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Sarah Cottrell
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I ❤️ PA, candles, trees, and books. Romance reader. Historical romance lover.
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treesbookscandles.bsky.social
I snort-laughed. The horrors persist, but so does the gallows humor.
cethanleahy.com Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 11d
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
I love this.
An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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haridraws.bsky.social
I get why a lot of non-disabled people want to pretend respiratory illnesses don’t exist, but as we’re coming up on another event I can’t safely attend, I encourage you to just THINK about wearing a mask at events - or at least on the train/ plane there, where there’s probably no reason not to
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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courtneymilan.com
This is how everyone should respond to Stephen Miller.
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · Jul 17
In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”
Watch: Senior Trump adviser dumps on Minneapolis, prompting retort from Mary Moriarty
Stephen Miller’s comments are the latest in a recent string from Trump loyalists targeting Minneapolis.
bit.ly
July 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
treesbookscandles.bsky.social
🤣
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Jun 17
As a perma-lapsed Roman Catholic, I would really like it if Kobo could change their auto-reply when I spend some of my accumulated points on a book.
Email header reading "Congratulations on your redemption!"
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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brosandprose.bsky.social
hey! does anyone want to buy my book? it comes in beautiful hardcover or the charming newly updated ebook with fresh artwork!

BUT HOW ARE YOU, REALLY is about two exes who have big time unfinished business at their five year college reunion.
sites.prh.com/but-how-are-...
The hardcover artwork of But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson. A thick cream frame borders an illustration of the right side of a woman’s torso. She wears a denim jacket with a pin of the bisexual flag on the breast pocket, and a red name tag that reads, “A NOVEL, Ella Dawson.” Her blond ponytail is tucked behind the collar of her jacket. In the top left of the cover, cream text reads, “Can a college reunion restart your life?” The title of the book is centered in bright neon pink, “But How Are You, Really”. the paperback artwork for But How Are You Really displayed on an iPad screen. It features a woman and a man walking toward each other on a college quad at night, an academic building in the background
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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ziibiing.com
americans watching as the rest of the world uses our fascist as a lesson to vote out their fascists
a little girl is looking out of a window and waving her hand
Alt: a little girl is looking out of a window and banging her hands on it
media.tenor.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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meganf.bsky.social
Bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
bookshop.org
April 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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kennedyryan.bsky.social
The LiFT 4 Autism Auction is open for bidding!

This is a 2019 throwback tee, but 2025 merch is here: fkydr.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/mk/cl/f/sh/1...

Bidding ends 5pm EST on Sunday.
Cheek out items I donated along with more than 600 others:

event.auctria.com/33e28a8d-b46...

Good luck!
April 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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sgoodyear.bsky.social
Unfortunately, this is the truth of the United States: We don't need to send people to El Salvador to imprison and immiserate them in inhumane conditions.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Apr 21
At least 2 people—29 and 44 yo—have died while detained at Krome ICE prison near Miami.

The facility is so overcrowded people are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.”

english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
Last weekend, the first protests took place on the access road to the facility, and dozens of people made clear their rejection of the “inhumane conditions” at Krome, which have recently come to light. Outrage began to grow precisely with the news of the death of Maksym Chernayak, a 44-year-old Ukrainian who was in the country thanks to the humanitarian parole program, on February 20. As that news broke, so did the death of Genry Ruiz Guillén, a 29-year-old Honduran, who had died on January 23. Both died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had been detained at Krome before being transferred to a hospital where they could not be saved. Details of each case are limited — in that of Ruiz Guillén, there isn’t even an official cause of death — and family members and lawyers are trying to clarify the sequence of events that led to the loss of life to determine whether the deaths could have been prevented. Suspicions about possible irregularities in the protocols are not unfounded. Florida immigration lawyers have known about Krome’s notorious status for years, although the current situation is clearly different. Speaking to a local television station, immigration attorney Katie Blankenship said she would never be able to erase the images of women held at Krome — which began admitting female detainees more than 20 years after an investigation into sexual abuse by guards in 2000. “Every time I walked in there, there was literally a group of women with no room to move, banging on the window, pleading, because they saw someone who wasn’t an agent. They saw that I was a lawyer and said, ‘Please help us. Please help us. Please help us.’” Blankenship adds that her clients — whom she now meets in separate rooms as the meeting rooms have become collective cells for dozens of people — are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.”
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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courtneymilan.com
This poor man. His poor family. I’m glad he’s out and hope he is able to recover.

