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Veronica Snyder (NaturalLightVee)
@naturallightvee.bsky.social
Aspiring photographer, amateur naturalist. Love all things nature and animals. Mother of felines and a canary. Pittsburgh native. (Let’s go Pens!)

Twitter: NaturalLightVee (@cosievee)
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This segment is so so good. Truly no one out there uses his platform like John Oliver
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Thank you, Steve, for helping those of us without law degrees wrap our heads around this! It is good to know that this order isn’t going to draw things out as long as I had initially thought (pending further actions by the SC) and makes Justice Jackson’s actions make more sense.
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.
Portland ICE facility now.
October 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.
I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
www.motherjones.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com
Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.
www.thefarside.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Late afternoon sun
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Day 8! A maple sapling starting to change color. I think it’s a sugar maple, but I will have to take a closer look to confirm it isn’t a Norway maple. Trunk of our native black cherry in the background. American Cancer Society photo-a-day fundraiser link in my Instagram and FB.
October 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Oops! I seem to have missed day 7! So here’s a belated day 7 photo. Purple aster surrounded by rose hips. The aster is a native wildflower. Unfortunately the rose hips belong to the moderately invasive multiflora rose. American Cancer Society photo-a-day fundraiser in my Instagram and FB profiles.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Day 6! The last of my black-eyed susans for the season. As you can see, the rest of the plant has passed its prime, but it gave me one more bloom! Fundraiser link in my Insta & FB
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#americancancersociety #americancancersocietyfundraiser #photoadaychallenge #americancancersocietyphotoadaychallenge
October 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Day 5! These purple fall asters are loved by all of the pollinator insects! We allow to them grow all around the property as they are actually native wildflowers and thus beneficial to the environment and very important to the pollinators when little else is still blooming.
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
@profmmurray.bsky.social You were first chair viola?! Me too! I was first chair viola in 11th grade high school orchestra. 😊
July 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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If you’re watching @maddow.msnbc.com’s A Block you understand that people who stand up for other people can change the course of those people’s lives & our history. We have the power to refuse Trump’s path forward. Protesting actually works. Let’s go.
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
June 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Put this on a billboard.
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Ancient Egypt’s feline gods, embroidered tigers on Chinese textiles, lions in Southern Africa’s San cave paintings etc all show how wildcats have penetrated human folklore & fascination.

Yet all 40 species of wildcats are traded globally, posing conservation concerns for big & small cats.

Read:
What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?
Ancient Egypt’s feline gods, embroidered tigers on Chinese textiles, lions in Southern Africa’s San cave paintings and jaguars symbolizing military prowess in Mesoamerican cultures — all of them show…
news.mongabay.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A few photos from #handsoff rally in Pittsburgh. This was the second rally of the day (a third was also being held at the same time in a suburb of Pgh), from 5-6:00 PM, after an early afternoon rally in downtown Pittsburgh. Being #chronicallyill, it took me a couple of days to recover and post!
April 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Small town in Kansas ✊🏻 #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Tiny, struggling Youngstown, OH just brought the FIRE—850+ showed up to fight for democracy in red Mahoning County.

This isn’t apathy.
This is a RISING.
Even in the heart of MAGA country, people are wide awake and shouting: #HandsOff our rights, our votes, our future. 🤩
April 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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@maddow.msnbc.com #handsoffolympia #goodtrouble
Rachel, At the Washington State Capital in Olympia
April 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Missoula MT. PRESENT 💙❤️🌹!
April 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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2,000 strong in Lincoln, NE, 5,000+ in the heart of Omaha, NE are fed up, showing up & getting loud in opposition of it all. Good day for democracy. @maddow.msnbc.com #handsoff2025 #50501lincoln #50501omaha #50501nebraska
April 6, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
HandsOff
April 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM