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dheiligman.bsky.social
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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Liberalism, the Enlightenment, and other Turkish imports open.substack.com/pub/outlandi... How do we learn? From others: from travel, from letting new people w/different cultures into our lives, from history. From expanding our minds not shutting out people/ideas/culture.

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A reminder for these times.

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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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Join the boycott with me.

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No, the economic boycott planned for Friday is not perfect. Perfect is the enemy of good. I will be participating in the economic boycott on Friday February 28. Resistance is contagious. Courage is contagious.

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Wherein I (and others) liken Trump’s foreign policy to a protection racket. There is a big difference between “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” diplomacy and “nice little country you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it” diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

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The deadly — literally — arrogance of moving fast and breaking shit

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Love this! Thank you!

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Guess we should all buy tractors. Might come in handy….

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Reached an actual person in Sen Gillibrand's office www.gillibrand.senate.gov 's He said calls make a difference. Call your senators & reps, people! Left a voicemail for @nadler.house.gov. But @schumer.senate.gov number out of order? Too many calls? NEVER! Keep calling. #resist

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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I want to learn how to knit like AOC.

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So glad @authorsabb.bsky.social exists. We made a difference in Florida! Read about it: lithub.com/authors-agai... I heard back from school board members thanking me for sharing my thoughts and experiences. Gives me hope that words & personal connections make a difference. #booksky #edusky #kidlit

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Alberta Hunter. Just saying her name makes me happy.

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So glad Zuzu the dog is into my WIP. #booksky #kidlit #edusky

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I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

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“Sooner or later the American people are going to wake up.” —Emma Goldman, 1919

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How the Wise Old Wood Gods Laugh open.substack.com/pub/outlandi... I love this, especially the part about the farmers in Belgium mowing squiggly for bees. #goodnews Is there a #goodnewssky ? There should be.

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February #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Amy Cherrix about VIRUS HUNTERS (Harper/ @harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "I wanted young readers to understand why all of us owe public health professionals an immense debt of gratitude." www.hbook.com/story/five-q...

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I loved Orbital so much. I listened on the Libby app from @bklynlibrary.bsky.social Thank you for lending it to me even though I live in Manhattan. I love you. And huge gratitude to @samanthaharvey2.bsky.social for writing such a beautiful book. Balm these past few days. Need to own it. #booksky

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Me: working on my next book. Happy and focused. Me: needing to research something on the internet. Me, five minutes later, having wandered onto news sights: furious and despondent. Me: turning off wifi.

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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Thank goodness for The Onion. My first chuckle today.

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So glad @authorsabb.bsky.social exists. We made a difference in Florida! Read about it: lithub.com/authors-agai... I heard back from school board members thanking me for sharing my thoughts and experiences. Gives me hope that words & personal connections make a difference. #booksky #edusky #kidlit

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Just a periodic note of gratitude from a humanities scholar: I BLOODY LOVE ARCHIVISTS!!!

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@integrationash.bsky.social HI!!

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I forgot to tag! #kidlit #edusky #booksky what else BlueSky folks?

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Congratulations to my late dear friend Karen Blumenthal and her daughter @jenmcarter.bsky.social on publication day of Revolutionary Mary! We have a lot to learn from this great book. Kudos to illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley & to editor @ecfeinberg.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978162...

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All over today. This is NYC.

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Hey, why don't you put this on the front page? Thanks.

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I loved this post by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social so much. It’s nearly impossible to focus on writing when our democracy is on the brink of destruction. But we need to keep going! READ THIS, all my #writer friends #booksky #edusky #kidlit rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

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