Collector and Collection
@ayoube77.bsky.social
A collector and a collection of many things.
Positivity / leading / travel / nature / cats / yarn hoarder / democracy / social justice / random stuff.
Views expressed by this profile are my own. Viewers should independently verify information shared.
Positivity / leading / travel / nature / cats / yarn hoarder / democracy / social justice / random stuff.
Views expressed by this profile are my own. Viewers should independently verify information shared.
A shame I found this a few days late, but it deserves to be heard.
#12daysofGriftmas
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12
#12daysofGriftmas
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12
www.thebulwark.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A shame I found this a few days late, but it deserves to be heard.
#12daysofGriftmas
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12
#12daysofGriftmas
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-12
A local group is having a book discussion on George Orwell’s “1984”, so I am re-reading it another time.
The parallels between the book and our reality align so closely.
Alternative Facts = Doublethink
“Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”
The parallels between the book and our reality align so closely.
Alternative Facts = Doublethink
“Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A local group is having a book discussion on George Orwell’s “1984”, so I am re-reading it another time.
The parallels between the book and our reality align so closely.
Alternative Facts = Doublethink
“Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”
The parallels between the book and our reality align so closely.
Alternative Facts = Doublethink
“Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”
Where has this been on the news for 27 years? Imagine how much more might we know and understand about the world and humanity if we as a collective had been tracking this guy’s journey and experiences.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
British globe trekker faces changed world on final leg of 27-year journey
Karl Bushby, a British ex-paratrooper who set out in 1998 to walk around the world, is on the final stretch of his 27-year-long trek home, and trying to cope with social media pressure in a world that...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Where has this been on the news for 27 years? Imagine how much more might we know and understand about the world and humanity if we as a collective had been tracking this guy’s journey and experiences.
www.reuters.com/business/med...
www.reuters.com/business/med...
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Looking for holiday gifts or places to shop that won’t support fascism?
We got you! NPR shop has some great merch that your friends and family will love AND will direct your money to free and fair reporting.
Order by Dec 17 for delivery in time for the holidays (per website).
shopnpr.org
We got you! NPR shop has some great merch that your friends and family will love AND will direct your money to free and fair reporting.
Order by Dec 17 for delivery in time for the holidays (per website).
shopnpr.org
The Official NPR Shop
National Public Radio, Inc.
shopnpr.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Looking for holiday gifts or places to shop that won’t support fascism?
We got you! NPR shop has some great merch that your friends and family will love AND will direct your money to free and fair reporting.
Order by Dec 17 for delivery in time for the holidays (per website).
shopnpr.org
We got you! NPR shop has some great merch that your friends and family will love AND will direct your money to free and fair reporting.
Order by Dec 17 for delivery in time for the holidays (per website).
shopnpr.org
It’s hard to list the number of “YUGE” concerns about this administration-
But certainly one is that they are embedding themselves in every dept, every level, every ledger of our government.
Even should we effectively remove them from the house in 2028, they will still be crawling in the walls.
But certainly one is that they are embedding themselves in every dept, every level, every ledger of our government.
Even should we effectively remove them from the house in 2028, they will still be crawling in the walls.
Shouldn’t this news about Trump Jr. spend at least a few hours atop the newscycle?
Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract
Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.
finance.yahoo.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It’s hard to list the number of “YUGE” concerns about this administration-
But certainly one is that they are embedding themselves in every dept, every level, every ledger of our government.
Even should we effectively remove them from the house in 2028, they will still be crawling in the walls.
But certainly one is that they are embedding themselves in every dept, every level, every ledger of our government.
Even should we effectively remove them from the house in 2028, they will still be crawling in the walls.
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#WeAintBuyingIt — Target, Amazon, Home Depot.
You’re not just selling goods. You’re enabling a regime that fires workers, raids homes, and starves families.
This holiday, we’re withholding our dollars from your profit machine. social.demcast.com/s/vQPKILaf
You’re not just selling goods. You’re enabling a regime that fires workers, raids homes, and starves families.
This holiday, we’re withholding our dollars from your profit machine. social.demcast.com/s/vQPKILaf
Find Out More
social.demcast.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#WeAintBuyingIt — Target, Amazon, Home Depot.
You’re not just selling goods. You’re enabling a regime that fires workers, raids homes, and starves families.
This holiday, we’re withholding our dollars from your profit machine. social.demcast.com/s/vQPKILaf
You’re not just selling goods. You’re enabling a regime that fires workers, raids homes, and starves families.
This holiday, we’re withholding our dollars from your profit machine. social.demcast.com/s/vQPKILaf
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True freedom isn't free without healthcare, housing, or safety from crackdowns.
We deserve better than a dream crushed by broken promises. Let's fight for what's real. #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
We deserve better than a dream crushed by broken promises. Let's fight for what's real. #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
True freedom isn't free without healthcare, housing, or safety from crackdowns.
We deserve better than a dream crushed by broken promises. Let's fight for what's real. #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
We deserve better than a dream crushed by broken promises. Let's fight for what's real. #TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Imagine being in the wealthiest nation on Earth and the government (run presently by people who think they should decide what happens to women’s bodies over the woman herself and her medical professionals) are making it harder for women to get reproductive healthcare.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/h...
About a quarter of pregnant women in the US don’t get prenatal care in their first trimester, report says | CNN
A report released Monday by the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes says that only about 75% of babies last year were born to mothers who started prenatal care in the first trimester o...
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Imagine being in the wealthiest nation on Earth and the government (run presently by people who think they should decide what happens to women’s bodies over the woman herself and her medical professionals) are making it harder for women to get reproductive healthcare.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/h...
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Need to shop November 25-December 2?
- buy local small business- your 💵 will go to someone who is going to turn it into food or clothes for their family, not a statistic to “show” that the country is thriving (it’s not)
Shop your values:
- check www.opensecrets.org
- check progressiveshopper.com
- buy local small business- your 💵 will go to someone who is going to turn it into food or clothes for their family, not a statistic to “show” that the country is thriving (it’s not)
Shop your values:
- check www.opensecrets.org
- check progressiveshopper.com
OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research and government transparency group tracking money in politics and its effect on elections and policy.
www.opensecrets.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Need to shop November 25-December 2?
- buy local small business- your 💵 will go to someone who is going to turn it into food or clothes for their family, not a statistic to “show” that the country is thriving (it’s not)
Shop your values:
- check www.opensecrets.org
- check progressiveshopper.com
- buy local small business- your 💵 will go to someone who is going to turn it into food or clothes for their family, not a statistic to “show” that the country is thriving (it’s not)
Shop your values:
- check www.opensecrets.org
- check progressiveshopper.com
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A list of things you can do instead of shopping November 25-December 2:
- make home made gifts and cards (buy your materials ahead of time or source from creative refuse shops)
- play a board or card game
- check in on your friends
- read a banned book and post a review on why it’s important
- make home made gifts and cards (buy your materials ahead of time or source from creative refuse shops)
- play a board or card game
- check in on your friends
- read a banned book and post a review on why it’s important
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A list of things you can do instead of shopping November 25-December 2:
- make home made gifts and cards (buy your materials ahead of time or source from creative refuse shops)
- play a board or card game
- check in on your friends
- read a banned book and post a review on why it’s important
- make home made gifts and cards (buy your materials ahead of time or source from creative refuse shops)
- play a board or card game
- check in on your friends
- read a banned book and post a review on why it’s important
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At our most recent meeting, we discussed how effective boycotts can be…and we know the 💰💰💰 are one of the few things that gets through the lies anymore.
Band together. Stay strong.
Save your money and stay home November 25 - December 2.
(A thread)
Band together. Stay strong.
Save your money and stay home November 25 - December 2.
(A thread)
💥 Mass Blackout Reminder… We are done powering their profits. Nov 25 to Dec 2 we step back. Rest. Unplug. Refuse to consume. They fear unity and they are about to feel it.
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
At our most recent meeting, we discussed how effective boycotts can be…and we know the 💰💰💰 are one of the few things that gets through the lies anymore.
Band together. Stay strong.
Save your money and stay home November 25 - December 2.
(A thread)
Band together. Stay strong.
Save your money and stay home November 25 - December 2.
(A thread)
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💥 Mass Blackout Reminder… We are done powering their profits. Nov 25 to Dec 2 we step back. Rest. Unplug. Refuse to consume. They fear unity and they are about to feel it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
💥 Mass Blackout Reminder… We are done powering their profits. Nov 25 to Dec 2 we step back. Rest. Unplug. Refuse to consume. They fear unity and they are about to feel it.
Read the full thread.
My brief thoughts on "Death by Lightning" -- the new Netflix series about the assassination of James Garfield, based on the book "Destiny of the Republic" by Candice Millard, one of the most entertaining historical novelists of our era.
Top of my mind: superb casting.
(thread)
Top of my mind: superb casting.
(thread)
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Read the full thread.
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White students shouted racial slurs and carried a confederate flag leading up to Homecoming at a Georgia school
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest
Black students were suspended from their high school for planning a protest after another group of students came to school waving a Confederate flag. Last week, a group of students at Coosa Hi…
thehill.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
White students shouted racial slurs and carried a confederate flag leading up to Homecoming at a Georgia school
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
They faced no repercussions
Their Black classmates-along with white allies-planned to protest the following day
The Black students-alone-were suspended
thehill.com/changing-ame...
One missteps made with Project 2025 was that it was treated too much like a conspiracy- whispered about among the inner circle- but not effectively ringing the alarms to the mainstream on its harmful content until it was too late.
Let’s not make the same mistake again with the Phoenix Declaration.
Let’s not make the same mistake again with the Phoenix Declaration.
Florida first in nation to adopt conservative educational plan from Heritage Foundation
Florida schools will follow a conservative educational model under the Phoenix Declaration, developed by the Heritage Foundation.
www.tallahassee.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
One missteps made with Project 2025 was that it was treated too much like a conspiracy- whispered about among the inner circle- but not effectively ringing the alarms to the mainstream on its harmful content until it was too late.
Let’s not make the same mistake again with the Phoenix Declaration.
Let’s not make the same mistake again with the Phoenix Declaration.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
This sounds like the world of a sci-fi novel, except…real and near.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS sounds “great again.”
It sounds corrupt and abusive and like the loss of personal freedom and the ability to direct your own future.
bsky.app/profile/iwil...
NOTHING ABOUT THIS sounds “great again.”
It sounds corrupt and abusive and like the loss of personal freedom and the ability to direct your own future.
bsky.app/profile/iwil...
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This sounds like the world of a sci-fi novel, except…real and near.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS sounds “great again.”
It sounds corrupt and abusive and like the loss of personal freedom and the ability to direct your own future.
bsky.app/profile/iwil...
NOTHING ABOUT THIS sounds “great again.”
It sounds corrupt and abusive and like the loss of personal freedom and the ability to direct your own future.
bsky.app/profile/iwil...
‘Now I have nothing’: Pennsylvanians expect hardship without SNAP lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
‘Now I have nothing’: Pennsylvanians expect hardship without SNAP
Lebanon County resident Caitlyn Stuber received her latest check from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Oct. 9.
lancasteronline.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
‘Now I have nothing’: Pennsylvanians expect hardship without SNAP lancasteronline.com/news/politic...
I’d like to live in an alternate reality where women like this have the power and the money.
Crockett: You have a president who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the house, I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I’d like to live in an alternate reality where women like this have the power and the money.
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"When the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions." -U.S. founding father James Madison
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"When the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nation to the changed conditions." -U.S. founding father James Madison
IMPORTANT ELECTION COMING UP!!! Please do not sit this one out.
VOTE YES to retain our PA Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth judges. All are highly rated by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and recommended for retention.
VOTE YES to retain our PA Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth judges. All are highly rated by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and recommended for retention.
October 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
IMPORTANT ELECTION COMING UP!!! Please do not sit this one out.
VOTE YES to retain our PA Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth judges. All are highly rated by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and recommended for retention.
VOTE YES to retain our PA Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth judges. All are highly rated by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and recommended for retention.
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Two things that all of us can do today:
Tell your friends and colleagues to get off twitter, and to get off NYT. Get news on politics elsewhere. The Times is misleading.
Tell your friends and colleagues to get off twitter, and to get off NYT. Get news on politics elsewhere. The Times is misleading.
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Two things that all of us can do today:
Tell your friends and colleagues to get off twitter, and to get off NYT. Get news on politics elsewhere. The Times is misleading.
Tell your friends and colleagues to get off twitter, and to get off NYT. Get news on politics elsewhere. The Times is misleading.
This is a riveting piece to read.
It also clearly displays (again) the utter incompetence and arrogance of everyone associated with this administration.
My brain is going to be replaying this read over and over in the same vein it did the first Signal-gate.
It also clearly displays (again) the utter incompetence and arrogance of everyone associated with this administration.
My brain is going to be replaying this read over and over in the same vein it did the first Signal-gate.
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is a riveting piece to read.
It also clearly displays (again) the utter incompetence and arrogance of everyone associated with this administration.
My brain is going to be replaying this read over and over in the same vein it did the first Signal-gate.
It also clearly displays (again) the utter incompetence and arrogance of everyone associated with this administration.
My brain is going to be replaying this read over and over in the same vein it did the first Signal-gate.
This week, I did a jigsaw puzzle.
It was a tough one because the scene changed so rapidly from one piece to the next.
It made it that much more rewarding when the puzzle was finally together.
It was a tough one because the scene changed so rapidly from one piece to the next.
It made it that much more rewarding when the puzzle was finally together.
October 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This week, I did a jigsaw puzzle.
It was a tough one because the scene changed so rapidly from one piece to the next.
It made it that much more rewarding when the puzzle was finally together.
It was a tough one because the scene changed so rapidly from one piece to the next.
It made it that much more rewarding when the puzzle was finally together.