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Liz
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Tampa or away somewhere. Dog mom to Mateo, who I bring with whenever I can. Go Mateo go!
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Liz @phetch.bsky.social · Nov 15
Made good use of my insomnia last night- Mateo & I finally migrated over here. Started finding some of my dog & hiking peeps- hopefully will find more of my old travel folks.
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SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded an image of the election results from King County
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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esqueer.net
Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
phetch.bsky.social
Tons of variety in the offerings, wow!
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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leximcmenamin.com
thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Racial profiling (a huge) aside, what in the fresh fuck?
I’m Floridian and not once have I ever taken my passport with me fishing.
tomaskenn.bsky.social Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 7d
Here you have a Florida Fish & Wildlife officer detaining an individual who was fishing and admitting they have been directed to “check with immigration on anyone who gives us a passport and doesn’t appear to be a citizen”, which sounds a lot like racial profiling.
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Is it too much to hope for the Royal Family to be the ones to leak the Epstein files now that they’ve publicly ditched Andrew?
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Halloween edition #ThrowbackThursday
This was 2021, our 1st 🎃 together. Walked him down to the neighbor’s on Halloween & well…
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
phetch.bsky.social
This is a great idea. Where I live, this would prob be best down by the curb where the parents hang out with🍹while the kids go to porches.
Lower in the thread, someone had a cute poem-
Trick or treat, smell my feet, make sure kids have food to eat.
anatosaurus.bsky.social Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12d
OK! Here's a QR code for Feeding America donate page. You can print this out (I know very old school) and stick it on your kid's trick or treat bag.
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Halloween edition Won’t Look Wednesday 🎃
“Hey Mom, I found some more of those really skinny neighbors!”
A blond cocker spaniel stands on a green lawn looking back over his right shoulder. He’s looking at a decorative skeleton sitting on a round royal blue kids’ swing next to a rope spider web. A house with a small front porch is in the background. A blond cocker spaniel sniffing the grass and mulched ground next to an oak tree trunk, against which a small decorative skeleton is leaning.
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
phetch.bsky.social
Happy Halloween edition #TongueOutTuesday
Blond cocker spaniel standing in front of a metal lawn decoration of 3 white ghosts- the dog is as tall as the smallest of the 3.
October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings

But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Not so Sunday Scaries- Mateo decided he’d just take a rest by this guy 🎃
A blond cocker spaniel lying on a green lawn in front of a 6 foot tall black T. Rex skeleton Halloween inflatable. A hedge of green bushes and some palm trees are in the background by a beige stucco house.
October 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
phetch.bsky.social
With all the US-government-induced strife, I returned to a book that resonated with me some years ago- Kate Harris’ Lands of Lost Borders. Travelogue heavy with history & introspection.
This quote about borders hits me still.
We subconsciously accept them as part of the landscape- at least those of us privileged by them, granted meaningful passports- because they articulate our deepest, least exalted desires, for prestige and permanence, order and security, always at the cost of someone or something else. Borders reinforce the idea of the alien, the Other, stories separate and distinct from ourselves. But would such fictions continue to stand if most of us didn't agree with them, or at least quietly benefit from the inequalities they bolster? The barbed wire begins here, inside us, cutting us through our very core.
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
phetch.bsky.social
Walkies are getting frightening around the ‘hood!
“What do you mean it’s behind me?!”
A blond cocker spaniel stands on a brick walkway at the edge of a planter, his head turned over his L shoulder looking behind him. An iron gate and brick pillar are behind him, and next to the pillar a skeleton is posed on the hedges.
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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**PLEASE SHARE**

Melissa is forecast to bring anywhere from 12 to 30 inches of rain to Jamaica over the next 4 days. If you or someone you know live within the flood zone areas, now is the time to seek higher ground.
October 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Denver Post) - Colorado insurance commissioner warns that premiums could rise 160% next year, with the hardest-hit households facing a $22,000 increase in their annual costs ..

@denverpost.com
www.denverpost.com/2025/10/23/c...
Coloradans still don’t know what they’ll pay for marketplace insurance as open enrollment nears
Colorado insurance commissioner Michael warns premiums could rise 160% next year, with the hardest-hit households facing a $22,000 increase in their annual costs to maintain coverage.
www.denverpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
phetch.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday all the way back to Monday! Hiking in the morning mists really messed with Mateo’s ‘do 🤣
A foggy trail thru a forest with autumn leaves and 2 large logs on the ground. The sun is peeking thru dozens of thin tree trunks. A blond cocker spaniel in an orange harness is in the foreground, looking off the to right. A blond cocker spaniel in orange harness lying on a flat rock at the top of a mountain ledge next to a gorge. Clouds float in the air behind him over the river gorge while the trees on the far side become visible as the fog burns off. Blue skies are above.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Always fun to burst into tears when you get a live person on your House Rep’s DC line when calling to encourage them to hold firm on replacing the ACA subsidy issue. (Got vmail on my 2 GOP Senators of course).

I encourage everyone to do so. I don’t know anyone who can come up w/xtra $1000/mo 🤬
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
phetch.bsky.social
Mateo eeking in a last minute #TongueOutTuesday from his road-tripping long weekend.
A blond cocker spaniel sitting in a car’s backseat covered in a black quilted hammock seat protector. He’s looking right at the camera with his tongue way out.
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
phetch.bsky.social
We’ve been on a wild last-minute short road trip. Mateo has decided he wants to take Amtrak home 😜
A blond cocker spaniel lying on the train platform. The concrete canopy overhang alongside the tracks says “Prince” in Art Deco-ish font. His human has a very long shadow cast on the platforms taking the pic. In the background is a mountain with scattered fall foliage.
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
phetch.bsky.social
My sign for the first No Kings had Elvis & Abe Froman the sausage king. It might have been a little high concept for Tampa 😅
kevinyeaux.com Kevin Dupuy @kevinyeaux.com · 23d
How you know you’re at a No Kings rally in Mississippi
Poster with Elvis face that says No King but the King
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
phetch.bsky.social
It’s been a heavy squirrel surveillance week. Mateo will resume the hard work tomorrow 😊
We have one poorly coordinated one that has fallen off branches & the fence right in front of him 3x. Luckily Mateo’s good about being called off.
A blond cocker spaniel with full tail stands on alert in the yard facing the white back fence. He’s looking up at where the squirrel just jumped from the top of the fence to one of the neighbor’s trees.
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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resistancerangers.altgov.info
Participating in a #NoKings event this Saturday? Bring parks to your local protest! We've got flyers, postcards for you. Print 'em up and hand em 'out. drive.google.com/drive/mobile... #saveOURparks
Showcase of two types of flyers Resistance Rangers have developed ahead of the no Kings protest. Both have text and information on one side, and a different graphic on the other. One shows a ranger looking up at a waterfall with an upside down American flag and the word "Resist". The other has a cute bird and the tag line: "No kings but more Kinglets"
October 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM