Marilyn
@stealthbirder.bsky.social
Retired, birder, seeking peace of mind
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Seattle peeps!
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There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election.
Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
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Go. Check. Your. Ballot.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Seattle peeps!
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One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
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🥹🤱52-year-old Ukrainian soldier Nataliia from Kryvyi Rih served until 30 weeks pregnant — and has now given birth to a healthy baby girl, Solomiia.
💬 “If I wasn’t afraid to go to war, why fear giving birth? Life is always worth fighting for.”
📸: UNBROKEN Ukraine / Facebook
💬 “If I wasn’t afraid to go to war, why fear giving birth? Life is always worth fighting for.”
📸: UNBROKEN Ukraine / Facebook
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🥹🤱52-year-old Ukrainian soldier Nataliia from Kryvyi Rih served until 30 weeks pregnant — and has now given birth to a healthy baby girl, Solomiia.
💬 “If I wasn’t afraid to go to war, why fear giving birth? Life is always worth fighting for.”
📸: UNBROKEN Ukraine / Facebook
💬 “If I wasn’t afraid to go to war, why fear giving birth? Life is always worth fighting for.”
📸: UNBROKEN Ukraine / Facebook
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NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members.
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Cook County Public Defender’s new community legal hub to expand legal resources for South Siders • The TRiiBE
Free legal services will roll out on Nov. 19 at the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center in Roseland through a partnership with The Village Legal and Community Project.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Starting next week, the Cook County Public Defender’s Freedom Defense Center of Roseland, in partnership with the Village Legal and Community Project, will offer free attorney office hours for community members.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...
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Here is the link! It’ll take you 30 seconds to verify if your ballot has been counted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Here is the link! It’ll take you 30 seconds to verify if your ballot has been counted.
This is crazy!
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is crazy!
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Join your county Democratic Party! There are shockingly few people willing to show up and those are the people who get to make decisions
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Join your county Democratic Party! There are shockingly few people willing to show up and those are the people who get to make decisions
I just saw this wonderful play at Raven Theatre in Chicago. The run has been extended (sold-out house at my performance). Catch it if you can. #ChicagoTheatre #Oak #blacksky #RavenTheatre chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2025...
Review: In ‘Oak,’ playwright Terry Guest brews up a Southern Gothic story with equal parts comedy, horror
If the Jordan Peele film "Get Out" was a play, it would be this one, premiering at Raven Theatre through Nov. 9 and directed by Mikael Burke.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I just saw this wonderful play at Raven Theatre in Chicago. The run has been extended (sold-out house at my performance). Catch it if you can. #ChicagoTheatre #Oak #blacksky #RavenTheatre chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2025...
It's too bad all you purity fanatics hate Ezra Klein because he actually has something very smart to say about the so-called caving of the Senate Dems. Maybe y'all should take a breath and start thinking rationally instead of marching around with your torches looking for blood. #GetaGrip #Senate
I'm very conflicted about this vote, but I think this is a very reasonable, likely accurate interpretation
Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My sentiments exactly.
I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My sentiments exactly.
To the people who are screaming not to vote for a Democrats no matter what, how has voting for Republicans helped your cause? Government is about compromise. Republicans in this day and age WILL NOT COMPROMISE. They DON'T CARE.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
To the people who are screaming not to vote for a Democrats no matter what, how has voting for Republicans helped your cause? Government is about compromise. Republicans in this day and age WILL NOT COMPROMISE. They DON'T CARE.
Air traffic controllers are the stoplights of the sky. This red-light runner must be ousted before he kills people. #FireSeanDuffy
#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Air traffic controllers are the stoplights of the sky. This red-light runner must be ousted before he kills people. #FireSeanDuffy
Great to see Moms for Groupthink shriveling on the vine.
It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great to see Moms for Groupthink shriveling on the vine.
It is Nov. 9, and the NWS is predicting we could have double-digit inches of snow in Chicago today. Lake effect snow, apparently. I hope those border patrol goons from the Southwest enjoy this resistance help from Mother Nature. #Chicago #snow #Resistance
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It is Nov. 9, and the NWS is predicting we could have double-digit inches of snow in Chicago today. Lake effect snow, apparently. I hope those border patrol goons from the Southwest enjoy this resistance help from Mother Nature. #Chicago #snow #Resistance
So when is someone from DHS getting arrested?
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So when is someone from DHS getting arrested?
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Hard to believe, but MTG finally says the quiet part out loud. The Gops don't have a healthcare plan, never had one, never intended to have one, and never will have one.
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hard to believe, but MTG finally says the quiet part out loud. The Gops don't have a healthcare plan, never had one, never intended to have one, and never will have one.
Be careful what you eat. Maybe we really do need a robust FDA. www.delish.com/food-news/a6...
Death Tolls Rise As Listeria-Contaminated Pasta Recall Expands Nationwide
Here is every pasta affected.
www.delish.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Be careful what you eat. Maybe we really do need a robust FDA. www.delish.com/food-news/a6...
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Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.
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Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
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Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator
Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...
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RIP Diane Ladd, an actress who made everything she was in better. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/m...
Diane Ladd, Versatile Film Actress, Is Dead at 89
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
RIP Diane Ladd, an actress who made everything she was in better. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/m...
@ehistorian.bsky.social I just finished GIRL BANDITS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO. Brilliant, just brilliant. I felt like I was there with the couriers and the ZOB fighters, breathless, frightened, appalled, exhilarated. Such a tragic story in the end, but so glad to have read it. THANK YOU!!!!!
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
@ehistorian.bsky.social I just finished GIRL BANDITS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO. Brilliant, just brilliant. I felt like I was there with the couriers and the ZOB fighters, breathless, frightened, appalled, exhilarated. Such a tragic story in the end, but so glad to have read it. THANK YOU!!!!!