mizblueprint
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you can find me here: mizblueprint@mastodon.online
you can find me here: mizblueprint@mastodon.online
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NEW: In a big win for Oregonians’ privacy and the rule of law, a federal judge tentatively granted the state's request to dismiss the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to Oregon’s unredacted voter registration records, saying that states aren’t required to provide such data.
Court rejects bid for Oregon voter rolls in first ruling on DOJ data grab
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
NEW: In a big win for Oregonians’ privacy and the rule of law, a federal judge tentatively granted the state's request to dismiss the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking access to Oregon’s unredacted voter registration records, saying that states aren’t required to provide such data.
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Merry Christmas 🎄
Here's a collage of flowers from this year, including most from the #FlowerAdventCalendar hashtag. I enjoy sharing our garden during the year, and this is a way to reflect on some small beautiful things that are right before us […]
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Here's a collage of flowers from this year, including most from the #FlowerAdventCalendar hashtag. I enjoy sharing our garden during the year, and this is a way to reflect on some small beautiful things that are right before us […]
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December 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄
Here's a collage of flowers from this year, including most from the #FlowerAdventCalendar hashtag. I enjoy sharing our garden during the year, and this is a way to reflect on some small beautiful things that are right before us […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
Here's a collage of flowers from this year, including most from the #FlowerAdventCalendar hashtag. I enjoy sharing our garden during the year, and this is a way to reflect on some small beautiful things that are right before us […]
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The curb strip pollinator garden for today's December 22nd Advent flowers. This is achillea millefolium, agastache, and volunteer stachys. All the bees, bee flies, and butterflies love this flower bed. I saw a bombas melanopygus this year, after several years […]
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December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The curb strip pollinator garden for today's December 22nd Advent flowers. This is achillea millefolium, agastache, and volunteer stachys. All the bees, bee flies, and butterflies love this flower bed. I saw a bombas melanopygus this year, after several years […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
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On December 9, 2025, we remember this lovely "Bella Rosa" red camellia japonica that was blooming on March 29, 2025. Winnie the Golden is peeking through the fence. Nuccio's in Altadena suffered great damage in the fires.
#floweradventcalendar
#Bloomscrolling
#gardenadventcalendar
#camelliajaponica
#floweradventcalendar
#Bloomscrolling
#gardenadventcalendar
#camelliajaponica
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On December 9, 2025, we remember this lovely "Bella Rosa" red camellia japonica that was blooming on March 29, 2025. Winnie the Golden is peeking through the fence. Nuccio's in Altadena suffered great damage in the fires.
#floweradventcalendar
#Bloomscrolling
#gardenadventcalendar
#camelliajaponica
#floweradventcalendar
#Bloomscrolling
#gardenadventcalendar
#camelliajaponica
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Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there. This is a big win to keep fishermen and the Newport community safe.
Oregon is suing the Trump administration for relocating, without notice, a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that has saved lives in dangerous waters near Newport. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there. This is a big win to keep fishermen and the Newport community safe.
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Winnie had her 11th birthday celebration 2 weeks early, while she is still feeling OK and has some appetite. She loves birthday cake! She has two kinds of cancer and is on palliative care now. 💛🍰
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Winnie had her 11th birthday celebration 2 weeks early, while she is still feeling OK and has some appetite. She loves birthday cake! She has two kinds of cancer and is on palliative care now. 💛🍰
We're going to recycle our sign, yet again. #NoKings #NoFauxKingWay
October 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We're going to recycle our sign, yet again. #NoKings #NoFauxKingWay
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This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
October 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....
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Klippenstein: The memo says it considers as indicators things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-government views, and anti-traditional family positions.
These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.
These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Klippenstein: The memo says it considers as indicators things like anti-Christian sentiment, anti-government views, and anti-traditional family positions.
These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.
These are descriptors that would cover millions and millions of people in this country.
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A priest led 1000 Catholics in a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church to Broadview - monstrance in hand - to give Holy Communion to detainees.
DHS denied them even though prisoners, by law, can't be denied religious rights.
Christian Nationalism is phony baloney straight-up evil!
DHS denied them even though prisoners, by law, can't be denied religious rights.
Christian Nationalism is phony baloney straight-up evil!
October 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A priest led 1000 Catholics in a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church to Broadview - monstrance in hand - to give Holy Communion to detainees.
