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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Love these. Once we have some disposable income, I’ll need some. But for now I hope you’ll take a look and shop.

Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of these days, the world will stop messing with us. This first year of marriage and the year leading up to it as been some of the hardest ever. 💔💔

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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

No sales since last month, which makes it hard to make this month’s bills. I have great specials in my feed, plus a wonderful special w/ my “Midwesting” series, which, I am proud of. Plus, I am throwing in my newest sticker!

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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No sales over the weekend or today so now I’m nearing just 4 days left to sell *at least* 13 framed pieces to have rent. I cannot be late, at all.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I couldn’t make this up if I tried. Termites AND a rat in our bedroom?! I cannot. Nope. I give up

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On this day in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It is best known for guaranteeing full citizenship and its protections to Black Americans. It also includes guidelines on disqualifying candidates who participated in insurrection or rebellion against the government.

Illustration in Harper's Weekly, 1965
Two Union veterans, one Black the other white, are shaking each other's hand. Both men have a leg missing and both are using crutches.
The illustration includes the text:
A MAN KNOWS A MAN
"Give me your hand comrade! We have each lost a leg for the good cause; but, thank god we never lost heart."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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Document: 156-1 Date Filed: 07/07/2026 Page:
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
not.
Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We got him. He’s safe! Tears of happiness. Sweet Gingko is sleeping in a foster home tonight. 🩵

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Someone lived up to his problem child name on the long evening walk. Digging chx bones out of mouth and throat bc someone threw them on the ground and he hoovered them up. 😑 #uglydogs

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Bex 🖤🏴 @thinlyveiledtruth.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/06/2026

Or pass out to a local unhoused encampment. Also, freeze bottles of water half-way full, then add water before you pass them out.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

been volunteering w a rescue 2 find some purpose. Wiggles Way wants to save Gingko from being PTS for space tomorrow. But we desperately need funds. He might have a foreign body in him; the shelter won’t do xray. 💔 any donation will help save a good boy. Venmo and PayPal: @wiggleswayrescue #uglydogs

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Animal Welfare Institute @awionline.org · 25/06/2026

This #NationalGrasslandsWeek, please urge the Forest Service to strengthen protections in the revised plan for wildlife that depend on these national grasslands for food, shelter, and raising young. awionline.org/actions/help...

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 22/06/2026

Disabled students in this country are about to get bounced between three different federal agencies just to get the education they’re legally entitled to.

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Trump Breaks Up Education Dept., Prompting Worries Over Civil Rights

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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’ve ordered a few of these print sets & they are on their way. I also got very pretty 5x7 prints from my paintings that I’ll include in any order, as gifts. I’m painting small originals tonight & this weekend as thank you gifts for some incredibly kind supportive people from this community we have.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

they have it across from the giant Ferris wheel so it looks extra shrimpy omg I am crying

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Donate. Share. Go a little Bleral. I don’t have much to spare but couch cushions found some spare change and sharing works too! Let’s all pull the sled for this family like you’ve done for me. #uglydogs

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The pups and I did a bunch of awooooawoooawooooo for our sweet pup friend tonight @ravenmae.bsky.social #uglydogs

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Casper @casperke.xyz · 21/06/2026

Sunday morning bump! #UglyDogs #DogsofBluesky

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Melissa & 🦈SYVIE🦈 @muppybean.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hey #UglyDogs. We've all been going a bit bleral lately. Wouldn't it be great if we could help one of the #Ikidarod children keep their home?

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I didn’t rescue him. He rescued me. Happy gotcha day sweet boy. 8 years and forever to go. ❤️ love you Hondo.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Despite all the horrid stuff…..Took my soul dog on a hike at the lake yesterday. No matter how bad things get, he’s always here. 8 years. ❤️

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hahahhahahah. Hot water heater has now bit it. Look….. whatever I did in a past life, I am sorry, this karma thing is almost a year in and I just cannot. #uglydogs send the good vibes please!

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The funny (not funny) part was he totally could tell partly where the Yellowjackets got in last summer. (. #uglydogs maybe some day we will write a book on how to not buy an 1800s house, get laid off from a govt funded job and plan a wedding all within two years

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

💔termites. Mold. Moisture. Rot. Missing insulation. Holes. I could just cry.

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Charlie Boo @charliepawsup.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Any #Resisters or #BlueCrew out there want a FREE "We The People" T-Shirt?😁🎉 Lots of Likes but not manee Entries!🤔 Yoo can ENTER for yooself or a pal on Bluesky!🎉 Kindness Giveaway ends TONIGHT Tuesday June 2! You can also get "We The People" T-Shirts in my Mama's Store! *Link in Profile 😁❤️🐶 REPOST

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cool. Termite swarms. That’s what we need.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This makes me want to throw up

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I know Edward and his family. They’re AMAZING. He’s truly the cutest boy. They had another boy Edmund they adopted who lived just a few weeks. He too loved ice cream. A family with a heart of gold. 💛

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MJB @mjbuzzz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

#UglyDogs in Maine or nearby, can you help?

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Nearly a year since the Yellowjackets. But we’re close to our bathroom being done. Thanks to the amazing family of #uglydogs for helping. 😭😍

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 02/04/2026

Artemis II has launched! This 10-day flight test is the first time humans have traveled toward the Moon since 1972, using a "free-return" trajectory that utilizes the Moon's gravity to slingshot the crew back to Earth without a second engine burn. Here is the 10-day roadmap for the crew:

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Opening day is the best day.

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Vintage Daily Driver XX- "Approved" by Legal @vintagedailydriver.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Please, bsky. Please share this widely. Sol is a beautiful sol who has an incredible body of work. We can't afford to lose our artists in these times. I know we are all in pain. But at least share if you can't afford anything on her page. This is crushing me. #art #beauty #uglydogs #photography

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It has been a privilege and honor to fall in love with these dogs and this #uglydog family over the years. This corner of the world has saved me and so many others, providing a corner of happy in a world of scary. Teaching us so much that we can never repay. Thank you Blair for everything. 😭🩷

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The #uglydogs have got me thru some of the darkest times of my life, helping pull us thru some awful times, saving us from losing our house, our wedding, allowing me to get healthcare. Everything. This community is one of the best there is and I can’t imagine it not being here.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I watched day after tomorrow this weekend. Bad idea. 👀

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Truly the best time. We don’t have much right now with everything but I plan to find a way to give a little, share a lot, and spread the love. It’s so magical. #mushersky

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We’ve been going thru a lot. So much to share. Not quite ready. But we need some good thoughts for our baby girl too. 🫶 continuing to be forever grateful to the #uglydogs community for support.

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Ali K C @alikclark.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It’s been a long year. Months. Weeks. Days. A lot to share. If I owe you wedding TYs, you kept us alive TYs, Xmas cards and surprises… they’re all coming. Digging out with more to share soon. 💕🫶 #uglydogs

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Armand Vasquez @armandvasquez.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I would happily support The Jeff Bezos Is A Douche-Gazette

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/02/2026

☀️ Morning, friends Inspiration from one of our greats—Dr. Bill Foege, whose leadership helped eradicate smallpox. Near the end of his life, he reminded us: public health can be great again. And he believed in all of us to carry it forward.

Quote from Dr. Bill Foege: "We will live through this drought of values, principles, and facts and again apply our talents to improving global health and happiness. Do not back down."

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