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Kelly
@kellywhelan.bsky.social
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Native plant enthusiast, nature lover, humanist, community builder, recovered attorney. She/her
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.

The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.

These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.

We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago. The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations. Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray. Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes. McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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courtneymilan.com
What the fuck. Leave him alone, you assholes.
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Trump’s rally last night was supposed to fix the political damage from the affordability crisis.

Instead, it’s the latest in a string of choices that is making it worse for him — and all Republicans.

www.salon.com/2025/12/10/t...
Trump's reality TV tricks can't hide the affordability crisis
The president's policies cost families $2,250 in 2025 — and the economy is only getting worse
www.salon.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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bearysweet.bsky.social
Today is 'No Touching' day 😾

😽 Admire meh all yeh want, hooman, worship meh even, but strictly no touching 😸

🥰

#cats #notouching
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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fisherdanar.bsky.social
Reminder that temperatures above normal in the arctic lead to below average temperatures in the US 👇
weatherprof.bsky.social Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13d
Coldest air on Earth today is in the US with temps up to 40 degrees below normal in the Midwest/ Great Lakes. Actual lows are as low as -20F there.
Cold US is due to widespread relative warmth in the Arctic, with record low Arctic Sea Ice extent. This “warmth” displaces the polar cold pool south.
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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joegarrity.bsky.social
The Wizard Nebula, a.k.a. NGC 7380, is an open star cluster embedded within a vibrant emission nebula.
Integration Time: 17 hours

My Portfolio:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposurephotography #longexposure #nebula #photography
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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feraldactal.bsky.social
I don’t know a lot.

But I know a lot about dinosaurs.

Now we all know dinosaurs lived for millions of years right?

But does you mind actually wrap around how long they dominated for?

Lets get a little perspective.

Did you know Allosaurus never saw flowers but T.rex did?
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
Archeologists in Wisconsin found an ancient canoe that is over 5,000 years old!! The discovery was in a canoe “parking lot” along a popular waterway and trail system.
Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.

(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made. — Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
Hey you. YES YOU. Super persnickety astronomer. You know who you are.

NASA Exoplanet Archive just updated our overview pages so the stars are closer to their actual colours, as per Harre & Heller (2021) and Cranmer (2021).

You're welcome. 😎

(You can thank @kevinkhu.bsky.social!)
Screenshot of the NASA Exoplanet Archive overview page for HD 4113, a triple star system with three differently coloured stars (one of which has a planet, HD 4113 b).
November 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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motherjones.com
An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court.
A Border Patrol agent bragged about shooting someone, texts show
"Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no.
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
The Biden administration eschewed theater and wonked their way into fascist Trump. We aren’t going to wonk ourselves out of this.
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price www.openculture.com/2025/10/edga...
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price
Edgar Allan Poe’s classic moody-broody poem “The Raven,” none is more fun than The Simpsons’, in which Lisa Simpson’s intro transitions into the reading voice of James Earl Jones and the slapstick int...
www.openculture.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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wired.com
As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.

In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever
Mexican WWII poster
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
A woman sits on her couch and watches a television depicting a building in shambles. A man standing behind her asks, "More senseless destruction in Ukraine?" and the woman responds, "East Wing of the White House"
October 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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luminescentphoto.com
The US has a $5B contingency fund to cover SNAP benefits in the event of shutdowns or other events... and they refuse to use it.
October 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
Is anyone doing a running tally somewhere with people who say Nazi tattoo bad versus people who say Nazi tattoo not a dealbreaker?

I need to make it a permanent bookmark in my phone
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Let me tell you something about having some weird 💩 going on…

If you got some weird 💩 going on and i defend that weird 💩 it’s probably because i got some weird 💩 going on

Because that’s how that weird 💩 works
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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schreibersnaturarium.de
Die USA unter Trump in einem Bild
hillaryclinton.bsky.social Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Oct 21
It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
Washington Post: White House begins destroying East wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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lissaharris.bsky.social
this story about the early response timeline in NYS is pretty damning

www.propublica.org/article/two-...
Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.
California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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banditelli.org
Forgot to include the conclusion. This is one of those "you know whatever you say the newspaper is going to print" and she swung for the fences. I respect that, even if I don't respect her wealth. And probably anything else about her.
Others are prepared to make the best of it. One CEO said she already spends as much time as she can in Rome and is thinking about making a more permanent move. "It's not like the guillotine is coming out. " said Roberts, the retiredbanker, who spoke via Zoom from a vacation in Paris.
October 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM