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Spring’s coming, so my soul is craving #weaving and braiding- todays sense of #accomplishment comes from making good use of a kids’ potholder loom and scrap #yarn. My new rigid heddle loom project is also looking better than expected. #progressnotperfection #joy #gratitude

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Teaching about Julius Caesar today. Luckily nobody’s pointed out the obvious parallels to todays politics. Yet.

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That’s right. 🇺🇦

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A brilliant Banksy.

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Just started #ACOTAR. Got to chapter 7. My impression is that someone took Katniss Everdeen, plopped her into the Game of Thrones universe, and handed her the plot of Beauty and the Beast. #booksky #dnf

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"Alanna, are you going to GDC/PAX?" Nope. America is an unsafe country to visit, sorry Some of y'all need to come to terms with that much more deeply. As long as you got President Evil in charge I'm not going down there, and it's wild we're acting like that's just a risk folks should take

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Per @repcasar.bsky.social on another platform: “A guy who makes $8 million a day off the government thinks seniors getting $65 a day they worked their whole lives to earn is a ‘ponzi scheme.’ Protect Social Security. Fire Elon Musk.”

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Morning from Kyiv! I slept long today. Feel rested at last. Just made a warcoffee and am going to write. It is foggy outside. Spring. The drones were not here all night.

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This says it all.

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I don't remember the night without an air raid alert in Kyiv. Here it is. Drones. What do I do? From time to time, check monitoring channels to see which part of the city drones are in. One day, I realised that I was used to it.

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The good news is that we survived this winter. The first day of spring in Ukraine. Yes! (it is snowing a bit now, but we made it through the winter anyway) Ukrainian and French artist Maria Bashkyrtseva (Marie Bashkirtseff), 1858-1884, Spring, 1884

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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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Made sure to buy groceries early and do everything else on a different schedule for the #EconomicBlackout tomorrow.

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From my 7yo tonight: “where do #dads keep all their #dadjokes? In a dad-a-base.” #dadjoke #kidjokes #joy

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I can prove to you that the US Constitution is fatally flawed & requires replacement. All agree that any minimally adequate form of government must include a way to remove a chief executive for flagrant misconduct. Impeachment is the US's main way to do that, but it's entirely broken.

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🧵This. If an elected doesn't hold townhalls, do like @indivisible.org & go to their offices with a few friends. -Tell your local paper (of any size) when & where you'll be -Take a lot of pictures & post to social -Write a letter to the editor* of that paper about what happened *LTE tips, next! 1/

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Perhaps @meidastouch.com ?

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Last year, the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology introduced the 'Infuuts', a special bike for children attached to tubes and IVs. Due to all reactions the bicycle is now produced on a larger scale for use by other hospitals at home and abroad. 👌🏼 🚲 🥰 @themaximacenter.bsky.social

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Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

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Republicans have never been interested in helping folks make ends meet. They just want to enrich their billionaire donors by slashing life-saving programs like Medicaid, which 31% of Massachusetts residents depend on for healthcare. The cruelty is the point.

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BREAKING: Josh Shapiro just sued Donald Trump and won, unfreezing $2.1 billion in funds the administration tried to freeze. Another win for Democrats in the courts. Don’t let anyone tell you Donald Trump is unstoppable.

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REPOST if you stand with Maine Governor Janet Mills against Donald Trump!

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This. This, this, this. Elected Dems are throwing us to the wolves.

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The people are waking up, the protests are getting bigger, louder, more frequent and more justified.. Keep the pressure on, continue to make the calls, continue to take to the streets, continue to march on your Capitol.. Good trouble, good disruptions, do not let up! This is just the start!✊🏼🇺🇸

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Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.

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Valid point made.

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Congratulations to American Olympic Gymnast Gold Medalist Simone Biles and NFL Bears Player Jonathan Owens on Their Pregnancy announcement!!!❤️

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Happy Birthday to WEB Du Bois, who wrote about the wildly important concept of psychological wages of whiteness in the first history of Reconstruction, Black Reconstruction in America, which he messily dedicated to his mistress, Dr. Virginia Alexander, and not his wife, Nina Gomer #BookSky

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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1. This is the water 2. And this is the well. 3. Drink full, and descend. 4. The horse is the white of the eyes 5. and dark within.

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Noooo! @msnbc.com, don’t mess this up. The Weekend trio is 🔥—they keep it real & that’s what folks are looking for right now, but so does Joy Reid. She brings facts, truth & a perspective we can count on. We need that now more than ever. Real talk: replace Morning Joe instead. Viewers are over it.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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