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Karen Bystrom
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Books, kittehs, and enjoying retirement.
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bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Lelu’s response to current events.
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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muellershewrote.com
My friend @charlotteclymer.bsky.social has written about Mark Kelly’s distinguished military career. This is not to be missed. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
January 4, 2026 at 8:00 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
December 2025 reading, bringing the year’s total to 181. #booksky
Covers of 18 books on green and cream illustrations of books in the background and sketch of Christmas tree in the center
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Comes with a coupon for a free pardon. But it’s non transferable.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
after bidding $100,000 for a painting during an auction at Mar-a-Lago, Trump describes $2 million as "peanuts" for another bidder and the painting eventually goes for over $2.5 million
January 1, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Betty, Lelu, and Emma send their holiday greetings!
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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jentaub.bsky.social
Important
leahgreenberg.bsky.social Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18d
Hi folks. Just to be clear, a date has not yet been announced for the next No Kings. If a PAC you’ve never heard of asks for donations to “organize” it, please block and report them
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
From one of my favorite playwrights. My daughter was in the Brown University library, hiding under the desk | Sarah Ruhl www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My daughter was in the Brown University library, hiding under the desk | Sarah Ruhl
This normalization of gun violence in the US – who is it serving? Why can we not collectively make this not normal again?
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Emma on #caturday
Black and grey tabby cat in a box with text no you can’t guess what’s inside by shaking me
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
All the feels, @nbcsnl.bsky.social and thanks, Bowen Yang!
Bowen Yang and Ariana Grande on tv screen with holiday lights above.
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Wait, I’ve just been screaming at the Kraken all this time?
Ad on TV screen, the abyss awakens, buy tickets, kraken hockey team logo
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
Yikes.
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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saphyress.bsky.social
To be clear.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is tonight !
ms.now MS NOW @ms.now · 24d
TONIGHT at 9pm ET on MS NOW’s YouTube channel, LIVE, as-it-happens instant reaction and fact check of President Trump’s address to the nation.

JOIN @velshi.com & @mollyjongfast.bsky.social and other special guests right here 9pm ET:
www.youtube.com/live/hSw1IR4...
LIVE ANALYSIS AND FACT CHECK! Trump's White House Address
YouTube video by MS NOW
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December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Ok A.I. nailed this one, credit where it’s due

www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Pantone’s color of the year is drunk liquor store raccoon burglar
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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indivisible.org
Social media is full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped results.

Meanwhile, Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads.

Stop paying for or using Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to: 1) infringe our rights 2) terrorize our communities 3) disappear legal residents 4) smash into cars & private homes 5) tackle & detain lawmakers indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
An excellent essay by a TeenTix writer! (TeenTix.org)
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
This year’s “Christmas tree.” (Our feline overlords are climbers.)
Ribbons in tree outline on bookcase with ornaments and lights.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The irony is rich.
Screenshot of a tweet by Melanie D’Arrigo on X.com that reads: “It’s literally the whole reason why we celebrate Thanksgiving.” Beneath it is a Homeland Security tweet saying: “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
bookdragon-queen.bsky.social
The comment about Rep . Ilhan Omar is possibly even more reprehensible.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 28
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation…
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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kackbro.bsky.social
Just Being Honest To Taco Belles
Face ?.......
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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simplyskye.bsky.social
Who remembers those early Palantir trades
AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM