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Barbara who knows stuff

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Mom w/2 fantastic kids, grandma w/2 great grandkids. Passion for baking w/yeast, read history and film buff. Democrat and support 🇺🇦 Ukraine & United24 🇺🇦 and Jake Broe fundraisers for Ukraine.

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 2h
⚡ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. "Today I came to Kyiv because, in the coming weeks, Ukraine needs our support. If we don't stop Russia, its military machine will eventually turn against us.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 2h
❗️ Russians struck the Zarychansky district of Sumy with 5 KABs (guided aerial bombs) this morning. The attack damaged multi-story residential buildings and cars.
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Mark Smith @marksmithphoto.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
These images are a sneak peek at what’s inside. The stories that accompany them are going to make you smile, laugh, cry and rethink how you see these creatures. Pre-order at www.thespiritofbirds.com October 20th. Mark
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chrisbotta.bsky.social @chrisbotta.bsky.social · 11h
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10h
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces say Operation “Crimean Switch Off” has struck 456 energy nodes in Russian-occupied territories and Russia since July 6. Over the past 10 days alone, its units targeted 44 energy facilities, including 17 in occupied Crimea. #Ukraine
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Tom Haynes @tomhaynes1.bsky.social · 10h
When they tell you who they are and what they've done, believe them. They won't hesitate to do it again in the midterms and they're setting that up right now, believe me.
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3saPhotography 💜COLS26💜AUSTIN26💜DC27💜NASH27💜NOVI27💜PITT27 @3saphotography.bsky.social · 15h
12 Days until Columbus Convention Jensen Ackles Nashville 2025 #SPNFamily #jensenackles
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can’t drive to John Roberts’ Maine retreat, but they can’t stop protesting kayakers. Holding signs: “Roberts Benched the Constitution,” a local columnist is urging residents to openly shun him, writing, “May you never feel welcome here again.” Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇦🇪✈️ Dubai’s Crown Prince, Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid,visited the Indian FlyDubai pilot in hospital after he was injured while attempting to stop an alleged terrorist attack He hugged the captain and praised his bravery: “We are proud that you are part of the history of our team and our nation.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spot on! 🎯
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are far too many accounts of communities closing and paving over their public pools instead of integrating them as an example.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Phillips O'Brien: "So even if the Trump administration gets an acceptable peace deal, it’ll be in a worse strategic position than it was in February. And states in the area are making their own calculations that the US is not going to be as reliable." youtu.be/BQ7pkSM8zKg?...
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Phillips O'Brien on a Dynamic Middle East After the Iran War
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NEW NYT/Siena poll — Likely voters Alaska Senate (D) Peltola 50% (R) Sullivan 43% Texas Senate (D) Talarico 51% (R) Paxton 45% Ohio Senate (D) Brown 49% (R) Husted 46%
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Worn #onthisday in 1970--his 24th birthday--by singer-songwriter Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees at his #wedding to his secretary and second wife, former Miss Edinburgh Linda Gray, 20, at Caxton Hall registry office in London. Today is their 56th anniversary. #OTD
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The RNC Chair’s brilliant midterm “Trumpapalooza” convention idea featuring a president with an approval rating in the 30s dragging the party’s candidates down like an anchor.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🎖Zelensky promoted the commander of the 11th Corps Ishkulov, who defends Slovyansk and Kramatorsk 🇺🇦 Ishkulov was awarded the military rank of brigadier general.
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furax2a.bsky.social @furax2a.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Talena @surelyyoujokeme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When every fool with an internet connection can feel they know as much as an actual doctor .. trouble like this is inevitable.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This Yosemite land grab has been tried since the early 2000s. It lost in court. Now a private equity firm is back, and Trump's Interior Department is listening. Tell Congress to kill it for good: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Russian drone flying very low in #Kyiv, just above residential buildings. It landed on a children's playground. This is the reality of life in Kyiv these days. I think we've had less than an hour total of "All clear" today.
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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Worn #onthisday in 1967 by Tony Curtis and Omar Sharif when they were named Best Dresed Actor and Best Dressed Foreign Actor by the Costume Designers Guild at the Renaissance Ball in Beverly Hills, CA. Edith Head (with ball chairman Anne Baxter) won the Adrian Award for costume design. #OTD 📷️ LAPL
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A Polish official has pitched a straightforward bargain: 1,000 long range strike drones for Kyiv for every proven drone incursion into NATO territory - making provocation/response neatly linked and jolly clear.” - Caolan Robertson Good idea?
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
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James Dallas @ad5nl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Say what you will about Tommy Two-Brain-Cells, but there's no way, as a sportsball guy, he would have made this kind of mistake.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 29/09/2026
It seems like the fact that things are getting hella dire for the GOP’s midterm election prospects may just have broken through the fog of war. Or, because we’re talking about Pete Hegseth, it’s more like it broke through the fog of nicotine pouches, cheap whiskey, and testosterone injections.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"Ukraine could start using interceptor drones on a large scale within a few months" - Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov "Prototypes are already being tested in combat conditions and are shooting down Russian drones. The next step is scaling […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The horror!
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The late great JAMES GARNER signing autographs while filming ‘The Rockford Files’ in Burbank in 1977.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Susan Collins has been lying to us for almost 30 years.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
37 more wounded troops. Added quietly. No explanation. Here's the No B.S. truth: when anyone (a vendor, a CEO, a government) revises the numbers without telling you why, the silence IS the message. 861 wounded. Their families deserve the full story.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One Squashed Chihuahua. 🤣😂🤣
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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚫 Russian Lie “Russian troops have captured the village of Maryine in the Sumy region.” This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. ✅ Reality: *Maryine is under the full control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.*
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s nothing like the sweet smell of failure in the morning.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White Woodpecker 24-29 cm Central and Eastern South America monogamous pairs mate for life both parents take turns incubating eggs 14 days Feed hatchlings for 26 days inside the tree cavity and 5 more weeks after they leave the nest they stay with the family flock of up to 12 or more birds
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The same idiots who think Trump, who dodged the draft five times, knows how to win a war also think Trump, who declared bankruptcy six times, knows how to run the economy. That's what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually looks like.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 28/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV urges European unity to fight 'lies and deceit'
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Pope Leo XIV urges European unity to fight 'lies and deceit'
On the final day of Pope Leo XIV's four-day visit to France, which has drawn crowds of French Catholics, the pontiff decried the 'increasingly uncivilized' state of international relations and urged Europe to help 'break this cycle.'
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