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normalleigh53.bsky.social
@normalleigh53.bsky.social
Artist and art lover. Small art gallery and gift shop owner. Never wants to retire. Raised in Berkeley in the 60s, traveled around, have a lot of adult children. Likes almost everyone on this site. Appreciates the politics and the music.
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There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.

Now, what are we going to do about it?!
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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From the @status.news on Anderson Cooper's decision not to renew his contract at CBS.

"Weiss not only failed to persuade Cooper to grow his footprint at the network, but ultimately helped chase him away from it entirely."
February 17, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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The people who had a literal moral panic because some people prefer to say "happy holidays" wants us to not be so pollyannish about a little child rape.
February 16, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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This Is Definitely His Legacy….
February 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
February 16, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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These are the oligarchs who seek to rule every aspect of our lives, and the current US regime is doing everything possible to facilitate that because it is owned by them.
February 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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Still waiting for Senate to hang the Jan 6 plaque
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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Listening to Trump Admin officials, you'd never guess that the US stock market underperformed the rest of the world in 2025.
February 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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This flew under the radar, but it shouldn’t have.

When senator Alex Padilla was tackled by DHS, Kristi Noem’s side piece, Corey Lewandowski, was orchestrating the situation in the hall.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Barack Obama almost never jumps into the chaos. The fact that he’s speaking out now — repeatedly and urgently — is a warning. Something is deeply wrong. America needs to listen.
February 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.

www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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⚡️Ukrainian forces hit several 'important' Russian military targets in 3 regions, General Staff says.

The strikes targeted areas where Moscow had concentrated its troops, along with a Russian communications hub and a drone control center, the report read.
Ukrainian forces hit several 'important' Russian military targets in 3 regions, General Staff says
The strikes targeted areas where Moscow had concentrated its troops, along with a Russian communications hub and a drone control center, the report read.
kyivindependent.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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⚡️Polish President Karol Nawrocki says Poland should pursue its own nuclear weapons potential to counter growing Russian aggression.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
February 16, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Munich, Kaufinger Straße, today.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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“🇺🇸 agriculture is on the verge of widespread collapse… they’re asking for a rollback of virtually every policy Trump has introduced.”

As Republicans try to distance Trump policies from🧑‍🌾 farmer struggles, the truth is clear: www.facebook.com/share/v/17Up...
February 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM