AJ Biel
@aj-biel.bsky.social
Midwesterner. Book-lover, bicycle rider, big fan of democracy. Blue is my favorite color.
My dog is judging you.
My dog is judging you.
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How did people in the past defeat fascism? does anyone know
May 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
How did people in the past defeat fascism? does anyone know
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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
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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
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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Some thoughts on marketing.
February 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Some thoughts on marketing.
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MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
February 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
@mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏
Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
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Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
January 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
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We recently ran the piece concerning coyotes & some of the responses were unbelievable. The psychopathic hatred of wildlife is so ingrained in some of these messages I wonder if the people making them realize what they sound like.
Trophy Hunting, the Pastime of Psychopaths
phys.org/news/2022-02...
Trophy Hunting, the Pastime of Psychopaths
phys.org/news/2022-02...
January 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We recently ran the piece concerning coyotes & some of the responses were unbelievable. The psychopathic hatred of wildlife is so ingrained in some of these messages I wonder if the people making them realize what they sound like.
Trophy Hunting, the Pastime of Psychopaths
phys.org/news/2022-02...
Trophy Hunting, the Pastime of Psychopaths
phys.org/news/2022-02...
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“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
Rebecca Solnit: When the Hero is the Problem
For an embodiment of the word singlehanded you might turn to the heroine of the recent movie Woman at War. It’s about an Icelandic eco-saboteur who blows up rural power lines and hides in scenic sp…
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December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”
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November 25, 2024 at 10:25 AM
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'I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People'
"I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying."
"I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying."
I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society.
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:49 AM
'I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People'
"I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying."
"I can’t debate someone into caring about what happens to their fellow human beings. The fact that such detached cruelty is so normalized in a certain party’s political discourse is at once infuriating and terrifying."
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"The success of vaccines has also allowed for a modern amnesia about the level of past human suffering." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Here’s How We Know RFK Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccines
Children used to die of diseases far more gruesome and deadly than we remember.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:50 PM
"The success of vaccines has also allowed for a modern amnesia about the level of past human suffering." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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🤔"One picture IS worth a thousand words"! ... Right?
November 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
🤔"One picture IS worth a thousand words"! ... Right?
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Share this and follow us if you NEVER once voted for Donald Trump!
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Share this and follow us if you NEVER once voted for Donald Trump!
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RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.
We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.
I recently wrote in @theatlantic about what we risk losing.
Gift link 👇
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.
I recently wrote in @theatlantic about what we risk losing.
Gift link 👇
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How to Lose a Century of Progress
Americans have been too quick to condemn the field of public health, overlooking its massive achievements in the 1900s and, yes, during the recent pandemic, too.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:02 PM
RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.
We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.
I recently wrote in @theatlantic about what we risk losing.
Gift link 👇
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.
I recently wrote in @theatlantic about what we risk losing.
Gift link 👇
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Hullo everyone! Lemme introduce myself with this thread of my favorite 📚books 📚written by women. If you are looking for a great read, you can find it on this list!
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November 13, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Hullo everyone! Lemme introduce myself with this thread of my favorite 📚books 📚written by women. If you are looking for a great read, you can find it on this list!
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I wish we could prescribe books to each other.
Sounds like you need two Flannery O’Connors!
A little Octavia Butler ought to clear that up.
Read sixteen Mary Oliver poems and call me in the morning.
Sounds like you need two Flannery O’Connors!
A little Octavia Butler ought to clear that up.
Read sixteen Mary Oliver poems and call me in the morning.
November 12, 2024 at 2:29 AM
I wish we could prescribe books to each other.
Sounds like you need two Flannery O’Connors!
A little Octavia Butler ought to clear that up.
Read sixteen Mary Oliver poems and call me in the morning.
Sounds like you need two Flannery O’Connors!
A little Octavia Butler ought to clear that up.
Read sixteen Mary Oliver poems and call me in the morning.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM is still catching up on our follow backs.
To make it easier can you repost this, follow us and drop a 💙 in the comments?
We’ll follow everyone who does!
To make it easier can you repost this, follow us and drop a 💙 in the comments?
We’ll follow everyone who does!
November 10, 2024 at 10:06 PM
CALL TO ACTIVISM is still catching up on our follow backs.
To make it easier can you repost this, follow us and drop a 💙 in the comments?
We’ll follow everyone who does!
To make it easier can you repost this, follow us and drop a 💙 in the comments?
We’ll follow everyone who does!
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HERE IT IS! My 1st Urbanism & City-Building Starter Pack. I’ll keep adding to it as more city champions arrive here on Bluesky & I discover more of you. Please share this far & wide to support and grow our urbanism community here. Our cities need all the help they can get! go.bsky.app/G7isZfk
November 11, 2024 at 3:16 AM
HERE IT IS! My 1st Urbanism & City-Building Starter Pack. I’ll keep adding to it as more city champions arrive here on Bluesky & I discover more of you. Please share this far & wide to support and grow our urbanism community here. Our cities need all the help they can get! go.bsky.app/G7isZfk
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I needed this today.
You may too.
You may too.
November 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I needed this today.
You may too.
You may too.
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Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay
November 9, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay