flycatcher
@olivesided.bsky.social
Time passes. In the morning we must each go swiftly on the ways appointed to us.
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Raising the minimum wage in 19 states didn’t happen by accident.
It’s a victory earned by workers standing together and fighting for what we are rightfully owed.
It’s a victory earned by workers standing together and fighting for what we are rightfully owed.
January 27, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Raising the minimum wage in 19 states didn’t happen by accident.
It’s a victory earned by workers standing together and fighting for what we are rightfully owed.
It’s a victory earned by workers standing together and fighting for what we are rightfully owed.
Wow, this is an incredibly clarifying viewpoint. A must-read actually.
New post:
The brutal invasion of Minnesota is the most recent maneuver in the MAGA military "reconstruction" of the North—a coordinated assault on not just the idea of liberal democracy, but on those living in states who still strive for it.
The brutal invasion of Minnesota is the most recent maneuver in the MAGA military "reconstruction" of the North—a coordinated assault on not just the idea of liberal democracy, but on those living in states who still strive for it.
The War of Southern Aggression
The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway
www.weekendreading.net
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Wow, this is an incredibly clarifying viewpoint. A must-read actually.
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Statement by President Clinton
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Statement by President Clinton
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Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
January 25, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Research shows that both watching footage of animals we find ‘cute’ (actual word used in academic paper) & watching someone else creating art induces relaxation & may ⬆️ levels of oxytocin, responsible for social bonding & empathy…so here’s a double dose of wren action for you
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
🧵1/2…👇🏼🪶
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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.
ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
How did we end up in the power of this group of mind controlled stooges who gladly lie in mind numbingly moronic unison? They're like pod people...
Sen. Hoeven: "We can't just go by what we saw on videos on social media. We've got to get the facts. But in a situation where an individual appears to have approached law enforcement, intervened while they're trying to do their job, and he has a loaded handgun, think about that."
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM
How did we end up in the power of this group of mind controlled stooges who gladly lie in mind numbingly moronic unison? They're like pod people...
This site is embarrassing. The artwork is awful. WTF is "freemind"? Sounds like a new drug...
Teens will run the other way.
www.cdc.gov/free-mind/in...
Teens will run the other way.
www.cdc.gov/free-mind/in...
Free Mind: Mental Health & Drug Use Awareness for Teens | CDC
www.cdc.gov
January 25, 2026 at 1:02 AM
This site is embarrassing. The artwork is awful. WTF is "freemind"? Sounds like a new drug...
Teens will run the other way.
www.cdc.gov/free-mind/in...
Teens will run the other way.
www.cdc.gov/free-mind/in...
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I don't see anyone talking about this on Bluesky.
Vulcan Elements backed by Donald Trump Jr. is getting a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
Our government is essentially a slush fund for Trump and everyone in his orbit.
Vulcan Elements backed by Donald Trump Jr. is getting a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
Our government is essentially a slush fund for Trump and everyone in his orbit.
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I don't see anyone talking about this on Bluesky.
Vulcan Elements backed by Donald Trump Jr. is getting a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
Our government is essentially a slush fund for Trump and everyone in his orbit.
Vulcan Elements backed by Donald Trump Jr. is getting a $620 million loan from the Pentagon.
Our government is essentially a slush fund for Trump and everyone in his orbit.
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Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to Social Security. I have a bill to add $200/month to your check.
youtube.com/shorts/Nx8w8...
youtube.com/shorts/Nx8w8...
Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to Social Security.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to Social Security. I have a bill to add $200/month to your check.
youtube.com/shorts/Nx8w8...
youtube.com/shorts/Nx8w8...
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In case you’re stuck indoors, feeling low or anxious or there’s big snow where you are, here are hundreds of snowdrops (also called Candlemas bells) in a hedgerow & gentle winter sun (& a car, sorry) I filmed on 3rd Feb last year. Are you a fan of these little flowers?
🌱🌱
🌱🌱
January 23, 2026 at 2:27 PM
In case you’re stuck indoors, feeling low or anxious or there’s big snow where you are, here are hundreds of snowdrops (also called Candlemas bells) in a hedgerow & gentle winter sun (& a car, sorry) I filmed on 3rd Feb last year. Are you a fan of these little flowers?
🌱🌱
🌱🌱
Right on the money.
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Right on the money.
