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Amy Louise Herndon
@amylherndon.bsky.social
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Humanist and Democratic Socialist. Swiss Army Knife and founding employee @TiltFive.bsky.social. Ham radio call sign AI6ZU. She/Her. #AR #XR #retro #games #nerd #humanist #Atheist #EatTheRich Absolutely 🚫NO DMs unless we know each other IRL.
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · Aug 26
This is a must read!!!
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 26
Credit must be given to Chris Armitage.
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · 2m
I watch this periodically to remind me that at one point in time people actually realized that fascists were the bad guys.

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The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h
Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 5h
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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 59m
That is some HUBRIS. TechBros vs Mother Nature. This will accelerate the planet's temperature (bad); ruin the delicate biological ecosystem; and wreck every creature's Circadian Rhythms. All for what? The goal isn't to bring sunlight to darkness. The goal is MONEY. Bros gotta plunder.
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 21h
Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 59m
The glory days of stupidity are back: Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy.
Trump officials cancel major solar project in latest hit to renewable energy
Esmeralda 7 in Nevada would have produced enough energy to power 2m homes
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · 1h
I absolutely NEED this on a shirt! Go Portland Frog!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h
Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 5h
Today Trump visited Walter Reed and underwent another single-pass albumin dialysis (SPAD) procedure for his failing liver.

Decades-long cocaine abuse ✓
Decades-long Adderall abuse ✓
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Amy Louise Herndon @amylherndon.bsky.social · 1h
My grandfather fought fascists in WWII, so it runs in my family.

My grandmother made meals that were definitely a result of scarce resources and "making due".

I'm feeling more and more that it's past time for a version of "Victory Gardens" and WWII style recipes.
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 2h
This is frightening -> "The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. "
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 1h
🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 1h
This is absolutely true, and it's also exactly why so much colonialist oligarch funding has been spent toward preventing Black history from being taught in regular history classes.
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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 8h
If you all would have included truthful Black History as part of American History, you wouldn't be so "shocked" by what is happening right now. In fact, what is happening now likely wouldn't be happening because you would have been able to see it coming with knowledge of history.
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3h
🚨🚨🚨Fake ICE reporting site reports to ICE. Be warned:
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Jill-Duh @gildafoster.bsky.social · 2h
Professor Timothy Snyder, in his book "On Tyranny" reminds us to stand out. Do not be afraid to say something or do something that stands out.
The simple act of doing it is an example for others to also be a little fearless.
Love & strength from southern California.

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#veterannoiseprotest #california
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David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 7h
🙏

Remember to pray tonight for Portland.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 7h
Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 6h
Portland Frogman used “spooky” hands and hip thrusts to make ICE agents retreat. Under that costume are huge muscles, watch video. An ICE asshole sprayed pepper spray into the air vent but Frogman continued in his costume another hour. Hero #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

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ICE Humiliated By Army Of Inflatable Animals At Protests
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10h
📌The S&P 500 sank 2.7% in its worst day since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 878 points, or 1.9%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 3.6%, on this devastating news.

📌He is wrecking the U.S. economy.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 10h
President Trump said that he’s placing an additional 100% tax on Chinese imports starting on Nov. 1 or sooner, potentially escalating tariff rates close to levels that in April fanned fears of a steep recession and financial market chaos.
Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner
President Donald Trump says “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea after China restricted exports of rare earths needed for American industry.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h
Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 7h
Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 7h
Release the Epstein Files.
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