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cocktailstraw
@cocktailstraw.bsky.social
Cartophile. Pro-am parfumier. Cries at haka. Neutral good. Progressive. Redhead. #TeamPete 💙 #Resist
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The day the music died.
April 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Donald Trump is a loser. Pass it on.
March 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Biggest Trump flag in my neighborhood came down this week.

It was one of those huge ones that could cover a whole car.

Based on the timing, I’m guessing veteran.
March 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Is America great again yet?
March 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Each Democrat who voted to censure Rep Al Green should hold an IN PERSON town hall this weekend to explain their vote to their constituents.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Censure this.
March 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So, why is JD Vance not on Ozempic? I mean, that right there tells me that it must be really hard to get.
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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The Schoolhouse Rock style cartoons from The Good Fight all hold up way too well. Great songs from Jonathan Coulton www.headgearanimation.com/the-good-fig...
Head Gear Animation | The Good Fight Animated Shorts
Watch the Animated Shorts from 'The Good Fight' on CBS. Created by Head Gear Animation in Toronto, Canada.
www.headgearanimation.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Omg iOS update. My email has become so randomly chaotic. I think I just deleted 378 emails in one cavalier swipe. I also found personal messages unread in Junk and Announcements. So, maybe this is how we all just lose confidence in email as a communication method and go 100% text.
March 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Come work for an award-winning news organization with a robust business model and no layoffs in the 25 year history of the organization. talkingpointsmemo.com/careers
February 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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REPOST if you stand with AOC!
February 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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apnews.com/article/rece... A look at recent aviation disasters in North America
A look at recent aviation disasters in North America
The crash of a Delta Airlines plane in Toronto is the fourth major aviation disaster in North America in the last month.
apnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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From a Ukrainian soldier:
February 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Keep your shitty clickbait off of Bluesky. Do not bury your lede here, bro.
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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You left out the tax hikes for everyone at $360k/year and less.
These fuckers are evil.
February 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):
February 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Your values are those beliefs you are willing to take pains to protect.

If you are not willing to take pains, then those are not really your values.
February 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Saturday Costco feel good report:

The store was packed. The carts were full. People were joking and polite to one another. The line for new memberships was so long it went all the way to the $1.50 hot dog counters!

People are voting with their wallets.
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Breaking - White House is forcing out top leadership at the National Archives.
“The exodus of senior staff is seen as a huge loss for the agency, which is considered nonpartisan and dedicated to the preservation of history and documents.”

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...
White House forcing out top leadership at National Archives in major shakeup | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a major shakeup, according to a source familiar. President Donald Trump has been highly...
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ?

And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions !

We all look forward to reading your thoughts
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM