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@benderbuteo.bsky.social
Person. Former zookeeper. Developmental disability RN. Partner. Mom.
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Pink empress Mantis
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Pink empress Mantis
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Librarians at #UMN and other places are capturing sign content at national parks via Save Our Signs - find out more here and help save our shared heritage
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
Save Our Signs
Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History
sites.google.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Librarians at #UMN and other places are capturing sign content at national parks via Save Our Signs - find out more here and help save our shared heritage
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...
I want to know why it isn't a bigger deal that a Fox host called for the "involuntary lethal injection" of people who have mental illness.
September 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I want to know why it isn't a bigger deal that a Fox host called for the "involuntary lethal injection" of people who have mental illness.
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The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives
MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
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"'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.'"
Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’
Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.
www.thebulwark.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.'"
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A great way to round the long weekend off. A just now, purely by chance observation of a Humming-Bird Hawk-moth in the garden
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A great way to round the long weekend off. A just now, purely by chance observation of a Humming-Bird Hawk-moth in the garden
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1/ Happy Monday! While summer winds down and my daughter heads to first grade (cue the usual mix of pride and twenty forgotten forms), #publichealth is heating up. From Covid-19 to radioactive shrimp and flying maggots—here’s what’s happening and what it means for you 👇
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
1/ Happy Monday! While summer winds down and my daughter heads to first grade (cue the usual mix of pride and twenty forgotten forms), #publichealth is heating up. From Covid-19 to radioactive shrimp and flying maggots—here’s what’s happening and what it means for you 👇
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"The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue..., but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions based on the information being shared."
The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough
It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.
www.motherjones.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue..., but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions based on the information being shared."
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"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
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Lowering age limits equates to lowering standards. Or, high-school seniors with guns and an arrest quota is not how you do legitimate law enforcement. www.thebulwark.com/p/prepare-yo...
August 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Lowering age limits equates to lowering standards. Or, high-school seniors with guns and an arrest quota is not how you do legitimate law enforcement. www.thebulwark.com/p/prepare-yo...
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The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
August 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
The US in a nutshell.
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
August 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The US in a nutshell.
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
July 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
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Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
www.propublica.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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Never seen this before… fighting back
July 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Never seen this before… fighting back
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We’re posting about this now in hopes of drawing public attention to NOAA’s Atlas 15 project which was quietly shut down by the Trump administration before it could be completed. The work was nearly finished and could still be restarted if pressure mounts.
July 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We’re posting about this now in hopes of drawing public attention to NOAA’s Atlas 15 project which was quietly shut down by the Trump administration before it could be completed. The work was nearly finished and could still be restarted if pressure mounts.
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Trump administration will continue a program that allows certain employers to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage, effectively ending efforts to bring their wages in line with those of nondisabled workers.
July 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump administration will continue a program that allows certain employers to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage, effectively ending efforts to bring their wages in line with those of nondisabled workers.
Ruth would really like to give this young upstart a life lesson.
June 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Ruth would really like to give this young upstart a life lesson.
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Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera
Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
n.pr
June 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.
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Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Home - Trans Lifeline
Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for
translifeline.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Please help us correct misinformation!
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Our hotline is being incorrectly shared as "Canada's national suicide hotline open toll free for Americans".
We are not a general crisis hotline, we exist exclusively to support the trans community.
Find out more @ translifeline.org
Ruth Bader Ginspurr is judging you.
June 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ruth Bader Ginspurr is judging you.
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With everything else going on, the Senate sent the Big 💩 Bill back to the House, and made some changes. Here’s one:
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
With everything else going on, the Senate sent the Big 💩 Bill back to the House, and made some changes. Here’s one: