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@bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social
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Rallying with you for the unrealized promise of liberty and justice for all. Striving to notice beauty and humor along the way. We've beat back regimes by bullies for billionaires before. Let's overcome!

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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am being held hostage by a convicted felon, a rapist, an abusive malignant narcissist, and his criminals. Trump, Musk, Miller... they have stolen my money, my taxes, to unalive and kidnap my neighbors, to put them in concentration camps and treacherous 3rd-party prisons, 🧵 1/6
Image of a book cover. Shows American flag with "We The People" written above. Below: The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, The Federalist Papers, The Virginia Declaration of Rights and more. Source: https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.NwElJedxkWj3lN6ElkWyTgAAAA%3Fr%3D0%26pid%3DApi&sp=1785524079T798511eecc17522132e2749a2d8a39b1a7777b0e6f5f44f5e4a3e779d393cd23
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What would it take for the United States to institute a mechanism by which WE THE PEOPLE could RECALL a rogue president and/or administration? (Image webpage dated 2025: www.startpage.com/av/proxy-ima...)
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The solution [to limiting the damage from the evolving risks of AI]: Draw inspiration from other industries[, like b]iological labs working with deadly pathogens,... all face oversight of their internal operations, not just their external products." view.mail.fortune.com?vawpToken=IF...
Image shows computer screen with code, readable at center left and then blurring in a ray-like pattern across the screen in all directions
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Educators, Family-Members, Students, Community Members: I attended this training to learn more about how to help keep our community as safe as possible. The session was informative and engaging. You can sign up for their second session (same content), here: events.zoom.us/eo/AnI3rAcLZ...
Image of digital flyer. Top shows logos of endorsers: Community Change Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, MoveOn, Moms Rising, NEA Education Association, AFT, SEIU, National Newcomer Network, We Are All America, fwd.us, National Parents Union

Body of flyer reads:

BACK TO SCHOOL TRAINING SERIES

Tuesday, July 28

Tuesday, August 11

Tuesday, August 18

via ZOOM

Bottom says, "KIDS BELONG IN CLASSROOMS"
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our Warrior Healer has Left on Her Next Journey www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Denise Oliver-Velez in Lucumi Santeria ritual attire: dressed in white, head wrapped, and wearing elekes, or sacred bead necklacesDenise Oliver-Velez
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
www.dailykos.com/wp-content/u...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JUSTICEforEpsteinSurvivors
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JUSTICEforEpsteinSurvivors
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #NOperpetratorRedactions #InvestigateProsecute #JusticeForEpsteinSurvivors
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is profoundly messed up. If you are a medical professional OR you/someone you love is caught in the "weight is health/life/death/beauty" body image trap, you might consider reading or listening to Kate Manne's "Unshrinking: How to Face Fat Phobia." Research-grounded. Profound.
Image of book cover of Kate Manne's "Unshrinking: How to Face Fat Phobia." Green lettering on black background.
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"New York City officials announced the first-ever Urban Forest Plan to achieve a 30% tree canopy across the city by 2040..." Quote+link: open.substack.com/pub/chopwood... substack.com/redirect/15c...
New York City Chief Climate Officer Louise Yeung (middle) waters a new tree at NYCHA's Red Hook House East
during the release of the City's first-ever Urban Forest Plan.
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Thanks for today's quote, Insight Timer. (insighttimer.com)
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"'To me,' [Trump] said, 'compared to the [Keep You From Voting]* Act, just about everything is a big yawn'" [nuance added by this poster]. - * S̶A̶V̶E̶ ̶A̶c̶t̶ - HCR quoting DJT here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trump can now fire leaders of "the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Board, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, & the Nuclear Safety Board."🧵
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Greg Sargent of The New Republic countered that 'Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.'" Source in comment.
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/r...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
How low can Trump's approval rating go? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Just this week, Georgia Republicans abruptly backtracked on a plan to take up redistricting because they feared a showdown over Black voting rights would energize voters, making GOP candidates more vulnerable in November." #OurProtestsMatter newsletters.democracydocket.com/georgias-stu...
Image source: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article247244764.html
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Last Thursday... Over 125 federal agents reportedly showed up at the homes of... [voter registration] employees & volunteers... The agents knocked on doors & demanded to come into their houses to get phones, without warrants. They followed people in their cars, even followed kids to school." From⬇️
Image source: https://www.al.com/politics/2026/03/only-thing-gop-save-act-tries-to-save-is-the-gop.html
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"The administration... treated those who had been here for years as if they had just arrived, throwing them into detention without a bond hearing." "Judges have ruled against this new interpretation, but having found a way to cheat the system, the administration is simply ignoring them."
Comic from 2018 shows the statue of Lady Justice covered with handprints. She holds a sign that says #Me Too. Trump and an elephant dressed in a suit are walking away, their backs turned on Lady Justice. Trump is saying, "When YOU'RE A STAR THEY LET YOU DO IT."
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Warned away from [suspending habaes corpus] because of the outcry it would spark, the administration found a way to cheat the system: it changed longstanding policy concerning immigrants who had been in the U.S. for a long time."
Comic, tragically equally relevant today, from 2018. Source: https://theweek.com/cartoons/781045/political-cartoon-trump-stephen-miller-immigration-ice-family-separation-zero-tolerance
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Last spring, when the Supreme Court said undocumented immigrants had the right to challenge their deportations, according to Swan and Haberman, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller proposed simply suspending the writ of habeas corpus and throwing them out."
Cartoon is from 2006. Included here to capture this paragraph from Heather Cox Richardson's piece, linked above: 

