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Retired Chemistry Educator, Jazz afficionado, Reader, Recycler, Lover of tech and green spaces. USMC wife; mother of 2 fantastic adults. Chicago 'burbs. Love is Love. Vote Blue! DM's *only* if we've been friends for quite awhile!

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sundene 🇳🇴 📎 @sundene.bsky.social · Feb 8

I just got back from the DuPage Democrats Volunteer Expo, and it was *amazing*. I’ll say more later, right now I’m just processing everything. It was such a relief to spend some time around like-minded people and to know we are not alone and are doing the work.

Various pamphlets and papers from democratic organizations in my county.

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 19h

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6h

Truth bomb.💣 I don’t dabble with faith, but if I were to sit through a Christian service, I might consider listening to his. 1/2

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 35m

REMINDER: It's now 263 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 10h

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.

We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 38m

Coincidentally, religious delusions are a known side effect of ingesting psychedelics--a practice now apparently de rigeur among the Broligarchs.

Sources--

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Nature Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 14h

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🚨 ALBERTA TEACHERS AMONG WORLD'S MOST STRESSED & OVERWORKED 🚨

A #OECD report confirms what #Alberta #teachers have been saying: they are facing unsustainable #workloads, high #stress, and a lack of #support compared to their peers globally.

Alberta Teachers' Association
#AbLeg #AbEd #ATAstrike

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 13h

Just an idea, but how about voting for the party that will NOT give terror financing Muslims from Qatar a MILITARY BASE on US soil?

And even better: How about stopping this and calling your representatives to tell them that YOU will replace them if they don't replace him?

You brought this to USA.

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 8h

Epstein survivor pressures Speaker Johnson on Epstein files vote: 'We have been through enough' www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 14h

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 7h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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KathyTrueBlue&MadAF @gatrueblue.bsky.social · 38m

Frog suits arrive today.. just a little excited! 🐸🐸

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 7h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 22h

Way to go Chicago

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Lisa Burton 🇪🇺 @lisaburton.bsky.social · 23h

Ever noticed how those who think their skin colour or place of birth makes them superior to others are often the least superior of all?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1h

@drannieandrews.com

I don’t know, the last No Kings Rally I went to was pretty much all about how much we love America.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 17h

Unknown layoffs are happening at HHS. Unknown in terms of who and which agencies.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/h...

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HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown

Federal health employees are being fired as the White House makes good on a promise to terminate federal employees en masse because of the shutdown.

www.statnews.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 17h

Holy hell !

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 48m

So much of what Trump, Bondi, and Kash are doing is trying to replicate the charges that Jan6ers faced against Trump's targets and those opposing the regime. Grievance fantasies all the way down.

Something Marcy has pointed out that I haven't heard anywhere else.

The White House crime scene

YouTube video by emptywheel

youtu.be

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 18h

And the moron of the year award goes to....

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