He deserves a country that is determined not to let this happen again.
llanosjackie.bsky.social Jackie Llanos @llanosjackie.bsky.social · Apr 17
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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motherjones.com
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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zoognosisjoy.bsky.social
This is the same perverse Nazi logic that led Hans Asperger to distinguish between Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: those children who would be killed and those who would be used. Don't get bogged down in arguments about ability or humanity. These are overtures to genocide.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · Apr 16
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes

Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
April 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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rincewind.run
we should assume DOGE - and therefore Elon personally - has every piece of sensitive data the government has ever collected about you

this is far beyond any of the biggest privacy scandals in history, many people should go to jail for this
April 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14
Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
They want you to be ok with this shit. That's why they keep talking about "toxic empathy," the "sin of empathy."

They want you to silence your own basic human morality and replace it with their violent, racist, cult ideology.
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
Yall were waiting for Nazi shit. Here’s your Nazi shit.
April 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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courtneymilan.com
This thread by the Congressman is a lie, and we should primary Democrats who lie to people about the content of statutes.

Here is the section on documentary proof from the SAVE Act.
DOCUMENTARY PROOF OF UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP.—As used in this Act, the term 'documentary proof of United States citizenship' means, with respect to an applicant for voter registration, any of the following: "(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States. "(2) A valid United States passport. "(3) The applicant's official United States military identification card, together with a United States military record of service showing that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States. "(4) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government showing that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States. "(5) A valid government-issued photo identification card issued by a Federal, State or Tribal government other than an identification described in paragraphs (1) through (4), but only if presented together with one or more of the following: "(A) A certified birth certificate issued by a State, a unit of local government in a State, or a Tribal government which— "i) was issued by the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born; "(ii) was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State; "iii) includes the full name, date of birth, and place of birth of the applicant; "(iv) lists the full names of one or both of the parents of the applicant; "(v) has the signature of an individual who is authorized to sign birth certificates on behalf of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government in which the applicant was born; "(vi) includes the date that the certificate was filed with the office responsible for keeping vital records in the State; and "(vii) has the seal of the State, unit of local government, or Tribal government that issued the birth certificate. "(B) An extract from a United States hospital Record of Birth created at the time of the applicant's birth which indicates that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States. "(C) A final adoption decree showing the applicant's name and that the applicant's place of birth was in the United States. "(D) A Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a citizen of the United States or a certification of the applicant's Report of Birth of a United States citizen issued by the Secretary of State. "(E) A Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of Citizenship issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security or any other document or method of proof of United States citizenship issued by the Federal government pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. "(F) An American Indian Card issued by the Department of Homeland Security with the classification 'KIC'."
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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jamellebouie.net
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
golden.house.gov Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov · Apr 10
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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schwartzwords.bsky.social
okay well my dad gave me autism and I gave it to my kids so this is the most eugenicist nightmare fuel I’ve heard in like the last day and a half from this admin
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 10
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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dkthomp.bsky.social
There's no logical or moral or strategic defense for what we're doing right now. It's an idiotic plan being implemented with a level of incompetence that has no possible explanation.
soumayakeynes.ft.com Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Apr 9
Cars from Mexico and Canada are being hit with tariffs *now*, even if they are compliant with the USMCA. US officials saying don't worry, trust us, we'll refund you the amount associated with any US content when we all work out how to calculate it.

Trust us...

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April 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Apr 8
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.

-You cannot legally deport people without due process.

-You cannot legally deport citizens.

-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Apr 8
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
treesbookscandles.bsky.social
😳 If you think Jesse Watters is worth listening to, please seek professional help.
April 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM