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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 39m

Yep. An Ohio rep said out loud that libraries are “too woke to fund,” then they slashed our budget.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 1d

This is so heartbreaking and unsurprising and infuriating. I get it. I hate it. I’m so sorry.

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 2d

I figured you would! 😁

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 2d

Love this! It is a meaty book. Very smart read for historical fiction nerds who love the big picture unrolling of civilizations and everything that entails. I hope you love it!

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 2d

If you are looking for a fun read this Indigenous People’s Day, try an alternate history where Atahualpa discovers Europe. My nerdy little Peruvian heart was continuously delighted reading Civilizations, then I got mad when it ended.

Book cover of Civilizations by Laurent Binet, red background with a graphic of a black ship

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 10d

I am so delighted and honored and humbled and flabbergasted 😭🥰🤩

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 10d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Middle Grade: Mallory in Full Color by Elisa Stone Leahy! @elisastoneleahy.com🎉🎉🎉

#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12d

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 14d

Come listen to @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social and I talk about this fabulous anthology, Banned Together, during Banned Books Week @columbuslibrary.bsky.social

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16d

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

www.npr.org

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 17d

I would love to know about your work!

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 17d

Following you bc my search for Irene Silverblatt brought this up and I’m happy to fangirl together.

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 24d

Definitely thinking a lot about “believe in truth.”

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 24d

Lately, instead of counting 25 seconds for my daily plank and V sit I’ve been reciting Snyder’s lessons on Tyranny. Trying to get to where I can do 10 in the morning at 10 at night.

Book cover of Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny (the graphic novel version)

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · 26d

I want more Maria Ressa content! Listening to those who have lived through this (and the worse that follows) feels like sanity. I’m glad I’m not the only one, even if I have to wait!

Libby screenshot with the book cover of How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa showing a 5 week hold

Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · Sep 15

If my tax dollars are funding funerals for the victims of gun violence, might I make a friendly suggestion that it go to the children murdered at school rather than the millionaire? Seems more practical…

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · Sep 15

I use squarespace and I emailed their help center reporting this doxxing website as a security risk. See more in this thread. People WILL be targeted by this website.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Sep 14

We need your help. There is a new doxxing site circulating. A domain just registered through Namecheap (on Sept 10, 2025) and hosted on Squarespace is being used to publish private personal information.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · Sep 11

These are very easy things to say:
I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator.
I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator.
Please let's choose love over fear.

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · Sep 9

Incredible 👏👏👏

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · Sep 1

My new approach to spam texts.

Text from unknown number: Is‌ this a go‌od time for a chat?
Reply: Thank you for contacting the Department for the Promotion of Rodent Welfare. Reply YES to be added to our text communication.

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Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com · Aug 28

Wow, Columbus, you all sure love RL Stine. 800+ tickets sold out in 2 minutes!

Authors at the Library with R.L. Stine

Get Goosebumps with legendary horror author and Bexley native, R.L. Stine!

www.eventbrite.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Aug 27

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 6

A number of years ago I was asked if I wanted to be part of the NYC Columbus Day parade, and I said sure, as long as they were okay with me noting that Columbus was a genocidal fuckface to anyone who asked. It was then decided I should not be part of the parade.

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · Aug 6

The only Italian-Americans I know who care about protecting Columbus' rep are toxic boomers.

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