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Bob Ballard
@sharedplanet.bsky.social
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Not the oceanographer.

We live on a tiny fragile ball, spinning in the vastness of space. We share this planet - this tiny ball - with many other beings. We must learn to live as if all of these beings have great and lasting value.
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What she said...
Image with this text: "When Roe was overturned and women bled out in ERs, we heard 'states' rights'. When guns became the #1 killer of kids, still 'states' rights'. But one protest against injustice? Suddenly there's federal boots on the ground. They don't panic when people die, only when they speak."
June 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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We said goodbye to MY best dog ever in January. He was 12. Also canine lymphoma. I still can’t imagine replacing him.
Photo of my dog.
May 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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My sign today.
Sign that says “This is a class war and it’s not a fair fight.” And “Trump wants to be Emperor, Musk wants to be God!”
April 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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#TheIdesOfTrump postcards - ready to go in the mail tomorrow (x 10).
Postcards to Donald Trump at the White House. Back side of postcard to Donald Trump at the White House.
March 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Rally outside Chuck Edwards’ town hall right now in Asheville, NC.
March 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Message from Robert Reich: “cutting the corporate tax rate 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the Department of Education’s entire k-12 budget.”
March 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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@cohencidents.bsky.social
Cartoon elephant /Republican Party talking about Trump like a battered spouse.
March 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Maybe?
Anonymous declaration of Operation Dreadnought, in opposition to Trump and Musk’s actions.
March 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Screen shot explaining the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
March 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Carton of Trump, Musk, and the Republican Party feeding social programs into a meat grinder. Bezos, Zuckerberg and the Monopoly Man are waiting to eat the sausage. Which is a 4.2 trillion dollar tax cut.
March 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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My Facebook profile since inauguration:
Image of the American flag flying upside down - a symbol of distress.
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This man isn’t qualified to be a NC Supreme Court justice!
Photo of Jefferson Griffin, with the text “Jefferson Griffin’s campaign to silence 60,000 North Carolina voters is shameful.”
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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From @grannyglee.bsky.social
The X platform, formerly Twitter, is blocking the website Signal uses. Signal is the secure messaging app that federal employees are using to talk to reporters.
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @schumer.senate.gov, @kenmartin.bsky.social, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - how about it? This seems like a great idea...
Meme suggesting that Pete Buttigieg be made Democratic Press Secretary and that he do a daily press briefing on Capitol Hill. Also that the media would cover it, particularly the media that were kicked out of the White House by Trump.
February 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Information from Greg Palast showing how voter suppression helped Trump best Harris.
February 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Carton of Donald Trump at a booth similar to Lucy’s in the Charlie Brown cartoons. Except this one says “Psychotic Help”, “no cents”, and “the Psycho is in”.
February 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Carton of Trump sticking a tariff into the back of Uncle Sam, with the caption “This might hurt a little.”
February 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Please post without the cartoonist’s name removed. He’s a friend of mine.
Cartoon by David Cohen showing Bishop Budde knocking a crown off of a small Donald Trump, with the caption “Bishop takes king.”
January 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Charlie Brown carrying Snoopy in the hood of his jacket. Caption says “If I can’t bring my dog I’m not going.”
November 27, 2024 at 9:20 PM