Tracy Turner
@tracyturner.bsky.social
E Pluribus Unum🇺🇸
The Republic Stands
(Location -San Francisco-ish
The other platform joining date - March 2008)
The Republic Stands
(Location -San Francisco-ish
The other platform joining date - March 2008)
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Photo from my collection taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals, ca. 1905 - 1910.
August 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Photo from my collection taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals, ca. 1905 - 1910.
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the head of fema finally rolled out of bed, grabbed a shirt off the floor, and showed up in texas
July 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
the head of fema finally rolled out of bed, grabbed a shirt off the floor, and showed up in texas
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“Miss Iris Davis… spends a great deal of time recovering cats with the aid of a 'lassoo' from the debris of bombed house. So far she has rescued six hundred of these feline strays, 8 November 1940.“ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Miss Iris Davis… spends a great deal of time recovering cats with the aid of a 'lassoo' from the debris of bombed house. So far she has rescued six hundred of these feline strays, 8 November 1940.“ www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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April 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Sorry I missed your call, the frogs had my phone again.
April 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Sorry I missed your call, the frogs had my phone again.
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Read the list of grievances to die instantly www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
www.whitehouse.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Read the list of grievances to die instantly www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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African elephants form a protective circle around their young at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park during a 5.2-magnitude earthquake.
April 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
African elephants form a protective circle around their young at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park during a 5.2-magnitude earthquake.
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Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
wapo.st
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
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wapo.st/4luJyph
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Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
American travel & tourism industry: shattered into tiny little bits
Watch any international news — the entire world is horrified
Watch any international news — the entire world is horrified
April 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
American travel & tourism industry: shattered into tiny little bits
Watch any international news — the entire world is horrified
Watch any international news — the entire world is horrified
Renting a Vélib & biking around Paris is life-changing, 2€/hour
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
wapo.st
April 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Renting a Vélib & biking around Paris is life-changing, 2€/hour
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After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
Grants.gov has been throttled. ColumbiaUniv might be Greenlanded. An emergency/break glass moment
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Grants.gov has been throttled. ColumbiaUniv might be Greenlanded. An emergency/break glass moment
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What do you mean deportations of American citizens
Rubio says that El Salvador has agreed to accept deportations of American citizens www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept U.S. deportees of any nationality, including violent American criminals
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “there are obviously legalities involved” in Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals.
www.pbs.org
March 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
What do you mean deportations of American citizens
Yes! Oh yeah, baby!
March 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Yes! Oh yeah, baby!
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You know, when they describe the Jackie Robinson story as "Woke cultural Marxism" maybe normies will start to notice how insane they are
March 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You know, when they describe the Jackie Robinson story as "Woke cultural Marxism" maybe normies will start to notice how insane they are
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Don’t be surprised if the Olympics are boycotted.
March 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Don’t be surprised if the Olympics are boycotted.
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Guys, call the tone police
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Guys, call the tone police
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They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup
The Wreckage
They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
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Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.
February 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.
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To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.
Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
March 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
To be clear, “Vance skis in jeans” is Vermont’s highest insult. This is Final Boss Nuclear Insult level in the Vermont linguistic hierarchy.
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Newspapers this morning 🇺🇦❗️🇺🇸
March 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Newspapers this morning 🇺🇦❗️🇺🇸