Diane MacDonald
@dianemac86.bsky.social
Retired, and living the good life. Lithuanian-American!🇱🇹🇺🇸
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June 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco. The protest is among thousands of nationwide demonstrations that took place today against Trump.
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
June 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco. The protest is among thousands of nationwide demonstrations that took place today against Trump.
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social
#NoKingsDay
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My favorite protest sign so far.
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NO KINGS!
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NO KINGS!
June 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My favorite protest sign so far.
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NO KINGS!
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NO KINGS!
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Kennedy Removes All CDC Vaccine Panel Experts
Source: The New York Times we are in danger
Source: The New York Times we are in danger
June 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Kennedy Removes All CDC Vaccine Panel Experts
Source: The New York Times we are in danger
Source: The New York Times we are in danger
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🥲🤬🇺🇸🤬🥲
June 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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What Czarist censorship tried to silence, brave #Lithuanian people preserved through smuggled books and underground presses. Today, we celebrate the Lithuanian Press Restoration, Language and Book Day, commemorating the 1904 lifting of a ban on Lithuanian press in the Latin script.
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#LTinEU
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#LTinEU
May 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What Czarist censorship tried to silence, brave #Lithuanian people preserved through smuggled books and underground presses. Today, we celebrate the Lithuanian Press Restoration, Language and Book Day, commemorating the 1904 lifting of a ban on Lithuanian press in the Latin script.
📙📗📕
#LTinEU
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#LTinEU
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Those DARN liberals....always trying to HELP their constituents....🤔🤔
April 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Those DARN liberals....always trying to HELP their constituents....🤔🤔
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Dear god let this man cook.
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Dear god let this man cook.
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100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up.
It's up to us to demand something better.
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
April 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.
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When fascism hits unsend but the internet is forever.
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When fascism hits unsend but the internet is forever.
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Two milestones on our path to energy independence:
🚢 In 2014, LNG carrier "Independence" reached Lithuania, ending our reliance on Russian gas and inspiring others.
⚡ In 2025, Lithuania cut its last electricity link to Russia and fully synchronized with Europe, boosting our energy security.
🚢 In 2014, LNG carrier "Independence" reached Lithuania, ending our reliance on Russian gas and inspiring others.
⚡ In 2025, Lithuania cut its last electricity link to Russia and fully synchronized with Europe, boosting our energy security.
April 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Two milestones on our path to energy independence:
🚢 In 2014, LNG carrier "Independence" reached Lithuania, ending our reliance on Russian gas and inspiring others.
⚡ In 2025, Lithuania cut its last electricity link to Russia and fully synchronized with Europe, boosting our energy security.
🚢 In 2014, LNG carrier "Independence" reached Lithuania, ending our reliance on Russian gas and inspiring others.
⚡ In 2025, Lithuania cut its last electricity link to Russia and fully synchronized with Europe, boosting our energy security.
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Polls show that >80% of Georgian people want Georgia to become a member of the EU. "Lithuania will continue standing with Georgians and supporting Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration", FM Kęstutis Budrys tells @civil.ge. 🇬🇪
Full interview: civil.ge/archives/676...
Full interview: civil.ge/archives/676...
April 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Polls show that >80% of Georgian people want Georgia to become a member of the EU. "Lithuania will continue standing with Georgians and supporting Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration", FM Kęstutis Budrys tells @civil.ge. 🇬🇪
Full interview: civil.ge/archives/676...
Full interview: civil.ge/archives/676...
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Pete Buttigieg .
37 Years old
8 Languages
2 Mayoral Terms
1 Harvard degree
1 Rhodes Scholarship
1 Marriage
1 Tour in Afghanistan
0 Bone Spurs
Actual American Hero
37 Years old
8 Languages
2 Mayoral Terms
1 Harvard degree
1 Rhodes Scholarship
1 Marriage
1 Tour in Afghanistan
0 Bone Spurs
Actual American Hero
April 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Pete Buttigieg .
37 Years old
8 Languages
2 Mayoral Terms
1 Harvard degree
1 Rhodes Scholarship
1 Marriage
1 Tour in Afghanistan
0 Bone Spurs
Actual American Hero
37 Years old
8 Languages
2 Mayoral Terms
1 Harvard degree
1 Rhodes Scholarship
1 Marriage
1 Tour in Afghanistan
0 Bone Spurs
Actual American Hero
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Posting pictures I have taken of birds to stop my feed here just being depressing politics #birds #birdsofbluesky Anna's Hummingbird, California, November 2016
March 31, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Posting pictures I have taken of birds to stop my feed here just being depressing politics #birds #birdsofbluesky Anna's Hummingbird, California, November 2016
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This Kookaburra stands guard as the Australian autumn day fades into a soft, grey drizzled night.
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See ya later, Cobber, from a rainy & windy Oz. 🇦🇺🪃🦘🐨
🌧️💨😴
#kookaburra #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #photography #Australia #birdwatching #birding #Canon #R5
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See ya later, Cobber, from a rainy & windy Oz. 🇦🇺🪃🦘🐨
🌧️💨😴
#kookaburra #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #photography #Australia #birdwatching #birding #Canon #R5
March 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
This Kookaburra stands guard as the Australian autumn day fades into a soft, grey drizzled night.
☔️🐦🇦🇺
See ya later, Cobber, from a rainy & windy Oz. 🇦🇺🪃🦘🐨
🌧️💨😴
#kookaburra #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #photography #Australia #birdwatching #birding #Canon #R5
☔️🐦🇦🇺
See ya later, Cobber, from a rainy & windy Oz. 🇦🇺🪃🦘🐨
🌧️💨😴
#kookaburra #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #photography #Australia #birdwatching #birding #Canon #R5
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🧠📉 Concussion cuts education chances
A new study has found that a child who suffers even a mild concussion is 15% less likely to reach higher education as an adult – showing lasting impacts of brain injury on learning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106...
#SciComm #Concussion 🧪 #Education
A new study has found that a child who suffers even a mild concussion is 15% less likely to reach higher education as an adult – showing lasting impacts of brain injury on learning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106...
#SciComm #Concussion 🧪 #Education
Impact of childhood traumatic brain injury on educational attainment in Finland from 1998 to 2018: a retrospective register-based nationwide cohort study - European Journal of Epidemiology
Pediatric traumatic brain injury (pTBI) can lead to considerable mortality, morbidity, mental impairment, and physical disability over time. The direct impact of pTBI on educational attainment is uncl...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM
🧠📉 Concussion cuts education chances
A new study has found that a child who suffers even a mild concussion is 15% less likely to reach higher education as an adult – showing lasting impacts of brain injury on learning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106...
#SciComm #Concussion 🧪 #Education
A new study has found that a child who suffers even a mild concussion is 15% less likely to reach higher education as an adult – showing lasting impacts of brain injury on learning.
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106...
#SciComm #Concussion 🧪 #Education
Science matters! Life matters! Vaccines save lives.
🚨 Science matters. Vaccines have saved millions of lives by reducing infectious diseases—just look at the data.
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 31, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Science matters! Life matters! Vaccines save lives.
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Today, we mark our 21 years in NATO. Our membership in the Alliance is a security guarantee but also an active commitment to European and global stability and peace.
Our defence spending will rise from 5 to 6% of GDP in 2026-2030. We are not just defended; we are also defenders.
Our defence spending will rise from 5 to 6% of GDP in 2026-2030. We are not just defended; we are also defenders.
March 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Today, we mark our 21 years in NATO. Our membership in the Alliance is a security guarantee but also an active commitment to European and global stability and peace.
Our defence spending will rise from 5 to 6% of GDP in 2026-2030. We are not just defended; we are also defenders.
Our defence spending will rise from 5 to 6% of GDP in 2026-2030. We are not just defended; we are also defenders.
This is wife number three. Who he had an affair with while married to wife number two. Who he had an affair with (one of many) while married to wife number one.
IT GETS WORSE
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.
New via @wsj.com:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.
New via @wsj.com:
Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials
The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.
www.wsj.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is wife number three. Who he had an affair with while married to wife number two. Who he had an affair with (one of many) while married to wife number one.
Disgusting photo op by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem!
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Disgusting photo op by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem!
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March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM