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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

The No Kings rallies have been peaceful. But when was there ever a protest with violence in Washington, DC? I'm racking my brain on that one....Oh yeah, when YOUR people showed up to overturn an election, beat up cops, and threatened Dem. and Repub. legislators. Trump pardoned all those thugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 2d

I used to call My Big Guy Mike a sl#t because he would sleep with anyone.

Pic of gorgeous black standard poodle with giant bracelets, long curly ear hair, wrapped in a rainbow boa, lying on a camo-green towel on a grooming table.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 3d

Please tell me her name is Carol Burnett ..... ♥️🐩♥️

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

/3 Here, by the way, is what the Supreme Court ACTUALLY said about Trump’s theory in Texas v. Johnson 36 years ago:

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 5d

My last, best year of gardening. www.flickr.com/gp/luvlymiki...

Garden 2015

Explore this photo album by Miki on Flickr!

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Anita Swing 🇨🇦 @anitaswing.bsky.social · 7d

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Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 27d

Trail food. Newfoundland, Canada.

Photo of two cooked trout and a croissant filled with lingonberry jam + a cup of tea. The food is sitting in a flat rock. There is wilderness in the background.

Photo of 6 small mounds of picked berries of various colours…blue, black, red.

Pic of a hand holding several types of berries.

Photo of fresh made lingonberry jam on a croissant.

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 6d

Fabulous cake! It's been was away too long since I made one (circa 2012).

Picture of apple cake on green and white plate, sitting on stove top.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

These people want any excuse available to abuse women.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 8d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8d

Just imagine that logic applied to anything else. For instance, it's exponentially more likely that any random man will rape any random woman than that an undocumented immigrant gets Medicaid. So by Karoline's logic, all men should be locked up permanently, right? 🤔

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 8d

The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House, yet they've shut down the government. It's unacceptable that military families must rely on food pantries. Our troops shouldn’t pay the price for Republican political stunts. #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Military families seek out food assistance amid shutdown anxiety

"We expected an increase, but didn't quite expect this," said Dorene Ocamb, Armed Services YMCA chief brand and development officer.

www.militarytimes.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 9d

Washington Post Poll: Out of the shutdown gate, Americans *strongly* support extending the enhanced #ACA tax credits:

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Washington Post Poll: Out of the shutdown gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the enhanced ACA tax credits

Via NBC News: A Washington Post poll conducted on Oct. 1, the first day of the shutdown, found that 47% of U.S. adults blame Trump and Republicans in Congress, while 30% blame Democrats and 23% said t...

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Democrats @democrats.org · 11d

The GOP wants to let enhanced ACA tax credits expire, skyrocketing health care costs for millions.

Some perspective: Trump’s billionaire tax cuts cost 10 TIMES what it’d take to extend the ACA tax credits and keep care affordable.

They don't care about working people.

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 11d

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 11d

Americans can't afford a pound of ground beef, but Pete Hegseth blew millions of your taxpayer dollars flying in every General and Admiral around the world so he could yell at them about the Top 100 things he hates about facial hair.

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 19d

It was visible when he was in the UK as well.

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Sonny Boy @sonnyboy-spoo.bsky.social · 19d

Join this #protestingpoodle today at 50th & Halifax to rally against the current regime. What is stopping you? For now, we still have #freespeech. Use it or lose it.
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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 19d

"Paint me like one of your French Boyz."

#poodle #poodlesofbluesky #poodlepron

Pic of cream miniature poodle lying on his back on a couch, looking at camera, with his legs spread and a blue squiggle covering his boy part.

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 20d

Oxo Good Grips.

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 20d

PSA: Egg slicer+ mushrooms = Magic.

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On left, sliced white mushrooms in a red bowl. On right, one mushroom sitting in egg slicer with cutter resting on top of mushroom. Both sitting on a lime green cutting board.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20d

More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25d

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Miki @mikidee.bsky.social · 25d

Been there, done that, for multiple poodles in my lifetime. It works.

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