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leonajohnson.bsky.social
@leonajohnson.bsky.social
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I just want to be remembered as someone who tried to do the right thing.
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planzing.bsky.social
Just another New Mexico sunset…
June 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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The Netherlands’ first far-right government fell after the populist leader Geert Wilders withdrew his party after a dispute about migration policy. trib.al/g76TKj4
June 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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washingtonpost.com
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social
I can’t speak for anyone else, but this analogy of “Lady Liberty’ held captive, is exactly how I feel about this presidency & administration and what their attempting to do with our rights and freedoms…

The New Yorker captured the feelings perfectly…

One word, UNACCEPTABLE!
June 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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dailybunnies.bsky.social
Two bunnies, one light brown and one dark brown, sit closely together on grass inside a wire enclosure, looking at the camera.
June 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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emilymku81.bsky.social
What a beautiful day at Agecroft Gardens. 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌼 #agecroftgardens #gardens #flowers #va #rva #richmond #virginia
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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shenanigansen.bsky.social
Panel 1: A wolf dressed as a sheep with a yellow ribbon around his neck is dancing in a circle with a bunch of actual sheep, hands joined. They are all laughing merrily. Panel 2: Closeup of the wolf laughing, having a good time just dancing together. Panel 3: Still that closeup but he he now tied up in the dark somewhere. Panel 4: We zoom out to see that he's tied up sitting on a rock in the forest, with two other wolves from his pack standing to either side of him. One is saying "we're definitely gonna have to do some 'de-programming' here." Panel 5: The other wolf puts his head on the sheep-wolf's head and says "don't worry, buddy! We'll get you back to your regular wolf self in no time." Panel 6: All three of them are now dressed as sheep and dancing in the circle.
May 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
NY17 Constituent and local social worker Emily Feiner was singled out and forcibly removed during Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall.
May 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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astrokatie.com
I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
May 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
leonajohnson.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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emergencybk.bsky.social
Proud of the garden I created from nothing 6-8yrs ago.

Been 100% neglected (no watering, pruning etc) for 3+ yrs. If you plant drought tolerant, location suited flora, you don’t need large amounts of work once established. All desperately need a prune/tidy up… soon hopefully💜😊
Two pics garden 6 years apart, before just bare earth. Now a variety of shrubs,
May 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
This is a gut punch. One of the very best of humanity and a person who was so important to me and so many others. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Jill Sobule, Singer-Songwriter of Groundbreaking 1995 Song ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Killed in House Fire
Jill Sobule, whose 1995 hit 'I Kissed a Girl' is considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20, died in a fire Thursday.
variety.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: I do want to give a huge shout out to our Canadian neighbors, they know that this is wrong. They stood up to it
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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factpostnews.bsky.social
Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.

Trump: I could

Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.

Trump: I'm not the one making this decision

Host: You're the president!
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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teapainusa.bsky.social
Day Biden Left Office: 44,025
Trump's market today: 39,834

America wishes it had "Biden's stock market" back.
April 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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theswprincess.bsky.social
NEW: Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t

Trump's statement was a blunt boast about his administration’s intention to defy the Supreme Court's orders.

WHERE IS SENATE MINORITY LEADER @schumer.senate.gov?🦗

Trump crossed his red line

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t (Gift Article)
Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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jonhutson.bsky.social
Clear evidence that Trump is a Russian chaos agent
timobrien.bsky.social Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · Apr 28
A scan of more than 300 of Trump’s public comments between 8/24 and 3/25 as well as more than 3,000 social posts since 1/25 show a correlation between Trump administration contacts with Putin and subsequent comments echoing the Russian leader’s own positions on the Ukraine war, NATO and Zelenskiy.
Trump Tells Americans What Putin Wants Them to Hear
An exclusive analysis shows that the US president’s views on the war in Ukraine are increasingly aligned with the Kremlin.
www.bloomberg.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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cwebbonline.com
My wife and I visited the African-American Museum in D.C. a year ago. It was overwhelming — and unforgettable. We left knowing we’d be back.

If Trump succeeds in deleting our history from the museum, there’ll be nothing left. This is what erasure looks like —and it’s happening right in front of us.
April 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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realtexaspaul.com
Today's Coffee With Texas Paul!

SIGNALGATE explodes! Hegseth craps on Pentagon Security Protocols.
Trump Humiliates himself on China Tariffs in front of Norway P.M.
David Hogg gets ultimatum to follow the rules by DNC.
US oil execs warned to STOP DRILLING NOW as oil plunges.
April 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.

This is a REAL section of the transcript.

It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that? No, there's many deals. When are they going to be announced? You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, l've made all the deals. Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them? I've made 200 deals. You've made 200 deals? 100%. Can you share with whom? Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it ditterently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries-some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else. I'm just curious, why don't you announce these deals that you've solidified? I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way. You're finished? We'll be finished. Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks. I'll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but l'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting-ready? We're a department store, a giant department store, the biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us. They're going to come in and they're going to pay a price for taking our treasure, for taking our jobs, for doing all of these things. But what I'm doing with the tariffs is people are coming in, and they're building at levels you've never seen before. We have $7 trillion of new plants, factories and other things, investment coming into the United States. And if you look back at past presidents, nobody was anywhere near that. And this is in three months. Will you call President Xi if he doesn't call you? No. You won't? Nope. Has he called you yet? Yep. When did he call you? He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. But you would think it's a sign of weakness if you called him? I don't-I just look- Well, what did he say? If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.
April 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: How did your team do during the first round of the NFL Draft? Our experts handed out grades for all 32 picks. Which GMs might wind up regretting their decisions down the line? nyti.ms/4iDFAIz
A graphic titled "Grading Every First-Round NFL Draft Pick" listing 32 players with their teams, positions, and grades.
April 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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halushka.bsky.social
The photos of the overnight russian ballistic and drone strike on Kyiv are making my blood run cold. Nine people are reportedly killed, and more than 70 wounded.
April 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM