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kristinmreid.bsky.social
My god… and we wonder why fish and ocean creatures are on the brink of extinction.
Oceans with no life in them cannot support human life.
May 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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retired-librarian.bsky.social
I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.
April 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
April 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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booker.senate.gov
Three House Republicans. Four Senate Republicans. That's it. That's the math.
April 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We are very far over the cliff here, folks
April 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
George HW Bush (R) got us mired in a recession. Clinton (D) got us out.

George W Bush (R) got us mired in a recession. Obama (D) got us out.

Trump (R) got us mired in a recession. Biden (D) got us out.

Trump (R) is yet again ushering us into a recession.

Starting to notice a trend?
April 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
"My message to the rest of the Democratic Party is if you are not willing to meet that bar, then step aside for somebody who will. Because we're at a moment right now where we do need people who are willing to fight, willing to show some spine, willing to break through in this media environment."
April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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modacitylife.com
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany. People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
April 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a United Nations-backed review process, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the deliberations.
April 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Twitter is down. Tesla stock is plummeting. SpaceX’s rocket imploded.

All owned by the same guy who’s now in charge of our federal government.
March 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid.

This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid.

It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
Trump said in an interview with Elon Musk that he wouldn't touch Medicaid. Hours later he endorsed a GOP plan that could slash the program.
Donald Trump said he would "love and cherish" Medicaid. He's endorsed a House GOP proposal that would likely gut the program.
www.businessinsider.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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bwreed.bsky.social
Welp. Turns out electing an unstable maniac is a bad idea after all.
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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jysexton.bsky.social
This is a full-scale oligarchical power grab that intends to demolish democracy, lower our standards of living, and do unimaginable damage.

Time is of the essence. Reach out to local leaders, schools, and your managers and demand they stand against it.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/actions-to...
Actions To Take Now: Audio From A Collapsing State
Time is of the essence. We have to start working. Now.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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jmchao.bsky.social
At least in the first gilded age we got museums and railroads and hospitals. Now we get meme coins, social networks and Gofundmes.
January 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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lincolnsquare.media
BREAKING: Senators receive affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth from his sister-in-law.
www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...
Senators receive affidavit containing new allegations against Pete Hegseth
Senators have received an affidavit from the former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, President Trump's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, that says his behavior caused his second wife to fear for...
www.msnbc.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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meidastouch.com
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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ddimolfetta.bsky.social
Woah. Trump order signed tonight revokes security clearances of some 50 former intelligence officials who were signatories on Oct. 2020 letter that said New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story had "classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
HOLDING FORMER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLEFOR ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND IMPROPER DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE GOVERNMENTAL INFORMATION – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Decapitation Strike (December)
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)
snyder.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Reporter: Who gets credit for this? You or Trump?

Biden: Is that a joke?
January 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.
January 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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qjurecic.bsky.social
That's a fast leak abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...
Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new administration, ABC News has learned.
abcnews.go.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Remember the accusation that Harris was being fed questions by another network?

Always projection with Trump.
katiephang.bsky.social Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Jan 8
“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a [Trump] senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox…images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.”

www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...
Trump camp was fed questions for Fox News town hall in advance from person inside network, new book says | CNN Business
President-elect Donald Trump’s team was given the questions asked by Fox News anchors at an Iowa town hall last January in advance by someone inside the network, according to a forthcoming book, in wh...
www.cnn.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM