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Ilex Opaca

@brendlebot.bsky.social
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Interests include gardening, esp. native plants,coffee,birds,travel,cooking/baking,& books. Also all forms of art,& you know- Saving Democracy! Proud to be a bleeding heart, tree hugging liberal, a GenXer,& an ally 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happily married- No DM's or porn

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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
That's right, call him out!
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I love Andy, but I agree completely. If he wants to make a serious run at the Presidency, this is the move!
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The payment is an admission of guilt. This should be the biggest news on every platform.
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I lived in KY for 20+ years. A lot of love for this city & state. They deserve better, we all do! #TermLimitsNow
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I found a Rarity-74 word worth 91 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 837 points · 10 rare words. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/FU4TCY
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OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity
The daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses?
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
And yet now.... And, he actually thinks he should be president next. hmmmmm
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The voters are far to the left of the "leadership". They need to change course or get out of our way!
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I loathe this man & what he is doing to our country
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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Meanwhile, over on X... "Facts Are Stubborn Things." — John Adams #TrumpSurrenders
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🌻 ❤️ 🌈
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A beautiful zebra swallowtail butterfly has been hovering around the buttonbush for two days now. I just love them! 🌱 #pollinators #NativePlants
A large butterfly with black and white striped wings, and very long "tails" extending from each wing. It is feeding on a spiky orb shaped buttonbush flower, and surrounded by bright green leaves
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Shrubby St. John's Wort on left, grown from seed, and white bee balm on the right. Both #NativePlants in Midwest USA
Approximately 3 foot shrubby plant with medium sized clear yellow flowers. The flowers have a dense, fuzzy center surrounded by recurved petalsInterestingly shaped white flowers,almost like little crowns,atop fresh green pointed leaves. Compared to the more common purple bee balm, the white is shorter and has slightly paler green leaves.
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My buttonbush is starting to pop!!! 🌱 #NativePlants
A green buttonbush in close up, with white blooms that look like spiky/fuzzy white balls
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Keep hammering this! It's taking far too long to get justice and accountability, but it is perhaps their weakest point to attack
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just when you thought this administration couldn't be stupider, more reckless, and more inept
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Steve_USA 🧢 @stowsley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I like this image for the accuracy of its message. Don't pretend it's anything else.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You Go Jasmine Crockett 👏🏻......
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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Fuck this. #fuck
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Congress works 140 days a year and earns $174K annually, plus full benefits. How can anyone survive on that without a few stock trades and a little insider trading? They get 225 days off a year and think it’s okay to hold the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour for 17 years.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Please let Congress make money trading on inside info while Americans struggle y’all
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
He's trying to get a settlement because he knows he'll lose in court. I heard this morning that he's offering to taken money if the IRS will never audit him or anyone in his family again. Blackmail, extortion, must be a Thursday. 🙄
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I would add dangerous and self-serving to the description of his vile speech. He is getting people killed while he and his buddies make a killing manipulating stock and betting markets
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A May Day protester is asked why they are out protesting today in NYC: "People are suffering. People are dying. The rich get richer off the backs of poor and working class people." Nailed it!
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
GOP in a nutshell... #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This color stuns me every year! 😍 #bloomscrolling
A large apricot orange iris in foreground, with others not yet fully blooming in the middle ground,  and fresh green foliage. There is green lawn in the background, and a tiny white outbuilding
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I have so many questions.
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'm so pleased with this wood poppy and wild blue phlox combo! #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
Bright yellow wood poppies at left, with beautifully shaped, spring green leaves. Pretty, light purple phlox on the right, and a gray trellis in background
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.
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a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My first blossoms on my downy serviceberry! Quite a few more to come. Planted as a whip 3 years ago 🌱 #NativePlants
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Cornell Hawks Kick Off 2026 Nesting Season With An Egg! www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/cornell... Big Red shows off her egg- lovely bird 🪶
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Cornell Hawks Kick Off 2026 Nesting Season With An Egg!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMixs4VTCcY Watch Big Red reveal her egg while working on the Red-tailed Hawk nest. The Red-tailed Hawks are back for their 13th breeding season on the Cornell Hawks...
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
For Transgender Day of Visibility, a reminder: Trans and nonbinary people are essential parts of our communities — the fight for trans rights is all of our fight.
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.
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JeanSand - Keeping It Real @jeansand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is why you always follow the money...
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's all a giant money grab. The corruption is happening daily, in plain sight
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/03/2026
The difference between them and me is that I think safeguarding the integrity of elections means protecting and expanding voting rights, whereas they think it means oppressing voting rights.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/03/2026
He wants “patriotic” coverage of the Iran war. He doesn’t understand: In a democracy, coverage that asks difficult questions of the government is itself “patriotic.” trib.al/U0KRrad
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Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
He wants “patriotic” coverage of the Iran war. He doesn’t understand: In a democracy, coverage that asks difficult questions of the government is itself “patriotic.”
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Easily my favorite story of the day; #crows are appreciated everywhere,it seems #corvids www.samsung-news.com/articles/kKj...
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Texas women tried to fly meth into prison yard using drone disguised as a crow
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
davidsipress.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/03/2026
BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Mike Johnson's strategy to allow the Trump admin to do whatever it wants with zero oversight or congressional authority or input is just to keep the House out of session repeatedly for extended periods of time.
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rosebanditquinn @rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One of those "Picture worth 1000 words" things. I hope he rolls on everyone and everything he saw, in a futile attempt to save himself
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rob1949TX @rob1949.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
…and the rich (both people & corporations [aka “people” per SCOTUS]) get richer under Felon47.
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Ilex Opaca @brendlebot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
www.samsung-news.com/articles/lIE...
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Two-Month-Old Baby in ICE Detention Taken to Hospital
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
AOC on Randy Fine: “This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official — It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this — Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept & normalize it”
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. speaking to a crowd (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
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