DHS denied them even though prisoners, by law, can't be denied religious rights.
Christian Nationalism is phony baloney straight-up evil!
DHS denied them even though prisoners, by law, can't be denied religious rights.
Christian Nationalism is phony baloney straight-up evil!
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I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
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Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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The release of the video showing Tom Homan rejecting the $50k bribe from FBI agents has been scheduled alongside the release of Trump’s health care plan and news of all the successful trade deals, both of which will be released in two weeks.
Q: Did the president ask the DOJ to close the Homan investigation and does he have to return the $50,000
LEAVITT: Mr. Homan never took the $50,000, so you should get your facts straight ... you had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters
LEAVITT: Mr. Homan never took the $50,000, so you should get your facts straight ... you had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters
September 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The girls were good again this week.
September 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The girls were good again this week.
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JUST IN: Judge Friedrich, a Trump appointee on the bench in DC, rules that the administration is illegally withholding funds from the National Endowment for Democracy, in violation of Congress' direct appropriation. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
August 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
JUST IN: Judge Friedrich, a Trump appointee on the bench in DC, rules that the administration is illegally withholding funds from the National Endowment for Democracy, in violation of Congress' direct appropriation. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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For many years, this woman was my least favorite judge on the DC Circuit. I have learned only in the last two or three years that she carries a depth of substance and honor of which I was previously unaware. Like Judge Nina Pillard, she has grown on me a lot recently.
Karen Henderson is the longest-serving Republican appointee on the D.C. Circuit. She’s deeply conservative but not Trumpy.
In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.
In ordering the Trump administration to restore a congressionally mandated database of federal spending, she strongly suggests the president is engaging in king-like behavior.
August 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For many years, this woman was my least favorite judge on the DC Circuit. I have learned only in the last two or three years that she carries a depth of substance and honor of which I was previously unaware. Like Judge Nina Pillard, she has grown on me a lot recently.
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Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
August 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
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A good time to remind everyone, Democracy Docket does not use Substack as a publishing or payment system. It is built on its own independent technology stack.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A good time to remind everyone, Democracy Docket does not use Substack as a publishing or payment system. It is built on its own independent technology stack.
No portion of your support goes to platforming Nazis. 100% goes to pro-democracy independent media.
Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
No portion of your support goes to platforming Nazis. 100% goes to pro-democracy independent media.
Subscribe today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
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Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship
Guest host Jon Fortt and The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran on the rise of tech authoritarianism.
www.theverge.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Why tech billionaires want a dictatorship — & why most of Silicon Valley will quietly watch democracy burn.
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
My talk with @jonfortt.bsky.social (my DePauw classmate) about the dangerous coalition between the far right & the tech right. On @theverge.com's Decoder
www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
July 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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My elderly Golden Retriever Winnie was limping and not feeling well for the past week. She is feeling much better today, which makes me so happy.
May 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
My elderly Golden Retriever Winnie was limping and not feeling well for the past week. She is feeling much better today, which makes me so happy.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Folks wonder about Oregon. This climate, this soil, this water is so fine. In the garden today, #treepeonies popping everywhere, herbaceous #peonies opening, forget-me-nots and ajuga sparkling, rhododendrons and camellias still blooming, and roses loaded with buds.
#Bloomscrolling
#gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#gardening
April 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Folks wonder about Oregon. This climate, this soil, this water is so fine. In the garden today, #treepeonies popping everywhere, herbaceous #peonies opening, forget-me-nots and ajuga sparkling, rhododendrons and camellias still blooming, and roses loaded with buds.
#Bloomscrolling
#gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#gardening
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#peonyseason is here. My favorite #treepeony, #shimanechojuraku is starting to unfurl multiple buds.
This peony has pink shading to deep mauve/purple petals at the center. #treepeonies tend to have some of the earliest blooms of the season. For our garden […]
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This peony has pink shading to deep mauve/purple petals at the center. #treepeonies tend to have some of the earliest blooms of the season. For our garden […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#peonyseason is here. My favorite #treepeony, #shimanechojuraku is starting to unfurl multiple buds.
This peony has pink shading to deep mauve/purple petals at the center. #treepeonies tend to have some of the earliest blooms of the season. For our garden […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]
This peony has pink shading to deep mauve/purple petals at the center. #treepeonies tend to have some of the earliest blooms of the season. For our garden […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]