avanb2
@avanb2.bsky.social
Life long liberal, unapologetic atheist, lover of all animals and very few people. Too old to put up with any more BS. Here to toast marshmallows in the widening gyre with you all. Know my way around a few curse words. Rogier van den Weyden fan.
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avanb2
@avanb2.bsky.social
· Mar 26
Re:eradicating Dept of Education- "Every educated person is a future enemy. " Martin Bormann talking about policies of 3rd reich. Learn from history!
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Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.
Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...
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The fact that Trump forced these plants to stay open when the technology is obsolete is yet another reason why our electric bills continue to spike. Call Bergman's TC office today to express your outrage at (231)944-7633. We all will pay for this old coal plant that was slated to be mothballed.
Is this what Trump meant when promising to help Michiganders with affordability? Forcing our residents to pay millions of extra dollars for an obsolete coal plant our residents and even the utility companies don't need or want?
www.mlive.com/news/2026/02...
www.mlive.com/news/2026/02...
Tab for keeping Michigan coal plant open under Trump orders grows to $135M
Utility Consumers Energy is seeking permission to pass an initial $42 million in costs for running the J.H. Campbell coal power plant on to power customers in 11 states.
www.mlive.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The fact that Trump forced these plants to stay open when the technology is obsolete is yet another reason why our electric bills continue to spike. Call Bergman's TC office today to express your outrage at (231)944-7633. We all will pay for this old coal plant that was slated to be mothballed.
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Hague. Every single one of them. bsky.app/profile/drgo...
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News
History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.
news.westernu.ca
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hague. Every single one of them. bsky.app/profile/drgo...
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This is actually real.
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
This is actually real.
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I never want to hear anyone say “immigrants should come here the RiGhT way” ever again
Imagine spending many years navigating the most convoluted path to citizenship only for this shit to undo every tedious hoop you’ve jumped through and time and money and energy you’ve invested.
Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:42 AM
I never want to hear anyone say “immigrants should come here the RiGhT way” ever again
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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The construction of the bulldozed section of the White House (The East Wing) has now come to a complete halt and it’s estimated to be finished in 3 years.
The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”
Another fraud scheme.
The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”
Another fraud scheme.
February 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The construction of the bulldozed section of the White House (The East Wing) has now come to a complete halt and it’s estimated to be finished in 3 years.
The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”
Another fraud scheme.
The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”
Another fraud scheme.
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I asked Attorney General Pam Bondi whether she would create a federal-state-local task force to investigate the horrific abuses perpetrated through Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
Her prolonged response: *crickets*
Her prolonged response: *crickets*
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
I asked Attorney General Pam Bondi whether she would create a federal-state-local task force to investigate the horrific abuses perpetrated through Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring.
Her prolonged response: *crickets*
Her prolonged response: *crickets*
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Imagine getting fired because the Homeland Security secretary who puts on a tough exterior didn't have her security blanky.
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Imagine getting fired because the Homeland Security secretary who puts on a tough exterior didn't have her security blanky.
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Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
February 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.
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Your American health chief, folks! 🙃🇺🇸
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Your American health chief, folks! 🙃🇺🇸
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He is reckless, unstable, and the opposite of what we should expect from the nation’s top public health official.
When the person in charge of protecting our health treats deadly disease like a joke and glorifies hard drug use, he is modeling behavior that puts families & communities at risk.
When the person in charge of protecting our health treats deadly disease like a joke and glorifies hard drug use, he is modeling behavior that puts families & communities at risk.
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 PM
He is reckless, unstable, and the opposite of what we should expect from the nation’s top public health official.
When the person in charge of protecting our health treats deadly disease like a joke and glorifies hard drug use, he is modeling behavior that puts families & communities at risk.
When the person in charge of protecting our health treats deadly disease like a joke and glorifies hard drug use, he is modeling behavior that puts families & communities at risk.
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
and lives will be lost that could have been saved.
This is the same guy (not a vaccine expert) who used random information from VAERS as the basis to change vaccine regulatory policy two months ago.
There were no concerns regarding safety or efficacy.
mRNA technology is slowly moving out of our reach.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
There were no concerns regarding safety or efficacy.
mRNA technology is slowly moving out of our reach.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application
The rejection is the latest instance of Vinay Prasad overruling career FDA scientists to place vaccines under harsher scrutiny.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
and lives will be lost that could have been saved.
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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
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Ring has a relationship with FLOCK SAFETY??? For mass surveillance monitored by private companies? Oh HELL NO!!
February 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Ring has a relationship with FLOCK SAFETY??? For mass surveillance monitored by private companies? Oh HELL NO!!
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Awesome. Let’s go. Burn it all the way down.
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Awesome. Let’s go. Burn it all the way down.
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“You have to lower your expectations from Biden’s job numbers.”
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
“You have to lower your expectations from Biden’s job numbers.”
Shame on McGuire, co-opting this artist's work and story. The new Black-face for Black History month. Shame on him!
‘It was not about me’: Halifax centenarian rejects House honor she never approved virginiamercury.com/2026/02/10/i...
‘It was not about me’: Halifax centenarian rejects House honor she never approved virginiamercury.com/2026/02/10/i...
‘It was not about me’: Halifax centenarian rejects House honor she never approved • Virginia Mercury
"At first, I was surprised,” Edith Younger Edmunds said in a phone interview with The Mercury on Monday. “But now, I realized this was not about me, it was about McGuire. It was about him telling my s...
virginiamercury.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Shame on McGuire, co-opting this artist's work and story. The new Black-face for Black History month. Shame on him!
‘It was not about me’: Halifax centenarian rejects House honor she never approved virginiamercury.com/2026/02/10/i...
‘It was not about me’: Halifax centenarian rejects House honor she never approved virginiamercury.com/2026/02/10/i...
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Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes.
Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.
And thousands are CHILDREN.
This will be another of America's greatest shames.
Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.
And thousands are CHILDREN.
This will be another of America's greatest shames.
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes.
Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.
And thousands are CHILDREN.
This will be another of America's greatest shames.
Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.
And thousands are CHILDREN.
This will be another of America's greatest shames.
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ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.