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We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

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“What's happening isn't just an administrative reshuffle; it's an orchestrated attempt to shrink and weaken these programs without openly admitting to cutting them.” open.substack.com/pub/welivedi...

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It’s surreal that we’re about to witness this on screen in just a few hours. How long have you been waiting for this moment? #TheWheelOfTime

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I recently had a conversation with someone about the state of the world—the anxiety, the dread, the overwhelming helplessness that so many of us feel. And while there’s no simple solution, I shared a few things that help me push through. Nothing groundbreaking, just ways I fight to stay hopeful.

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We’ve reached a celestial quarter-point - it’s the Equinox! Happy Ostara everyone!

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Hate Amazon? Support independent voices! Delighted to launch the 2025 World SF Bundle from @storybundle.bsky.social today! 10 books, $25, with charity partner @locusmag.bsky.social! storybundle.com/scifi Re-posts appreciated!

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CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Nightmare.

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We just got an email from Target saying they won't notify you about late payments on a Red Card anymore. They'll just quietly collect more fees. The mice are playing now that the CFPB is gone.

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Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

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I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

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Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and crotchety–

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Signs of spring from the backyard over the last few days - the grape hyacinths whose return heralds spring for me; a little frog just before my daughter returned it to the creek; and wild violets! #spring #flowers

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At first I didn’t think I had that many green projects for #showmeyourknits this week, but a quick search shows a bunch! I do love a green and purple 🧶. #knitsky #shawlknitting

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I want to share with you three rules for fighting tyrannical fear and intimidation, gleaned from discussions I’ve had with a number of people who have lived in repressive regimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-respond-to-fear-and-intimidation

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So the Admin has defied the order of a federal judge. www.newsweek.com/rubio-touts-...

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Wow, what a story. One of many ways the Federal Government employees are needed. wapo.st/41s6EUx A brain-eating amoeba preyed on a 6-year-old. That was just the beginning. Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.

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New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

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New poster of the Gambler. #TheWheelOfTime

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We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

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Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline. #photo #zen #pic

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News everyday here is like - Trump fires everyone who was hired, hires everyone who was fired - Plane carrying bird flu crashes into measles factory, creating rare superbug, Flusles - DOGE eliminates workers that run the facility that imprisons the Deep Gods - Your mother has been detained by ICE

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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

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Co-signed. A) if they're willing to give up one minority they'll be willing to give up another B) Even if that weren't the case, that doesn't mean trans folks aren't worthy of protection and deserving of the rights that are supposed to be inalienable.

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One of the most underrated birds for its beauty is the Green-winged Teal, especially in flight, as I luckily captured it here over the South Platte River. #Colorado #birds 🪶

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Well hey, stranger! What’s it been, a week or two?? I’ve been hearing you calling down the hill for days. Ravi up on the self serve table. I know, not much in there. It’s loaded up for wrens, not so much for roadrunners. 🪶 A loud “Hi Ravi” squawk from Phin near the end 🦜

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#sotd Cherry Red from #blackphoenixalchemylab “Maraschino cherries, California bing cherries, scarlet musk, and sugar.” A delicious, almondy candy-sweet rush - outside my usual realm, but I needed a pick-up today. #perfumesky #bpal

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This is a pretty big attack on the First Amendment. And an encroachment on universities' powers to decide what protests to allow and who to expel.....

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Working on a series of projects this spring to inundate my region of Philly with action-item-based messaging focused on biodiversity. One of those is a sticker! This is an attempt to break down any emotional barrier to gardening by city dwellers. You don't need a green thumb, ya know? Just try it!

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This week on The SFWA Blog... Legacy of the Iron Curtain: Writing Ukrainian Fiction in a Post-Soviet World by A.D. Sui. What makes Ukrainian stories unique? Read this moving and profound essay at buff.ly/m79J55N

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Whispers of spring, Lilac In A Glass by Edouard Manet, 1882. It's delicate, color forward, subtle, soft, powerful, yet a bit melancholy. His last stills were painted from his bed. Were these a bouquet from a friend to bring cheer? Lovely. #art #artist #edouardmanet #painting #oilpainting 🎨 #lilacs

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

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#bird #oilpainting #painting #peaceful

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Sometimes the land moves towards its spring awakening with a sweet song upon its lips. Sometimes it stretches against the sky and growls with headache resentment. Between those polarities, a thousand omens swarm. – #EmilyCBanting

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I spoke to the great @billmckibben.bsky.social about how to respond to dark times: e360.yale.edu/features/bil...

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Y'know how when you hear about a disaster or some developing catastrophe, you say to yourself, "It's okay, it's somebody's job to deal with that. I'm sure it'll be handled and things will be fine." Musk & Trump just fired that guy

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NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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Thank you to all who have contributed! Our pledges jumped up quite a bit today, but we are still falling short of our goal. If we don't reach it, none of the pledges will come through, so please consider helping. Just 3 days left!

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Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

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This is Ukrainian Girl By Wicker Fence by Ilya Repin, 1876, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga. #art #artist #ukrainiangirl #ukrainiangirlbywickerfence #ilyarepin #latviannationalmuseumofart #rigaukraine #ukraine #paint #paintin #oilpainting #painter #nineteenthcentury #friends #neighbors #allies

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Pysanka is the Ukrainian art of egg decorating. (Photo by Iryna Stavynska). The process uses wax and paint. It is beautiful & unique. To find out more about crafts of Ukraine from Iryna Stavynska, a Fulbright scholar from Ukraine, go here: news.uoregon.edu/content/ukra... #art #eastereggs #ukraine

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Not only is this a beautiful image, taken by a techological marvel. Look at the credit. That's the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency as well as NASA. And then the data was released freely online so that someone could dig into the data. Look what we can do when we work together.

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An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

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Adding #knit #knitsky 🧶 Profits from all sales now through Sunday will be donated to @u24.gov.ua in support of the efforts in Ukraine. I will also personally match all donations. Please share far & wide #SmallBusiness #BeTheLight #knitters #crochet 🧶 www.kettleandhearthfibers.com

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If you see this, post a horse 🎠

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Knapweed Fairy - crafted by my lovely friend, Jane @clothofnature.bsky.social Jane's Bluesky feed is full of beauty and positivity. Do please have a look and give her a follow 💚 #nature #wildlife #wildflowers #art #textiles

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#sotd And though they are with you yet they belong not to you from #blackphoenixalchemylab “A gentle vanilla sandalwood blend, serene but mighty.” Cool and beautiful, just right for a spring day. Still available on the site and all-too-timely. #perfumesky

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