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@kelly1107.bsky.social
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Mom. Storyteller of Equality Research Photography. Advocate. Hope. Love. Unity. Peace.
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Happy birthday Steve Martin.
Steve Martin, bearded and bedecked in turquoise on the rear cover of his bluegrass album The Steve Martin Brothers, 1981.
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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@joycewhitevance.bsky.social: "I continue to think that we are in the middle of a soft coup. The military is not out on the streets...But what we are seeing is someone who is attacking all of the norms and institutions of government."

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/wL04uJ9W5kM
March 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“The administration sent notice to Congress on Monday that NASA was abolishing the Office of the Chief Scientist and the Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy,” among other DEI related positions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/s...
NASA Eliminates Chief Scientist and Other Jobs at Its Headquarters
About 19 positions will be cut, including those in offices focused on technology policy and diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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This goes hard
Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the
January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM