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j3ne17.bsky.social
@j3ne17.bsky.social
Lurker/learner/liker, she/her, unapologetic feminist, liberal, tree-hugger 🌳 library and national park explorer, pro-democracy!
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Do you remember Betty Reid Soskin? She was the oldest serving National Park Ranger in the United States, we celebrated her retirement at the age of 100.

Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025) passed away on Sunday, but she lived an extraordinary life.

“The answers are only temporary.”
— Betty
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Book bans are spreading. So is resistance.

TONIGHT: Join Carmen Alvarez to build your home library, and Erin Spivey, the librarian who sued against censorship AND WON, to learn how to fight government book bans.

RSVP: https://act.womensmarch.com/signup/rtroct28_censorship/
October 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sitting here with an advance copy of this and it is hard to imagine a more timely book!

I think this book from @akpress.org/edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social will save lives, and I encourage you all to preorder and nudge your local library about it. #BookSky

www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
July 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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March 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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New from me: A school district in Pennsylvania voted against adding a Black author's book about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre to the curriculum. Then, the community decided to do something about it.
A School District Rejected a Black Author’s Book About Tulsa for Its Curriculum. Then the Community Decided to Act.
Randi Pink, author of the young adult fiction novel “The Angel of Greenwood,” talked to ContrabandCamp about how residents of a Pittsburgh suburb rallied around her book.
www.contrabandcamp.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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These sites might be useful:

1. HealthMap – Real-time disease tracking system developed by Boston Children’s Hospital. (healthmap.org)
2. Global Incident Map – Displays disease outbreaks worldwide with alert notifications. (outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com)
March 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Dear Manager,

1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.
February 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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November 6, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥
February 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.

REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
February 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@deliciousalex.bsky.social uses her craft to, once again, expose what F47 has thrust upon our country by pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists.

Elect a criminal, expect crimes.
February 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM