So'Westerner gone AWOL
@3elo.bsky.social
Well-published author, healthcare wonk, policy wonk. Southwesterner gone AWOL to Blue Yonder. Liberal Forever. Admires Voltaire & Sam Adams. Alas, too near-sighted to become an astronaut. Possessed by felines & hummingbirds.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of my Canadian brothers & sisters and as well to all of my dear BlueSky friends and family! Wishing you all a safe and joyous Christmas!
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December 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of my Canadian brothers & sisters and as well to all of my dear BlueSky friends and family! Wishing you all a safe and joyous Christmas!
🎄❤️🇨🇦🎅💙🧑🎄🇺🇸🎄
🎄❤️🇨🇦🎅💙🧑🎄🇺🇸🎄
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I feel the Christmas spirit a little more each time he gets slapped with another loss.
And this is a bigly loss. Since just first day on tv, he only has ever cared about ratings.
Just wait for it…. The extra unhinged posts are coming in…4…3…2…
And this is a bigly loss. Since just first day on tv, he only has ever cared about ratings.
Just wait for it…. The extra unhinged posts are coming in…4…3…2…
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I feel the Christmas spirit a little more each time he gets slapped with another loss.
And this is a bigly loss. Since just first day on tv, he only has ever cared about ratings.
Just wait for it…. The extra unhinged posts are coming in…4…3…2…
And this is a bigly loss. Since just first day on tv, he only has ever cared about ratings.
Just wait for it…. The extra unhinged posts are coming in…4…3…2…
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Omg. He fails at every single thing he does.
December 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Omg. He fails at every single thing he does.
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Freedom of the Press is supposed to be guaranteed in the First Amendment 🇺🇸
December 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Freedom of the Press is supposed to be guaranteed in the First Amendment 🇺🇸
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Just like his polling data
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Just like his polling data
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I want to scream out loud at the dishonor, disrespect and lack of decency by POTUS & the Board in their dishonor to the memory of President John F. Kennedy, illegally adding current POTUS’ name to the memorial to JFK. It’s like desecrating the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington. A perversion!💔
December 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I want to scream out loud at the dishonor, disrespect and lack of decency by POTUS & the Board in their dishonor to the memory of President John F. Kennedy, illegally adding current POTUS’ name to the memorial to JFK. It’s like desecrating the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington. A perversion!💔
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Enough with the "old people" blaming. I'm an old person and I don't watch that shit.
December 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Enough with the "old people" blaming. I'm an old person and I don't watch that shit.
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JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
December 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.
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What gives you hope this year? The ACLU should be one of those things, please support them if you can.
youtu.be/YysO5Xohhm4
youtu.be/YysO5Xohhm4
8 Reasons to Have Hope | ACLU
YouTube video by ACLU
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December 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
What gives you hope this year? The ACLU should be one of those things, please support them if you can.
youtu.be/YysO5Xohhm4
youtu.be/YysO5Xohhm4
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trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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"Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an American organization that seeks to protect digital rights and privacy, called the announcement 'chilling and unconstitutional.' She said the administration was silencing its critics in the name of protecting free speech."
U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an American organization that seeks to protect digital rights and privacy, called the announcement 'chilling and unconstitutional.' She said the administration was silencing its critics in the name of protecting free speech."
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I'm emotionally invested in this cat that I just met online, so whomever brings Angelo home to start in their life show, please plan on making a few posts each week featuring him. 🥹
Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2)
""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."
""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."
December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm emotionally invested in this cat that I just met online, so whomever brings Angelo home to start in their life show, please plan on making a few posts each week featuring him. 🥹
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Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Nothing to see here. This is definitely a normal post that perfectly demonstrates appropriate behavior for a man with grave responsibilities to the nation and absolutely, positively does not show psychological derangement and incapacity to serve as president under section 4 of the 25th Amendment.
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...during the Mar-Sep nesting season. Trump's severe cuts to public lands personnel and proposed rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act pose new hazards for the endangered birds. Those and other threats are turning the project into a year-round program: therevelator.org/piping-plove...? #birds 🌎
Piping Plovers Inspire Volunteer Conservationists Despite New Threats From the Trump Administration • The Revelator
Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act and park staffing cuts are putting the endangered coastal bird in danger.
therevelator.org
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
...during the Mar-Sep nesting season. Trump's severe cuts to public lands personnel and proposed rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act pose new hazards for the endangered birds. Those and other threats are turning the project into a year-round program: therevelator.org/piping-plove...? #birds 🌎
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Wildlife heroes: In 2020, Chris Allieri "couldn't believe" he was seeing tiny Piping Plovers and chicks competing for space with people and dogs on a NYC beach. His response? He created the NYC Piping Plover Project (@nycploverproject.bsky.social). Today, 100s of volunteers watch over the Plovers...
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wildlife heroes: In 2020, Chris Allieri "couldn't believe" he was seeing tiny Piping Plovers and chicks competing for space with people and dogs on a NYC beach. His response? He created the NYC Piping Plover Project (@nycploverproject.bsky.social). Today, 100s of volunteers watch over the Plovers...
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Julie Su is here on Bluesky! She's a former Secretary of Labor and a friend to working people.
She is going to be New York City’s first ever Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice!
Follow: @juliesulabor.bsky.social!
She is going to be New York City’s first ever Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice!
Follow: @juliesulabor.bsky.social!
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge tonight after an exciting day with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social & team. Thank you for the warm welcome, NYC. Can’t wait to get to work.
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Julie Su is here on Bluesky! She's a former Secretary of Labor and a friend to working people.
She is going to be New York City’s first ever Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice!
Follow: @juliesulabor.bsky.social!
She is going to be New York City’s first ever Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice!
Follow: @juliesulabor.bsky.social!
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Motion is Hope - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kVWjkV
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Motion is Hope - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kVWjkV
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In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one!
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December 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one!
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Looks like it’ll break 76,000 in one day by midnight.
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Looks like it’ll break 76,000 in one day by midnight.
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Cesar Chavez is greeted by supporters outside Monterey County Jail on Christmas Eve 12/24/70 after CA Supreme Court orders his release for refusing Monterey Co. Superior Court judge’s order to halt UFW boycott of grower struck during the lettuce/ vegetable strike earlier that yr
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Cesar Chavez is greeted by supporters outside Monterey County Jail on Christmas Eve 12/24/70 after CA Supreme Court orders his release for refusing Monterey Co. Superior Court judge’s order to halt UFW boycott of grower struck during the lettuce/ vegetable strike earlier that yr
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Welcome to the newest co-sponsors of my Medicare for All bill in the House!
Medicare for All is not only good policy — as premiums skyrocket for millions of Americans — it is incredibly popular. Let’s keep building momentum for universal health care and get this passed!
Medicare for All is not only good policy — as premiums skyrocket for millions of Americans — it is incredibly popular. Let’s keep building momentum for universal health care and get this passed!
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Welcome to the newest co-sponsors of my Medicare for All bill in the House!
Medicare for All is not only good policy — as premiums skyrocket for millions of Americans — it is incredibly popular. Let’s keep building momentum for universal health care and get this passed!
Medicare for All is not only good policy — as premiums skyrocket for millions of Americans — it is incredibly popular. Let’s keep building momentum for universal health care and get this passed!
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December 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM