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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 28

@rbreich.bsky.social alert - from Jesse Dollemore:
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Stephen Miller Announces Plan to DESIGNATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!!!

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · Aug 24

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

ooh, that looks interesting!

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 23

Just finished Hunted ;-) and started Empire of AI. Love our local library!

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 19

Always. With family in Lithuania, I understand the stakes.
Slava Ukraini!

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Aug 12

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For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens.

And while these systems have helped reduce future damage, they remain largely unequipped to deal with the harm that has already occurred.

** The views expressed are author's.

Remedy frameworks can improve sustainable forestry certifications & right past wrongs (commentary)

For decades, environmental, social and governance systems have focused on stopping harm before it happens. Standards, certification schemes and corporate sustainability policies have all aimed to…

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Aug 10

The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats.

For World Lion Day on Aug. 10, Mongabay looks back at some of our coverage this year of the challenges that Panthera leo faces.

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats. It once ranged widely…

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Aug 10

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.…

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · Aug 4

#BelieveInYourself, attain #prosperity, and #dotheimpossible this week! #youcandoit ❤️

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

American, and right there with you.

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Aug 4

#YESquote: Hood Wellness/ Tamela Gordon - "There is no crystal strong enough to transmute the fluidity of #racism ...For those of us who exist w/in #marginalized #intersections, #wellness can never be in pursuit despite our identit[y] [but] must always prioritize it." #WellnessForAll bit.ly/4lZNZby

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Jul 26

Meiselas: And it's certainly not anti-Semitic to criticize what Netanyahu is doing...you can have basic humanity and speak out against atrocities that are happening in Gaza and watching people starve to death, and that does not make you antisemitic at all.

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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · Mar 5

"If you do not acknowledge your yearning, then you do not follow yourself, but go in foreign ways that others have indicated to you." #CarlJung

#SharedFacts #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you for sharing - however, the #LIVEdammit #CafePress shop has been taken down: CafePress is marketing shops that sell #AlligatorAlcatraz merch.
Looking for an #eco-conscious #ethical #printondemand platform for products that walk their talk! #WeWontProfitFromPain #HealTraumaDontCauseIt

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Maralyn Maralyn @maralynmaralyn.bsky.social · Jul 19

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

Keep Colbert on Air!

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...

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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · Jul 19

#WolffBites: Stephen Colbert got fired, CBS sold him and us out, billionaires and Trump won. But we long ago lost a free press. To be free, it would have to NOT be owned by billionaires.

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Cancelling Colbert, bribery, an $8bn deal: what’s going on at Paramount?

The fallout from the Trump payoff comes as a merger threatens the company’s integrity and A-list talent, such as Stephen Colbert, have already been sacrificed

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Jun 27

A great man, a great journalist, and a great patriot has died. #RestInPower. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Jun 12

The word "hatred" in the Bible means "lack of compassion," an apathy, coldness, abstractness that prevents love of neighbor or is indifferent to it. But the Western rationalist tradition has inculcated [abstraction] into our patterns of thinking & acting...[educating] us in hatred. bit.ly/4kxtIcG

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Jun 12

#GianluigiGugliermetto: We need to admit that evil is ruling, w/o ID'ing individuals dominated by evil...& w/o building for ourselves a world of pleasant lies. The sooner we find strategies for...stability at this time of chaos, the sooner we will be able to counteract chaos itself. bit.ly/443R7f4

Stability and Empathy - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Two days ago we read what Matthew’s niece wrote to him: “To me, liberty and justice for all has to mean that people get to live with dignity, hope, and with some kind of stability.” This is a good sum...

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · Jun 9

He's quite right that the individuals escalating the situation are criminals and insurrectionists: JAN6 insurrectionists.

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · May 28

Hey friends - So, PhilaWrites has been moonlighting as #LIVEdammit. Oops. Time to get our alt personalities straight: #MentalHealth + #YESquotes are headed to @livedammit.bsky.social. This feed will focus on ghostwriting, copywriting, & conscious business. Don’t miss out—follow both!

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · May 27

#YESquote: Burnout/Emily+Amelia Nagoski - "We’re not saying you should take 42% of your time to rest...if you don’t take the 42%, the 42% will take you. It will grab you by the face, shove you to the ground, put its foot on your chest, & declare itself the victor.” 20% off till 5/31! bit.ly/3FmStZY

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · May 26

#YESquote: But What Will People Say?: Navigating #MentalHealth, #Identity, Love, & #Family Btw #Cultures / Sahaj Kaur Kohli/"...We must have more conversations about how #communitycare is a form of individual #self-care and individual self-care is also a form of community care." bit.ly/44UhjuA

But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · May 25

Chief among the "mistakes": ignoring Muslim voters, not questioning election results when experts were petitioning her to do so, & certifying the election with multiple-multiple reasons not to do so. We are in our current crisis because of her action & inaction. Complicit, tainted, untrustworthy.

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PhilaHoopes @philawrites.bsky.social · May 25

If you could light up the world with a bookshop, what would it carry? What are the books you turn to for encouragement, empowerment, & wisdom in dark times? What are the books you always recommend to friends? What are the books that leaped off the shelf exactly when you needed them? bit.ly/4kle5Fd

LIVE, dammit! Bookshop

Welcome! We’re all wrestling with how to live fully in these times, seeking for sources of wisdom, joy, and hope. How best to live with purpose and meaning in chaos and uncertainty? How to maintain sa...

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