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Barbara B. Harrell

@bbharrell.bsky.social
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Organic gardener, nature lover, habitat restorer, night protector, cook, piano player, family historian, retired Ob-Gyn MD, proud mom and grandma, and a lot of other stuff

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 29/09/2026
For every complicated problem, there is an extremely simple solution, if you are very stupid. Our government is now run entirely by "Why Don't We Just" guys.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember when Ted Cruz accurately called Donald Trump a pathological liar and the worst narcissist anyone had ever seen
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From @timmiller.bsky.social : “We are imprisoning Maryam, Eissa, and their teenage son not because they are a threat to national security—but because of something a family member did before any of them were born.” 😕🇺🇸 @marcorubio
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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
More pileateds today, viewed through window with Acopian #birdsavers. I think this baby was trying to tell me something, lol, before Mama called her over to our cherry snag. #birds #PNW #Bellingham #woodpeckers
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.”
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That suet is hanging under our deck, positioned where squirrels can't reach it. Frequent visitors include bushtits, chickadees, nuthatches, spotted towhees, western tanagers, Bewick's wrens, juncoes, downy & hairy woodpeckers, northern flickers. Pileateds just the past two days. #Bellingham #birds
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not to brag but www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The same is true about the “stolen” election
Ben Rhodes: The strangest thing about the MAGA freakout over Fauci is that Trump was his boss - and ran the government - during the entire period they are so mad about.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/07/2026
We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In old-time anthropology, this used to be called "culture shock." I experienced it, returning to California (Leisure World, of all places) from 5 months in an impoverished Taiwan coal-mining village.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026
uh...yes?
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is crazy and wrong. Darkness is important to the health of many species, including ours. Do not allow this, people! #ALAN #darksky @danidarkskies.bsky.social @darkskyintl.bsky.social
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F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Newsday.com/matt
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
While I'm at it, here's an update re our back lawn #restoration. Started in 2024 by adding a few shrubs that deer tend to ignore. Let native wild strawberries invade, then removed sod bit by bit. #LawnRemoval #HabitatRestoration #NativePlants #PNW Photos Jun 23, Feb 25, Jul 26, Jul 26.
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Update. A few species have been shaded/competed out, but our back slope #restoration now has 73 species, including a new Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) and a new patch of California oatgrass (Danthonia californica) (native in #PacificNorthwest, not just California). #habitat 1) Jun 2025 2) Apr 2026
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
More from Samish Hill today. Just me and @steveharrell.bsky.social. We saw two other humans and one smiling dog during 3 miles on trail. #Bellingham #PNW #nativeplants
Ghost plant aka American Indian ghost pipe plant (Monotropa uniflora), amid blackberry seedlings. Not a fungus, but not a photosynthesizer either. Red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium) too high to reach, growing out of a tree trunk as they often do. (We have one doing that at home, that I finally stuck in a cottonwood stump with a cage over it after deer uprooted it from the ground, twice.)Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)Piggyback plant (Tolmiea menziesii), a favorite in the houseplant trade. Native ground cover here, often observed trailside.
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just a little hike up Samish Hill, one of our favorites here in #Bellingham.
White pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) amid tangle of ocean spray (Holodiscus discolor), fireweed )Chamerion angustifolium), ferns, etc, backed by dark green conifers.View east from clearing near top of Samish Hill, looking across Bellingham Bay toward Orcas Island and Canada.Magenta flowers of fireweed, so called because it quickly asserts itself after fires (if there aren't too many deer around, that is).Native trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus), bearing more heavily than usual this year. Delicious small berries when ripe. Characteristic long blue stems in lower right.
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WA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?
Map of ICE sightings from iceout.org, 7/1-7/8, showing Puget sound area between Fort Lewis and Marysville.
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Summer color for bloomscrollers 🌺 Nodding onion, Cascade penstemon, deer-fenced cape fuchsia and crocosmia—all of intense interest to our local rufous and Anna's hummingbirds. English lavender occupies bees and other pollinators, seems to please the neighbors ;-) #PNW #Bellingham #garden #habitat
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I assume in keeping with their methods, before Trump puts on the "largest fireworks display in history" (or whatever he's hyping) he has fired the fire department.
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JB | Native Plant Gardener (WI) @jbtheexplorer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Me for the last two decades: That dead tree sure would be a great place to see a hawk perched. Me tonight: See, I knew it! #birds #nature #photography #Wisconsin
Coopers Hawk perched on a dead pine or spruce tree.
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Colorado Wild @robin34.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Some hungry Northern flicker chicks and their hard-working dad. Colorado. 🪶
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This real life “make way for ducklings” happened today in Newport right in front of me
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So does the Supreme Court.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
💯% this
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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Lori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I don't know exactly what these Pacific Great Blue Heron nestlings were doing but I thought it was interesting...?! #birds #photography #ECK @everyheron.bsky.social
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Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The hottest new lifestyle trend is cooking and eating the food you have at home. It’s called fridgemaxxing
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Grosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I love our enclosed garden in spring, especially after rejuvenating rain (which we badly needed here in #PNW). A place in the heart. Those upside-down wastebaskets that cost three times as much when they're sold as cloches keep the birds off the lettuce. It works! 🌱
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Steller's jay sunning. Freaking out the bushtits nesting nearby, who did a great job of dive-bombing that jay away last Thursday. Sorry I can't show their nest--it's masterfully hidden. #birds
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