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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · Apr 7

According to the Republican Party, America doesn't have money for school lunches, vaccine research, NOAA, FEMA, or DHHS, but we've got the money for a Parade for a Fool.

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · Apr 7

How the fuck does anyone admire this needy bitch

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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · Apr 4

Proud to be among the amici supporting Perkins Coie (along w/@umichlaw.bsky.social colleagues @leahlitman.bsky.social, Len Niehoff, & Rebecca Scott).

The Trump Administration is trying to subvert the rule of law by denying lawyers to its opponents. It's that simple.
law.stanford.edu/publications...

BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School

Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · Apr 2

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 1

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Mar 31

Go Cory Go!

Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · Mar 31

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.

Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 30

Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 30

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Mar 31

THANK YOU!!! This is incredible and we are so honored 🥹🥹🥹🥹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Mar 31

So thankful to @leeandlow.bsky.social and @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social for celebrating stories that reflect the richness of our world. Diverse voices matter—always.

We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Mar 25

We Need Diverse Books warmly congratulates the winners of @leeandlow.bsky.social’s 2024 New Visions Award, @conniechang.bsky.social and @jm-blakemore.bsky.social!

Purple promotional graphic with a pattern of diagonal stripes. At the center is a white pop-up window that says, “WNDB Congratulates Lee & Low Books’ 2024 New Visions Award Winner!” Beneath the title text is an illustration of a first place trophy sitting on top of a stack of books.

Purple promotional graphic with a pattern of diagonal stripes. At the center is a white pop-up window titled, “About Lee & Low Books’ New Visions Award.” The body text reads as follows: “The New Visions Award is given biennially to an unpublished writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer for a middle grade or young adult manuscript. Founded in 2012, the award encourages and supports authors from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in publishing.”

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Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social · Mar 25

🎉We're so thrilled to have @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social help us share the amazing news that is our 2024 New Visions Award winners!

We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Mar 25

We Need Diverse Books warmly congratulates the winners of @leeandlow.bsky.social’s 2024 New Visions Award, @conniechang.bsky.social and @jm-blakemore.bsky.social!

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Mar 31

So so amazing!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹💗💗💗💗💗💗

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · Mar 19

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Mar 17

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Mar 9

SO EXCITING!!! Thank you Rebecca!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Feb 21

The snarky magic rabbit 😭😭😭 my fave 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 THANK YOU JENNA!!!!

Jenna Satterthwaite @jennaschmenna.bsky.social · Feb 21

Yayyy! So thrilled that this profound, hilarious and BRILLIANT book will be in the world! It's basically:

👻ghosts
💀grief
🥟all you can eat dim sum
🐰snarky magic rabbit

I'm over the moon that it found such a great home!!!
@stormliterary.bsky.social @conniechang.bsky.social @jm-blakemore.bsky.social

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jm-blakemore.bsky.social @jm-blakemore.bsky.social · Feb 21

@conniechang.bsky.social
& I are so honored to announce that we won
@leeandlow.bsky.social’s New Visions Award for our manuscript “Don't Feed the Hungry Ghosts"! Can’t wait to share our strange, spooky, funny tale with the world.

Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social · Feb 19

🎉Lee & Low Books is thrilled to announce Don’t Feed the Hungry Ghosts, co-written by Connie Chang and J.M. Blakemore, as the 2024 winner of the New Visions Award!

📚 Learn more about the winners & their manuscript on the Lee & Low Open Book Blog!: www.leeandlow.com/blog/lee-low...

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Feb 20

to @jennaleeyun.bsky.social again for making us enter our manuscript and teaching us to write, and to @jennaschmenna.bsky.social, the best advocate and agent we could have ever dreamed of 🥹🙏🏼🫶🏻😭

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Feb 20

Endless thanks to @leeandlow.bsky.social for this incredible honor and opportunity, to @jennaleeyun.bsky.social and @jessicahaster.bsky.social for dreaming up the poop ghost with us and being the toughest beta readers this side of heaven ✍🏻

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Connie Chang @conniechang.bsky.social · Feb 20

SO thrilled to share that @jm-blakemore.bsky.social & I won @leeandlow.bsky.social’s New Visions Award for our manuscript “Don't Feed the Hungry Ghosts"! 🤯🏆✨

I can't believe that our weird, funny, heartfelt book (about a poop ghost 💩👻) will be hitting bookshelves in the not-too-distant future! 🥹😭🎉

Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social · Feb 19

🎉Lee & Low Books is thrilled to announce Don’t Feed the Hungry Ghosts, co-written by Connie Chang and J.M. Blakemore, as the 2024 winner of the New Visions Award!

📚 Learn more about the winners & their manuscript on the Lee & Low Open Book Blog!: www.leeandlow.com/blog/lee-low...

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