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ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

This is who we are now? You can do better Florida.

floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

floridaphoenix.com

April 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

We were sent this cute little cow from the super talented @jujuowls.bsky.social! #goodjuju Thanks for the Good Juju Mail!

Find her work on insta!

April 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Color matching and base coat for my custom Trash Panda Toys Cake Bites! Purchased these blanks back in August with an idea & the amateur custom bite contest got me to finally pull the paints out. Catch the Bite Me show at @strangecattoys.bsky.social

#BiteMe #DesignerToys #nevergonnagrowup

March 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Dealing with the stress of the past few months with some art therapy…

Painting some blank Cake Bites from Trash Panda Toys for the amateur paint contest in conjunction with the Bite Me show at @strangecattoys.bsky.social starting next Friday!

#biteme #designertoys #nevergonnagrowup #painting

March 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

Secession. What they're describing is secession.

www.wired.com/story/startu...

March 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

It was startling to see all of this in real-time, but to hear it all together is despicable:

www.reddit.com/r/Whistleblo...

From the Whistleblowers community on Reddit: We are going to need a bigger chart.

Explore this post and more from the Whistleblowers community

www.reddit.com

March 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

X post:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Day 2 of asking my elected officials "What is going on in DC?" already done. ✅ I'd like some receipts please on how USAID is a 'Criminal Organization.'

February 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

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5 Calls

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February 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Find your elected officials at the link provided. Call, Email, or Write to them (fed, state, and local) with your concerns. Now & Everyday.

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

Find and contact elected officials | USAGov

Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

www.usa.gov

February 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Jeremy Faust, MD

@jeremyfaust.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

open.substack.com

February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Was so dang excited to get this guy in the mail today, it came along for some errands.

#Yutoos #Prismite #DesignerToys #ShopSmall #SupportArtists @yutoos.bsky.social

January 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM

ratinahole.bsky.social

@ratinahole.bsky.social

Dear Liddy, we miss you.

A big thank you to our vet for helping us navigate her kidney disease and sending us such sweet words. Mill Creek Veterinary Clinic & Dr Scheller

#rainbowbridge #petloss