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"Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul." All pics my own.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Cosgrove's Cosmos @cosgrovescosmos.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
First light for my AP155 platform is in the books! I pointed it at M81, M82, and NGC 3077 for a proper shakedown cruise & came away w/ a result I’m pretty happy with - despite the short integration! Full project write-up here: cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m81... #astrophotography #astronomy
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AP155 First Light: M81, M82 and NGC 3077 in Ursa Major — Cosgrove's Cosmos
A first-light astrophotography project with the Astro-Physics 155mm Starfire EDFS featuring M81, M82, and NGC 3077, including target background, capture strategy, equipment, and final imaging results.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yaroslavl oil refinery in russia got sanctioned 🔥
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Some people may find this hard to swallow...
TIL Clinton's dick is magical.  Legend has it that every time he is caught getting a blow job, that means a president is about to get impeached!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/10/2025
Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars. You’ve got to see this…
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
PLEASE SHARE & CLICK THE LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION blackoutthesystem.com #BlackOutTheSystem #WeThePeople #Unite #StandUp #WeHaveThePower @blackoutthesystem.bsky.social
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indiegals.bsky.social @indiegals.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
LETS DO THIS AMERICA! We have time to prepare. PASS IT ON! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 #BlackOutTheSystem @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social @cnn-news.bsky.social @davidhogg.bsky.social @momsdemand.bsky.social @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social @vetsat.bsky.social @votolatino.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"My dearest Cordelia, How I long to gaze upon your smiling face again. The platoon assembled in full battle regalia. The men are jubilant in anticipation. Today, we storm the capitol. The smell of victory hangs in the air. Or maybe it's coffee. It could be coffee. A mocha with a hint of cinnamon."
No Kings in DC, suited and booted.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Fun times for scary times. Mel Brooks once said the greatest victory against Hitler was turning him into a punchline.
A golden oldie. I think it deserves a revival.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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DC "No Kings" March outside Dept of Labor. I love ironic shots.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#astrophotography The Lagoon and Trifid nebulae. Redcat51 ASI183 8 hr total exposure.
Trifid and Lagoon nebulae.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
WIP Veil Nebula mosaic
The veil nebula, WIP
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/07/2025
What happens when we’re looking elsewhere is as important as what’s happening in the headlines. Have you noticed any other CDC data missing? Let us know! To complement the resources from @statnews.com, here’s the pull of what was available as of Jan. 28 from our archive.
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/07/2025
Despite all his bluster about fighting gangs, Trump’s corrupt bargain with Salvadoran Pres. Bukele is doing the opposite — covering up evidence of Bukele’s own dealings with MS-13 and undermining US efforts to fight the gang. Trump makes a big show but the real killers get off.
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Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Glenn Thurmond works for Oasis Ministeies in Winter Haven, FL. She's selling Alligator Alcatraz metch.
Glenn Thurmond works for Oasis Ministeies in Winter Haven FL.

She's selling Alligator Alcatraz metch.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/07/2025
Right now in Maryland, there's a mom whose son relies on lifesaving chemotherapy treatments. She told me that if he loses access to his health insurance, it would be a "death sentence." If this bill passes, people will die. Keep calling. Keep fighting. We must stop this bill.
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If this bill passes, people will die
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
George Carlin had his "7 words you can't say on television" routine. Well, now Trump has "7 words you can use in public" based on the journalistic rule of thumb, "If the president says it, you can print it." Shit Shithole Pussy Cunt Goddamn Fuck Motherfucker George would be proud.
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a man in a suit is sitting at a table with the words god help us all below him
ALT: a man in a suit is sitting at a table with the words god help us all below him
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#TACO is so on brand. Putin tugs on the collar and donnie dipshit comes to heel.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
If you ever wonder whether or not we live in a simulation, here's the proof it isn't. A simulation, like all fiction, has to make sense. Reality does not have to obey that constraint in a universe that was not created for us.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
First hit of the day, and it's already a winner.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14/06/2025
We cannot move on from what happened yesterday. A Senator being roughed up and handcuffed for trying to ask a question is what you see in a DICTATORSHIP. Our country is at a crossroads and we need EVERY American to stand up to defend freedom, democracy and our Constitution.
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We cannot move on from what happened to Alex Padilla
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/06/2025
Bukele and Trump are complicit in an illegal scheme to use US taxpayer dollars to ship people to El Salvador in violation of their constitutional rights. Today we introduced sanctions against the Bukele regime to fight this cash-for-collusion deal & assault on our Constitution:
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 13/06/2025
Good morning from Nashville. Kilmar Abrego Garcia heads to a detention hearing this morning in federal court, and I'm covering the proceedings live in court for @AllRiseNews.com In my preview, I focused on his habeas attorneys playing offense in Maryland. www.allrisenews.com/p/garcia-civ...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia plays offense: Lawyers demand quick contempt for feds
In a motion released shortly before their client's detention hearing in Nashville, Garcia's lawyers sought civil contempt for feds — because it's faster than criminal.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A Marine serves. His wife gets taken while nursing their baby. This isn’t safety. It’s state violence. 📕 Fck Around & Find Out* is your 50-state guide to fight back. Grab it. Use it. Mobilize: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
@riseandresist.bsky.social takes over the lobby of Trump Tower to read the names of the immigrants Trump illegally deported to CECOT prison in El Salvador. All 24 were arrested by the NYPD
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Activists Take Over Trump Tower Protesting ICE Deportations w/24 Arrests 6/9/25
YouTube video by Sandi Bachom
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Find your closest rally on Saturday and go. You can tell your kids where you were on the other side of this. Outnumber him everywhere. www.nokings.org#map
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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ᴍɪᴋᴀʏᴇʟ ᴍʏᴇʀs @chaclo.blacksky.app · 10/06/2025
Snoop had the world in the palm of his hand during the 2024 Olympics and threw it all away to lick the white man’s boot.
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hooo boy Wordle 1,450 6/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
In 1912, a Black man was lynched before thousands—then shot full of bullets. Days later, two Black teens were hanged. Forsyth County forced out every Black resident. They erased the truth. 📖 ERASED tells the truth they tried to bury. Read it. Share it. Never forget: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Seth Moulton @sethmoulton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trump’s dream of a deportation machine is a nightmare reality. 18-year-old honors student Marcelo is one of many examples. This administration is detaining high school volleyball players. ICE should be going after terrorists, human smugglers, and drug traffickers. Let’s be serious.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Bear witness to the ritualistic “laying of the chains” that precedes the arrival of ICE’s human cargo. 👀
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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Since the 1990s, 80% of the Eastern Monarch butterfly populations have dropped as a result of the loss of milkweed and climate change." We're calling for the protection of these important pollinators under the Endangered Species Act. Add your voice: fwwat.ch/4cI64XO
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Word of the Week: Monarch. An annual multigenerational migration of butterflies
By late May each year, monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) return to the Berkshires from their winter home in the oyamel fir forests in the Sierra Madre Mountains of central Mexico,
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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is dire and ominous.. "A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
NEW: In the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, Judge Xinis grants the plaintiff’s request to file a motion for sanctions. Motion due June 11.
PAPERLESS ORDER: Plaintiffs' request at
ECF No. 177 for leave to file a motion for sanctions pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37 is GRANTED. Plaintiffs shall file their motion no later than June 11,
2025. Defendants shall file their response within seven days of the motion's filing.
Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 6/4/2025. (heps, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 06/04/2025)
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This is a time when we need courage. Courage to stand up and be peaceful but loud. Make your voice heard...but not cross into violence. This is a time when your fears are real but you can't let them hold you back. Way too many people in positions of power are self muting. I'm not one of them.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/06/2025
Flood the line.
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Texas just passed a bill making it easier to ban books and harder to access truth. This isn’t about protecting kids—it’s about controlling the narrative. 📚 Erased was written for this moment. 👉🏼 Read what they’re still trying to bury. Get the book: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
apnews.com/projects/rus...
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Ukrainian POWs die in Russian prisons; autopsies reveal brutality
More than 200 Ukrainian POWs have died in Russian prisons since Moscow's full-scale invasion three years ago.
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pdx law grrrl @pdxlawgrrrl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Amanda Cahill died in her cell in a Philly jail. Screaming for help for over an hour. Women jailed near her pleaded for medical attention, but nobody responded. Philly voters just approved a ballot measure to bolster oversight over the city’s deadly jails.
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Philadelphia Measure Would Bolster Oversight for the City’s Deadly Jails - Bolts
On May 20, Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the city’s jails for decades.
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Janet Kinneberg @jkinneberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Grateful for these brilliant scientists brave enough to sign this Open Letter calling out 5/23/2025 Trump Admin EO, “Restoring Gold Standard Science” which will undermine scientific rigor and the transparent progress of science. Pass along this Open Letter www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
Current signatories
1. Colette Delawalla, MA, MS, PhD Candidate at Emory University and Executive Director of Stand Up for Science
2. Victor Ambros, PhD, 2024 Nobel Laureate of Physiology or Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Chan
Medical School
3. Jeremy M Berg, PhD Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH 2003-2011; Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine 2016-2019
4. Joachim Frank, PhD 2017 Nobel Laureate of Chemistry, Columbia University Irving
Medical Center
5. Carl Bergstrom, PhD. Professor of Biology, University of Washington
6. Carol Greider, PhD. 2009 Nobel Laureate of Medicine, Distinguished Professor University of California Santa Cruz
7. Brian Nosek, PhD. Executive Director, Center for Open Science. Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia.
8. Michael E. Mann, Presidential
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.
9. Kate Starbird, Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/05/2025
250 years ago, Americans made it clear that we weren’t going to be ruled by kings. In 18 days, we’re taking to the streets again to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. We hope to see you on June 14 for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS
JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE
nokings.org
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What last night was like for Khmelnytsky region. #Ukraine
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Brad Meltzer @bradmeltzer.com · 24/05/2025
Yes please. Origami Ballet - Agnes Obel - "The Curse"
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...
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Background N015e @backgroundn015e.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Two staff members at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, were fatally shot Wednesday night outside the FBI field office in Washington D.C. It's right around the corner from the Capital Jewish Museum. What's Patel doing?
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump Regime just sent this plane to South Sudan with deported immigrants from Asia. They could have loaded the plane with $100 million of food spoiling in warehouses after Musk and Trump closed USAID. But they didn’t. Imprisoning innocent immigrants in South Sudan is their priority. #ProudBlue
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