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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · 9d

Celebrated spooky season, aka the most wonderful time of the year, with a Ghosts of the Boardwalk tour and a tour of haunted objects at the Paranormal Museum. 100% awesome. 🎃 👻
And, the beach! 🖤

Brown storefront with large window and the words The Paranormal Museum and Paranormal Books and Oddities painted in gold.

Brown storefront with large windows. The Paranormal Museum and Paranormal Books and Oddities painted in gold. A pair of red chairs in the foreground.

Beach at Asbury Park at sunset. Thin lines of pink and orange amid the blue sky, with a scattered clouds and a large section of sand.

Clear blue sky and an empty boardwalk, with a small stretch of beach in the background.

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · 18d

I got a pretty good pic of Independence Hall today.
No Kings Philly.

Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, against a cloudy sky and hazy sun.

A crowd of people in front of Independence Hall.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19d

Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.

The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

www.youtube.com

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · 25d

With a cup of tea, in a nest of blankets and pillows, watching Brokenwood Mysteries.

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 26d

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · 28d

Schuylkill

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Oct 5

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 29

8. Everything bad that happens is filtered through the lens of who they hate: Muslims, immigrants, trans people. But when the shooter fits the most common profile—cis men—the script changes. Concern only stretches as far as the color of the shooter’s skin, their religion, their gender identity.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Sep 26

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Sep 25

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 22

a close up of a man talking on a phone with yahoo written on his neck

ALT: a close up of a man talking on a phone with yahoo written on his neck

media.tenor.com

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 19

My democratic rep voted "yea". I just called her office to relay how disappointed I am.

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 17

We need to call out when hateful people spout hateful things, and that is especially true in cases of right-wingers spewing such vileness at a marginalized community.

Transgender people deserve to live as their authentic selves. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 17

1. Anti-trans rhetoric heated up yesterday on the far-right, with two congresspeople and major Republican figures calling for the institutionalization of trans people.

Both Reps Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson made such calls. Musk, Loomer, and Walsh echoed them.

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Two Republican Congresspeople Call For Institutionalization Of Transgender People

Representatives Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson both called for the institutionalization of transgender people On Tuesday.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 15

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 14

I love these chats!

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 10

Please can you and Heather make this the next topic of What the Heck Just Happened?

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 5

Love seeing it! Go Birds 🦅💚

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Sep 1

Love it! I'm using my Halloween coffee mugs today. So ready for autumn!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 27

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 26

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

The Nineteenth Amendment

Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · Aug 16

screenshot of text: "There is a difference between being surprised and shocked. Is it surprising that Trump’s stormtroopers are acting with impunity? The past nine months have taught us no, of course not. But is it shocking to see a man—someone’s family member, someone’s friend, someone’s neighbor—being brutalized by agents who are fully aware they’re being watched and recorded? Yes. And I hope it remains shocking. There can be no day when this is normal."

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Love and Rugby series will be leaving Kindle Unlimited on August 23rd! 🏉❤️

These MM romance stories are low to medium angst, high heat, and full of found family and friendships, following an inclusive rec league rugby team.

www.susanscottshelley.com/loveandrugby

#mmromance #lgtbromance

Book covers of Spiral, Spark, Smolder, Shine, Surprise, and Swoon over a dark gray background with orange and yellow circles.

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Game Winner, a MMM hockey romance between a quirky hockey goalie, a cinnamon roll drummer, and a shy hockey forward, is part of the multi-author The Games We Play minor league hockey series. Coming Nov. 12th.

Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

#HockeyRomance #MMRomance #SportsRomance

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Susan Scott Shelley @susanscottshelley.bsky.social · Aug 7

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. 🙂 Though, in my head, Scrooge is speaking in Michael Caine's voice from the Muppets version.

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