Mr. Bear

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...

Orion Magazine (@orionmagazine.bsky.social) Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org

“If I keep lilacs close, might the faeries see through this mask? Might they recognize the wild, untamed part in me, loosen my bindings, and set me free?” Kristi Marciano @orionmagazine.bsky.social

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Can someone please explain why journalists have stopped pointing out that the executive branch has no constitutional authority to end these programs?

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#TransDayOfVisibility

Portait of a woman covered in sludge. Only her arms are uncovered. But within the sludge, her face and body are partially visible, revealing a floral pattern on her face and body, pink and white flowers on blue background. This is a repaint of an illustration I did a decade ago. In the original there in equal sign superimposed at the bottom of the canvas. The equal sign is still there, but it is empty now.

A world without Trans people has never existed, and it never will. More than visibility, we need safety 🏳️‍⚧️

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Ozturk is apparently being detained because she wrote an opinion essay. Fulbright is a program of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. They have a duty to speak up for the rights and safety of international students participating in Fulbright exchanges in the US.

friends, please help the quoted post circulate, we need to flood Governor Healey’s office with calls today

Her crime was writing an op/ed. Her visa was valid, but she wrote an op/ed

Another student kidnapped and disappeared by masked ICE agents for voicing an opinion.

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Only Count In One | matchbook

“Because when you love something, you plan. Then, from the one in the denim vest and jean jacket: ‘I just thought he would live forever.’” @mossyair.bsky.social @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social

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Even cursory contact with law enforcement (traffic stop, bumping into a cop on the street, coughing in a cop's direction) can trigger deportation proceedings if they would like. For example, one of the men shipped away to El Salvador was stopped by local LEO in a traffic stop.

Thank you so much, Dan ❤️

“One thing we all share: we begin and, inevitably, we cease.”
Lovely artwork by Angela Mihm @astrolabe.ooo

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interlude • fiction from Robin Steve one out of season morning, we went out looking for a name. We did not know where names make their lairs, whether they favour rock, dirt, twigs, or wires.

“Inside, we found: flakes, ridges, cliffs, dales, meat, oil, smell, sound.” Robin Steve @astrolabe.ooo

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The Day of the Great Release • fiction from Jessica Richardson Sometimes this terrified love swooped inches from your face, and you wondered if it would peck your eyes out. Who kept these birds? Why did they?

“The whole sky was filled with squealing and feathers and what my brother called ‘a terrified love.’”
Jessica Richardson @astrolabe.ooo

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Skyberries • non-fiction from Geoffrey Wessel If Erd can translate either “Earth” or “ground,” does German also have one single word for English “sky” and “Heaven”?

“On the other hand, raspberries do grow, I suppose, up in the air, to some extent—in comparison, at least, to the Erdbeeren sweetly ripening down there amongst the summer straw.” @l42r.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo

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Goatboy • fiction from Devan Murphy We’re mooing and braying with laughter, moving in slo-mo, such fun. His little jeans, his striped t-shirt over his drumlike child’s tummy.

“I am spraying him back, the little womanwoman, with knucklesknuckles and hairless fingers upon a purple trigger.”
Devan Murphy @astrolabe.ooo

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I Threw the Warthog Away • non-fiction from Mary Lou Buschi She found it in the trash next to a table covered with cards. “You are so mean,” she said.

“Her clutter, too much. I’d be sifting through it soon. ‘Three months,’ she said.” @maryloubuchi.bsky.social @astrolabe.ooo

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Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood • fiction from Georgia Bellas I see her hands cup a grasshopper. I see her sweep with pine needle brooms. Can you smell the lilacs, purple and white?

Thrilled to be part of the @astrolabe.ooo universe with my piece “Self-hypnosis, or Dig Deep In There Until the Bottom of the Ocean of Your Childhood”

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Astrolabe A new literary magazine in the form of a dynamic universe.

Spring is here! The Stitches materialized today. Explore these worlds by @mrbearstumpy.bsky.social, @l42r.bsky.social, @maryloubuchi.bsky.social, Robin Steve, Jessica Richardson, Devan Murphy, and Angela Mihm.

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Ditto! I hope you’re well xo

Hi Ashley!! ❤️