreform.bsky.social · 22h

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 23h

there is a transaction there somewhere

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 23h

What would going off the grid look like?

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not crying, you're crying ...

Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 1d

The best girl there ever was. A promise made is a promise kept...

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 23h

thanks for the update

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Simply Steph @simplysmay.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think most realize how much "they" have decimated women's support infrastructure and safety nets. Everything. From top to bottom. Fallout has started already, and hell yes, it's gonna get so much worse.

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

It is true that toxic masculinity is much worse now, strengthening the patriarchy and dismantling women's rights. Things will get much worse for women in the next few years as funding for women's shelters dries up, along with DEI, equal pay, reproductive rights, food security and health care.

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

What is he getting in return? Or from Qatar? or from Russia?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

petition the government for a redress of grievances as much as you can using nonviolent action

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

oh look out ...

NewsGuard @newsguard.bsky.social · 1d

This NewsGuard Academy video probes the growing phenomenon of websites that are produced entirely with AI. Learn how to spot the red flags and protect yourself from their AI slop.

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/how-to-spo...

How to Spot AI-Generated ‘Content Farms’

A viral false claim about Coca-Cola threatening to end its Super Bowl contract over Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s planned halftime performance originated on a site called “News 24/7,” Reality Check ...

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

@joshtpm.bsky.social has had an important insight about this the sovereignty of the statutes providing an alternative power center during this crisis, but you have to understand that the Bill of Rights provides an equally important backstop: the sovereignty of the People.

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

Life off the grid today. What would it look like?

maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

dismantling voter protection

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

It is true that toxic masculinity is much worse now, strengthening the patriarchy and dismantling women's rights. Things will get much worse for women in the next few years as funding for women's shelters dries up, along with DEI, equal pay, reproductive rights, food security and health care.

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maryklida.bsky.social @maryklida.bsky.social · 1d

Every time he tries to rewrite history, I go back and read my Howard Zinn books.

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