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Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Just read @kylelukoff.bsky.social’s essay in “Banned Together” aloud to my teen. It’s excellent. Powerful plain language explanation of how banning books and banning the people in the books are inseparable, of how “small” issues of discrimination become enormous. #BookSky #BannedBooks #FreedomToRead

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway

More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.

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Alejandra Diaz Mattoni @alejandradmattoni.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Are We Losing Our Democracy?

Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.

www.nytimes.com

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 4d

We are open for submissions for our Poems for Protest anthology AND we are open for The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity

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Rough Diamond Poetry

This site is solely for poetry - poetry in any form and on any subject. We love it all!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10d

People are being disappeared off the streets.

Disability is at an all time high as healthcare is being cut.

40 million people won’t receive SNAP next month.

We have a food crisis, a housing crisis & an education crisis.

But Trump’s main priority is a ballroom.

Oligarchy.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 17d

Wanna see a murder happen live?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17d

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 18d

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

Screenshot of the article by Nicole Foy of ProPublica:
"When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned.

“If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.”

But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. One of those women had already had the door of her home blown off while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem watched.

About two dozen Americans have said they were held for more than a day without being able to phone lawyers or loved ones."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was barred from the British Museum’s Reading Room, the precursor to the British Library, after being convicted of gross indecency. But on Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 18d

We're open for subs for our new online issue RIGHT NOW

Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social · 19d

We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:

Barrelhouse Submission Manager

Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse! Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22d

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 27d

I'm going to keep saying "this is fascism" until this platform inevitably bans the word fascism, and then I'm going to leave

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Oct 2

“How beautiful cemeteries are…. Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.” Mariana Enriquez on burying Argentina’s disappeared.
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Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

Translation by Megan McDowell In the middle of August 2011, I received an email from my colleague and friend Marta Dillon. It was an invitation to the burial of Marta Taboada, her mother, who had b…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 24

Oh myyy!

A humorous X post by @PaulleyTicks featuring a photo of a worker in a hard hat and blue overalls kneeling inside an escalator filled with boxes labeled "Epstein Files." The caption reads, "Well, there's your problem..." suggesting a playful take on the idea of the escalator malfunctioning due to the weight of the files. The image is set in a public transit environment with an escalator and signage visible.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Sep 18

Today for Latine Heritage Month, I bring you 1-star reviews for The Devil Takes You Home! Anyway, I’m the first Puerto Rican to ever win a Stoker for novel. Same for the Shirley Jackson Award. That matters to me. A lot. Hate and racism can’t kill that, and they can’t stop me.

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Luis Ferré-Sadurní @luisferre7.bsky.social · Sep 18

NEW: 11 Democratic officials were arrested after showing up at 26 Federal Plaza and demanding access to the ICE holding cells on the 10th floor, refusing to leave.

Others were arrested outside after blocking the building exit during a sit-in protest.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

11 Elected Officials Arrested Trying to Access Cells at N.Y.C. ICE Facility

www.nytimes.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Sep 13

A defining characteristic of fascism, that you can find in any textbook on the subject, is picking a powerless minority to scapegoat to unify its base while distracting from the crimes of the government and its allies.

This comes to mind for no particular reason.

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DesertRose @desertrose1960.bsky.social · Sep 8

Which is against the Posse Commitatus Act of 1878. FUCK FASCISM!

@gloria🕊️🟧 @gloriaprosperi.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Sep 7

We're finishing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🎉 Contributors @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social will be discussing friendship and poetry with @notebookscltv.bsky.social Sept. 16th! 🙌 Get your free tickets to this virtual event here: buff.ly/tAs68NP

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · Aug 18

I hope you're ok today.
I hope you're safe and warm, and have plenty of books and tea.
I hope your fangs have tasted the dark fabric of life and your tentacles will one day spread across the cosmos.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Aug 12

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 19

Nicole Collier, a Texas representative, slept in the state's Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said in an interview.

Texas Rep. Nicole Collier Slept on the House Floor in Protest

Nicole Collier, a state representative, slept in the Capitol rather than agree to police surveillance imposed by Republicans after a Democratic walkout. “I am resisting,” she said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 16

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.

In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

Handwritten text on a notecard: My husbands ashes; I made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he's all still in his urn and if hes ok and I hope he's not in the dump

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Puff 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @puffyapple.bsky.social · Aug 16

Here's the alt text version of the article screenshot. Please share this and let's get National Guard in DC trending because this legit bad. #NationalGuard #DC #D.C

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
EXCLUSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY

National Guard Soldiers Prepare to Carry Weapons in Washington, D.C.

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn't be armed

By Vera Bergengruen, Lara Seligman, and Micah Maidenberg

Aug. 16, 2025 1:26 pm ET

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