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AquamarineinCA

@aquamarineinca.bsky.social
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Mostly retired in central coastal CA - career focused on wetlands, watershed ecology, stream restoration and soil science. I love a good topo map. Scuba diver, sea kayaker, nature and animal lover in general.

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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 4h
#Ukraine
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#Ukraine.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 8h
#NowDoMelania
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Referring to killing people as "kinetic engagement" is despicable.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Ukraine
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’ve said this before, Trump is Saruman without the intellect, real hair, and fashion sense.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Still nothing yet from Darlene Graham about Trump pissing on the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanction Act.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#WealthTax
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism
NYT "The Interview" with Curtis Yarvin
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌊🌊🌊🌊 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Trump has made more stock trades than every member of Congress combined” 🤯
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beware of Fox "facts":
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#ElNiño
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#AI
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2026
I can't believe I have to say this: Richard Nixon was corrupt and Congress was right to force him out. But, according to Trump's DOJ and a GOP congressman, Nixon was subject to a Deep State coup. Nonsense. This is just Trump trying to rewrite the past to obscure his corruption today. Link below ⬇️
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#CitizensUnited
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and if you want to stop this @MarshaBlackburn and the Republicans will call you a communist How much longer will we fall for this?
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Immigration #Haiti
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
mistakes were made
california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shameful and impossible to rationalize. #WealthInequality. #TaxTheRich
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(Preemptive apologies to the arachnophobes out there) We've got at least two fuzzy red jumping spiders living in/on the railing outside our front door. This one spent the entire day yesterday devouring a poor dead bee. Then it tucked itself into a nook to digest. #Spiders #Entomology #Nature
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social tells @mpolymer1.bsky.social how Alina Habba’s wedding put FBI Director Kash Patel in the same room as a former FBI informant suspected of being a double agent. "These MAGA weddings are like the Star Wars Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grok leading Trump...we're doomed...
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He can barely frame a coherent sentence.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ClimateChange #SCOTUS
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Newsom #ICE
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"While fear may be contagious, courage is as well"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You go, Jack!
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Ukraine
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MuskDocumentary
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#WealthInequality
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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AquamarineinCA @aquamarineinca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One example of why Mark Twain is the best ever! #MarkTwain #Literature
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