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Ande Lyons

@andelyons.bsky.social
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Pro Aging Advocate | I am 70 | Host of Don't Be Caged By Your Age Podcast | Host of New England Podcasters Group | Shattering ageism everywhere I GLOW | Boston ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🖤🇺🇸🦅 www.dontbecagedbyyourage.com

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
It’s not just the 7. Or the 57. It’s the whole system.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New York AG Letitia James has taken over the investigation into the alleged Cornell fraternity gang rape at the instruction of Gov. Kathy Hochul—and the case is now under an independent state criminal investigation. youtube.com/live/Jsc4fKw...
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BREAKING: Cornell Case EXPLODES as Tish James Takes Over
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SpringForward🌻☘️🥀🌺🦋 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 @springforward1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Terrible Friday for Trump Re:Jobs Report
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BREAKING: Terrible Friday for Trump Starts With the Worst Jobs Report of the Year and Party Turning on Him
Good morning, and welcome back to Really American.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The perfect message for Americans who never drive past a gas station or go to any stores:
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looooove this interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Love this interview @jamestalarico.bsky.social !! youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you want to know how you can help me, this weekend you're going to be faced with a lot of sales and deals. My ask is simple: please consider investing in democracy. Democracy Docket is offering $20 off an annual premium membership — use code LDW20 at checkout. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The massive nationwide electricity rate hikes aren’t happening simply because utility services have gotten more expensive or customers have been receiving better service. It’s because utility monopolies have bought off the system that’s supposed to keep them in check. Watch.
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The Secret Behind High Electricity Bills
Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans — and they're usin
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mitch McConnell is dead. The burden to prove otherwise rests with the GOP, not us. Let’s proceed accordingly.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Medicare for All is the guarantee of healthcare from cradle to grave—without premiums, copays, or deductibles. That’s it. Pass it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
At some point those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Republicans attacking us over false claims of voter fraud. Instead we need to take steps to protect and expand voting rights and let Trump call us names.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026
On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/08/2026
So food is dangerous now. At least it’s expensive.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 17/08/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Making the world a better place since 1956. Still creating. Still contributing. Still learning. Still laughing. Still leading. Still visible, connected and engaged with all the generations. And still saying YES to new adventures.
70th Birthday
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Waterloo scientists Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and destroy cancer from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
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Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day, the two sharing wires until the last boiler dies in 2030 — and one retired coal unit will keep sp...
Retirement does not mean the old hardware stops working entirely, either. One of the retiring units is being converted into a synchronous condenser, a huge
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WidowsPique 🇨🇦 @widowspique.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I 💝 Hillary.
Local man suggests jailing his own boss.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/08/2026
DEM UNITY: Haley Stevens just hugged Abdul El-Sayed at the Michigan Democratic Party’s Unity Breakfast in Southfield.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/08/2026
Black text on a white page that reads:

Too many lives have been cut short by high-speed, illegal e-bikes and e-scooters.

That’s why we are issuing cease-and-desist orders against 42 online retailers that have been selling these dangerous devices to New York City residents — including Target, Temu, Wayfair, Walmart, and Amazon. 

The safety of New Yorkers is not for sale.
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If it's not one thing, it's another. It's endless! Off to watch a Mayor Mamdani video to find some hope.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In tonight's live episode @hcrichardson.bsky.social said "boy howdy corrupt" about the current administration... and she’s absolutely right!
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
She's absolutely right. The new wave of influencers are going to be 60+. Here are 15 creators over 65 I love following. Because the best role models don't make us wish we were younger… They make us excited about what's ahead and what's possible. ✨
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This AI video is delicious youtube.com/shorts/xC4-o...
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This is going mega viral
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is truly a sick individual.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Cyber attacks- Minnesota 😡👇🏼
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Time to set down the torch for the night and slide between the sheets. Sweet Dreams, America! 🎧🎧🎧#RadioFreeAmerica youtu.be/4dPRGfGmCmU?...
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Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Biotech entrepreneur John Wilson has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrant families after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota.
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Minnesota: Man Gives $29M to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Operation
An entrepreneur has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrants after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota.
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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Data Centers are not "job creators." They are resource extractors, siphoning off our water and power.
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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Minnesota: Businessman Gives $29 Million to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Crackdown www.breitbart.com/immigration/...
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Minnesota: Man Gives $29M to Immigrants for Rent After ICE Operation
An entrepreneur has donated $29 million in rental assistance for immigrants after the federal crackdown on illegals in Minnesota.
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HouseAtreides-M @houseatrides007.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Three BIG CHEERS to Mark Ruffalo!!!
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/07/2026
Why bother calling your Senator and telling them to vote NO on Todd Blanche for Attorney General even though Trump will keep him in the job regardless? Because history should record the NO vote. You’ll want it on the record that we rejected him. That’s why.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: The man who assassinated Melissa & Mark Hortman, and John & Yvette Hoffman, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison. www.cnn.com/2026/07/23/u...
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Minnesota man gets 2 life sentences for killing Democratic lawmaker and her husband | CNN
The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political at...
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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
👏👏👏 "When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded" PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS therealnews.com/peter-thiels...
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Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action
A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Clearly not the answer they were looking for...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie has announced he'll introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, a bill to give state AGs, DAs, 'authorized state officers,' and victims the right to sue DOJ for "unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, removing, or failing to publish Epstein-related records."
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Doesn't matter if he had meth, salt or animal balloons. In America, we don't execute people in their cars for "public safety." FFS, that's not how this is supposed to work.
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Tests will find if men in Houston ICE shooting had drugs or salt
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, whose office is running an investigation into the shooting, expressed doubt that there were drugs in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van.
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PhillFoss @phillfoss.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Not sure if true…..
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026
After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/07/2026
I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!
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Ande Lyons @andelyons.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Outstanding message to Graham Platner! www.youtube.com/live/to3P7E1...
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Stuart Stevens Delivers a Brutal Message to Graham Platner
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