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MJ
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Books: daily. Travel: as often as possible. Progressive Floridian 🌴
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis is still on the Bookshop Bestseller List! ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Man that is NOT gonna turn out for you the way you think
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4d
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
Judges every year in CLE courses: We don't understand why mental health and life expectancy are so poor among attorneys

A judge today: No counsel I won't reschedule [hearing date] for you to have surgery, I'm not delaying my docket for you. Figure it out.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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letters4liberation.bsky.social
Whatchya reading? Our latest newsletter (🔗 ⤵️) explores the impact abolition-related books and how crucial they can be to informing our values.

Have you read any of these? What did you think? What would you add to this list?
A green background with pale gold books patterned across it. Header text reads "Letters for Liberation Book Look." Images of seven books are arranged in the foreground: The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Abolition Democracy by Angela Y. Davis, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, and Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
stackwanderer.bsky.social
This is WILD
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
Excerpt from THEY KNEW.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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haymarketbooks.org
ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
www.haymarketbooks.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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libro.fm
Know what we find really terrifying?

⏭ When people interrupt our reading.
⏭ Companies that send their CEO to the moon, all while trying to put small bookshops out of business.
⏭ The realization that we'll never get through our TBRs.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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newdisabledsouth.org
we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests.

we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.

if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate

thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
newdisabledsouth.org New Disabled South @newdisabledsouth.org · Oct 28
We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp.

If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate

We take care of each other ❤️
Graphic with a light background and the New Disabled South logo in the top right corner. Large bold text reads: ‘Apply: Food Assistance for Disabled People in the South.’ Text below explains that due to the government shutdown, people in the South will not receive their November SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) payments. New Disabled South is offering one-time payments to help people impacted by not receiving SNAP — $100 for individuals and $250 for households with two or more people. It notes that funding is first-come, first-served and that SSI or Medicaid recipients should read a disclaimer before applying. A call-to-action at the bottom reads: ‘Apply at ndsdj.org/snaphelp.’ There are small illustrations of a grocery bag and a grocery list. Graphic with a light background and the New Disabled South logo in the top right corner. Large bold text reads: ‘Donate to Support Food Assistance for Disabled People in the South.’ The message says that New Disabled South is raising money to provide direct payments to people impacted by loss of SNAP funds, and invites donations. A black banner at the bottom reads: ‘Donate at ndsdj.org/snapdonate.’ A small illustration of a grocery bag with food items is on the left. Graphic in Spanish with a light background and the New Disabled South logo in the top right corner. Large bold text reads: ‘Solicitar: Asistencia Alimentaria para Personas con Discapacidad en el Sur.’ The text explains that due to the government shutdown, people will not receive November SNAP payments and that New Disabled South offers one-time payments of $100 for individuals and $250 for households with two or more people, first-come, first-served. It also includes a note for SSI or Medicaid recipients. A black banner at the bottom reads: ‘Solicitar en ndsdj.org/snaphelp.’ A small illustration of a grocery bag and grocery list appears on the left. Graphic in Spanish with a light background and the New Disabled South logo in the top right corner. Large bold text reads: ‘Dona para apoyar la asistencia alimentaria para personas con discapacidad en el Sur.’ The text explains that New Disabled South is raising funds to make direct payments to people affected by the loss of SNAP funds and provides information on how to donate. A black banner at the bottom reads: ‘Dona en ndsdj.org/snapdonate.’ A small illustration of a grocery bag with food items appears on the left.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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librarypolicy.bsky.social
Federal funding cuts have forced libraries across Florida to curtail vital InterLibrary Loan services.

Bebe Kanter in Naples writes: "This service was a lifeline for small libraries... Now, our community libraries are isolated..." More: www.news-press.com/story/opinio... #ForOurLibraries
News-Press screenshot. Text: "This service was a lifeline for small libraries. It ensured that students and researchers in Collier County had access to the entire Florida collection. It created a more equitable and consequential library system by connecting us all to a vast collection. The shutdown was the direct result of a federal executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS provided two-thirds of the program's funding. When that support was eliminated, the delivery service collapsed. Now, our community libraries are isolated, and our collective access to information is significantly diminished. This is a detrimental step backward for every Floridian who relies on the free exchange of ideas. We are turning the page on an era of statewide collaboration, and our communities will be poorer for it. Bebe Kanter, Naples"
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
hey sooooo if I just follow yawls logic about the "average male" having a Nazi phase.....

what does that mean about the experience of Black people around the average white male
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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surlyspice.bsky.social
THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by @victormanibo.com comes out 11/25/25 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #horror #gothic #philippines #family #homecoming #reckoning #BookSky
book cover for the villa, once beloved by victor manibo with red lettering over a yellow background with green bleeding into the yellow from the top and bottom
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.
angryblacklady.blacksky.app Imani Gandy Cane 🎅🏾 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Oct 14
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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navmecheng.bsky.social
> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis
Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.
October 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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venneh.bsky.social
Fun reads as we leave the city lights (thanks @victormanibo.com!!)
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
Weird how the US is such a free country that we only have 4% of the world's population and yet we need three of the ten highest funded militaries on the planet.

(Yes, US municipal police and ICE both have budgets that rank in the top ten of the world's militaries.)
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
stackwanderer.bsky.social
Current audiobook. Ghost story set on an Ojibwe reservation in Northerm Minnesota
Screenshot from Libby app showing audiobook of This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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jessothomson.co.uk
It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
AI is a lack of consent machine whose greatest strength has been convincing people that other people’s boundaries are to be negotiated with

And that people who tell you no are defunct
chibdm.bsky.social Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · Oct 6
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM