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Mary Annaïse Heglar
@maryannaise.bsky.social
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I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters (novel) & The World is Ours to Cherish (children’s book). Birmingham bred me, Mississippi fed me. ❤️🌍💚🌎🖤 https://www.maryannaiseheglar.com/
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Baloo isn’t mad. Just disappointed.
Photo of adorable gray cat in a blue super hero face mask that has openings for his eyes and ears. His green eyes stare out disapprovingly. His owners hand stretches out to him but he rebuffs it. He has been forsaken.
June 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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This has happened twice today. I tried to text my mother “I think that might be a fire hazard”
Text thread with Mama. Mama: what do you think of putting candles in the cemetery? My unsent text reads: I think that’s really liberating might be a fire hazard.
June 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Kinda cool to see myself quoted on the wall at @bellmuseum.bsky.social last week!
The author is wearing a black dress and smiling upward at a quote of hers from a 2020 essay in WIRED: “the right time to start your climate action is always right now”
May 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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I…https://www.vox.com/culture/408578/trum-tariffs-incels-misogyny-email-jobs
These men read Trump’s economic policy as a project of redistributing money and jobs away from women and back to men, ultimately for men’s sexual gain. DOGE slashed away the email jobs in the government, they argue, while tariffs will force a recession that will ultimately kill the email jobs of the private sector. Meanwhile, tariffs will bring manufacturing jobs, which are understood to be the rightful domain of men, back to the US. By the time the process ends, they believe, men will be gainfully employed and now-destitute women incentivized to sleep with them, and the world will be restored to its proper order.
April 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
maryannaise.bsky.social
“Look, you can’t say that everyone with that tattoo is a gang member, but there’s no reason anyone other than a gang member should have that tattoo.”
We just don’t know for sure that they were gang members. There’s been some reporting that suggests some of them are not. I understand that, but want to be honest with you, and I think you’ll be honest with me. Look, you can’t say that everyone with that tattoo is a gang member, but there’s no reason anyone other than a gang member should have that tattoo. [The government has apparently been taking specific tattoos as a sign of gang membership, despite the fact that the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security have previously raised concerns about doing so.]
April 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Reading this Isaac Chotiner interview in which an evangelical pastor argues AGAINST THE SIN OF EMPATHY is…something www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Well, on the immigration issue, the open embrace of empathy in that platform is on the part of people who basically are using empathy as an argument against having any meaningful citizenship, nationality, national borders, etc. Here’s the thing—I’ve never said it this clearly before, but feel like I need to say it now. Empathy means never having to say no. Because the whole impulse of empathy is feeling with people as they feel. It’s a therapeutic category rather than a moral category. I’m a Christian. I believe in moral categories. I believe in the importance of sympathy and even more in the responsibility of compassion. But that takes action and it’s based in truth. It’s not based on validating anyone’s self-perceived situation, nor identifying with their own read of the situation as valid.
April 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Well this aged poorly
Tweet from Sierra club, July 14, 2018: There have got to be better topics of debate than whether @elonmusk is committed to climate action. He has dedicated his career to the mission of replacing fossil fuels with clean energy & has strongly backed the Sierra Club's advocacy work. We are proud to have his support.
March 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.

Hard mode: No villains.

(Both of them for very different reasons.)
Huey and Riley Freeman from The Boondocks
March 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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When my grandfather was doing school desegregation work in the 1950s, he was in part enabled to do so because he had a government job.
Mahlon Griffith voiced similar thoughts about his decision to become involved in the case. “I worked for the post office so I felt secure in my own job but it wasn’t just that,” Griffith said. “It was also a strong conviction that my children should get an equal education.”
February 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The world is a trash fire but @sunuchandy.bsky.social and I had a lovely reading in Nashville last night
Sunu and Mary at Novelette Bookstore in East Nashville Sunu and Mary at Novelette Bookstore in East Nashville. Sunu is holding a copy of Mary’s novel and Mary is holding a copy of Sunu’s poetry collection.
February 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I miss her
Drita from Mob Wives: “I know violence is not the answer, but…yes it is”
February 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I am once again asking, can we please stop listening to james carville? www.thedailybeast.com/ex-democrati...
Former strategist James Carville has urged the Democratic Party to be patient and bide their time following President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders in his first week back at the White House. Speaking with MSNBC’s The Beat on Friday, Carville told anchor Katie Phang that the Republican president’s opponents ought to let him “punch himself out” before weighing how best to approach containing some of the fallout of his “America First” agenda. As Phang put it to Carville, “On a fascism scale of one to 10, with 10 being peak fascism, how would you rate Trump’s first week?” Carville replied, “He’s just gonna keep ploughing through. What we have to learn as Democrats, [is] just let him punch himself out. This is a little bit before your time, but people of my generation, they remember Muhammad Ali and his rope-a-dope.”
January 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Who do I know in Nashville? Cause I'll be there next month doing a reading at Novellette Bookstore in East Nashville with my good friend and even better poet, Sunu Chandy! Come out! Bring a friend! (and a chair!)
www.novelettebooksellers.com/event-detail...
January 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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NGL this is pretty
New Orleans street covered in snow with tire tracks showing. In the distance, you can see the pink/purple light of dusk in the sky.
January 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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3:30 pm in New Orleans.
Same street scene with at least 3 more inches of snow.
January 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I really can’t stress enough just how dangerous a snow event like this is in a city like New Orleans, that is not built for it at all and where the infrastructure is fragile to things like thunderstorms.
Public Safety Alert: The number of accidents being reported is increasing. 1st responders urge you to stay off roads in snow/ice impacted areas until conditions improve.
January 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Two hours later. And we haven’t even gotten to the heaviest snowfall period of the day.
Shot of the same street from previous tweet but with an approximate additional two inches of snow
January 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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And we’re just getting started.
NOLAREADY: Snowfall has started with the heaviest snowfall expected between 11 AM & 6 PM. Snow is unlikely to melt quickly. Stay off the roads. ready.nola.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is New Orleans, Louisiana.
Image of a street coated in about an inch of snow.
January 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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As the fires burn in California, I can’t stop thinking about the “pyros” from Parable of the Sower and their pleasure at watching the world burn. Octavia knew.
The “pyros” in this world use a drug that makes setting fires feel more euphoric than sex, and these people wield fire as a weapon to hurt others and steal from them. Fire upends Lauren's world, killing her family and most of her community.
January 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Ugly Christmas sweater with the words "Birds Aren't Real: Don't Trust the Partridge in the Pear Tree"
January 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Reconsidering Reparations by Olufemi Taiwo
January 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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um... I wouldn't say it was the "economic" anger
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
Mr. Trump won the popular vote by putting the economic anger of Americans front and center. If we focus on anything else, we risk falling farther into the abyss. Our messaging machine must sharply focus on opposing the unpopular Republican economic agenda that will live on past him. Vocally oppose the party, not the person or the extremism of his movement. I don’t always agree with Wall Street, but Jamie Dimon was right when he said that Democrats’ railing against “ultra-MAGA” was insulting and politically tone-deaf. Denouncing other Americans or their leader as miscreants is not going to win elections; focusing on their economic pain will, as will contesting the Republican economic agenda.
January 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“You can’t see me”
Baloo, a grey cat, huddles underneath the branches of a large monstera plant
January 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM