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Ziba Azi

@asmiler.bsky.social
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🎶 🐶 Neurodivergent. Lifelong learner. Hopeful pragmatist. Ally. Covid and H5N1 cautious. Vaccines save lives. Democracy lover. Trivia nerd. Mom. Happily taken, please no DMs. All views my own 🕊️

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including
A news article headline reads, "White House Plans to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy." The subheadline states that the decision is part of a broader effort to push universities to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline. Below the text is a photograph of a historic building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, with a statue in the foreground and leafless trees framing the image. The article is authored by Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, published on March 19, 2025.A news article continues discussing the Trump administration's decision to suspend $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania due to its policies regarding transgender athletes. The article references a White House social media account announcing the move, citing Penn's support of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a justification. A response from Penn states that they have not received official notification and assert they are in compliance with all relevant regulations.
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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 19/03/2025
Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots www.militarytimes.com/news/your-ai...
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Air Force purges photos, websites on pioneering female pilots
Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era WASPs have been pulled offline.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Senator Raphael Warnock ahead of the vote on RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary: "I simply do not trust him to oversee the CDC. He's unqualified, and I dare say that everybody here knows it." BOOM! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
why does it look like The More You Know logo is crashing back to earth
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Crockett: It was my ancestors that built the White House. If we have been good enough to build this country, we are good enough to serve in other ways. Stop trying to act as if only white men are the ones that are capable because you’re sitting with 3 very capable black women
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.
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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Until a member of Congress goes to jail for theft and/or fraud, these offenses are going to keep happening. It is time for us to publicly declare—if by no means accept—that both DOJ and the FBI have no problem whatsoever with politicians defrauding their donors or stealing money from voters. None.
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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
The Arizona senator’s campaign spending in global wine hot spots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/12/2024
Evidently the GOP really doesn’t have a problem with foreigners taking over the country.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
President Elon Musk wants to shutdown the government so he can pave the way for massive tax cuts for him and his billionaire insiders while your fucking grandma pays the bill out of her social security check.
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
this was basically my understanding of the song as a kid
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. and one of his top legal advisers are steadily pushing federal regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines. Trump’s pick for health secretary and his lawyer also aim to block distribution of 13 other vaccines that have protected the health and lives of…
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Wilde Thingy @wildethingy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'm experimenting with how many apples I need to eat a day to keep EVERYONE away, whatever their profession.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🚨 Breaking: Assad’s government has fallen, and he has fled Damascus. Sending thoughts and prayers to Tulsi Gabbard in this difficult time for her.
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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It’s Official! ‘Have I Got News For You’ is back in 2025 for another run!! Stream the existing 10eps on Max
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Charles Kerr @ckerr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm old enough to remember Biden getting booed at his SOTU speech for saying that the GOP wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare www.foxnews.com/media/biden-...
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Biden booed during State of the Union for claiming GOP wants to cut Social Security, Medicare
President Biden faced with significant backlash from Republicans after he claimed they want to "sunset" entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
When foreigners gave smaller amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation before Hillary Clinton ran for president, the New York Times put the story on the front page. This is a larger amount of money going directly into the pocket of the president-elect.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
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A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs
popular.info
What really happened after California raised its minimum wage to $20 for fast food workers
What would happen to the fast food industry if it had to pay its workers something closer to a living wage?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You can get sent to jail for stealing toilet paper but if you hire a dozen children to work overnight shifts at your slaughter house your company pays a fine
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Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds
Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The insider DC sheets keep running articles about Democrats bewailing Bidens pardon. I’m able to keep a pretty close tabs on the opinions of engaged Democrats via emails to TPM. And the actual opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the decision. In fact, more or less universal support.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Trump pardoned his criminal co conspirators. I’m 100% behind Biden pardoning his son.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/12/2024
NBC News is now reporting that Pete Hegseth's nomination is in peril. As many as 6 Senate Republicans, possibly more, are currently not supporting his bid as new revelations about his past continue to surface.
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Trump's pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is in peril in the Senate
As many as six GOP senators aren't currently comfortable supporting Hegseth following allegations about drinking and his treatment of women, sources told NBC News.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Dems/media condemning Joe for pardoning Hunter right after a psycho who has spent 4 years ranting that he was going to go after him is the most toxic kind of phony virtue signaling imaginable. Don’t forget to pat yourselves on the back from your perches on the moral high ground.
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Formerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"You are violating my First Amendment right to be a bully and you shall atone!" A lot of people are reading The Handmaid's Tale these days who maybe should try another Atwood book, Cat's Eye. That's the one where the protagonist learns that bullies are like fires--starve them of fuel and they die.
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Start Guillotining @drivewest.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE SO I CAN KEEP YELLING AT YOU ABOUT THE MASTER RACE”
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Rob Skelton @redskelton1923.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Or, I'm engaging in free market capitalism. Twitter as an information platform deteriorated after Musk took over, and Bluesky is now the superior purveyor of quality access to multiple sources of news and analysis. So, I switched.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/11/2024
"Tulsi Gabbard’s longstanding association with a shadowy rightwing cult, her history of suspicious uses of campaign funds, her habitual conspiracism and advocacy for the interests of bloodthirsty dictators (including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as well as Putin) all raise a multiplicity of red flags."
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Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's scheme to gut the intel agencies
It's hard to envision a less suited intelligence chief. That’s a feature, not a bug.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/11/2024
It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.
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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Courtesy of Wikipedia, these descriptions of Harding's speeches are a reminder that time may well be circular. #NYT , sanewashing even back then.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou
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Alex Lopez @alexlopezwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Crockett: The fact that we have Americans that are saying, wait a minute, are you saying that tariffs are going to negatively impact me? It's kind of like that wall that we are still waiting on Mexico to build, that they are going to pay for. No, we are going to pay for it.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The fact that China doesn't like people switching to Bluesky seems like another sign that it's a great thing
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Chris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Funny how little attention this is getting now. 🤷
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Orcas have started wearing dead salmon as hats again, just fyi www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...
iflscience.com
Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break
In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Tommy got his Putin talking points scrambled.
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BigSlim @imbigslim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Kiwamu Miyakubo is a flame artist who creates stunning fire displays, from massive explosions to tiny flames in cozy Japanese rooms—all with equipment he invents himself. 🔥✨ [📹 kiwamissimo]
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Chinese state media is reportedly troubled by the latest exodus of X users flocking to Bluesky. State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform — including by buying ads, deploying bots, and hiring influencers — have recently seen their growth plateau.

The growing popularity of Bluesky, which has a largely liberal base and harder-to-manipulate algorithm, has sparked “worried chatter within Chinese state media circles,” a former Xinhua and China Daily employee wrote in his newsletter. He predicted the accounts will migrate to Bluesky, though it may take time. For now, the sector’s focus has shifted back to domestic, Mandarin-language channels and platforms like Bilibili, WeChat, and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s new AG pick, Pam Bondi, received $115,000 USD a MONTH lobbying for Qatar! How many of his cabinet members are foreign agents?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Watters: You are saying the problem was Matt Gaetz? McCarthy: That’s a fear for all young girls.. there is no reason why that man should’ve been nominated
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