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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Agreed, on all counts. And the first one most of all. 💔

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, x’s a bazillion.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Nah, there were some that *even I* easily recognized, but to me, they genuinely sounded like manufactured talking points interlaced with ugly quasi-slurs or (usu mildly) derogatory framing being parroted by kids with a relatively pure, legit and valid cause for which they were advocating.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Completely true re: devolution in some places.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

merely a keyholder and board member ✌️

Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 9h

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

re: areas of heavy and repeated ICE infiltration, surveillance, and activity, including patterns of heavy, violent, and fast-moving abductions, continued

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

If the regions of focus for ICE and CBP are going to shift, you're going to have to be prepared for what that means. Deep structures of trust to meet people's basic needs. An understanding that you cannot and will not know the full scope of action on a given day. Bracing for loss after loss.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

re: areas of heavy and repeated ICE infiltration, surveillance, and activity, including patterns of heavy, violent, and fast-moving abductions

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 7h

That does horrible things to a community, to people's ability to function. There are families who haven't left their homes in weeks, relying on networks of trust to bring them essentials. Kids staying home from school, fear about every unknown car on the block. And those fears are not unfounded.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 7h

Young ppl are usu in the vanguard not only bc of “the courage” but also bc, by nature of age/inexperience, they’re the ones least invested in any hierarchical systems of oppression threatened by the material changes required for justice + peace—i.e., they’re most idealistic AND have least to “lose.”

HoboPoetMama @hobopoet.bsky.social · 9h

Calling for a ceasefire during Vietnam was a death sentence for many.

We haven't been "here" before but we've been close.

Standing and saying "not in my name" is always the first step and it's usually the young folks that have the courage to do it first.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

We have a lot of work to do right here to build trust.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 9h

I remember someone once scolding me that advocating for cats to be indoor-only is “classist” because not everyone can afford toys to keep them entertained inside. I was like madam their favorite things are sticks, crinkly paper, and cardboard boxes. Literal garbage.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 9h

My cat will play with a wooden chopstick for literal months on end.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 9h

In my experience with my own cats and shelter cats, they’re very often more interested in the stick end of wand toys rather than the fancy expensive end. Sticks are premium toys.

🌈🐮Ash⚧️🌋 @moomintrot.bsky.social · 12h

My youngest cat loves a good twig 😝 Sometimes he'll pick one up from outside and parade around the kitchen with it in his mouth like he's proud of le stick.

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 10h

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again they had killed his entire family as psychological torture meant to break him. When he walked up the stairs of his home today, his wife rushed into his arms, with his children and parents beside her - alive, waiting, delirious with joy and relief.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 9h

My sons Jaime Jaquez Jr. (MIA) and Jacob Toppin (ATL) earned strong honorable mentions, tho, in the good-looks hoopin’ on the hardwood division.

Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 9h

Same for me and the Dawgs, baybee. Hunker down, Dawgs, and sic ‘em(!), etc., etc.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

Hah, the Hawks video crew has a whole (hilarious) pregame short making fun of all the Heat fans in ATL who show up to Hawks games. The ushers will, mostly jokingly, give me ABSOLUTE HELL when I’m wearing a MIA jersey to rep my sons in here.

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yeah, brother. 😎🤙 S/o from section T3, @alf954.bsky.social!

“Wipe Me Down,” etc., etc. 🔥✌️

Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

I love getting FREE BASKETBALL(!) in OT, even if I’m mere yards away from Monday Night Football, where the Atlanta Falcons are lowkey dominating the Buffalo Bills at ATL’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

And the Dwyane Wade jerseys are GOING CRAZY up in this muh’ right now. 🔥

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

JACOB TOPPIN IS ALSO MY SON, BTW. ♥️ 🦅

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

The amount of LUDACRIS we play at ATL sporting events is—and I hope will forever be—LUDICROUS.

#FalconsvsBills #HawksvsHeat #TruetotheA

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Carley Carden @carleycarden.bsky.social · 10h

And while we’re talking looks on the hardwood, I’ll add that Asa Newell (ATL) and Ethan Thompson (MIA) are ~BY FAR~ the most handsome young men out here hoopin’ this eve.

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