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Mar E Sel
@maresel.bsky.social
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Multimedia Artist, Mental Health Clinician, Wanderer, Finder of Things, Undoer of Knots. Mostly in New York, NY.
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Mar E Sel @maresel.bsky.social · Mar 11
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First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
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This is leadership and bravery.
gxldsociety.bsky.social Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jun 20
THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can.

ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.
June 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Grateful for music and art that reminds us, even after the news has gotten to be too much to bear.
Masters of War
Contemplating injustice, December 30, 2023
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April 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
“Living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead” is a gasp-worthy concept with far-reaching potential applications.
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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resistlist.bsky.social
They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere.

Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.
February 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The court found that Mr. Musk had personally, and unlawfully, overseen the dismantling of USAID. In a sternly worded order, Judge Chuang warned that any skirting of its requirements could result in his holding Mr. Musk or members of his team in contempt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
Elon Musk’s Role in Dismantling USAID Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds
It appears to be the first time a federal judge has acted to constrain Elon Musk, a top adviser to President Trump. The judge also ordered agency functions be partially restored, though that relief co...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
maresel.bsky.social
They’ve chosen strengthening their country against us, over their efforts to gain national independence.
Greenlanders Reject Trump’s Overtures at the Ballot Box — The Wall Street Journal
In a sign many in Greenland also want to wrest more power from Denmark, voters put a strongly pro-independence party second place for first time
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March 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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North Dakota has rejected a resolution to ask the Supreme Court to overturn same-gender marriages. Yes, North Dakota.

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North Dakota Senate rejects resolution asking US Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The North Dakota Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
maresel.bsky.social
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First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
YouTube video by Derek Sivers
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March 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
They removed the T and then they removed the Q and what letter are they coming for next?
alli.gay Allison Chapman (she/they) @alli.gay · Feb 13
UPDATE: The National Park Service have now removed “queer” and the “Q+” from the web page for stonewall, along with any mentions of transgender people.
Stonewall page on the National Park Service website: "By the time of Stonewall... we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500." Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
February 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...
Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake,  people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."  Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other  refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?
February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM