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"I asked Chat GPT" "I asked Grok" Well I asked my local independent bookseller and she said read more banned books.

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Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

This week and every week.

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always loved Little Golden Books... 😆

submitted 7 days ago • 311 comments

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

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submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

I love this sign, but it might need footnotes! #NoKingsRoanoke

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One of my favorite signs of the day.

submitted 11 days ago • 276 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 13 days ago • 63 comments

Reminder: this webinar on saving democracy is starting now.

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Already slashed beyond recognition from when Pell grants saved my life—and paid all my tuition—Trump wants further Pell cuts to dumb us down &stir more resentment against the so-called elites, while doing next to nothing to buttress trade schooling, bring factory jobs back, or lower the cost of eggs

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This is gonna be both helpful and harrowing and I’m here for it.

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My plea for participating in next weekend’s No Kings rally, some visual and gastro recommendations, and Geraldine Brooks on why Paper Girl is not just my memoir; it’s my manifesto: open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...

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I miscarried twice…once in a toilet. A 9 week pregnancy is the size of a period clot. I flushed the toilet. Today, I could go to jail for that. Jail. For a wanted pregnancy my body rejected and I took care of by myself.

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So damn proud of these kids for their courage. 💥 Hundreds of Milford, MA high schoolers walked out in protest today after ICE detained their classmate Marcelo Gomes Da Silva. Detained on his way to volleyball practice. Illegally. These students aren’t backing down—they’re rising up. #OnYourSide

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

Thanks, so kind!

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Thrilled to share this pre-pub ( starred!) review for my forthcoming book, PAPER GIRL, with hopes that I don't get run out of town on a rail." By practicing the basic journalistic acts of listening and observing, Macy continues her noble work as a truth teller." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.

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Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

Same same. Some I’ve talked to are too overwhelmed just with existing (like Silas, in my book).

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While Republicans stayed up all night trashing programs that help our neediest folks, here’s a close-up look at one food pantry and one family in rural Virginia—a place hammered by globalization and the opioid crisis—doing what Jesus would do: bethmacy.substack.com/p/follow-you...

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My hard-won advice to the class of 2025 at Hollins University including some Mom-stink-eye about not settling! open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The only outside information we had post-Helene came from public radio. Where to find water and food, life and death kinds of information. Nothing takes its place when it’s gone.

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They routinely pretend they have no actual influence but are somehow standing behind a glass partition just quietly observing what happened, so they takes no responsibility for outcome, even as they exhibit huge biases and overt agendas, up to and including major impact on American elections....

submitted 39 days ago • 36 comments

Finally, a Dem calls it out! Sen Chris Murphy said it out loud: the GOP is a cult. If Trump says 1+1=5, they nod. Now he’s stealing military assets—meant to defend our nation—to wage war on asylum seekers. That’s not policy. That’s fascism. And Republicans are all in. No breaks. Just cruelty.

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After years of looking, probably a combined 70 hours, I finally found my first morel visiting relatives near Seneca Lake. Got out of the car, and this little bugger was right at my feet!

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👇👇

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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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Zeroing out important Narcan distribution while claiming it’s the immigrants causing OD deaths. No, it’s Trump. Can’t tell you how many people I’ve met who were saved by Narcan and went on to lead positive lives, helping others with SUDs. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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To be fair, on the day of Trump's funeral, I'll finally be able to sleep, too.

submitted 60 days ago • 12 comments

They're making big mistakes, moving too quickly and burning bridges before they're capable of shutting down the opposition.

submitted 61 days ago • 24 comments

I’ve been writing about the opioid crisis for so long that young med students have gotten married, graduated, had adorable babies! So great to reconnect at UVA Med School yesterday with the great Dr. Sanjay Kishore who helped me convince Roanoke city to approve syringe exchange way back in ‘18.

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Resistance is NOT futile

submitted 63 days ago • 598 comments

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism

submitted 63 days ago • 804 comments

Don’t miss this post esp the helpful tip at the end on dealing with the other side by centering sorrow. Pitzer, always making us think.

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This account is welcoming. 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

Proud Band Mom alert: My kid’s band, Palmyra, was featured on NPR’s Here & Now this week for their new absolutely rocking album album “Restless.” (Features Jake Cochran of Illiterate Light on drums and Mipso on fiddle.) #indierock #Palmyratheband www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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