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Photographer, artist, cook, fat activist, writer, and lady of leisure with a garden in Moscow, Idaho. https://linktr.ee/PurpleDuckyDesi https://purple-ducky.pixels.com/ 🚫🚫🚫🚫🚫No DMs🚫🚫🚫🚫�

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Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 7d

Showy Milkweed Pod Opening in a Garden by Purple Ducky Designs pixels.com/featured/...

#AYearForArt #PurpleDuckyDesigns #ArtForTheSoul #allforart #ArtMatters #artwork #BuyIntoArt #TheGiftOfArt #art #artist #SupportArtists #GetSomeArt #ArtForSale #photography #photograph #nature

Showy Milkweed Pod Opening in a Garden by Purple Ducky Designs

Showy Milkweed Pod Opening in a Garden Photograph by Purple Ducky Designs

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Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING 🔥 Trump is increasing tariffs to China to 130% and We’re going to pay for it.

Stock market is crashing since news.

Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back | CNN Business

President Donald Trump announced he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China, on top of the 30% tariffs already in effect, starting November 1 or sooner. The threat is a massive escal...

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Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 10h

The photo shows former U.S. President Barack Obama on the right, smiling and holding a Nobel Peace Prize diploma and a small box (likely containing the medal).

On the left, a man, who appears to be Thorbjørn Jagland, the then-Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is standing next to him, also smiling and holding a framed document or artwork.

The caption below the image reads: "IT'D BE A REAL SHAME IF THIS PHOTO OF PRESIDENT OBAMA RECEIVING HIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WENT VIRAL TODAY, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON 😂"

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 5d

Awesome talent :
Guillermo Galetti

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Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Jürgen R 💙🇺🇦 🐝 @dailykotzn.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrea C. White @andreacwhite.bsky.social · 2d

some sketchy ineffables :') #goodomens #GoodOmensFanArt

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Comedian Tiffany Norton ✨👄✨ @tiffanynorton.bsky.social · 2d

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Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 3d

Hearing dogmurderer lady whine about not being allowed to enter places to use their restroom will never stop being funny to me.

🇮🇹 Methy Nostra 🔥✝️ @methynostra.bsky.social · 3d

Things seem to be going well.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 3d

Country legend Zach Bryan has released a song that puts country over his own bank account.

The backlash from country fans will be massive- they’ll force him off country radio like they did to the Dixie Chicks but he doesn’t need radio access anymore

American hero 🇺🇸

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 3d

ICE shot pepper balls into the head, face, torso, and legs of Reverend David Black in Chicago.

If they're not dropping from the sky into black and brown neighborhoods, and dragging their children outside, naked, and zip-tying toddlers, then they're shooting women.

#SheShed

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d

A major immigration raid in Chicago last week led to dozens of arrests, including of green card holders and U.S. citizens. While the Trump administration has released a highly produced video of the raid, it still has not answered basic questions about the operation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

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Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 3d

reason.com/2025/10/07/a...

Alligator Alcatraz was built on secrecy, expansive emergency powers, and an unprecedented state power grab

Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.

reason.com

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Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social · 3d

Just the floofiest lil floof ever 😂
#BirdOfTheDay #Floofball #EastCoastKin 🪶

Young male Northern Cardinal bulking up to get red

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 4d

Trump announces price increases for medium and heavy duty trucks

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pindapandacn.bsky.social @pindapandacn.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely

Chad Sarno 💙💙💙🇺🇦 @wanderer19.bsky.social · 3d

Hartmann: Is ICE Today’s Klan? #RepublicansCantGovern #RepublicansDidThis open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Is ICE Today’s Klan?

From concealed identities to sanctioned violence, the echoes between ICE raids and Klan terror are too loud to ignore…

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 4d

The official announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to take place on Friday, October 10th, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. (Oslo time). Can the White House Staff please provide enough ketchup in the Oval Office. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🤣🔄

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 4d

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Jean @purpleduckydesigns.bsky.social · 4d

I'm collecting most of my Showy Milkweed pods to save the seeds, but I'm leaving a couple so Mother Nature can do her thing. Hopefully, we can establish some milkweed in the mobile home park I live in 😁
#garden #gardening #butterflies #pollinators #nature #flora

A milkweed seed pod has burst open, revealing fluffy white fibers and dark seeds. Sunlight filters through the leaves, illuminating the details.

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Jas 🪶🐻🐀🇨🇦 @itistherealjas.bsky.social · 4d

I’m just gonna leave this here. When it speaks for itself, why try to add more clutter? This is succinct and on point as is!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

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