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Alice M. Cole

@alicemcole.bsky.social

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pen name of https://bonniers.wordpress.com. I write novels. I like cats (and dogs, rabbits, bison, foxes, etc), art, birds, needlework, writing and writers, landscape photos, flowers... I repost a lot of stuff I think people might be interested in.

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Rogue Raven @rogue-raven.bsky.social · 6h

Entire lessons in CCD about denying the lord in various ways. THIS was about the dumbest thing they could do in a heavily Catholic community that is the Pope's hometown.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 35m

This is such a niche ask for a family member but if you found a car key fob and some other keys on the LES last night send me a message. Likely near Essex and Stanton 🫠

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 11m

I thought the French was “trouver”? Is “trover” the older spelling?

I’m not an expert in French so I’m probably wrong…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 19m

Yeah, every place we’ve been around New England this year has been muted. Pretty, but not intense like that. Either it’s not this year or they tweaked the photo color saturation.

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 23m

At any season, but especially now.

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that cheap 𝖌𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑 @troybucket.bsky.social · 26m

These fertilizer/explosive plant explosions happen, dozens of people get killed, and the media traction for these stories evaporates after a few days. It’s odd, and these plants are all over the place.

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Tyler Walpole - NYCC Artist Alley H-15 @tylerwalpole.bsky.social · 1h

Today is your last chance to catch me at NYCC! Artist Alley H-15, swing by and say hello!
#nycc2025 #mtg #criticalrole #dresdenfiles

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 1h

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I'll send you a letter

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 29m

Timeline cleanse

Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 1h

Hee hee haw haw, what’s so funny miss parrotfish?? 🤭🦜🐟 #redtailparrotfish #parrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #smile #livelaughlove #goofball #buckteeth #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 30m

Oh ugh. That sucks mud through a straw, as the kids used to say.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 1h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 1h

Everything I wasn't and knew I could never be.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1h

"For me, it’s more that she embodied the woman I wanted to be: easily given to kindness but never a pushover, serious as necessary but always good-humored, strong yet vulnerable, razor sharp but never shy of being a lovable goofball..."

A Toast to Diane Keaton

The patron saint of cool women.

charlotteclymer.substack.com

Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 1h

We saw bottle nests like those in Colonial Williamsburg last year. They were put up around doors and windows to attract insect eating small birds for pest control pre-pesticides. Apparently any small bird that doesn’t mind being around people.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 2h

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2h

2/2 While soldiers sleep, the ultimate miracle occurs. And the ultimate painting of it is Piero della Francesca, in 1462. Today is his day.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Alice M. Cole @alicemcole.bsky.social · 2h

OMG. That’s freaking unbelievable.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 10d

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now."
Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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