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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 2h

Opinion: Christian nationalists could decide tomorrow I’m no longer white

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Opinion: Christian nationalists could decide tomorrow I'm no longer white

Christian nationalists are trying to tear apart the very social fabric woven by WWII that allowed my Italian family to be seen as white and Christian.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 2h

Republican government of deregulation in action.

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Bonnie B @bjbert.bsky.social · 2h

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Deaths Are Reported in Explosion at Tennessee Munitions Plant

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 6h

Inequality

The villagers are restless, but not in the way they should be

Would there be wide support for a village economy in which one person (or 1%) possessed more resources and materials than the 50 villagers with the least, combined?

newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/10/08/t...

The villagers are restless, but not in the way they should be • New Hampshire Bulletin

If we were a village of 100 instead of a nation of 340 million, I wonder if the perceptions would be different.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 7h

Maine Governor Mills will announce challenge to Senator Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say
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Maine Governor Mills will announce challenge to Senator Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say - The Boston Globe

Governor Janet Mills was the top choice of national Democrats to try to unseat Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has held the seat since 1997.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 7h

Joaquín Sorolla Spanish, 1863 - 1923
The light and colors of Joaquin Sorolla …
Maria (painter’s daughter)
1906
Private collection
#Art

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8h

now do jan 6th

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 7h

Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgian, 1862-1926)
Yellow Roses, Persimmons and Mimosas, 1911
#Art

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 10h

Inflation and tariffs are squeezing families with young children, according to a recent analysis by the parenting media company Babycenter. The average cost in a baby’s first year alone has climbed 20 percent since January to nearly $21,000.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

Boston nonprofit distributes 80,000 diapers to help families struggling with rising costs - The Boston Globe

Diapers alone can cost $1,000 per child per year. Nonprofits are organizing diaper drives and other initiatives to help struggling families.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 10h

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

www.theguardian.com

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 17h

Lee Lufkin Kaula
(American painter 1865–1957)
The Silk Kimono, c. 1915
#Art

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's War On America

It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education

If Brown signed the compact, one professor said, “We’d become an instrument of the state.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/m...

‘It’s extortion’: Brown faculty resist White House bid to reshape higher education - The Boston Globe

If Brown signed the compact, one professor said, “We’d become an instrument of the state.”

www.bostonglobe.com

🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 1d

Franklin Carmichael (Canadian, 1890–1945)
"October Gold", 1922.
Oil on Canvas, 119.5 × 98 cm.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
#Art

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 2d

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.
sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/c...

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 2d

What I Learned By Watching Every Pam Bondi Speech

The Trump loyalist is a new kind of attorney general.
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What I Learned By Watching Every Pam Bondi Speech

The Trump loyalist is a new kind of attorney general.

www.politico.com

🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

Co-signed

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thewakan.bsky.social @thewakan.bsky.social · 3d

FUCK DONALD TRUMP.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903 French) : Still Life with a Mandolin
1885; Paris, France
Impressionism
Early works
Oil, canvas
64 x 53 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
#Art

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

Judy Cassab (Australian 1920-2015) - Portrait of Judy Barraclough, 1955.
#Art

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

It looks like it.

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

"Legal and military scholars say we are watching an unprecedented erosion of constitutional limits and checks designed to prevent the deployment of the US military against its own citizens."

🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

“The problem is [Trump] has got the Texas governor in his pocket,” he said of Greg Abbott, who’s authorized Trump’s use of Texas National Guard members in other states. “He finally has the private army that he’s always desired.”

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's War On America

‘Extremely dangerous’: Trump’s latest push to send troops to blue states is unprecedented in modern military history
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

‘Extremely dangerous’: Trump’s latest push to send troops to blue states is unprecedented in modern military history - The Boston Globe

Legal and military scholars say we are watching an unprecedented erosion of constitutional limits and checks designed to prevent the deployment of the US military against its own citizens.

www.bostonglobe.com

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