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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · 28d

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'

Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

www.pbs.org

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · 29d

2/2
Hibiscus, rose, fig.
When we get to school you turn your still-freckled face upward to mine like a flower toward the sun and give me a hug.
I love you mama
I love you too sweet darling.
And off you go, penguin stuffy clutched tight, and you don’t look back.
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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · 29d

Thoughts after school drop off:

On this gorgeous late summer day, despite the ugliness in the world and the work- so much work- there is to do, I will choose to remember:
Walking to school hand in hand, pointing out the colorful fire hydrant, naming the trees and plants we walk by… 1/2

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Aug 3

www.huffpost.com/entry/opinio...

Opinion | Our Food Stamps Program Proves Trickle-Up Economics Works

And that’s why the GOP keeps cutting its funding.

www.huffpost.com

Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Aug 3

Food Stamps ADDS to the economy - cutting this program hurts everyone. See comment where I wrote about this during first term cuts

Food Stamp Cuts Could Deal a Blow to Small Grocers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Food Stamp Cuts Could Deal a Blow to Small Grocers

www.nytimes.com

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks so much! 🩵

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cfun.bsky.social @cfun.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you need to read an inspirational story about four women (and others) who resisted
fascism in Italy, I recommend Women of War by @suzannecope.bsky.social

A book cover titled: Women of War - The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought The Nazis
Suzanne Cope Author of Power Hungry
There is a photo of two women dark clothing resembling uniforms. One has a weapon on her lap and the other has a weapon slung over her shoulder with a cigarette in her left hand.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · Jul 3

On the left: Malliotakis giddily high fiving after voting to steal healthcare & food from her constituents while megasizing ICE.

On the right: how she “listens” to her constituents.

We cannot wait to vote this shameful ghoul out of office.

@indivisible.org @1199seiu.org

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Jul 3

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

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Elizabeth Marlowe @lizmarlowe.bsky.social · Jun 29

Horrifying, but NYT fails to mention the sculptor's ties to the KKK and also the desecration this monument represents to the Lakota Sioux at what had been a sacred site. These facts should be part of the conversation whenever we talk about this monument. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.) (Gift Article)

Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.

www.nytimes.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Primary everyone

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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · Jun 22

Shut the Senate down. Stop unanimously consenting. NOW.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 22

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Jun 23

@klerner.bsky.social thought this might be of interest! I appreciate your work on related topics!

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Rev Laura Everett @reveverett.com · Jun 19

I had a good chat recently with a friend who works in AI who also reminded me that AI results will get dumber over time, as more AI results are used to create more AI results.

It’s not just our brains being destroyed.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Jun 18

Amazing DIY political education bibliography here. Read, reflect, educate yourself and others (see original post for 🧵) Thank you @profsaunders.bsky.social

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Jun 18

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

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Emily Crockett @emilycrockett.bsky.social · Jun 16

Censure now

Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · Jun 16

www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-l...

'Truly Disgusting': GOP Senator Slammed For 'Depraved' Tweets After Shootings

Mike Lee of Utah is facing calls to resign over the messages.

www.huffpost.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Jun 14

I’m already hearing the #NoKings rallies across the country have surpassed expectations. The largest protest in American history. Incredible!

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · Jun 12

@npr.org interviewing DHS official: “let’s ground this in evidence”

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Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · May 30

Thanks to @suzannecope.bsky.social and Lizzie Wade for an enlightening week of podcasting.

Upcoming episodes:

6/3: John Kenney
6/10: @jesswalter.bsky.social
FMC 6/13: @jmjournalist.bsky.social
6/17: Ivy Pochoda

Subscribe and tune in: apple.co/3XMnpcc

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · Jun 1

Italy’s underground press was responsible for not only informing but galvanizing an ad hoc army and its supporters after more than 20 years under fascist oppression, @suzannecope.bsky.social‬ writes.

The Secret Newspapers That Helped Defeat Fascism

The women behind Italy’s underground press during World War II offer important lessons for democracies today.

foreignpolicy.com

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · May 30

In an article for Foreign Policy mag, adapted from my book Women of War, I wrote about the power of the independent press - & mentioned you all Bluesky-ers! Read here shorturl.at/pxY8j

The Secret Newspapers That Helped Defeat Fascism

The women behind Italy’s underground press during World War II offer important lessons for democracies today.

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Suzanne Cope @suzannecope.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks for having me! ❤️

Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · May 27

New episode!

@suzannecope.bsky.social chats with me about her book Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis.

Listen: www.writersbone.com/podcastsarch...

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