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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 3d

I kind of get the dustup over that vile little troll claiming “plenary power” but honestly, they are already behaving as if this is true and there is not a whole lot happening to show they’re wrong, especially in the case of their DHS/ICE activities and blowing up Venezuelan fishermen.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 3d

I know that represents a huge amount of work over the last couple of months

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 5d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 5d

Nice - thanks for this!

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 5d

The inside of our screen door looked like that yesterday and i panicked a little!

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 5d

The embroidered patch look is very well done and cool!

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 5d

It sounds to me like they think that because people like working remote, it means they shouldn’t let them.

ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 5d

A full moon experience.

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Matt Sutkoski @mattweathervt.bsky.social · 6d

Matt's Weather Rapport: All time record highs for month of October were broken or tied in #Vermont , Quebec, other places. More of the same today. Climate change making bizarro heat waves more likely. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/10/incr...

Incredible October Heat Here In Vermont, And Much Of U.S. Southeast Canada; It's A Climate Change Trend

People strolling through downtown Montpelier, Vermont Sunday amid record October heat. The city tied its record for hottest October day on ...

matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 6d

I walk by this in the woods every day. I’ll confess I’m a 54 year old person utterly convinced there is some Wind in the Willows stuff going on in there.

A big log on the ground in the woods covered in moss and fallen leaves, with a big tunnel hole where a branch used to be, obviously a portal into the cozy living quarters of small animals.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 6d

This is more an absolute mangling than a typo, but i really love it. It took me at least 15 puzzled seconds to figure out what the intended word was. If i could figure out how to pronounce it, i’d make it a permanent stand-in. (At a small beach motel in Rye, NH)

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 6d

Worried about food prices? More upward grocery price pressure from State SNAP restriction projects, which are projected to cost retailers $1.6 billion to implement.
progressivegrocer.com/snap-purchas...

SNAP Purchase Restrictions Could Cost Retailers $1.6B to Implement: Study

Grocers and c-stores want more time and clarity to protect program access and stability

progressivegrocer.com

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 7d

Impressive! 👏

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 7d

I am so excited. A friend who is a psychotherapist was given a cutting a while ago and he gave me this one today!

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 7d

This is a cutting from a cutting (ad infinitum) of a begonia that belonged to Sigmund Freud and it’s now in my house!

A small begonia with spotted, pointy leaves in a terra cotta pot.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 8d

Really messed up the commas in both of those alts😑

ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 8d

Fall colors in the garden and in the woods.

Messy, scrappy looking fall garden with purple and orange flowers, seed heads and kale, backed by red sumac and taller trees in various colors, all in pretty morning light.

Looking through near trees to treetops. Orange leaf litter on the ground, orange and red leaves, in the distant treetops, the silhouette of a distant hilltop, backlit by the sun.

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 8d

This is a cathartic read.

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 8d

Big tough hospital guys

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Willem Huiskamp @willemh.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know how @climatetown.bsky.social keeps getting better, but their newest video on how awful lawns are is not to be missed

America's Dumbest Crop

YouTube video by Climate Town

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 9d

Wait can you really do that?

ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 9d

Love at first sight. But I’m so far away :(
Someone go get this good girl immediately!

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Alex Burch @alexkburch.bsky.social · 10d

In #Chicago , the #authoritarian goons broke into homes of American citizens, grabbing them and binding them with zip ties. Children were zip tied together-separated from their parents.
Rodrick Johnson,“…was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.”

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ames @amsrbb.bsky.social · 10d

My first idol. I just wanted more than anything when i was young to be Jane Goodall.

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