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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎

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I don't get nearly enough credit for the things I manage not to say. Created the 1st BPA-Free water bottle. Starting a new co. to continue the fight against plastics & climate change. 'X' Refugee. Buddhist. It's not too late to save the planet.

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · Feb 17

This was my first company - KID BASIX. We created the world's first 'BPA-Free' branded reusable water bottle. I was one of the parent activists who led the fight to get BPA banned from drink ware worldwide.

Now, I'm starting my next company. Stay tuned!

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 14h

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

The lawless uprising destroying Portland.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

Of all people to bomb, they bomb the ones focused on loving-kindness.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Myanmar’s military junta bombed a Buddhist festival this week, killing at least two dozen people and injuring dozens more, according to a witness and the country’s civilian government in exile. A manned paraglider with a motor dropped a bomb on the festival, they said.

Myanmar Military Paraglider Bombs Buddhist Festival, Killing Dozens

The junta targeted a festival in the Sagaing region where people were also protesting army rule, according to witnesses and the civilian government in exile.

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, something Laura Loomer and I can agree on.

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA folks in Idaho don't even like moderate Democrats. What are they going to say when a bunch of military flyboys from Qatar interrupt lunch at a local diner for their mid-day prayers?

"Excuse me. Waitress? Do you have a small rug in back my son could use? I left his back at the base."

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

I can't wait to see this entire family locked up in a Federal prison.

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry. WHAT?!!!!!

Qatar is going to have its own Air Force base on American soil?!!!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

The REAL weaponization of the Justice Department continues.
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Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two s...

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

Chicago under seige from citizens rioting over Chicago Deep Dish pizza going "shallow."

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

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

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

Where the hell is the National Guard when you need protection from frogs?

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Report from the front lines of the war.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 1d

What a beauty!

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

"The problems that we as a nation have sought to illuminate, so that we can remedy them, are disappearing — not because the problems are disappearing or have been remedied, but because we will no longer know about them."

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

Eliminating financial data, jobs, employment and wage data, inflation data, earnings data ... turning the lights off on the economy is a particularly bad idea.

But Trump doesn't want American consumers and investors to know any truth that might make Trump look bad.

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These brutal firings and closures mean Trump is flying blind — and heading for a crash

Flying blind is dangerous, but it’s what Trump and his lackeys are forcing America to do.For starters, the current government shutdown means that critical economic statistics — such as job numbers fro...

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💞ClearCharm💞 @clearradiance.bsky.social · 17d

Where Moss and Water Weave Their Song🥰🌿🌾🍀

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💞ClearCharm💞 @clearradiance.bsky.social · 14d

Golden light touches autumn leaves as the sun sets, painting nature in quiet beauty.🍂🍁

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💞ClearCharm💞 @clearradiance.bsky.social · 14d

Emerald lights dance across the northern sky, a reminder that even in the darkest nights, beauty finds a way to shine.💚🌿

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

I want to climb this tree. Like, right now.

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

What a great quote. There is a wonderful story in Mindfulness in Plain English. I copied it for you; thought you might like it. Hope the type is big enough!

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

You're so sweet! You know why. We'll keep it between ourselves. 😘

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

Would you approve of Donald Trump resigning from office immediately and/or being charged with Seditious Conspiracy or Treason?

Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

Don't tease me.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 4d

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

Found her!

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 3d

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Bret Plate 🍁💙📎 @bretplate.bsky.social · 5d

And what, exactly, are they thinking is going to happen when the Democrats take back the White House? (This, of course, after tens of millions flood the streets after Trump tries to cancel the election, surrounding the Supreme Court and threatening to do a Moamar Ghadafi on the Justices.)

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