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copingkat.bsky.social
@copingkat.bsky.social
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Do you remember Betty Reid Soskin? She was the oldest serving National Park Ranger in the United States, we celebrated her retirement at the age of 100.

Betty Reid Soskin (1921–2025) passed away on Sunday, but she lived an extraordinary life.

“The answers are only temporary.”
— Betty
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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grancracker.bsky.social
Trump to auction off 1.25 BILLION acres of public waters to offshore drilling, threatening treasured coastline & wildlife—PLS Sign! Donate if able to earthjustice.org/action/stop-...
Stop Trump’s plan to expand oil drilling in our oceans
Extracting oil and gas from beneath the ocean will harm millions of coastal residents and devastate countless ecosystems. Tell the Trump administration you oppose new oil and gas drilling off our coas...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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jp262.bsky.social
Yeah! Screw those babies. Always suckling on the government teat. They should pull themselves up by their onesies and go get a job. Lazy ass babies…

But seriously, this whole lot of sociopathic assholes are all so goddamn cruel and petty. 😡
NBC News article: HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
We just murdered eight more people in boats.
U.S. Southern Command @Southcom X.com On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking. A total of eight male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions— three in the first vessel, two in the second and three in the third. #OpSouthernSpear
December 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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dividerdecider.bsky.social
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While Trump blames victims of homicide, please remember what Rob Reiner himself said about Charlie Kirk shooting

#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited via @dailymail.co.uk, www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrbmUj2n/
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. 🤔
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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indivisible.org
(below a photo of masked ICE agents) “ICE goes masked for a single reason-to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws... Can you imagine a masked Marine? It is a matter of honor-and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan.” Judge William Young Reagan Appointee
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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cwebbonline.com
We voted for their farms because we know Democratic policies are better for farmers. Unfortunately, farmers didn’t vote for their farms.

And they’ll keep voting Republican.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison

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October 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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levparnas.bsky.social
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BREAKING: ICE to Be Deployed with DOJ Election Monitors in Latino Communities — Here’s What They’re Not Telling You
A coordinated federal operation is being activated under Project 2025 to intimidate Latino voters, suppress turnout, and quietly federalize state elections ahead of 2026.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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isthiswhatwewant.bsky.social
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isthiswhatwewant.bsky.social Is this what we want? @isthiswhatwewant.bsky.social · Oct 25
#DemocraticErosionAlert

#Oklahoma has recently passed #legislation that makes critical changes to their #EducationSystem, including completely rewriting the graduation requirements for students going through the education pipeline. The most concerning change is adding #CompulsoryMilitaryEnrollment
October 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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xtalgrrl.bsky.social
For anyone who needs to explain science to their non- scientist friends & relatives, I wrote this.... maybe it helps. #chemsky #scisky
Screenshot of text from a Facebook postby me: So recently, I scrolled by a post where someone asked something to the tune of "why won't people be as critical of Fauci as RFK??" I thought it was sarcasm at first, and left a laugh react, but then I realized it wasn't. That post reminded me that the average person has no idea what a scientist goes through, when they do science. It's not some meme factory where you can say whatever you want. It's messy and conflict-ridden and nothing like what TV, movies and even some scientists portray. If you're a budding scientist and you want to do a graduate degree, you're asked to develop (or given, if you're lucky) a project. This is essentially a question that you aim to answer or a hypothesis that can be tested with evidence gathered, using the techniques in your field of study. So first off, you need to learn how to use these techniques, essentially the tools of your field. In chemistry, I learned how to analyze chemical compounds with various instruments. The results from using these techniques are often your evidence, that you use to answer the question. Screenshot of text from a Facebook post, 2of 4: But just having evidence is not science. You need to show that your proposed answer/hypothesis could be wrong, and what kind of evidence would demonstrate that. You can't just build your project to only collect data that supports your theory. You need more than one type of evidence as well, and you need to understand the limitations of your evidence: why it might be less trustworthy, what scenarios might make the results look more or less favorable. Why, you might ask? Because, as every scientist will tell you, your evidence must stand up against peer review. This is where you make a case for your theory, explaining all your evidence and how it supports your theory, and your "peers", i.e., other scientists in your field, try to tear your tidy little story apart. Many PhD students have their first peer review experience in the form of an oral exam that they must pass before ascending to PhD candidate; just you and your 5 page proposal against 5 professors, in a small room, for 3 hours. This academic trial by fire isn't (necessarily) hazing, as it serves a purpose; peer review is how science advances on solid ground. if you can justify your conclusions with robust evidence, they will be ... Screenshot of a Facebook post by me, 3 of 4: ...considered valid and part of the scientific consensus, until someone can provide robust evidence that shows otherwise. Critique is the lifeblood of science. When a scientist tries to publish their work, their manuscript undergoes peer review; the people tearing into your work could be your rivals, colleagues, or complete strangers. You can't disregard their comments, you must either acknowledge them or demonstrate their assertions are unsupported by the data. You can't just call them a shill and plug your ears. Which brings me back to RFK and his supporters, who have reveled in their echo chambers, and have never experienced true critique. They've never had to prove anything with robust evidence. They think a meme and a YouTube video from an anonymous source are the same as years of patient data gathering and statistical analysis. Anyone who disagrees with them is just a shill and a sheep, or part of a vast conspiracy "hiding the truth," which is incredibly laughable. Anyone who thinks scientists are all friends/colleagues, all secretly agreeing to hide some world-changing truth, while rubber-stamping each others studies/publications has never spoken to a.. Screenshot of a Facebook post by me, 4 of 4. Text with a fragment of a photo showing a blonde white woman using a binocular microscope. Text as follows: ...and statistical analysis. Anyone who disagrees with them is just a shill and a sheep, or part of a vast conspiracy "hiding the truth," which is incredibly laughable. Anyone who thinks scientists are all friends/colleagues, all secretly agreeing to hide some world-changing truth, while rubber-stamping each others studies/publications has never spoken to a scientist before. We're messy, proud, ambitious, full of conviction and devastated when we fail. We've been through the scorching fires of review and rejection and then we get back to our lab benches, computers, field sites, libraries, workshops and/or beamlines and try again. Photo for the algorithm- this was me, doing some PR-photo sciencing years ago
September 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
So many lies
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Literally
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
copingkat.bsky.social
Small town Manistee MI is in the house! Concerned and engaged citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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sfdb.bsky.social
Part of Trump's "America First" plan?

Seriously, this is disgraceful. Our armed forces standing in line for food handouts?

JFC.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Oct 11
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
October 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM