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JoseyRider
@joseyrider.bsky.social
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Lifetime Democrat. Retired. Women's rights, civil rights, environment/climate change, permaculture. Politics matter. Pay attention. TX to Rosebud Rez, SD to Ecuador. Equine specialist for Equine Assisted Therapy.
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · Nov 9
For anyone else wanting to stop your Medicare coverage (& the payment coming out of your Social Security check),
I'll save you some hours on hold.
This is the form you need to complete. Return it by hand, mail or fax to your closest SS office.

FORM: CMS-1763
www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS...
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 59m
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 27d
In case you missed the announcement, we have bookmarks now so you don't have to reply with a pin. And there is an app convert all of your pins to bookmarks/saved posts.
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Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
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Matthew Jee @freedomforall.net · 11h
Great resources Hilary. This site from Jim Hopper at Harvard is one I've recommended for years. Jim works with mindfulness and trauma. It's a really good place to start for people who want to become more aware of their conditioning safely.
jimhopper.com/topics/mindf...
Jim Hopper, Ph.D. | Mindfulness and MeditationMindfulness and Meditation – Jim Hopper, Ph.D.
Dr. Jim Hopper's site has a wealth of information on child abuse, sexual assault, and healing, including recovered memories, the neurobiology of trauma, and mindfulness.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 12h
5) This one is a bit of a spicier rec, but if you're ready to go even deeper and see how spirituality is an essential component we need to integrate to combat Christian cults, then listen to The Emerald.

This is a relevant episode, but listen to any that pique your interest. My fav is "Snail Juice"
Oh Justice
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 12h
4) Shaun (@shaunvids.bsky.social) does amazing work speaking to and about young white men from a critical but also humanizing perspective.

More positive masculinity: hilaryagro.com/resources/#p...
White Men/2018 Plans
YouTube video by Shaun
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 12h
3) Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social: practical advice for organizing and activism, and how to make hope something that you build with others
Book called let this radicalize you: organizing and the revolution of reciprocal care. By Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 12h
2) Maybe I'm cheating by calling this one a single resource, but it's just too good! Interrupting Criminalization has got so much! Use it all, share it all! They are amazing!

@interruptcrim.bsky.social
Resources — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 12h
The five resources I suggest first are below. None are perfect, all are just tools in a toolbox. Pick whichever interests you, leave anything you don't feel aligned with.

1) Nonviolent communication training: to learn how to talk to and connect with people with a non-authoritarian approach.
Introduction to Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 13h
We NEED information like this, from those who escaped right wing cults. We need stories of conservatives coming around to realize that they've been lied to.

When we foster an environment in which those people are shamed and shunned, we are depriving ourselves of an incredibly important resource!
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16h
So when I say that when I was a young Republican, I didn't realize it was inherently racist, okay, disbelieve me. Pretend I used the n-word or whatever. I didn't, but whatever you need to feel superior.

But remember: when your rule is "born perfect or GTFO," you are limiting your coalition.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 13h
When we say that people can't change, that is not leftism. It means one of two things: 1) a carceral approach, or 2) a doomer approach. Because it means either we have to lock those people up because they're unfixable, or there's nothing we can do and we should just give up.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h
Oh my. Who let this slip out, and how soon will they be fired for it?
ABC News @ABC The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h
🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 2h
Alaska’s bowhead whales can hear the climate changing. Scientists are listening in, too.
In a changing Arctic, how much noise is too much? - High Country News
Alaska’s bowhead whales can hear the climate changing. Scientists are listening in, too.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2h
Good piece, recommended.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 2h
This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...
You Are Inventory
Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...
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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 2h
Cost to fund Obamacare subsidies for a year: 35B

Amount just given to that sick fuck running Argentina: 40B

But we have to keep the govt closed because Democrats want to spend too much on health care.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h
As best as I could track what happened: the doxing took place, the accounts involved got suspended, and then Musk personally had them reinstated due to outcry. (Kind of like he did with the guy who posted CSAM.)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h
judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!
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Ruth Adar 🎗️ @rruth.bsky.social · 2h
This article lifted my spirits today:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Lincoln Way
How he used America’s past to rescue its future
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h
Why do they even care about this?
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 20h
Major Chinese airlines urged the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon a plan that would bar them from flying over Russia on U.S. flights, saying it could raise fares and disrupt some routes.
Chinese airlines oppose Trump plan to ban flying over Russia on U.S. routes
Last week, the U.S. Transportation Department proposed banning Chinese airlines from flying over Russia on routes to and from the United States.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h
This tech has been used to track heads of state, business leaders, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/3Jcme1g
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h
Americans love the idea of other Americans working in factories. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 5h
Remember kids: Spending trillions of dollars to "reindustrialize America" is dastardly socialist central planning...unless billionaires do it. finance.yahoo.com/news/marc-an...
Marc Andreessen Backs Call For Elon Musk To Spearhead $10 Trillion US Re-Industrialization Plan: 'This Is The Way'
Prominent tech investor, Marc Andreessen, expressed support for a suggestion for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk to lead a $10 trillion program to reindustrialize America. Andreessen Agrees Musk Sh...
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 2h
Circuit Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. issued a final injunction for protection against dating violence against Mills, 45, concluding that the congressman harassed & threatened his former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States
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Judge finds anti-trans Republican Florida Congressman Cory Mills to be a danger to women
A judge ruled that Rep. Cory Mills, who has said “we must stop the left’s attack on women,” poses a risk to his ex-girlfriend, the reigning Miss United States.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is blatantly illegal. We have the Hatch Act for a reason. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-wildly-violating
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Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby @cclsvn.bsky.social · 2h
“There’s an increasing number of geographies where building new solar is essentially cheaper than just operating those existing coal units” Momentum for Renewables Continues www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/c...
Early Signs of a ‘Turning Point’ as Renewables Edge Out Coal
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 2h
When Trump said he likes to assault women by grabbing their genitals, we were told it's locker room talk.

Then they wrote their 900 page fascism plan & we were told it was fake news.

Now their 20-40 year olds have hard-ons for Hitler & we're being told kids will be kids.

Fuck the #GOP

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