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Author, writer (yes they're sort of different), dog person, human mom & partner, too. Love reading, social justice, peace, cooking vegetarian, fountain pens. Coming 9/2025: Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) www.Deborahheiligman.com
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The most consequential Speaker in state history.

I wish I had a protest to go to today.

Live Updates: Anti-Trump Protests Sweep the Nation www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

There is a teenager behind this sign. They know. It’s about right and wrong. #nokings

#nokings #notrump #sign (not mine)

Good doggie

And maybe my favorite sign from today, #nokings Chatham, NY HATE NEVER MADE AMERICA GREAT

More photos from Chatham NY #nokings

#nokings protest in Chatham, New York! Great crowd, lots of honking cars. We can do this, America!

Hey blue sky is there a Car sky or maybe @mazdausa.bsky.social can help? Our car alarm went off over and over again early this morning. The dealership can’t take us until tomorrow. Does anybody know how to deactivate a car alarm so we can sleep tonight? Cx5

Does your feed need some peonies? I thought so.

I remember watching TV as a child: Kent State, the Chicago convention, Civil rights marches. Police beating protestors.The sorrow in my mother's eyes & her words, trying to make it better: bad things have happened in the past, & they are happening again. And Now. Not better. We must resist.

Left home to dogsit for friends in the country for two weeks. Couldn't decide which #fountainpens to bring, so I brought all the ones I have in rotation. My pilot 823 is for morning pages & is my favorite. Pilot 74, 2 lamys & a kaweco. Also have a palimono blackwing & sharpener. #amwriting

I just donated to @zellnor.bsky.social for #NYCmayor There's a great matching gift going on right now. I met him & think he'd be a great mayor. secure.actblue.com/donate/rebui...

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress without cause! Send an email to your representative to stop Trump's attack on the Library of Congress. action.everylibrary.org/emailhayden via @everylibrary.bsky.social #kidlit #booksky

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

Five "Our Fathers" blog.outlandish.claims/p/five-our-f... Beautiful post. Also funny. And smart. (OK, he's my son but REALLY.)

Exactly.

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WOOT!!!!!

We need Emma Goldman back in Worcester (and not just serving ice cream)

This is about to happen! I made a video. Hope it’s ok…!

The trump administration doesn’t even pretend to really care about antisemitism after all.

John Tyler Bonner, one of my favorite people ever, would have been 105 today. He made it to almost 100! John found one thing he loved passionately, the social amoeba (aka the slime mold) & studied it his whole life. He was a loving father, husband & friend. www.amphilsoc.org/sites/defaul...

Congress should be speaking out about this every single day

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

I'm really not into Mother's Day. We don't observe it in my family I love my sons, they love me. Good enough. But I don't think Zuzu should have rolled in something gross in the park this morning. JUST SAYING. (This photo is NOT from today. She is currently drying off--away from me.) #dogsky

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My whole Instagram feed is children’s book authors and librarians furious about the firing of Carla Hayden. Don’t mess with #kidlit

#BREAKING The Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social was arrested by ICE after trying to enter Delaney Hall Read about how this all started in my exclusive for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2025/05/06/n...

I never really know how angry I am until I make a phone call to one of my reps. I could barely speak for the anger leaving a message for @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social about funding for #NEA & the travesty of the firing of Carla Hayden. Call your reps people.

Good news out of Colorado! Congratulations & thank you to the activists that made this happen. You can have this in your state too! coloradonewsline.com/briefs/color...

Congratulations to @dashkaslater.bsky.social for winning the Lucas Prize, 2024. Accountable was the 1st #YAnonfiction to win! Ceremony for 2024 & 2025 truly inspiring. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Dashka w/agent @agentemurph.bsky.social & editor Joy Peskin. @fiercereads.bsky.social #kidlit

I did a life changing interview on #Skype. In 2017 I Skyped with Sonia Bech Williams, one of two survivors of the torpedoing of the City of Benares. She told me about her own memorabilia & a suitcase full of letters to Mary Cornish. I booked a plane. #booksky #kidlit Torpedoed would not be the same

Perfect.

I guess he was sleeping when he took the oath of office?

I lost a Mazda key fob & it will cost more than $400 to replace. I love so much about technology, but I long for an old-fashioned key. FYI in case there is a Bluesky presence in Columbia County, NY, I think I lost it at Ooms Pond about two weeks ago.

Um, yeah.

Spring isn’t kidding here in New York State. Take that, you tyrants.

Exactly ⬇️