Christine Swint
@christinens.bsky.social
Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor.
http://balancedonedge.blog
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One of absolute favorite poems, by my favorite poet: poets.org/poem/failing...
Failing and Flying
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew
poets.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of absolute favorite poems, by my favorite poet: poets.org/poem/failing...
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💫 space for a shared online writing session that brings together all 3 classes on the weeks we’re not meeting
💫 opportunities to form long-lasting community
you can sign up for both semesters or just the spring by 1/20
theministryofwords.com
💫 opportunities to form long-lasting community
you can sign up for both semesters or just the spring by 1/20
theministryofwords.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
💫 space for a shared online writing session that brings together all 3 classes on the weeks we’re not meeting
💫 opportunities to form long-lasting community
you can sign up for both semesters or just the spring by 1/20
theministryofwords.com
💫 opportunities to form long-lasting community
you can sign up for both semesters or just the spring by 1/20
theministryofwords.com
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The constitutional right to birthright citizenship is core to who we are as a country.
We refuse to let President Trump do away with that right.
We refuse to let President Trump do away with that right.
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The constitutional right to birthright citizenship is core to who we are as a country.
We refuse to let President Trump do away with that right.
We refuse to let President Trump do away with that right.
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My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
~ Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
~ Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
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I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I do not like your AI slop
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
I do not want this worthless glop
I do not read its overviews
I don't care what Grok says is true
I do not like it here nor there
I'm tired of it everywhere
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CHICAGO TEACHER: "This morning at 7:45, I marked a junior student absent—not because he was sick or overslept. ICE had snatched him up on his way to school. His main priority was getting his reading done for English class." (H/T @CTULocal1)
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
CHICAGO TEACHER: "This morning at 7:45, I marked a junior student absent—not because he was sick or overslept. ICE had snatched him up on his way to school. His main priority was getting his reading done for English class." (H/T @CTULocal1)
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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Get yourself someone who righteously hates something as much as @jfallows.bsky.social hates leaf blowers (I’m with him! at least go electric)
Great new @bloomberg.com piece by Jessica Stolzberg on ongoing struggle against stupidest and most harmful part of current 'Conspicuous Consumption' yard hygiene.
The diff this has made in DC is ... incredible.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The diff this has made in DC is ... incredible.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Get yourself someone who righteously hates something as much as @jfallows.bsky.social hates leaf blowers (I’m with him! at least go electric)
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National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.”
https://to.pbs.org/4pkcK3x
https://to.pbs.org/4pkcK3x
Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
The night’s honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and social climate, from immigration raids in the U.S. by masked ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet Patricia Smith’s “The Intentions of Thunder.”
https://to.pbs.org/4pkcK3x
https://to.pbs.org/4pkcK3x
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NEW: ALA is sounding the alarm after the Administration announced new steps to dismantle the Department of Education. School & academic libraries across the country rely on Dept. of Ed. funding and knowledge to best serve their students and faculty.
More: www.ala.org/news/2025/11... #ForOurLibraries
More: www.ala.org/news/2025/11... #ForOurLibraries
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
NEW: ALA is sounding the alarm after the Administration announced new steps to dismantle the Department of Education. School & academic libraries across the country rely on Dept. of Ed. funding and knowledge to best serve their students and faculty.
More: www.ala.org/news/2025/11... #ForOurLibraries
More: www.ala.org/news/2025/11... #ForOurLibraries
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This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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We can all be doing this. We can all be forming community groups. We can all learn how to protect each other. This regime wants to tear us apart and crush our shared values. We won’t let them. We will build while they break, and soon enough, we’ll be so organized, they won’t be able to stop us.
Hands Off NYC
We are over 100 unions, faith leaders, and community groups, standing together in nonviolent resistance to protect NYC.
HandsOffNYC.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We can all be doing this. We can all be forming community groups. We can all learn how to protect each other. This regime wants to tear us apart and crush our shared values. We won’t let them. We will build while they break, and soon enough, we’ll be so organized, they won’t be able to stop us.
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Did anyone really think the sexual predator President who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Did anyone really think the sexual predator President who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
(Published October)
(Published October)
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"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Did Women Ruin Men Blaming Women For Ruining Things?"
post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 AM
post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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Nick Cave's lovely antidote to our existential helplessness www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/29/n...
Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
Stepping up to the subtle gestures that can redeem a day, or a life.
www.themarginalian.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Nick Cave's lovely antidote to our existential helplessness www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/29/n...
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There are cracks in Trump’s power. We have to lean in.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Takeaways From Election 2025
Keep Fighting
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
There are cracks in Trump’s power. We have to lean in.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Matthew 25, y’all!
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Matthew 25, y’all!
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If you work for ICE, you must resign right now.
Your soul is in danger and your family and friends and especially your children will fear you in their hearts for the rest of their days.
Your soul is in danger and your family and friends and especially your children will fear you in their hearts for the rest of their days.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you work for ICE, you must resign right now.
Your soul is in danger and your family and friends and especially your children will fear you in their hearts for the rest of their days.
Your soul is in danger and your family and friends and especially your children will fear you in their hearts for the rest of their days.
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Gobsmacked by Amy Sherald's talent. The paintings are remarkable. But her words, her intention with her art...celebrate her.
ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...
Artist Amy Sherald: The 60 Minutes Interview
Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.
www.cbsnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Gobsmacked by Amy Sherald's talent. The paintings are remarkable. But her words, her intention with her art...celebrate her.
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This thread lists donors who are buying access to Trump by helping him demolish the East Wing of the White House to build his monstrous monument to himself.
#BoycottsArePatriotic
#BoycottsArePatriotic
Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This thread lists donors who are buying access to Trump by helping him demolish the East Wing of the White House to build his monstrous monument to himself.
#BoycottsArePatriotic
#BoycottsArePatriotic
