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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸
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Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, films N Ireland 🇪🇺 Avoid🦠Covid. Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · Jun 16
Honoured to be in this #poetry collection (p.14):

Thoughts from the other side of the Mid Atlantic Rift

Written on #Rathlin Island on a #Sailing boat. Grateful to @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social for the call, curation & publication. Means so much to me to support #US #Protest #Politics #Metaphor
Front cover of newly published collection of poems on Dissent and protest against Trump politics in US https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-dissent-poems-of-protest-in-an-authoritarian-age-summer-2025/
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Lesley @lesleylovesnature.bsky.social · 1h
24-spot ladybird on a grass leaf, which is typical for them. #WildWebsWednesday
Orange and black spotted ladybird on some grass
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Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social · 9h
I know I've said it before but I definitely need a longer fence 😲
It's getting to peak garden #Chough numbers now and it's only early October.
I'm guessing the daily count might top 70 this Winter.
Photos taken with my phone about 2 foot from the fence line.
#Anglesey
#WildWebsWednesday
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 6h
Eric Ward: How We Defeat Authoritarianism with Solidarity
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Eric Ward: How We Defeat Authoritarianism with Solidarity
Trump’s militarization met with moral clarity from one of America’s most trusted civil rights voices.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 5h
After actions by the administration to limit access to Covid vaccinations, parents in some parts of the country are struggling to find vaccines to protect their young kids. Gift link:
Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall
www.nytimes.com
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The Fulcrum @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social · 2d
Across Virginia and beyond, Americans are rejecting division and embracing a new civic path—lifting up stories of community, dignity, and shared purpose to renew faith in our democracy.

Read more: https://loom.ly/7SlcaxI

#thefulcrum #citizenconnect
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Nick Allison @nickallison80.bsky.social · 7h
We haven’t failed at peaceful resistance in America. We just haven’t tried it yet.
New essay up at @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social, a nonpartisan platform where insiders and outsiders meet to repair our democracy. Follow them for thoughtful, solutions-based dialogue.

thefulcrum.us/civic-engage...
Critical Mass and the 3.5% Rule: Why Nonviolent Protest Can Work When We Actually Try It
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23h
Tarzan was always the wisest of the lot
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 9h
This is the kind of stuff your elected representative should be doing for you, especially when your government says you have to show up for work but they'll pay you whenever.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democrats introduce bill to help federal workers cover childcare costs during shutdown
Exclusive: employees would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities under plans initiated by Ilhan Omar
www.theguardian.com
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 12h
And I’ll share a few pauses too ☺️
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 23h
Tarzan was always the wisest of the lot
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d
Brandon #Johnson, Chicago’s #mayor, signed exec order banning #Ice agents operating on city-owned properties. He said “We’re going to defend our #democracy in #Chicago. We’re going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.” #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown
Military presence comes after judge declined to block troops from entering, following lawsuit filed by city and state
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"

"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"

"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"

"It's all the same stuff"
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d
Brandon #Johnson, Chicago’s #mayor, signed exec order banning #Ice agents operating on city-owned properties. He said “We’re going to defend our #democracy in #Chicago. We’re going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.” #Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown
Military presence comes after judge declined to block troops from entering, following lawsuit filed by city and state
www.theguardian.com
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d
Never laugh at your own jokes and don’t make it seem your wife is the cause of problems - it actually was very unfunny
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d
The whole campaign to destroy American universities is grounded in a burning desire to silence criticism of Netanyahu and Israel, which its promoters believe is seated in American colleges and universities. Its prime promoter is explicit about destruction being his goal.
The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities
www.nytimes.com
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 1d
#Vought “advocates what he calls “radical constitutionalism” to destroy the power of the modern administrative state and instead elevate the president to supreme authority.” #HCR #HeatherCoxRichardson #authoritarian #Trump #Project25
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 1d
Mayor Johnson signs executive order declaring city-owned properties 'ICE-free zones' chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Mayor Johnson signs executive order declaring city-owned properties 'ICE-free zones'
It’s the latest of three executive orders that Johnson has signed, all aimed at the deportation campaign that President Donald Trump has imposed in the Chicago area. How and whether they'll actually b...
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 1d
Illinois, Texas National Guard troop mobilization to Chicago to begin 'immediately,' last 60 days chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Illinois, Texas National Guard troop mobilization to Chicago to begin 'immediately,' last 60 days
Officials confirmed 300 troops from Illinois and another 400 troops from Texas are being mobilized to go to Chicago, Portland and other locations. The troops will be stationed "in places where there a...
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 2d
I dug mine up because it was in the wrong place, beautiful but needed also to protect new kitty - it is very poisonous, even the dust from there flowers dried in a vase - which I often have done
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 2d
I think of the moments as stop moments ….but I like the word pause a lot.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 3d
Searching for the few flowers left after the storm.
A few Dandelion and Bramble flowers survived
#Wildflowerhour
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#wildflower #October #Autumn After #StormAmy
Three yellow Dandelion flowers A few Bramble buds and one Bramble flower open
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 3d
Searching for the few flowers left after the storm.
A few Daisies survived but most are not tall as this one is
#Wildflowerhour
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#wildflower #October #Autumn After #StormAmy
A solitary Daisy on a tall stem, although only as long as recently cut grass
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 19
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 2d
Ugh - had to look it up. Navy battle cry #Hooyah
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