Rita Mae Reese
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Hope is a rabid dog
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University of Wisconsin Press
18 days ago
Happy publication date to Rebekah Denison Hewitt, whose poetry collection CREATURE IN BLOOM is out today! Learn more:
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/C/Crea...
. If you're in Madison, we hope you'll join Rebekah Hewitt &
@ritamae.bsky.social
at
@roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social
for the March 31 launch event!
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
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Every time you order from this company, you support their attacks on democracy plus extremely exploitive labor practices. Get your cardboard boxes somewhere else, please.
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about 2 months ago
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We have these in Madison and the UW-Madison campus. Maybe it's time to start talking about this.
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about 2 months ago
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University of Wisconsin Press
about 2 months ago
Madison: save the date! Rebekah Denison Hewitt will launch her new poetry collection, Creature in Bloom, at
@roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social
on March 31, in conversation with
@ritamae.bsky.social
! Details:
roomofonesown.com/event/2026-0...
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Christopher Webb
about 2 months ago
Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Rachel Maddow
2 months ago
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The best take ever.
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2 months ago
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Merriam-Webster
2 months ago
❤️
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy
2 months ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
Any reputable journalism organization would fire someone who manipulated a photo this way; many have done exactly that. It’s a shame our government can’t adhere to such a basic ethical and moral code too.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda
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They are trying to train us to be silent, so make some noise
7 months ago
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Scott Gordon
7 months ago
beautiful writing from
@wisconsam.bsky.social
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Andrea Junker
7 months ago
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Let's talk about art, baby!
#MadisonWI
www.hisawyer.com/arts-literat...
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Arts + Literature Laboratory - Talking Art: Tools for Interpretation
<p>This course is for <em>anyone</em> curious about art – no background in art making or art history required! Together, we’ll build a shared vocabulary to describe what we see in artworks, learning h...
https://www.hisawyer.com/arts-literature-laboratory/schedules/activity-set/1604056
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Scott Gordon
8 months ago
The most misleading statement Barrett makes about mail scanning is this: "The evidence is clear." It is very much not clear. Dane County's own data on mail and contraband is especially not clear, as we found when we actually bothered to check out these claims
tonemadison.com/articles/dan...
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Isn't consistently referring to Jeffrey Epstein as "a financier" like always referring to Ted Bundy as "an office worker"?
8 months ago
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Hey friends, check your vaccines and your kids. This shit is ridiculous.
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8 months ago
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I'm so glad someone has said this out loud
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8 months ago
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Another death is on his hands
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8 months ago
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The Tennessee Holler
8 months ago
🤔 The sloppiness of the cover-up here is astounding
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A little good news to put some wind in your sails today.
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8 months ago
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Sherrilyn Ifill
8 months ago
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
9 months ago
Choose your bedroom (Art by @dimda_)
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The pee tape and what's in the Epstein files Venn diagram: O
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9 months ago
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I just want to point out that "mourn" has a meaning and it is not a thing that Trump is remotely capable of.
@usatoday.com
9 months ago
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A moment of silence for the beam in her own eye
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9 months ago
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Now where on Earth could those Epstein files be? 🤷‍♂️
9 months ago
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PapaJ
9 months ago
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Susan Perri @perri4health
9 months ago
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES 📜 I heard it was not trending anymore. Let's keep the heat 🔥
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Seriously, because the NYTimes said MAGA is cool with Trump's pedophilia, we're all just going to move on?
#EpsteinFiles
9 months ago
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Meredith Rose
9 months ago
If we’re lucky, Colbert is about to have a year-long DGAF era. The man’s off the leash. What are they gonna do, cancel him?
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Why is
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using "anti-abortion" instead of pro-choice? I'm anti-forced-birth, actually.
9 months ago
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Arts + Literature Laboratory
9 months ago
Call for Native Arts 📣📣📣 Applications for Native artists interested in participating in the 2025 Native Art Market are open thru July 15, 2025. The Market will take place at ALL on Sat Nov 8, 10am-6pm.
https://loom.ly/4pQpvIc
#IndigenousArts #NativeArts #BuyLocal #artlitlab
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Kara Swisher
10 months ago
This is why
@theatlantic.com
has become must read. Do not miss this:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Inside America’s Death Chambers
What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/death-row-executions-witness/682891/
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Partial roof collapse shuts down Woodman's Market on East Side
madison.com/news/local/b...
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Partial roof collapse shuts down Woodman's Market on East Side
Steve Vig had just left the produce section when he heard a loud crash behind him. A veritable Niagara Falls then started pouring into the store.
https://madison.com/news/local/business/article_b6e18882-e861-4e1d-8d21-19c3e9e2b3fd.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=user-share
10 months ago
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I'd say bombing for peace is more like killing writers to promote literacy. Books can be reprinted.
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10 months ago
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Robert Reich
10 months ago
That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.
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Anne Applebaum
10 months ago
A fight in a madhouse about who is Napoleon...
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
10 months ago
The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
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The whole Elon/OrangeTurd feud smacks of WWF. Tired of the drama
#kayfabe
10 months ago
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Eric Feigl-Ding
12 months ago
RFK Jr’s HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth. It receives on average 2,100 contacts a day. This is metaphorically telling LGBTQ youth they can go kill themselves.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/
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BERGΛMΛX
12 months ago
An illustrator's happy accident: "Spilled Ink Kittens" by Japanese artist Avagadoo
#caturday
#art
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12 months ago
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I think the maps show that there aren't nearly as many red counties but rather counties with very high voter apathy.
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about 1 year ago
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WisDems
about 1 year ago
Help us keep it going:
wisdems.org/donate
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The stock market has lost $4 trillion in value, which is 4 times as much as all Americans lost to frauds in 2023. Trump is the most epic con of all time.
about 1 year ago
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That's what I'm talking about! Thanks to everyone who donated, knocked doors, talked with friends and neighbors, held signs, and especially VOTED!
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about 1 year ago
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Barack Obama
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
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