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chi-o.bsky.social @chi-o.bsky.social · Mar 18
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#scriptsky What a fun radio play by @isabellasteward.bsky.social
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Trump’s “Quiet, piggy” remark joins a preponderance of evidence suggesting “how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/vIXNotVd
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Tierra Walker died because she could not get an abortion in Texas to treat her severe preeclampsia.

This is what Republicans have wrought with their anti-abortion crusade.

But let’s be clear: Abortion bans aren’t pro-life. They’re pro-control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN3oLwO0OEE
Why Abortion Bans Aren’t Pro-Life | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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blackbijewess.bsky.social
Takes one to know one,
Piggie🐖
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Uh

this is

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adapalmer.bsky.social Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 19d
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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amykaynelson.bsky.social
What I don’t get is why we haven’t demanded that the pay going to not-working House representatives be redirected to pay the working air traffic controllers?
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
chi-o.bsky.social
Norman Rockwell paintings could actually be viewed as symbols of racial progress especially after he left the Saturday Evening Post
October 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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harrylitman.bsky.social
If That’s a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation.

Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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fredguttenberg.bsky.social
With Orange Ribbons For Jaime online fundraiser active, today I will highlight the Florida Panthers suite for 20 people & $500 for food on November 17th. This is a $10,000 package you can win it for a bids from $100 to $1,000.
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October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...
Veterans protest Guard
YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3
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October 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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peacenotwar2024.bsky.social
This beauty needs guarding. A great mission for the National Guard in Memphis!
doclb2.bsky.social DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · Oct 12
Issac Hayes, Black Moses, Cadillac in the Stax Museum of African American Music in Memphis
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We’ll take the people of Memphis over wannabe fascists & hate mongers like Stephen Miller seven days a week. Twice on Sunday. 🇺🇸

📸 via @indivisnashville.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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kylegriffin1.bsky.social
Breaking: The FDA this week approved a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone.
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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gwynnefitz.bsky.social
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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repstansbury.bsky.social
The Epstein Investigation is so much bigger than you can imagine. It is not only about justice for survivors—it is also about the institutions and systems that protected rich and powerful men they knew were abusing women and children: the banks, the government agencies, and other powerful people.
September 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
No one is safe from gun violence in America.

We do not have to keep living like this.

Instead of inciting more violence, our political leaders should use this moment to unite us around common sense gun reforms that a majority of Americans support.
September 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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jgsarantinos.bsky.social
How This TV Writer Learned How to Write Extremely Fast flip.it/n0D_3q
How This TV Writer Learned How to Write Extremely Fast
Learn from TV mastermind Steven Levitan of Modern Family.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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carolekirschner.bsky.social
When you own your story, people lean in.

Download my free guide to pitching a TV that sells: www.carolekirschner.com/pitching-ebook

#filmindustry #tv #writersnetwork #filmmaking #screenwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #scriptsky
September 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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thewatchdogco.bsky.social
Everyone tell Congress:
Tell Congress: Demand Kennedy Resign
Contact Congress today!
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September 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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extremebeautylv.bsky.social
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.

Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM