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Barbara Othmer

@bothmer.bsky.social
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International free spirit. My whole world revolves around words. Wife of Torsten - the love of my life, Mother, Christian, pro choice, best friend 💙

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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Why do they never read and then blame others
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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Karl Kuszaj @karlkuszaj.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just released the MAHA report, blaming everything from Wi-Fi to wheat for America's health woes. Critics argue it's less of a scientific study and more of a conspiracy smoothie, blending pseudoscience with a dash of political theater. www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-repor...
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Big Trump admin report is 'rife with errors' and non-existent sources: analysis
A "Make America Healthy Again"(MAHA) report submitted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as representing the "gold-standard” of health science is anything but.That is the co...
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NPR @npr.org · 15/05/2025
The outage in Colorado comes amid increasing scrutiny on the nation's main aviation agency following outages at Newark Liberty International Airport just a few weeks ago.
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Denver air traffic controllers had 2-minute communications outage, FAA official says
The outage in Colorado comes amid increasing scrutiny on the nation's main aviation agency following outages at Newark Liberty International Airport just a few weeks ago.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Jordy Meiselas: Americans are resilient, and it’s not going to be easy over the next couple of years—but democracy will prevail. I genuinely have hope. This is the greatest country in the world. Americans want it to succeed...
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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Keep banging that drum folks! ✊
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2025
do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?
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cajunjoe.bsky.social @cajunjoe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Treasonous Unconstitutional
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
If this person sat next to you on a bus or train and started ranting about Bruce Springsteen in this way, you would get up and move to a different seat. In the United States, we have him the nuclear codes.
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Despicable
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/05/2025
Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...
Wall Street sign with American flags near the New York Stock Exchange
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/05/2025
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized. The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.
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American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope
The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/05/2025
“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Orlando City Commissioner Tony Ortiz just switched from Republican to Democratic. “The Republican Party is not the party I signed up with... The marginalization of Latinos and immigrants—many of whom have helped build this country—is not leadership. It’s fear-based politics.”
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OldSchool @blueskyoldschool.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
42 YEARS AGO TODAY on April 30, 1983, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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cajunjoe.bsky.social @cajunjoe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 29/04/2025
I love you my Canadian brothers and sisters. Thank you for showing up. You give us decent Americans hope.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My takeaway from this: He is so fucked.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
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How psychiatric patients get caught in a cycle of homelessness and spotty care
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Tomorrow I’ll be calling all of my representatives to demand that they call for RFK jr’s immediate resignation.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 16/04/2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Cruelty is the point and she is just like that cruel school teacher we have all known at some point in our lives Abhorrent
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Be careful and thank you
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LIBERALGIGIAF🐝🐝🫘🫘🐧🐧 @liberalgigi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@bothmer.bsky.social @susancoulter88.bsky.social @lakegirl-69.bsky.social @deadlymedley.bsky.social @passj.bsky.social @phatredg.bsky.social @bexmg.bsky.social @thomasnolan.org @mellowdeb.bsky.social @tinanyb.bsky.social @volma.bsky.social @akwilhelm.bsky.social NO ADDS
TACO TUESDAY IT IS
EAT TACOS WE MUST
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Michigan Mama @mamadoingsomething.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.
Pic of about 50 protesters in Keyser,WV, pop 4850. The deepest of red territory.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A 24 year old #pregnant woman had a natural miscarriage at 19 weeks Significant blood loss & lost consciousness. She was rushed to the hospital for desperate medical care. Then she got arrested for "breaking the law by disposing of the fetal remains" 47 & #abortion bans/laws🖕🤬🖕
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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"
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Voice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Trump: How's your 401k doing?
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Robert Orthman @robertorthman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Happy to support @wutrain.bsky.social for re-election with a couple thousand neighbors today #bospoli
Mayor Michelle Wu speaking behind a lectern during her re-election campaign announcement.
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OathKprsSuck @oathkprssuck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
trumpgolftrack.com
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Trump Golf Track
Tracking the number of days President Donald Trump spends his second term playing golf.
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Love it 🥰
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BlueResister 🦋Fighting for Democracy 🦋 @blueresister.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@steveohm.bsky.social @lindylou425.bsky.social @reeesist.bsky.social @slayeragolf.bsky.social, @filosia.bsky.social, @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social, @mary1kathy.bsky.social, @coko.bsky.social, @weriseupagain.bsky.social, @janeylou.bsky.social, @liberalgigi.bsky.social @blueresister.bsky.social
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“Indeed, the most likely path to American autocracy depends on not only a power-hungry president but also the voluntary capitulation of a cowed civil society. It depends on the mistaken belief that a president is invincible.” No paywall on this Times. Op-Ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
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Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump (Gift Article)
Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great showing at Missoula's Hands Off rally today! It was an honor to get to speak briefly, and to introduce the folks doing amazing work on the ground here in Missoula.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 02/04/2025
We deserved some good news!
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
PROJECTED WINNER
Susan Crawford
Decision Desk HQ
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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#UnitedBlueCrews @fireeyebooks.bsky.social @lovemaddow.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @dumpdrump34.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @realme2024.bsky.social @butterflygardener.bsky.social @blueanimallover.bsky.social @petergunther.bsky.social
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people. Blazing your own path for the W 👏👏👏👏👏
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Why are we not surprised
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“Article 5 is de facto ‘unworkable’ . . .it is time for re-imagining a new Europe-centric security architecture. Europe cannot really depend on Article 5. Putin is quite aware of this. America will not come to save Europe . . . the new U.S. administration is ‘destroying’ established world order.”
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ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE. Europe Realizing Ukraine Indispensable to Their Security Architecture
It is hard to imagine that during the negotiations of the Minsk Accords which eventually failed and was almost immediately followed by the events of February 24, 2022 in which Putin launched his ill-f...
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
And suddenly it all makes sense, doesn’t it?! 👇 More appeasement for Putin.
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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Remember this? He wasn't shot!
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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.” This is how it’s done.
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Also: Germany, UK, Finland, Denmark are all advising their citizens to stay away from the US
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Barbara Othmer @bothmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
There was no need for SecDef to share that king of strategic information in that group. He was boasting. It was absolutely disgusting how gleeful they were about striking one target in a block filled with innocent people
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇
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