A Big Bluesky Post!

 I may or may not make this a regular thing, but as long as I’m still on Facebook (mostly for overseas friends and family members), I want to share with friends on Bluesky some of the more compelling posts I get in my feed. Rebecca Solnit always has something of merit to say and today’s post from her is no different.

I’ll post screenshots of her post and a link to the NYT article she references. She’s also appended screenshots of her own that I’ll post at the end.

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Link to Jamelle Bouie’s NYT article. 

Rebecca’s screenshots:















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