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Dr. John W Cavanaugh, PhD ⭐🇺🇲 🇮🇪

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Cancer #survivor - Consultant. Author. Award winning Educator. Former NGO Program Officer and US Senate staffer. Passionate about civic engagement & global public affairs. linkedin.com/in/johnwcavanaugh/

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Dr. John W Cavanaugh, PhD ⭐🇺🇲 🇮🇪 @drjohncav.bsky.social · Nov 8

In memory of my Beloved Therapy dog Jet (10/31/13 - 07/24/24) who is now flying free with the Blue Angels. No better wingman to Fight CRC.

Picture of my therapy dog Jet, a handsome black lab, sitting at the top of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum after a 5 mile walk.

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 12h

📣The Freedom Frogs are multiplying‼️

This is the way Portland 🫡❤️🐸
Video @oregonian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

‘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?

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 8h

When the press conference is going great

NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stares into the middle distance as Mayor Eric Adams starts a tirade against NY Daily News reporter Chris Sommerfeldt.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 10h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11h

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Mamdani: This is a shameless act of political retribution. And instead of prosecuting Tish James for doing her job, Donald Trump should be doing his.…

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

2017 TRUMP: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

2025 TRUMP: “Thank you, Qatar, for my free $400,000,000 personal jet!”

TRUMP, a few months later: “I'm letting Qatar be the first foreign nation to build a military base on US soil.”

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President Calls on Qatar to Stop Supporting Terrorism

President Trump says the nation of Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level and that it's time to stop this funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing. "We ask Qatar and other ...

www.c-span.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 11h

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11h

“We refuse to pay the troops and also we’re doing indiscriminate firings of people for no reason”

I’ve never seen an administration so faithfully committed to self-immolation in my entire life

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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Donna Markland @bcvet.bsky.social · 1h

Flowers, frog costumes, line dancing, and senior citizen ukelele bands.

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Bridget 🦋 🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 3h

Given the time of year perhaps making it a costume party would add a nice vibe to the events!

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans are scared AF about #NoKings Day -- calling it a "Hate America Rally" a bunch of "radical left terrorists" lol

So, let's be sure we show the communities we gather in that WE LOVE AMERICA and that's why we are taking it to the streets

Bring flags 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@indivisible.org

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 4h

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder if all the Portland protesters could sing Baby Shark on repeat … that might just be enough to drive the ICE agents away.

I love that a shark has joined the resistance!

A blue costumed shark at the Portland protests

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2h

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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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6h

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

A federal judge has ordered that ICE cannot use rubber bullets or other “less lethal ammo” directly on protesters at the Broadview ICE facility.

Good.

Now arrest and charge the agents who shot the priest in the head and the woman in her car.

Stop letting them get away with it.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 5h

Wishing my friend Cindy McCain a full and speedy recovery. I know she’ll be back soon, continuing her important work with strength and determination.

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