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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, please!

🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 3h

✊🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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LA Blue Dot in GA @namwella1961.bsky.social · 4h

Isn't it great that RFK Jr., a former heroin addict, who is missing part of his brain because it was eaten by a worm, and who swims in raw sewage, gets to make decisions about our health? 🙄
#ProudBlue #Pinks #RFKJrIsUnfitForOffice

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 7h

MIT Rejects the Compact!
I am so proud.
"The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief ...

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 1d

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Leonard Bohanon @lbohanon.bsky.social · 1h

What a cool method. The felon and his henchpeople hate humor and joy. Claims these are any threat to ICEGESTAPO will be seen as appropriately silly

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 4h

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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Leonard Bohanon @lbohanon.bsky.social · 7h

A little good news to share (along with the Nobel Peace Prize!). For the first time (well, at least in modern history!), renewable are the #1 source of energy in the world: www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...

This Week in Freudenfreude: Who Needs Tesla?

Click on the map for the article

www.electoral-vote.com

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Leonard Bohanon @lbohanon.bsky.social · 22h

Bonus for rebellious people like me, this map still shows the body of water south of Texas as the Gulf of Mexico! www.zdnet.com/article/i-di...

I ditched Google Maps for this free alternative that doesn't track me - or drain my battery

It has voice-guided directions and offline search capabilities, and it puts privacy front and center.

www.zdnet.com

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Leonard Bohanon @lbohanon.bsky.social · 22h

I once had an office next to a gun concealed carry instructor. One day I walked by and he was pointing a gun at our shared wall. I told management and he was asked to leave (and he did)

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Richard Carl Askins @richca.bsky.social · 1d

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Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 @debpixcom.bsky.social · 23h

Performative bull*hit. 🙄 #KristiNoem #ANTIFA

KRISTI NOEM PRAISED FOR 'STARING DOWN' ANTIFA - IT WAS A DOZEN REPORTERS AND A GUY IN A CHICKEN SUIT.

The Independent

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 2d

ICE snipers on a roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters in Portland Oregon. (FASCISM)

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 2d

GET OUT! #Chicago

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 2d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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