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Writer, editor, reader, baseball fan, jigsaw puzzle fan, #postcardstovoters activist, travel partner of #Quirk. BlueSky's least competent lurker. Avatar: A hand holding the stem of an Amazonian water lily

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SGS @sgswritereditor.bsky.social · Nov 11

This is #Quirk the duck. If you ever feel sad and don't want to feel sad, look at #Quirk.

Quirk, a small, stuffed, white toy duck with a yellow beak and yellow feet, sits on a couch upholstered in red jacquard and smiles back at you.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 12h

Republican members of congress should never know a moment of peace. Keep calling them if you're represented by them.

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 13h

Tarik Skubal is the first pitcher in postseason history with multiple 13+ strikeout games in a single postseason

Only others with two in a postseason career:

Bob Gibson
Gerrit Cole

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

Hope someone at @404media.co is talking to @heykellyjensen.bsky.social who has been covering the rising book censorship crisis for yeaaaars over at @bookriot.bsky.social

jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 1d

. @404media.co is investigating book bans. They could use your pointers on where to be looking. You can do it anonymously.

"We need help deciding... which school districts and cities to seek public records from and... where we should point our reporting efforts. "

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

🧵*10/10/2025 noncooperation thread*

A daily-ish thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, & defiance by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

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The folks planning these events (2,500 of them!) are defiant. On 10/18, we get to join them.

A movement is just a group of people moving.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 13h

wow another baseball game that rules.

would you look at that.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15h

Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.

Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 16h

My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

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Operator @operator1997.bsky.social · 14h

From 8 PM EST Oct 10 to 8 PM EST Oct 11, my 78th article, the Pompeiian fresco depicting "Sappho" will be on the front DYK tab on Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho_...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Bad Bunny should announce his Super Bowl show is called “arriba con gente.”

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Swing Blue Alliance @swingbluealliance.org · 15h

At TOMORROW’s Frontline Update, you’ll hear from Swing Blue leaders on canvassing, phone banking, and postcarding — and learn how grassroots action is making a difference right now. You’ll also meet the No Kings coalition organizers and prepare for the Oct 18 protest.

📆 Saturday 10/11, 10 AM

Swing Blue Alliance Frontline Update · Swing Blue Alliance

_Join us for our monthly 30-minute Frontline Update_ We've crafted a focused agenda covering key priorities and top campaigns to keep you aligned with our mission. Dive in for a high-level overview o...

www.mobilize.us

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SGS @sgswritereditor.bsky.social · 15h

#GoMariners, with a special shout-out to Jameson Turner, who is in attendance and wearing a "Dump 62 Here" shirt.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 17h

Attempting to “live with” (aka ignore) airborne viruses circulating at high levels *is a choice*.

We could do much better.

#MedSky

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SGS @sgswritereditor.bsky.social · Nov 11

This is #Quirk the duck. If you ever feel sad and don't want to feel sad, look at #Quirk.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21h

“he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are.”

Oof.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21h

Lewis cheerfully throws a bunch of period cues into a blender for Narnia, particularly in LWWW, and one of the things that goes into the mix is that the Witch has secret police who take people away to be detained indefinitely (by being turned to stone, it’s still a fairy tale).

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 22h

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 1d

October 10, 1967 - The United Nations Outer Space Treaty goers into effect. www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourw...

27 January 1967

The Treaty of Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and other Celestial Bodies, was signed by a number of Governments today in London, Moscow and Washington, capitals of the depositary Governments. The Treaty enters into force when ratified by five Governments, including those of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Mr. Dean Rusk (2nd from right), Secretary of State of the United States, signing the Treaty at a White House ceremony. At the table, right to left: President Lyndon B. Johnson of the United States; Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN; Sir Patrick Dean, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the UN; and USSR Ambassador to the United States Anatoly F. Dobrynin. ( Photo Credit - UN Photos - https://media.un.org/photo/en/asset/oun7/oun7420754

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 23h

The disdain that Republicans have for voters holding them accountable never ceases to amaze me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 17h

May we rage when we must and rest when we can.
May we build the peace we so desperately need.
May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires.

The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

Shabbat Shalom ❤️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Perhaps the likes of Chappelle, Ansari and CK felt there was less at stake because, by their own estimation, they have already suffered cancellation. Except that their exile from public life appears to include fresh Netflix specials and Grammy awards. Louis CK should count himself lucky; if he’d been caught with his dick in his hand in Najd, rather than Colorado, he may well have retained neither of those appendages (punitive limb amputation is an actual thing).

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 4d

/adds to lexicon/

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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