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Mei

@maybellinecdn.bsky.social

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We are not going back. Pro-science and pro-liberal democracy🇨🇦Looking for ways to actively build a better society while the oligarchs try to control the narrative.

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Mei @maybellinecdn.bsky.social · Dec 10

Friend: I feel like we don’t talk anymore.

Me: Well, you tell me that I’m overreacting when you think a conversation is becoming too “political” and it’s usually a topic that really matters to me, so we might not have much to talk about for a while.

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Mei @maybellinecdn.bsky.social · 15h

😞💔

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Dr. Cosmopolitan ♀️☮️🧣🌊 🏳️‍🌈 @hotdiggitydr.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder, it's not the guns.

(In the reddest state in the only country where this happens)

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead with multiple injured in three shootings at Mississippi homecoming weekends

Four people were killed in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in Heidelberg, amid a third attack in Rolling Fork

www.theguardian.com

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 20h

MAGA being played for fools by fools

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Mei @maybellinecdn.bsky.social · 1d

I like this one 😆. Thanks! 🫶

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Mei @maybellinecdn.bsky.social · 1d

Hugs, J.

(But props for your photography, my friend!💕)

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 1d

I shot this 15 years ago—back when people took photos for memories, not likes; when the world felt safer for our kids; when Halloween was about holding hands for trick-or-treat. Everything changes but sometimes I wish I could stay in this moment, when the scary stuff in life was still over her head🖤

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Mei @maybellinecdn.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never related so much to a mug…

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 1d

You know the assignment 👍

It'd be a real shame if this photo of President Obama receiving his Nobel peace prize went viral today, for no particular reason

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Susan Hendrick, Esq. @susanhendrick.bsky.social · 1d

This is the time we find out who would hide Anne Frank and her family and those that would turn them away or report them to the Nazis. This is the time we discover true character.

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

😕🇺🇸

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Using the government shutdown as an excuse to implement Project 2025. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump administration begins laying off federal workers amid shutdown

White House budget director Russell Vought said reductions-in-force were underway.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #monoku #senryu #MPPrompt

straw man I fear even the crows are laughing

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

The Oregonian Frogs are missing a trick not playing Paul McCartney’s Frog Chorus as their song, “we all stand together” is a perfect sentiment all things considered

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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 2d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

truly insane how much of the past 3,000 years have been spent fighting over whose imaginary god friend is the best/most powerful…

human beings… room for improvement!!!