"[The right of habaes corpus] prevents the government from locking people up arbitrarily; authorities must charge a prisoner with a crime and take the case into the legal system. The Constitution spells out: 'The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.'"

Image source: https://danvillevthistorical.org/june-1863-democratic-party-leader-brought-before-military-court/
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"[Haberman & Swan] reported in the New York Times today that the Trump administration came much closer to trying to get rid of the writ of habeas corpus... The right of habaes corpus "prevents the government from locking people up arbitrarily" 🧵 Thread source: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two oldheads #naturephotography #nature #photography #plants #NovaScotia
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"...the UFC fight is tied to Trump’s 80th birthday rather than the nation’s 250th, and is being organized not by the congressional planning body for the 250th, but by UFC." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image source: independentaustralia.net/life/art-dis...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Based on numbers shared by Robert Reich: If every month we gained 0.2% in wage growth, that would give us 𝟮.𝟰% 𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵 for the year. 3.8% price increases - 2.4% wage growth ________________________ 1.4 % less money to buy what you and me need Image source: share.google/l4weMBRVVSg2...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"While they ultimately did not implement the larger plan, officials did move 6,100 mostly Latino immigrants into [the Death Masterfile]." Image source: theweek.com/cartoons/edi...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"In January 2024, then-candidate Trump convinced Republicans to abandon a strong bipartisan border bill to fix immigration issues because he wanted to keep the issue of immigration open as a way to win in 2024." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Image source: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/crossing-a-line-on-border-deal/
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to bar William Pulte... from serving as the director of national intelligence... with the evident plan that he will weaponize intelligence against the president’s political opponents." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Image source: https://theweek.com/cartoons/919494/political-cartoon-trump-gop-susan-collins-jail-enemies
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Republicans BLOCKED a Democratic proposal to bar the use of federal funds or private donations for Trump’s ballroom unless Congress explicitly approved" [emphasis added]. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image source: www.cartoonstock.com/directory/t/...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Republicans blocked Democratic proposals to stop Trump from establishing the $1.776 billion slush fund...and to prevent any such fund from giving payouts to people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Image source: https://cagle.com/cartoonist/jimmy-margulies/2026/05/25/307769/republicans-and-trump-slush-fund
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"[This means] those agencies are funded through the rest of Trump’s term. Even if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms, the funding will be in place, preventing Democrats from using funding to demand reforms." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image credit in alt text.
Image credit: https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ice-budget-trump-dhs-deportations
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"According to Dominik Lett of the... Cato Institute, those numbers were seven times ICE’s previous annual budget & four times the typical annual budget of CBP, and were designed to last through Sep.t 30, 2029." 2025 image from www.facebook.com/100064351732...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"...the budget reconciliation measure the Republicans passed in July of last year—the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill... provided an astonishing $191 billion to fund the Department of Homeland Security, with about $75 billion for ICE & $65 billion for CBP..." 🧵 2019 image link in alt text.
Comic shows tiny hand reaching out of business suit. Holding Statue of Liberty's torch handle. Instead of flame, atop torch is big block of ice labeled "ICE"

