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Bec Soda

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Healthcare worker🦷 Native gardener🦋🐛🐞🕷️ Wildlife photographer📸🤳🦅🦌🐺🪲 North NJ Mom 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 OK-ish wife 👩‍❤️‍👨 Defender of democracy💙🌊 Woman’s rights 🩷 LGBTQ Ally🌈 Equal Rights 🟰 Black Lives Matter🖤🤎 She/Her Never voted for the dictator🤡 🚫DM🚫GoFundMe🚫Crypto

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · Feb 16

My always expanding butterfly garden. Looking for host plants
🌿🍃🌱🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

www.nj.com/news/2025/01...
#NewJersey #Butterfly #ButterflyGarden

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CharlieD @charliedjr.bsky.social · 12h

And executed!

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13h

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There Is No Spoon @neumahn.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Recruitment Video...

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 10h

This!
😂😂😂😂

Petty Picasso @pettypicasso.bsky.social · 1d

Being petty is my first and last stop of the day

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 2d

Labeling people who disagree with you as terrorists or Antifa so you can use the military against them is textbook fascism.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

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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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 2d

It brings me joy to think about some small manufacturer of inflatable animals being *extremely* confused when their sales suddenly jump 500% in a weekend.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters getting cuffed should insist on calling the arresting officers “Daddy” just to make them feel weird as hell about the whole thing.

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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 2d

Stephen Miller is attempting to take away millions of voters’ right to cast a ballot. All because they don't have a passport. You could be next.

Join us in fighting back against schemes to deny eligible voters access to the ballot box. www.commoncause.org/articles/mil...

Miller and His Allies Want to Silence Millions of Americans

Stephen Miller’s group is pushing a “show your papers” voter rule. Submit your comment to the EAC by Oct. 20 to stop this voter suppression plan.

www.commoncause.org

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds…super illegal

Laura Weiss @lauralew105.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this didn't get enough attention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 1d

I see maybe 1-2 a year in NJ

Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel thinks the only way to get his message across is in the extremity of a religious context. Without it, he argues, people simply won’t take his warnings seriously.

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Audio of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

Healthy people don't like it. There's depressingly large subset of the population that gets aroused watching men in uniforms brutalizing civilians on trivial pretexts.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 2d

People see masked ICE thugs physically abusing and arresting normies, and they do not like it. Consequences are going to follow. It's just a matter of time.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 2d

Winning. Fk trump l.smartnews.com/p-6mQSj3oI/i...

Trump administration fires at least 4.1K federal workers in shutdown layoffs (The Hill)

The Trump administration laid off more than 4,100 employees Friday amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to a new court filingfrom the Justice Depa...

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 2d

White-Crowned Sparrow
DeKorte Park, Lyndhurst
10/10/25
#Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 3d

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Unless Trump is ACTUALLY Able to STOP Elections, They Are Going to Happen

YouTube video by Knitting Cult Lady

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Bec Soda @becksoda.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know? Puerto Ricans have been US citizens by birth since 1917, thanks to the Jones-Shafroth Act. This landmark legislation granted American citizenship to all Puerto Ricans, securing their right to live and work in the US @SoMexican
Bad bunny 4th generation citizen
Trump 3rd generation citizen
Melania 1st generation citizen

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JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 5d

@altnps.bsky.social @alt-irs.altgov.info @altssa.altgov.info @altspaceforce.altgov.info @altusda.altgov.info

This needs to be amplified. They are planning to not pay furloughed workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if history has any lessons about what happens when large concentrations of armed soldiery stop getting paid.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

Okay so you have the National Guard deployed to several American cities and plan on sending them to more, so is the plan to actually not pay these people and just find out what happens?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

US House Speaker Johnson: Some legal analysts don't believe in shutdown backpay.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 5d

Your constant reminder that bribe for hire Pam Bondi isn’t an attorney general by any means, she’s a criminal who was installed by a criminal to cover up his crimes and the crimes of other powerful rich criminals. Any testimony she gives is a complete bullshit perjury rant.

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