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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · Dec 14

“Some went among women who were alone,
teaching them to join together,
for there is hope in two women,
help in three women,
strength in four,
joy in five,
power in six
and against seven,
no gate may stand.”

–Sherri Tepper
Gibbon’s Decline & Fall

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 5m

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 42m

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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jeffreyluscious.bsky.social @jeffreyluscious.bsky.social · 36m

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Patrick Doran @patrickdoran.bsky.social · 20h

I found this map showing which states used Dominion Voting Machines in the 2024 race. With an election denier as the new owner of Dominion which is now Liberty vote, I definitely would advise all states to get out of their contract with them & find a new one.

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 38m

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CNN @cnn.com · 1h

President Donald Trump traveled for an unusual second trip to Walter Reed Medical Center. CNN's Alayna Treene reports from the White House.

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 39m

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 2h

First Lady Melania Trump announced she’s had discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin leading to an agreement to return Ukrainian children back home.

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 1h

wow.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1h

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, asking him to try again to form a government and produce a budget in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock.
https://to.pbs.org/4nMdf6g

Macron reappoints newly resigned PM Lecornu amid France's political crisis

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Tennessee

Baba Yaga Fèlla @babayagafella.bsky.social · 2h

😳 A powerful explosion occurred at an explosives manufacturing plant in the American state of Tennessee. Several people died, and 19 are currently listed as missing.

The incident took place at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant, located about 100 km from Nashville. The company produces explosives

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 4h

This is a direct link to No Kings rallies next Saturday the 18th across America.

Use it to find the one you are going to.

We need everyone to show up AND RT the link and post it in non political digital spaces.

It’s now our never, folks!!!

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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ogdennutgoneflake @riverroadband.bsky.social · 4h

Hats off to the Nobel Prize committee for having the good sense and backbone to resist the bullying and embarrassing self promotion from the narcissistic psychopath and probably the only person to self advocate for the honor.
He’ll now spend the next year showing you why you made the right choice.

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Mary Jane @ash-williams420.bsky.social · 5h

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Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

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CNN @cnn.com · 8h

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an "astonishing rate," scientists have found, raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been underestimated.
https://cnn.it/47icRqa

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 8h

. @preetbharara.bsky.social takes a wider view on Donald Trump's weaponization of the DOJ: "Do people really think it ends at the end of the list that Trump has put out so far? What do you think happens when Trump runs out of Democrats?"

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Bob Henson @bhensonweather.bsky.social · 6h

No hurricanes, but yikes:

—TS #Jerry drenching the N Leeward Islands
—Moisture from TS #Priscilla that could trigger flash floods in the SW US
—The northernmost named Atlantic storm on record (#Karen)
—Plus one heck of a mid-Atlantic coastal storm brewing

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Karen becomes the Atlantic’s northernmost named storm on record » Yale Climate Connections

Karen popped up at the same latitude as Minneapolis, while Jerry douses the Northern Leeward Islands, Priscilla threatens to drench the U.S. Southwest, and an unnamed storm will be slamming the Mid-At...

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Marcia Aurelia 💙 🖕 Elon and the Felon @marciaaurelia.bsky.social · 9h

OMG this is histerical

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9h

It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 8h

isn't helping

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 9h

He's already installed a makeup studio complete with lights and a director's chair at the Pentagon, and now the Daily Mail can reveal that Pete Hegseth has kicked his beauty routine up a notch by getting Botox.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Pete Hegseth wages war on his wrinkles with Botox

The Secretary of War, 45, underwent a round of cosmetic injections in September, with photos taken a month apart showing Hegseth with noticeably smoother, youthful skin.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

Breaking news: MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values.

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 9h

some zeroes floating around here 🤷‍♀️

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10h

Two people were arrested in Pennsylvania in what officials say was a "fortune telling scheme" to dupe two victims out of more than $600,000.

2 arrested in 'fortune telling scheme' that duped victims out of $60,000, officials say

Gina Marie Marks, 52, and Steve Nicklas, 40, were arrested Tuesday on "numerous felonies" related to an alleged fortune-telling scheme.

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🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 9h

why.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 9h

"The location will be host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increased lethality, interoperability," Hegseth said while sitting alongside Qatari Defense Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. "It's just another example of our partnership."

🍃LaurelLeaves🌿 @kaooavopakatapa.bsky.social · 9h

Tennessee

BNO News @bnonews.com · 10h

BREAKING: 19 people unaccounted for after blast at explosives manufacturer near Bucksnort, Tennessee - WKRN

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CNN @cnn.com · 21h

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling some staff back to work to prepare its closely watched inflation gauge, the Consumer Price Index report, despite the government shutdown, a Trump administration official told CNN.

With Social Security’s COLA on the line, the Trump administration plans to release inflation data delayed by the shutdown | CNN Business

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is calling some staff back to work to prepare its closely watched inflation gauge, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, despite the government shutdown, a Trump admini...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

BREAKING: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins, AP sources say.

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14h

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado who lives in hiding after attempting to run against President Nicolás Maduro.

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela's María Corina Machado

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the committee said.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14h

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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