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50,000 fan petitions from 192 countries in under 4 days! And it happened on #WotWednesday. Let’s keep the momentum going. Don’t stop now! Savewot.com #SaveWOT #TheWheelOfTime savewot.com #HBO #AppleTV @hbo.bsky.social #wheeloftime #Wotskies #Wotcon2025 #JordanCon2025 #WOTIdol

For funsies, celebrating my favorite laugh-out-loud moment in #TheWheelOfTime 's season 3--mild #spoiler from episode 6: #WoTSkies #WheelOfTime #RenewWoT

Portland! I will be your problem in September!

The State Library in Maine is open again after a month of closure because of federal cuts: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/27/m... We will not rest until EVERY state sees their promised funds, in full. Learn how you can Show Up #ForOurLibraries and for federal funding: ala.org/showup

Sign the petition at savewot.com to help save Wheel of Time series. #SaveWOT

Hey my gf is hand making these to raise funds for Relay for Life and I would love if Bluesky could boost and support the effort be it by reskeeting or throwing a few bucks to help out. Can ship state side. secure.acsevents.org/site/STR?fr_...

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”? It’s bullshit. It’s a straight-up scam that abandons working families and rigs the system even more for the rich. They’re slashing jobs and gutting the very resources that people need to survive—while calling it “fiscal responsibility.”

Why do Illinois and Indiana Mexican restaurants use some weird white cheese sauce instead of cheddar? Yuck! Of course central Illinois also loves “horseshoes .” Double yuck.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Kash Patel, the FBI director, has closed an internal watchdog office that uncovered and reduced the risk of misuses of national security surveillance, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Since our legacy media couldn’t care less, and our current President is a galactic piece of shit: we have to remind ourselves that Putin has been committing war crimes, including the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children. So, you know, this is that reminder.

❗ This is a human rights crisis. People have been disappeared into foreign prisons & torture chambers, abducted, denied their rights, without any hearings or evidence. This is an assault on the very foundations of our democracy & our legal system! ~Indivisible Chicago leaders #KilmarAbregoGarcia

BRING KILMAR HOME! Today we protested alongside @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social , La Villita Community, Barrio de La Villita, and other organizations fighting for Immigrants Rights to demand Kilmar Ábrigo García be returned immediately!

Tore through this one and thoroughly enjoyed it, much more than I did the TV series. The writing and dialogue are fairly John Grisham, which I don’t necessarily mean as a criticism: if action-packed page turners were easy, then everyone would do it, wouldn’t they.

HAPPY MURDERBOT DAY! To celebrate, cached US Kindle giveaway of 10 copies of @marthawells.com's All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, the first book in the excellent series. The first 2 episode of the tv seres were great, we thought. #KindleBookGiveaway

Loving a lot of Murderbot. Cast, sets, Sanctuary Mooooon! I still highly recommend reading the books, and if you do audiobooks - the ones with Kevin R. Free narrating. Whatever gets more people reading Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries and lets her write more!

Watched the first two episodes of MURDERBOT and what a dang delight! Its absolute PANIC at being perceived is perfect and the voiceover commentary is hilarious. Make sure you check it out—we need more! Of course you should also read the books, but I’m kinda assuming you already have.

So happy for @marthawells.com and all the rest of us that Murderbot the TV series is now out in the world!

They're trying to make people fearful of speaking out.

And the Qatari royal family has been unsuccessfully trying to sell it for five years.

The Republicans’ SAVE Act reads like a how-to guide for voter suppression. It will not pass the United States Senate. Period

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

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Once again I had to park my own car at a valet station because the valet didn't know how to drive manual; this doesn't bother me and in fact I find it amusing, but it certainly brings home that I really am from a different age of the world now.

If Trump took a $400M jet from Qatar, that’s a blatant violation of the Constitution. The presidency is not for sale. The Emoluments Clause exists to protect us from corruption. We need answers—and accountability. I won’t stay silent. — Rep. Troy A. Carter, Sr.

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

While the cost of air travel continues to go up for average Americans, Donald Trump gets a half-billion dollar “air palace” from a favorite Emir. Trump’s corruption makes him richer. You get poorer. Same old story.

Imagine failing 5th grade geography... in Congress.

Trump just fired the three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC regulates the safety of everyday consumer products. Guess who recently sued the agency and claimed that it's "unconstitutional"? Amazon. Connect the dots.

I am deeply troubled by the dismissal of Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian and the first African American and woman to serve as Librarian of Congress. Her leadership modernized access to knowledge for all. This is a loss for intellectual freedom and public service.

This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.

1000 measles cases. It’s no coincidence that this has happened after DOGE cancelled $11 billion that went to state and local public health departments. It’s no coincidence that this has happened after the CDC fired infectious disease experts. Trump and RFK Jr. must act to stop measles now.

Trump’s tariffs are a painful tax eating away at Americans' hard-earned money Americans deserve to know who's picking their pockets My bill with Rep. Raskin will make clear that Trump's promise to lower costs on day 1 was fiction—all for a tariff policy that's sending our economy into a tailspin

Today, we wasted time voting on renaming the Gulf of Mexico—a name it’s had for almost 500 YEARS. We’ve got folks losing healthcare, schools underfunded, and rights under attack. We’ve got real issues. Prioritize THAT.

“Being poor is hard. I’ve been there. Being poor is hard, and the federal government should not be making poverty harder.” I spoke in the Oversight Committee today to defend access to housing, Medicaid, and SNAP and oppose Republicans cuts to these critical programs.

The Trump Organization admits in a filing that President Trump never gave up control of his business assets despite public claims to the contrary. This confirms longstanding, and obvious, conflicts of interest, and the lack of transparency makes it worse.

Trump's budget cuts: -$4.5B from programs for students in high-poverty schools -$49M from the Ed Dept's civil rights office -$26B from state rental assistance -$4B from low-income home energy assistance -$20B+ from the CDC and NIH All to give the rich another tax cut.

Democrats should stand together and use our power to fix the GENIUS Act before the vote tomorrow. There is no excuse to facilitate Trump's crypto corruption.

This is a great illustration of why wholly unqualified extremists shouldn't be running essential government agencies.