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Nicole Cowie 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦🪡
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Mom, wife, quilter, sarcasm enthusiast, retired technical drawer. Excelling in mediocrity for over five decades.
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January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
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“Jenny Yeremiy, in an interview Tuesday, said she thinks the petition has garnered about 6,000 signatures since the end of October.

It needs another 10,000 in the next two weeks to force a constituency-wide vote”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Nicolaides recall petition 10,000 signatures short as 1st deadline looms in Alberta recalls
A petitioner looking to oust an Alberta cabinet ministers says she has a huge task ahead, as the campaign nears its deadline for signature collection.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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BREAKING: Tammy Duckworth, who has the most significant combat record of any current U.S. senator, just lashed out at Trump on Venezuela:

“Maybe Trump dodged the draft so many times he’s incapable of understanding the lessons from past conflicts built on lies.”
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
This was a fun thing to notice, and pull over to take a picture of before it was too late. 😂
January 5, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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#artAdventCalendar 2025 had 630 participants who posted over 8500 images over 24 days with 97% AltText usage.

That's remarkable when the average use here is in the low to mid 20%.

Be better, be kind & be inclusive.

Go to settings>accessibility>require alttext.
Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.
January 1, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti

Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta

Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Give yourself a present & scroll through the over 8500 posted in #ArtAdventCalendar this month.

The largest media event on Bluesky (probably)

(And if you're a new artist just joining, there's 660 artists you can get to know)
You can see over 8000 human made images (97% of them with AltText) posted by over 600 #ArtAdventCalendar participants just by clicking or long pressing on the hashtag and selecting See Posts.

I guarantee you it's better for your mental health than whatever else you're looking at on here.
I mean...just look at this. It goes on and on and on.

#ArtAdventCalendar is amazing and you really should check it out.
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Sending three ghosts tonight to fuck up Stephen Miller.
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Sharing my favorite piece that I painted this year for Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Tisha Mark ©2025, Lighting the Dark, oil on linen, 20"x20"

View the series here:
tishamark.com/lighting-the...

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt
December 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Just having a quiet Christmas Eve lunch with one of the locals.
😂 🦌
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"They want to build a network of concentration camps."
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in US Warehouses
ICE's plan to warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants in massive storage facilities is "beyond dehumanizing."
www.commondreams.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Not that this isn’t just horrific but it is especially evil considering that rapes remain underreported and(/because they are) under-prosecuted for military service members. If you can’t even get justice against your rapist now you have to carry their fetus, too.
This means the VA won't cover abortions EVEN in the case of rape, incest, or serious threat to the health of the patient.

The DOJ memo was authored by Josh Craddock, one of the chief legal advocates for fetal personhood, i.e. imposing a nationwide abortion ban through the courts.
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

Read/share 👇
December 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”

Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.

The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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For Day 23 #ArtAdventCalendar

Dawn at White Sands
24×36 61x91cm
Oil on Canvas
2017
Commission
December 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar 23
36”x45” quilt
Original design and method for this. I love argyle so it’s one of my favourites and hangs in my sewing room for cheer.
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19.
’Merry Chistmice! 🐭’ ...digital art.
December 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21.
Some treetop caroling to celebrate Winter Solstice ...digital art.
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar 22
Quilt 48x56
Fun excercise in a method for non-applique floating hexagons and randomness. I have to force myself to ‘do’ random/freeform which I guess totally defeats the purpose and is technically a fail. 🤣🤪
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#artadventcalendar #photography #macromonday
A closeup of a closed tulip, multicolored, with droplets.
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM