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A federal judge in Texas issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from using a rarely invoked wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants held in the state to El Salvador.

April 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Get involved locally and change your part of the world for the better.

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Taniel, with the handle @Taniel
. The post reads: "RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, were pushing anti-LGTB policies, incl. a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all 3 of these city councillors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by local LGBT group." The post reports on a local election outcome in Rolla, Missouri, where three city council members who supported anti-LGBT policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship, were voted out. The winning candidates were supported by a local LGBT group.

April 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺

@nywolforg.bsky.social

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺

nywolf.org

April 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM

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AltYellostoneNatPar

@altyellonatpark.org

I believe Tolkien said it best

“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”

Tolkien

February 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM

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Ry 🦥

@basedsocialism.bsky.social

February 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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Neugin

@lostcitymagic.bsky.social

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word and how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is heart and pronounced ahdahnuhdaw

February 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

She speaks truth.

February 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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✧Star✧

@starthewerewolf.bsky.social

For those who need to hear it today 🏳️‍🌈

January 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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Mara Wilson

@marawilson.bsky.social

There’s a scene in the post nuclear war film The Day After where Steve Guttenberg runs outside to bring a girl back into a shelter after she has a nervous breakdown from being trapped there too long. He tells her that she can’t see the fallout, but it is all around them, and it will kill her…

Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · Jan 17

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)