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Ravi bought insurance thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health care providers. After 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist. “I don’t want to die,” he told his mom.

Thousands of Rohingya insurgents have emerged from refugee camps in Bangladesh to return to Myanmar and fight alongside the military that once persecuted them reut.rs/3AJIj3m

Dr. Doug Eyolfson- "While health care workers like myself were working in ICU desperately trying to save COVID victims,Justin Trudeau was procuring vaccines & enacting life-saving public-saving public health measures. Meanwhile Poilievre was more concerned with supporting insurrectionists." #cdnpoli

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

PSA – The Queens Public Library offers $50 virtual library cards and it’s amazing for anyone who uses Libby and want to access more titles/copies than your local library has

DEFENSE US allies repudiate doubts about women in combat Canada’s military chief drew a standing ovation at the Halifax International Security Forum for standing up for women on the front lines. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

We bought this dart board last year, and I've practiced obsessively, watched videos and finally did THIS for the first time in my life. This is a competitive house, so Dad will not be shutting up about it for a while. 😎🎯

Hey, should we be, like, downloading the Library of Congress or something?

The vibe on Bluesky vs. Twitter.

The Helix Nebula

I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges. Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition. Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.

If you are in Oklahoma or know others that are with school age children, please pass this along to them. Defense of Democracy created opt-out forms for Ryan Walter’s forced bible instruction. Let’s keep getting in good trouble! #EduSky #Resist kfor.com/news/oklahom...

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

We’re not going back.

They have no idea that tariffs will make everything more expensive

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

Libraries need to reclassify 1984 from fiction to nonfiction.

Welcome to Blue Sky.

What half of this country has been thinking since November 5th...

Sums up the current state of the US politics

Finally given up on the unrelenting misery of X. I'm hoping to rediscover the community that Twitter once hosted. This is Rafferty my faithful companion in life.

WTF is going on here at Blue Sky? People are civil to each other. People having intelligent discussions. People are spelling things correctly. I haven’t seen any racism or sexism. I’m confused.

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.