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Yvonne Dawdy
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Gardener, love books and movies, proudly owned by my Sealyham Terrier.
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dearsusanbranch.bsky.social
Transferred b’days to new calendar, took down Xmas tree, played w/new faux fireplace mantle, walked outside in the GREEN, and today? I’m being interviewed by Santa Barbara Blue Dot Living Magazine! Best part, it’s interviewer’s FIRST interview, he is 15, and his mom is driving him up here! Cutest!🌟
January 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
So terribly sad. May she rest in peace, and prayers for her and her loved ones.
December 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
A smarter model for paying for college: income-based repayment. You start paying your student loans only once you earn enough to comfortably get by. That turns higher ed debt into something more like a tax surcharge on success, not a choke collar on people who are struggling.
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
From the Hamill House to your's:

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!

🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
🤔 DID YOU KNOW?

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This means you can make tax-deductible donations (even anon!) to SUFS...it's quick, easy, and secure.

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December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
lol i'm sure this is totally legit
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 16d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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juliejam.bsky.social
There's a reason they call it Bee Balm. Brown-belted Bumblebee sleeping on Monarda citriodora. #fallbackflowers #fallback to June 18. #bumblebees #bees #nativeplants #insectthursday 🌱
December 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Ranger. He has picked you as the chosen one for this dinner party. Or as he calls it, the weakest link. 13/10 an honor (TT: sunnycorina)
December 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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visualizingbroadway.com
Immediately after this hearing, D's should take the floor and read the entire transcript into the public record.
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
Rep. Joe Neguse also thinks this is payback over Tina Peters. It's attempted extortion by Trump: pardon his friends or your institutions will be cut. Same threat he made to Indiana: redistrict or he slashes your funding. If Congress wants to keep the power of the purse they need to push back, hard.
neguse.house.gov Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 21d
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.

NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.

We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 21d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
usatoday.com USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 21d
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
No print mags have the reach they once did. But it's notable to me that I keep seeing articles like this in People, very broad-spectrum, apolitical, at least in my experience. Gives a sense of how much this stuff is breaking through.
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3162 is preparing to charge
Small bunnies are having a snowball fight. Two 'teams' are facing each other from behind opposite chest-height walls made of snow. The group closest to us, outnumbered, is being hit with volleys of snowballs. However, one bunny gestures towards the opposing side, rallying his friends to fight back
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3161 hoping for a snow day
A bunny steps out of their suburban home, looking out on a snowy street. There is still snow falling heavily, and a snow plow (driven by another bunny) is visible in the distance
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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dearsusanbranch.bsky.social
Okay, my new “fireplace” is in. Doesn’t even need actual fire 🔥 to warm up the room. It’s permanent now, on a large mirrored wall on the other side of our dining table!!! I am in mad wob! With it, and with guy who made it! I laugh every time I look over there!! Transformed!🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
On the spot watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge (with Indian ink using a dip pen). I loved the extravagant shop signs but wasn't so keen on my rendering of the Halifax Building Society sign and I don't think I ever exhibited this one. However, on digging it out of a storage portfolio I decided I liked it after all. Cambridge was a nicer place then with more character. Many much loved shops have disappeared, replaced by eateries.
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Yellow Faced Bumblebee on a Pride of Madeira
#photograph
#flowers
#bees
A yellow faced bumblebee with a ball of pollen on its back legs hovering over a Pride of Madeira flower
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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buriedbybooks.bsky.social
32 degrees but the red tailed hawks are back. They’re not as skittish as the northern harriers
A red tailed hawk on a metal post
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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jaywillis.net
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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thebulwark.com
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
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December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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They're not actually going to remove access to the hep B vaccine, most likely; "their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it." lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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We only rate dogs. This is a very cozy bed bug. We advise you to get a new bed, since this one is taken, and kindly request you only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (TT: coldsmuckersuncrustable)
December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM