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poet & mom. WHAT IT DONE TO US from Lost Horse Press 2017. i love jean genet & muriel rukeyser & Twice.
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.”

Full statement
I sat across the deposition table from Ghislaine Maxwell when she lied repeatedly – one question after the next. We have witnessed that again with the release of Maxwell’s interview where this convicted felon repeatedly and brazenly lied on the record to the government. Maxwell ruined countless young lives with impunity for too long. Her effort to recreate history and distance herself from Epstein should not and will not be tolerated. The documents don’t lie, the multiple witnesses that testified against her at trial didn’t lie – the only person lying is Maxwell.
August 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
I suspect many American institutions--law firms, universities, the news media, the Republican Party--were more susceptible to authoritarian takeover than was expected because they were already so dependent on the largess of billionaires.

If you depend on oligarchy, you can't fight for democracy.
July 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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amybrown.xyz
they actually can't drop the Epstein documents because it would be too expensive to rename everything in Columbus, Ohio that's currently named after Les Wexner
July 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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emilylhauser.bsky.social
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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thetransfemininereview.com
Need something to read?

In the last six months, transfeminine authors have published over 108 new books to keep you busy on the beach! 🏳️‍⚧️📚

As always, this list is a collaborative effort, so thank you so much to all of the authors and editors who helped me put it together 🩷🩷🩷
108 New Transfeminine Releases from the First Half of 2025
Every book published by a transfeminine author in Q1 and Q2 of 2025. Read a book you’ve never heard of!
thetransfemininereview.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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notquitehydepark.bsky.social
This is good @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/th...
June 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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katelynburns.com
Jake Sherman is reporting that the Medicaid gender affirming care ban has been removed from the reconciliation bill!

Huge news!
June 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
NEW: Minnesota poet arrested by federal agents after interview with press, government unseals complaint conflating assault charges on federal agents from community defense with unrelated alleged massive meth bust.

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Plainclothes Feds Arrest Poet After Interview With Press, Unseal Conflated Complaint - UNICORN RIOT
Poet arrested by federal agents after interview with press, complaint conflates assault charges from community defense with meth bust.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jun 10
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly endorse a ban on gay marriage — including a call for reversing the Supreme Court's precedent legalizing it nationwide.

Read more: cnn.it/45jI6R9
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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vornietom.bsky.social
Btw LA, there are people out on the streets trying to get you to sign a petition “for the minimum wage”. Do NOT sign. The service workers fought and won a higher minimum wage and this petition is to LOWER it. Tell them to fuck off and don’t let anybody else sign either
June 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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tylerwilcox.bsky.social
I love LA. Fuck ICE.
June 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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junlper.beer
homophobic pope is back. hopefully this deters youth from becoming devoutly religious
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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dapowell.bsky.social
A good poem to read before bedtime. This is by Ryler Dustin from a Green Linden Press chapbook entitled "Something Bright."
A poem by Ryler Dustin BAPTISM AT AGATE BAY MOBILE HOME PARK Before you go for good, walk past the crooked pines and truck too rusted to run. Light a stolen cigarette among stumps of hemlocks, Douglas firs, false cedars the landlord sold for lumber, then watch the sun sink into Lake Whatcom, its fire tonguing the shore. From one trailer comes war on the nightly news, from another, a TV preacher yells about our sins, his anger muffled by tin walls as if underwater. At dusk, when the park's dim lamp clicks on, push past nettles and broken branches to the beach with its rotted, half-sunk dock, constellations you have no names for rising above the dark hills. Though it's cold-summer at its end-strip in the wind, hold your breath, and dive into that other sky. The cover of "Something Bright" by Ryler Dustin shows a glowing sun partially hidden by the stump of a fallen tree with new leaves growing from it.
May 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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hilaryagro.com
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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wired.com
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids
What Should You Do if ICE Comes to Your Restaurant?
We spoke to legal experts about what restaurant owners and workers can do to protect themselves from immigration raids
www.eater.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
The co-writer of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech says that since the Gaza war, he feels the American Jewish community is saying to the Black community, “We no longer are prepared to fight racism in America without your public support for the state of Israel. ” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I starred in a Super Bowl ad on Black, Jewish partnership. But Israel divided us. | Opinion
Decades of 24/7 African American support wasn’t sufficient to many Jewish organizations and leaders.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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esqueer.net
Protest tomorrow at Children's Hospital LA over their cessation of gender affirming care for trans youth.
A digital flyer with a purple background encourages people to support gender-affirming care at CHLA (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles). It invites community members to join CIR (Committee of Interns and Residents) to demand that CHLA maintain gender-affirming care for their patients. The event is scheduled for Thursday, February 6th at 5:30 PM at 4650 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. The flyer includes bold text, a megaphone graphic, and the CIR SEIU Healthcare logo at the bottom.
February 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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geekryan.bsky.social
Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease.

"Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo
Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor
Prion disease is caused by misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) into pathogenic self-propagating conformations, leading to rapid-onset dementia and death. However, elimination of endogenous PrP halts...
www.science.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM