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Sondra Eklund

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Librarian. Writer. Book Reviewer. Math geek. Knitter. Progressive Christian. She/her. No DMs from strangers. More at https://sondraeklund.com

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Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com · Sep 3

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Barbara Rybolt @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 56m

#ProudBlue #Resist #ProtectTheDetainees

This is infuriating! Why are ICE prisoners dying? Why are they detained in #ForProfitPrisons - do GOP sycophants even notice they are killing people, separating families & hurting America on the world stage?
No one is safe here anymore!

rickinirvington.bsky.social @rickinirvington.bsky.social · 2h

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 2h

Last night, I received notification of the 19th death of a detained person in ICE custody since Trump took office.

ICE is detaining people, mostly in private, for-profit prisons that put profit over health. And now they have furloughed the safety inspectors. This is unacceptable.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 2h

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1h

Fascists: If you don't like America why don't you just leave?

Bray: Okay.

Fascists: Whoa, buddy. You don't get to critique fascism and then just leave.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. Continue reading...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The most common response I hear from Dems is, ‘what happened to her?’ What happened is she wanted to run for Senate, wanted Trump’s endorsement first, and Trump told her not to run because she couldn’t win. Since then, different Marge. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 18h

Hard to watch images from war ravaged Portland where capybara, frogs, unicorns and pink dinosaurs are dancing in the middle of the night outside the ICE facility.

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 1h

"The court is required to continue its constitutional functions"

US judges so far have rejected the Justice Department’s requests to delay more than a dozen legal challenges to Trump administration policies as the government shutdown enters its second week:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com · 56m

What worries me are the "members" of profa.

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 15h

The Republican Party is Profa

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 15h

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 15h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m Just a File (Classified Edition)”
Schoolhouse Rock parody by channelpoor

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 1d

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Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com · 14h

A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools, by Debbie Levy, shows that backlash against science and "protecting" teens from it is not a new idea. This book recovers all the drama of this media circus from 100 years ago.

www.sonderbooks.com/Teen_Nonfict...

Cover of A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight Over Science in Schools, by Debbie Levy. Cover looks like it's drawn on a blackboard, the words in white chalk. There's a picture of a snake coiled around an apple.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 16h

The Federal Aviation Administration warned of staffing shortages at airports in Nashville, Boston, Dallas, Chicago and Philadelphia and air traffic control centers in Atlanta, Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 16h

Call them!!
Vote them out!

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Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com · 1d

On the National Book Award Longlist, The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, by Derrick Barnes, is a contemporary tall tale about a 13-year-old Black sports star who cares about more than winning fame for his town, much to their disappointment.

Read my review:
www.sonderbooks.com/Childrens_Fi...

Cover of The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, by Derrick Barnes. Picture shows a black boy, front and center, wearing a sleeveless hoodie. There's sun shining behind him, spreading out from him like a halo, but on either side there are angry people lined up behind him holding signs.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 2d

Nope, Energy Sec'y Wright, offshore winds in fact blow in winter. 1st year of operational data from NY's South Fork Wind project shows a 47% capacity factor in the year ending June 2025, with performance highest in the winter. Coal's avg capacity factor: 42%.

Wright says it’s not windy in winter. Data says otherwise.

Stats from South Fork Wind's first year undermine the Energy secretary's assertions that offshore turbines don't operate well in the winter.

www.eenews.net

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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