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writer, indigenous cultures, ancestors/heritage,shamanic practitioner

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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern history. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop Playing Politics With Food Assistance Programs
USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern hist...
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured The FDA www.levernews.com/science-for-...
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Science For Sale: How Drugmakers Captured The FDA
The pharmaceutical industry spent decades manipulating the country’s top drug regulator into rubber-stamping its products. The Trump administration is making matters worse.
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Chevron’s lobbying has paid off as the U.S. authorizes CIA intervention in oil-rich Venezuela. www.levernews.com/big-oil-plot...
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Big Oil Plots Its Next Forever War
Chevron’s lobbying has paid off as the U.S. authorizes CIA intervention in oil-rich Venezuela.
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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MAGA superfan finds out about Trump's fascism the hard way
Meet Eric Brakey, the executive director of the Free State Project. Those of you who’ve read the excellent book “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear,” by journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, might ...
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Big Tech is blocking communities from crowdsharing information about ICE raids. www.levernews.com/big-tech-doe...
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Big Tech Does ICE’s Bidding
At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Apple is preventing communities from sharing information about ICE raids.
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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A beautiful human being who saw a deep and wondrous ecology in the midst of every living moment. We are all apes. One of the best of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/10/2025
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...
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‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/10/2025
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2025
Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
From speculative investments to zero returns, the AI industry is looking a lot like the dot-com bubble. www.levernews.com/the-ai-bubbl...
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The AI Bubble That Could Burst The Economy
From speculative investments to zero returns, the AI industry is looking a lot like the dot-com bubble.
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Are You On The FBI’s New Watch List? www.levernews.com/are-you-on-t...
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Are You On The FBI’s New Watch List?
A new White House memorandum activates 9/11 counterterrorism units against the American public.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Release the Epstein Files. Go on, do it for Charlie.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025
fascinating. presumably this has benefits for evaporation as well www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
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California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online
The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.
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Irene Fraser @boozybluesy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
youtu.be/y_u1eu6Lpds?... CREAM 'Sunshine Of Your Love'
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Sunshine Of Your Love
YouTube video by Cream - Topic
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Charlie Kirk assassination is that little dot on the map of gun deaths in 2025.
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League of American Bicyclists @bikeleague.org · 12/09/2025
Exciting news from Michigan! 🎉 Thanks to Marco Speeks (Founder of Major Taylor Michigan Cycling Advocacy, LMB Board Member & LCI), Gov. Whitmer has proclaimed Sept 15, 2025 as Major Taylor Day — the first state to do so! Read Marco’s story ➡️ bikeleague.org/lci-spotligh... #MajorTaylorDay
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LCI Spotlight: Marco Speeks | League of American Bicyclists
The League certifies hundreds of League Cycling Instructors every year and there are thousands of LCIs across the country leading bike education efforts in their communities. In our LCI spotlight…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/09/2025
I can understand the anguish from losing someone you looked up to politically. What sits wrong with me now is that we see none of that from some of the same people whenever children are murdered in school. Maybe we all agree it should all end
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/09/2025
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times
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The Lever @levernews.com · 11/09/2025
www.levernews.com/utah-forced-...
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Utah Forced Campuses To Allow Open-Carry Months Before Kirk Assassination
Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers encoded campus open-carry into state law.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 11/09/2025
Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers encoded campus open-carry into state law.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 12/09/2025
“Social media is a cancer on our society & I would encourage people to log off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out & do good in your community.” - Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox
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The Lever @levernews.com · 13/09/2025
A radical kind of grocery store gains traction, states protect your COVID vaccine, and health care mergers get put under the microscope. www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Produce For The People
A radical kind of grocery store gains traction, states protect your COVID vaccine, and health care mergers get put under the microscope.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 17/04/2025
🚨WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: The Lever is launching TAX REVOLT - a new audio series exposing the roots of the anti-tax movement behind Trump's billionaire tax cuts. Add the series to your podcast app: LeverNews.com/TaxRevolt Please repost/share to spread the word - this project is months in the making👇
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can I get an AMEN!?
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s Unstoppable www.levernews.com/we-must-stop...
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We Must Stop This Civil War Before It’s Unstoppable
Once we accept deadly violence as a normal part of American life, we’re done for.
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v v @arielval.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Crazy or Enlightened? open.substack.com/pub/masterzh...
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Crazy or Enlightened?
Grandmaster Wáng Jiāyòu 王家祐 (1926-2009) and one of his poems
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scottshepard.bsky.social @scottshepard.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
West Point alumni canceling an award for tireless veterans advocate Tom Hanks is another example of the cowardly lions in our military. Perhaps some veterans will speak up in support of Hanks. This veteran stands with Captain Miller, Private Gump, and Commander Ernest Krause.
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@clareboothelucid 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbl2.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Happy 86th Birthday to comedic genius Lily Tomlin
Black and White Photograph of Lilly Tomlin with hands behind her head, elbows akimbo - as photographed by Annie Leibovitz 1974
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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Did you know that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Japanese garden was restored by Frank Okamura, a Japanese born American who was interred during WW2, came to Brooklyn, revitalized the art of Bonsai growth in America, and was awarded a medal by the Emperor of Japan?
The Japanese Garden in Brooklyn The same Japanese garden, now with an obscured Tori gate. A trio of musicians are playing in the background while visitors make woodblock prints. Today is the North American Japanese Garden Association’s annual Gardens for Peace project.
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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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The Wizard of Oz is 87 years old! If Dorothy were to encounter men with no brains, heart, or courage today, she wouldn't be in Oz.
She'd he in D.C

EMERALD CITY
- CLOSED.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/09/2025
A bus shelter poster featuring Fartrage, close by the Birmingham NEC as Deform UK gathers for their two-day conference.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2025
Duckworth: "Let's make it clear -- the President of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation. This is not normal. This is not acceptable behavior."
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Ed Bull @eddiebullock.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
During deep sleep, your brain’s glymphatic system flushes out waste proteins like beta-amyloid. Miss out, and your risk for cognitive decline rises. Sleep is literally brain hygiene. #psychology #science #sleep #mentalhealth
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🎉JanePAC is endorsing @amylaufer55.bsky.social‬ for re-election to the VA House of Delegates. Before becoming a math and science teacher, Amy served in the Peace Corps educating students about the environment and agriculture.
Endorsement graphic for Amy Laufer for Virginia House of Delegates (HD-55)
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Five lucky donors will claim one of these beautiful posters signed by Jane Fonda and artist Shepard Fairey. Every dollar supports climate leaders who embody this artwork's bold spirit of fighting back against the dirty fossil fuel agenda. Chip in to enter the contest today: janepac.com/contest-sf
The beautiful poster designed by Shepard Fairey featuring Jane with a flower.
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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Here at JanePAC, we know the tremendous power that local district attorneys have to prosecute environmental crimes and hold polluters accountable. Joe Khan is a climate champion running for District Attorney in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and we're proud to endorse him today.
Endorsement graphic for Joe Khan for Bucks County District Attorney.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 05/09/2025
While dirty, fossil fuels rake in a hefty subsidy, Trump’s anti-wind crusade will raise your energy prices.
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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We’d rather have the corporation for public broadcasting and Sesame Street than a garish gold plated ballroom at the White House.
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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