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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17d

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

www.nytimes.com

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Sep 21

Sundays read: Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Sep 12

Friday Read: What Have You Done? By Shari Lapena #booksky #books

Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friday Read: Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne #booksky #books

Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Sep 1

This weeks read: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune #booksky #books

Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sunday Read: The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Aug 29

Friday Read: The Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen Anthony #booksky #books

Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Aug 26

Weekly Read: The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sunday Read: She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena #booksky #books

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Aug 11

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?

Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.

www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

NPR: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sunday Read: The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield #booksky #books

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s insane that we live in a country where folks can walk around in the street with an AR-15.

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jul 27

Sunday Read: Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle #booksky #books

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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · Jul 24

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jul 14

Dear Andrew Cuomo,

New Yorkers rejected you in the primary. And now you’re pressing them again to pick you?

No means no.

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jul 14

This weeks’ read: Medgar & Myrlie by Joy-Ann Reid #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jul 12

Saturday Night read: Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jul 11

It was a good one. Took a couple of days for me to get into it, but I enjoyed it.

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jul 11

Friday Night read: Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jun 30

They act like health insurance is affordable and that it’s required that employers pay for it. Just because someone isn’t living below the poverty line, doesn’t mean they can actually afford health insurance.

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jun 29

This is a problem

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · Jun 27

Border Czar Tom Homan says that once Congress passes Trump's budget bill, he'll have more money than ever to carry out arrests and deportations: "You think we're arresting people now? You wait 'til we get the funding to do what we gotta do."

Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sunday (into the week) Read: Truth Be Told by Kathleen Barber #booksky #books

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 28

A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jun 28

Saturday read: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry #booksky #books

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Alison Hickey @alihickey.bsky.social · Jun 23

This weeks read: Her Perfect Twin by Sarah Bonner #booksky #books

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