Image source: https://theweek.com/cartoons/849308/political-cartoon-ice-trump-migrant-children-liberty
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On Friday, "Senate Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in [ICE] and [CBP]... without meeting any of the demands... to reform ICE and Border Patrol in the wake of that led to the deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"...Friday morning, Sen. Republicans passed a measure to provide about $70 billion in additional funding to [ICE] and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)..." - open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Image *from last June* shows increases in ICE arrests. Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
iceoutofnj.com?link_id=3&ca... #ICEoutOfNJ
Screenshot from webpage linked in post. Reads: Ice Out of NJ. Our Demands: 

No Polimigra. No police and ICE collaboration. No License Plate Readers (LPR) used against our communities.

No Detention Centers
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
From: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Just because we can doesn't mean we should. #AI - #Humanity #Earth #PeopleNeedToBeUseful #PeopleOverProfits #BewareTheBillionaires #BewareTheTechBros #BewareCorporationsMasqeradingAsPersons Image source: theweek.com/political-sa...
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
🗽🇺🇸 🎶 Save the Date! Sunday, June 14, 7:30 ET In person (NYC) or streaming! "Rise Up, Sing Out! A Concert for the First Amendment." ⭐️ Rufus Wainwright ⭐️ Bette Midler ⭐️ Patti Smith ⭐️ Sasha Allen ⭐️Joy Reid ⭐️ Jane Fonda ⭐️ With More to Come! riseupsingout.com
Screen shot of linked webpage reads: BUY TICKETS. The Committee for the First Amendment Presents: Rise Up, Sing Out! A Concert for the First Amendment. Sunday, June 14, 7:30 ET at The Town Hall, NYC. ⭐️ Rufus Wainwright ⭐️ Bette Midler ⭐️ Patti Smith ⭐️ Sasha Allen ⭐️Joy Reid ⭐️ Jane Fonda ⭐️ With More to Come!
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Heather Cox Richardson (HCR), May 29, 2026: "Today the United States Postal Service has proposed that it will send mail-in ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government." *Illustration, from 2023, NOT posted by HCR* open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
US Post Office building with notice posted on side: Notice: New Trump Appointed Post Master General. Two dropboxes in front of building, one labeled "letters" and one labeled "recycle," "mail-in ballots."
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Thank you @damienmarieathope.bsky.social for posting this-
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hi there! #nature #photography #naturephotography #macrophotography #grasshopper #eastcoastinsects #bugs
A tiny grasshopper sits atop a petal of a purple marsh iris. Copyright 2026, Bleached Periwinkle
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hi there!
A tiny grasshopper sits atop a petal of a purple marsh iris. Copyright 2026, Bleached Periwinkle
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thanks, @dailykos.com
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for his documentation of the toll of Israel’s attacks in Gaza." Thank you for sharing, @chopwoodcarrywater.bsky.social @chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.skystack.xyz substack.com/redirect/0d2...
"Displaced Palestinians began returning to the north of Gaza after the Israeli military announced that a cease-fire was in effect.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times"
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@phoebeb.bsky.social, thank you for this one.
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@bill-66.bsky.social, thanks for sharing this.
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks for this one, @chimpvsdog.bsky.social
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bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social @bleachedperiwinkle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀: Melania is a complicit beneficiary of a cruel, corrupt, criminal family. Being a model or female escort is a job. People need to work. - 𝗢𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻: Exploiting MT's work history demeans other workers, and makes the posters seem like ignorant jerks. #MelaniaIsComplicit #RespectWorkers
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