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J.B. Lyle
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#BlueCrew, retired lawyer, woke, vegetarian, history, arts, friend to animals. ANTI-DRUMPF = PRO-AMERICA.
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Looks to me it’s not good to stay up all night posting more than 200-plus truth socials. 😁
December 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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TRYING TO FLIP” THE BOAT MEANS THE BOAT WAS CAPSIZED AND THEY WERE SHIPWRECKED IN THE WATER.
Q: What did you see in the second strike?

Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I've got new details coming soon on what lawmakers saw on the video of the second strike and what they heard in the classified briefing today. It's deeply unnerving stuff. Stay tuned.
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Holding ourselves to account over the boat strike isn’t about the traffickers or the boat… it’s about us

youtu.be/yMH3NcZEeNA?...
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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‘Obituary’, from my forthcoming poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’. Sharing for National Grief Awareness Week (2-8 December) and sending solidarity to anyone experiencing grief, no matter how long ago you were bereaved x #bereavement #griefawarenessweek @theemmapress.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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My bestie has a goat named Carnage.
That’s all.
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Another mussel.

All for sale - small ones are £275, medium £350, large £450 - float framed in black ash. (+P&P)

Oil on hardboard 30x25cm (medium).

More here - www.landscapepainter.me.uk/still-life

#seashellpainting #mussel #musselpainting#artforsale #naturepainting #artforsale #buyoriginalart
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My orange boy is perfect; he restores my soul
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of blue, I fear no evil, for orange is with me
His hiss and his slorp, they comfort me
He prepares a hairball before me in the presence of guests
My cup runneth over. Please take your paw out of my cup
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Meet on of the brightest frogs in the Amazon

This is the Splashed-back Poison Dart Frog.

It’s a small but highly toxic species found in lowland rainforest, where its vivid pattern warns predators to stay far away.

#frogs #rainforest #animals #wildlife #brazil #amphibian
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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For the #ArtAdventCalendar – a grouchy great horned owl trying to simultaneously sleep and soak sun. I quickly left it be. #birds
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Giving the president the pardon power was a mistake. The most corrupt president in American history is conducting a jailbreak for his fellow criminals.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?

I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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This is unfortunately and sadly who we are now….
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Image of Arp 23, also known as NGC 4618, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966).

In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - One-armed. Its unusual shape may come from interactions with its companion.
Source
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I know I have committed to a more cheerful timeline, but…

I do not know what to do with these feelings of anxiety and despair. As a country, we are slipping in to fascism, goaded and driven on by the most disingenuous set of cowardly arseholes I have ever seen.
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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He will pardon her and all of those who served under him before he leaves. And he has immunity. Get ready for all of these criminals who run this grift to walk away.
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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This republican senator was so tounge tied over the pardon of Honduras president he said bu but bla uh bu an uh and then didnt answer the question just said its "certainly confusing"..gonna take hours and lots of lube to untie that logic pretzel..pathetic
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Two new illustrations: American Dippers and Brown Trout Fries / Owyhee Horned Lark.

For all the #boise people, I will be selling new prints and originals down at OldSpeak tomorrow and Friday. Come down and say hi.

#sciart
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The defendants named in the suit are Kraft-Heinz Co. Inc., the Coca-Cola Co. Inc., PepsiCo, General Mills Inc., Nestle USA Inc., Mars Inc., Mondalez Int. Inc., Post-holdings Inc, ConAgra brand Inc. and Kellanova and WK Kellogg Co.

SF is suing to recoup government $ spent on consumers' medical care.
San Francisco takes 10 corporations to court over ultra-processed food
The lawsuit is the first of its kind.
www.sfgate.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM