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lobsternanny

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Citizen Following facts and evidence in context Former lobster nanny IRL Indecency, incivility, dishonesty and dishonor are choices. Ad hominem insults -> begone

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · Jul 20

Here's why donating/supporting rural states with your PBS/NPR membership is important:
www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...

Idaho is a low population state. It's also a mountainous state. So unlike some concentrated urban areas that have one large transmitter that can serve millions, we have to spend a lot on infrastructure. A few dozen signals of ours are mostly in rural areas. (Paraphrased from the transcript)

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 7h

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 8h

Premium increases notices will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Americans all over the US.

The average increase? 114%.

For some, the numbers are even higher:

A couple making $129,000 with two adult children at home in Savannah, GA, will pay $3,150 more per month for insurance.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Democratic AGs @democraticags.bsky.social · 5h

Standing up and fighting back is what AG Tish James does best. And we’ll be by her side every step of the way.

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 6h

Those cankles don't do well with long flights. He's probably being tuned up with diuretics and another cardiovascular workup.

The hand issue - unsure.

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 15h

😂🤣 Newsom’s trolling is now at a whole new level 😂🏅
#NobelPeacePrize #Pinks 🌸

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data reut.rs/3VYW3xZ

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as US shutdown blocks key crop data

U.S. data vital to global grain and soybean trading has gone dark during the federal government's shutdown, leaving commodity traders and farmers without crop production estimates, export sales data and market reports during the peak of the autumn harvest.

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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 1d

Via Sheikhspeare memes

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 13h

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

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Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social · 10h

Why is a class action lawsuit against Amazon alleging Prime Day is a scam getting zero coverage by mainstream media?

Could it be because media outlets get a cut when a customer purchases a Prime Day product when clicking through their featured deals?

h/t @juddlegum.bsky.social

UPDATE: Lawsuit alleges Prime Day is a fraud

The federal class action lawsuit has been ignored by major media outlets, which continue to promote Prime Day deals.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

I think even Marsha knows this.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street.

He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 7h

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @lawfaremedia.org have covered this pretty comprehensively re: Trump's threats to indict her. The facts and evidence don't support any indictment.

lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 7h

Why does she still not have a referral for disbarment?
#ProfessionsPoliceTheirOwn

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone in this video belongs in prison.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 7h

Jess, do you think that there is now an incentive to replace large scale corporate farming with better climate protective methods? Different crops? Decreased livestock? Reduction in factory farms? Is this created crisis also an opportunity for revolutionized farming practices?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 8h

As a pedestrian dealing with visual impairments and mobility issues, the photos accurately show that bikes and people obstruct the SHARED path routinely.

Where's the neighborliness? Bike buses are good, but trampling over other people's access is not. /rant

Park & path rules need to be enforced.

lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 8h

I hope that the adults who participate in this bike bus are complaining about the needles, human waste, raided textile bins with items dumped out all around them, the overflowing rubbish and recycling bins - all the things that we neighbors who have to walk through that area - contend with.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

A federal judge just asked the government if they're the cause of the violence in Chicago - whether this is of their own making.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 11h

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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AFGE Local 704 @704afge.bsky.social · 1d

Federal workers are not backing down. When we stick together and fight, like we did today, we know we can win!

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 1d

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine! Her groundbreaking work on immune tolerance shows why investing in research saves lives. It’s time for Congress to invest more federal funding in scientists shaping our future.

Seattle scientist among medicine Nobel Prize winners for work on peripheral immune tolerance

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

www.kuow.org

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