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Petal Lu Ⓥ 🌱💙🌎

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No DMs!! Unless I already know you. #Vegan 💚🌱 #AnimalRights #Activist #SaveThePlanet #Democrat #Science #Feminist #BLM #EqualRights #Ally Cat Mom 🐈🐈‍⬛ & Foster🐱 Cycling 🚴‍♂️ Nature 💚🎄🦋☀️🌻🐞🐸🐢🦉🐇🐝 Agnostic ☮️ She/Her 🍸🍷

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 7h

As a not always well behaved kid in school, I had one teacher who would sometimes ask me, “What are you…some kind of smart guy?!” after I had annoyed her. It always confused me. I thought we were there to become smarter.🤷🏻‍♂️ That’s how life feels now. People saying things that just don’t match up.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 6h

Daily reports from Portland, Ore., police in the month leading up to Trump’s decision to send in federal troops paint a picture that’s different from what his public statements portrayed

What’s Really Going On in Portland, According to Police Reports

Protests outside an ICE facility were dwindling in size and at times ”low energy” in the days and weeks before President Trump called in troops, according to official law-enforcement logs.

www.wsj.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I'm talking about the Epstein list. I genuinely don't understand why there's been any effort to hide this & prevent it from coming out. But b/c of the efforts for years now to hide it, it certainly makes you feel afraid when you're one of the ones truly on the frontlines."

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Sayj 🤘🏼❤️🖤 @sayj.bsky.social · 16h

Really happy how this turned out😋🍲 please click the video ( thank you 😊) I just feel if I do voice videos, there's no point typing it out 🙏🏽❤️
#vegan #homemade #CozyVibes #autumn #comfortfood 🌱🎃🍂🤎

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 16h

This will be Portland's most high-profile bike lane. It's a shame downtown worker traffic is so much lower post-Covid because this could have been one of the city's busiest bike lanes too. Can't wait to see how it all shakes out.

iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 17h

Protected bike lane, coming soon to SW 4th Ave

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Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · 11h

Breaking: A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of National Guard troops in the state of Illinois for 14 days.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Thinking a baby is carried in the placenta = Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 14h

Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.
Impeach and remove.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 9h

I stand with @newyorkstateag.bsky.social!

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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 1d

Last funny for today

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brownchubbybear @brownchubbybear.bsky.social · 1d

A message to #Farmers

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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 1d

A Pastor was shot in the head while praying.

A Reverend and her group were shot while standing on a sidewalk singing 'We Shall Overcome.'

ICE is no longer about Customs and Immigration. They are a thug police force that shoots Christians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats

David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

www.independent.co.uk

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 12h

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time

*Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 1d

Here comes the judge

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h

RFK Jr. has a new theory on autism. He thinks circumcision could be a factor.

It confirms what many of us have suspected for a long time.

They genuinely believe their brains are in their dicks.

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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 1d

Watching @judiciarydems.senate.gov yesterday as they easily roped Pam Bondi into into lying under oath to Congress yesterday reminded me watching Mike Wallace catch John Ehrlichman in lies about the Watergate break-in.

Bondi has this same cockiness.

1973 @cbsnews.com #60Minutes⏰

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

ILLINOIS Candidate for Congress @abugai.bsky.social : “You said Prizker & Johnson need a history lesson - I’d like to give you one: when masked men are kidnapping entire families, naked, zip-tying their hands and throwing them into U-haul trucks… they’re usually not the good guys.”

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 1d

Did anyone hear a word from the Red Cross, the UN, or—let’s be crazy—Greta and her Free Palestine mob today?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

People compare the United States' fascism today to Germany's fascism in the 1930s, but it's actually far more shameless and stupid.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE SAYS SHE WILL BLOCK THE DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS IN ILLINOIS, FOR NOW

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