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Birdrgirl🦉

@birdrgirl.bsky.social

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Lover of birds🦉, everything nature🌲, gardening🌻, all the amazing peeps who work hard💪 and tirelessly to hold onto our democracy, AND everyone who acknowledges global warming and fights for 🌎Mother Earth🌎 and her diversity! All 📷photos📷 are mine.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois State Troopers Arrest ICE protesters at Broadview Detention Center

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has lost the peace prize, maybe he can start fulfilling his campaign promises:

• Free IVF
• 100% Tax Free Tips
• Release Epstein files
• Lower Grocery Prices
• 100% Tax Free Overtime
• 100% Tax Free Social Security
• 10% Cap on Credit Card Interest Rates

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 1d

And so much more!!!

Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 1d

I guarantee you that millions are not going to turn out because they “hate” America! 🙄

Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy this sweet little 🪶Arctic Tern chick for today’s #BirdOfTheDay
#MaineBirds

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Damn!❤️💪

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 2d

“America has become a hostile environment”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Republican C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "As a Republican, I'm very disappointed in my party,and I'm very disappointed in you, because you have the power to call the House back. You refuse to do that just for a show."

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3d

Fun trick: Every time Trump says ‘Antifa,’ swap in ‘MAGA’—suddenly, what he's saying becomes true.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 2d

The elegant 🪶Common Loon is probably the most strikingly beautiful #spotted bird I know! #BirdOfTheDay
#VermontBirds

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Still waiting on that health care plan, Donald.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 4d

Important info from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social about what we can do right now to protect the voting rights we currently have. Share the information and then……
Get writing!✍️
#ProtectVotingRights

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s a lovely 🪶American Kestrel for the #BirdIfTheDay
#NewMexicoBirds
#Kestrel
#Raptors

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 3d

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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