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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 4d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...

Trump Signs Order to Approve Mining Road Through Alaskan Wilderness

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 5d

FEMA Withholds $300 Million in Grants Until States Account for Deportations www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/c...

FEMA Withholds $300 Million in Grants Until States Account for Deportations

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 8d

Time out
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Time out

I will be out of the country

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 9d

We have lost a truly good person
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We have lost a truly good person

Jane Goodall passed away at 91

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 10d

Arrogance - the quality of having an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.
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Arrogance - the quality of having an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.

Don’t listen to Dr Oz – read Dr Seuss

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 14d

I got my shots
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I got my shots

RFK Jr: I hope you get the virus

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 16d

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At Global Climate Summit This Week, U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 17d

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Opinion | If Only We’d Fight as Hard to Save Our Democracy as Ukrainians Are to Save Theirs

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 17d

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Trump to World: Green Energy Is a Scam and Climate Science Is From ‘Stupid People’

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 17d

The Secretary General addresses the UN
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The Secretary General addresses the UN

Trump embarrasses the nation

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 17d

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‘They’re Small but They’re Mighty.’ Meet the Wisconsin Sisters Healing the Land.

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 18d

What do Tesla and Fiat have in common?
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What do Tesla and Fiat have in common?

Dictators is the short answer

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 19d

Mark Twain wrote “Stirring Times in Austria” 1898
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Mark Twain wrote “Stirring Times in Austria” 1898

What would he write today?

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 20d

Inspired by Apples
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Inspired by Apples

A gift of nature, with pleasure in both beauty and taste plus lessons included

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 21d

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 21d

Leaders of Canada and Mexico Talk Trade and Security Without U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Leaders of Canada and Mexico Talk Trade and Security Without U.S.

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 23d

Boycotting Disney and Rethinking How to Get News in a Post 1st Amendment America
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Boycotting Disney and Rethinking How to Get News in a Post 1st Amendment America

We're working on better-enabling Americans to find substitute products from companies who haven't caved to MAGA, and are also working to fill the void of a cratering corporate media landscape.

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 23d

Those brave enough to speak out are being punished
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Those brave enough to speak out are being punished

But that does not mean we should stop voicing our opinions

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · 29d

Harry Truman in a letter to the Library of Congress
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Harry Truman in a letter to the Library of Congress

“It has stoutly defended the freedom of the mind, and the right of the quiet voice of truth to be heard."

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 11

This Remembered Earth
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Mike Link on Little Dipper

In a time of chaos, only nature can really nurture out souls. Time at a bog, timelessness, as reflected in the mummified remains of Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved...

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 11

Mark Twain imagines President Andrew Johnson’s end
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Mark Twain imagines President Andrew Johnson’s end

Could he have anticipated another horrible president a century and a half in the future?

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 8

Which would you prefer? Polio, smallpox, tuberculosis …
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Which would you prefer? Polio, smallpox, tuberculosis …

Or a brief jab with a needle and vaccine?

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 7

The overt fighting ended in 1865
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The overt fighting ended in 1865

But the real issues of The Civil War have never been resolved

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 6

The overt fighting ended in 1865
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The overt fighting ended in 1865

But the real issues of The Civil War have never been resolved

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mikelink45.bsky.social @mikelink45.bsky.social · Sep 5

HOW WE KNOW
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Mike Link on Douglas Wood

As a sailor and a woodsman I have relied on compasses for most of my adult life - not the GPS handhelds that talk to satellites but the old fashion kind that floats in a circle of numbers and somehow ...

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