Evil vermin in Congress are allowing this. The Republican Party is now truly the Nazi Party.
January 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Evil vermin in Congress are allowing this. The Republican Party is now truly the Nazi Party.
I wonder if the US top brass told him they wouldn't do it?
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
US’s Trump, in Davos, says he ‘won’t use force’ to acquire Greenland
The US president, at the World Economic Forum, says he'll have 'many meetings' on Greenland as Europe tensions simmer.
www.aljazeera.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I wonder if the US top brass told him they wouldn't do it?
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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The Swiss President should have given Trump a cuckoo clock as a present.
January 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Swiss President should have given Trump a cuckoo clock as a present.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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Flashback to the garden step café last spring, when a little bank vole came to dine & was so focussed on her main course that she didn’t notice a cherry blossom petal falling on her head to make a jaunty hat…👒
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Flashback to the garden step café last spring, when a little bank vole came to dine & was so focussed on her main course that she didn’t notice a cherry blossom petal falling on her head to make a jaunty hat…👒
Back in the day, for so many years, I listened to (and loved) the old Odyssey Lp boxed set of Robert Casadesus playing the Ravel Miroirs. But this recording by Richter feels like when Dorothy steps out into the Land of Oz.
#ClassicalMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5J...
#ClassicalMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5J...
Sviatoslav Richter in Prague, 1965 - Ravel Miroirs
YouTube video by FirstPublicChannel
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Back in the day, for so many years, I listened to (and loved) the old Odyssey Lp boxed set of Robert Casadesus playing the Ravel Miroirs. But this recording by Richter feels like when Dorothy steps out into the Land of Oz.
#ClassicalMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5J...
#ClassicalMusic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj5J...
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Corporate Dems like Schumer & Booker are pushing "strongly worded statements" demanding ICE "needs more training."
They're missing the point. The problem with badly trained Nazis is not that they're badly trained—it's that they're Nazis!
You don't train Nazis. You abolish them. ABOLISH ICE. NOW!
They're missing the point. The problem with badly trained Nazis is not that they're badly trained—it's that they're Nazis!
You don't train Nazis. You abolish them. ABOLISH ICE. NOW!
January 15, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Corporate Dems like Schumer & Booker are pushing "strongly worded statements" demanding ICE "needs more training."
They're missing the point. The problem with badly trained Nazis is not that they're badly trained—it's that they're Nazis!
You don't train Nazis. You abolish them. ABOLISH ICE. NOW!
They're missing the point. The problem with badly trained Nazis is not that they're badly trained—it's that they're Nazis!
You don't train Nazis. You abolish them. ABOLISH ICE. NOW!
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We’re in a moral fight, and Democrats in Congress need to start acting like the opposition party on every 👏🏽 damn 👏🏽 thing 👏🏽
Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability.
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Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
We’re in a moral fight, and Democrats in Congress need to start acting like the opposition party on every 👏🏽 damn 👏🏽 thing 👏🏽
Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability.
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Opposition isn’t about polite press releases and sad cable hits. It’s about using every procedural tool available to slow, expose, and force accountability.
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So goddamm illegal. Congress is failing us. Our military is failing us. What are we gonna fucking DO?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, reports say
The troops are an option should Donald Trump decide to use them to quell anti-ICE protests in the city, an official tells CBS News.
www.bbc.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 PM
So goddamm illegal. Congress is failing us. Our military is failing us. What are we gonna fucking DO?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Still wild that this is real — as Trump loots the country and health care bills skyrocket with masked goons terrorizing black and brown people… they rich dance in dog masks at Mar-A-Lago Eyes Wide Shut-style
They don’t care about you
They don’t care about you
January 19, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Still wild that this is real — as Trump loots the country and health care bills skyrocket with masked goons terrorizing black and brown people… they rich dance in dog masks at Mar-A-Lago Eyes Wide Shut-style
They don’t care about you
They don’t care about you
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This woman realy needs to be in prison.
BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes?
NOEM: 70% of them
B: It's not 70%
N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers
B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions
N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers
B: Well, that's from your agency
NOEM: 70% of them
B: It's not 70%
N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers
B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions
N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers
B: Well, that's from your agency
January 18, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This woman realy needs to be in prison.
Thank you for reminding me I cannot read this article.
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Thank you for reminding me I cannot read this article.
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I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.
January 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.