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Cindy Calisher ❌👑

@buglady1104.bsky.social
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Artist, activist, cancer survivor and crazy bug lady. SoCal/North OC

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Thomas Barbin @thomasbarbin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Taracus carmanah!!! Known only from its type localities and specimens. Somehow we found one individual during a bioblitz last weekend. These are the first photos of a live individual, and is the first individual seen alive! Still buzzing from this find. #arachtober #harvestmen #opiliones
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For #Fullerton voters: Here’s a down-ballot race that could have big consequences locally. Please read and share. TLDR: Jeffrey Brown for NOCCCD Trustee, Area 6. #LocalPolitics fullertonobserver.com/2026/10/03/o...
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Opinion: Fullerton Voters – Don’t Split Our Vote! - Fullerton Observer
The question is: Why put the leadership of Fullerton College and the entire college board at such risk?
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s #Arachtober!
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A few phone pics of various chunks of public land for National Public Lands Day. Keep Public Lands public. #publiclands #thislandisyourland
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Still snarling (into the void, apparently) as the season changes once again. Maybe this will provide context: youtu.be/mbhM1sghUSI?...
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On The Amazon
YouTube video by Don McLean - Topic
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Had a good time knocking on doors for #Shana4Fullerton today. Had a few good conversations, and a pleasant encounter with a mantis on one voter’s front porch, which I take as a sign of good luck. #localpolitics
A greenish brown praying mantis hanging from the underside of a greenish brown plant.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Recall poster for Fullerton City Council member Jamie Valencia. Currently there is a donor who has pledged to match every donation -dollar for dollar - up to $5,000,  to help this recall effort. For more info go to RecallValencia.com
#Fullerton
#LocalPolitics
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m grateful there are still beautiful sunsets here in dystopia.
Sunset in my SoCal neighborhood. Fiery orange clouds against a suburban street.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Baby Rattlesnake ⚠️🐍⚠️ Are they really more dangerous #myth #think #snake #teach #learn #youtube
YouTube video by RBI Snake Wrangler
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Back when I was in high school (waay back), my boyfriend said the word “tampons” out loud for the first time. He pronounced it “tamPOONS”. Omg, I laughed so hard (I was just 16) and he was so embarrassed.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
fullertonobserver.com/2026/08/13/r... #LocalPolitics
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Recalls of Fullerton Mayor Fred Jung and Council Member Jamie Valencia move forward as committees submit petitions for approval - Fullerton Observer
Following verification of both Notices of Intent to Recall, resident-led recall committees launch official websites and prepare for signature-gathering phase
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Current library haul is a stack of picture books for the grandkid.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sheesh. May this initiative fail spectacularly.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s at once mesmerizing and heartbreaking, as is the haunting soundtrack by Scott Buckley.
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》
Anchiornis in traditional style Microraptor in traditional style
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ah, now that’s gotta be the funnest career I never had. Oh well, maybe in my next life.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Goodnight Blue Sky
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Need a little joy in your life? Have you considered: baby elephant in a sprinkler? You will certainly not regret baby elephant in a sprinkler. This is Sam Houston, an Asian elephant born April 1, 2026 to parents Bluebell & Romeo. 🐘 (📷: Fort Worth Zoo)
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨We're seeing critical climate protections being reversed & vital environmental safeguards undermined. 🌎This isn't just about policy; it's about our health, our future & the planet we leave behind.  🗳️Voting for climate champions is essential. ⇨Find your candidates at BlueVoterGuide.org
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Man caught speeding by AI Traffic Camera goes off on City Council. This is Jacob Rockwell at a Pensacola meeting about a ticket. Problem: he was 25 miles away in another state. Now hear him explain the corrupt system denying due process.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Aedes mosquito on my banana this morning?! This might be the same one I’ve been swatting at, unsuccessfully, for the last day or so. Do they do that? Suck on things that aren’t blood? I mean, if he needed water, we have sinks, toilets, doggie water bowls.
A mosquito, perched on a piece of peeled banana. It looks like its proboscis is in the banana.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
All is not lost as long as we still have (real, created by humans) art.
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Bad Faith Times @dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
James Baldwin has a message for the doomers: badfaithtimes.com/i-cant-be-a-pessi…
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He should be on there? On a friggin $250.00 bill? (which already sounds like Monopoly money. You wanna put one of those in your wallet and use it to buy gas? Groceries? Nope, and the only place he belongs is prison.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
At last night’s regular Monday evening protest in #Brea, my sign was a plug for #BlueVoterGuide
Side one of my poster reads: Voting BLUE? Find your candidates on Blue Voter Guide.  
bluevoterguide.org Side two reads: Even the JUDGES are on Blue Voter Guide. 
Bluevoterguide.org
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
May 24, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 24, 2026
For a while now, I’ve been hinting that my team was up to something.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/05/2026
We don’t have to wait for 2028 to determine the future of the Democratic Party.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Worth reading, especially if you’re still undecided between Steyer and Becerra, like I have been.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
SO tired of hearing (and reading) the word “ballroom” a hundred times a day.
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Indivisible CA 45 @indivisibleca45.org · 26/04/2026
Join us for MAY DAY STRONG. Sign up here to get updates and reminders www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/945676/
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Stars & Stripes ombudsman says she's been fired by the Pentagon. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-...
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The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Becerra Era is taking root! Let's get him more followers here!
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I grew up in #Torrance. My 92 year old mom still lives there, and occasionally (like during election season) I check up on Torrance local politics so I can help her with her ballot. So today I saw this, and I just hope the good people of Torrance are paying attention and voting accordingly!
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My future congresswoman right there!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Cook Political moved Trump from Lean Antichrist to Solid Antichrist.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m feeling the same. I’m a hard No on Steyer, no on Porter. Heard Becerra speak at a local meet & greet a few weeks ago. Seems like a good option. (Hope he doesn’t have any dirty little secrets!) At least we still have some time for the dust to settle and see who rises to the top. Maybe Becerra?
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I guess REI is going on my “naughty list”. Read the thread below, or go directly to www.ourrei.com/boycott and read the facts behind the boycott. And sign the pledge while you’re at it.
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Pledge to Boycott REI
Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#handsoff #nokings #ReleaseALLthefiles #EpsteinFiles #lovemyGov #itsthefuckingguns #midterms26 #getridofElectoralCollege #TheEpsteinBallroom #endtheiranwarnow Release ALL the files NOW 25th Ammendment NOW Abolish ICE NOW
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’ve already made my protest sign for #NoKings coming up this Saturday, but this would make a great one. In fact, you know what? I can still use it for our regular weekly protest with @indivisibleca45.org
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Trump is a total scuzbag. No redeeming human qualities. None.
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Cindy Calisher ❌👑 @buglady1104.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Big hatch-out today on the first day of spring! #prayingmantis
A bunch of scattered tiny mantis nymphs, shortly after hatching in a screened terrarium. The egg cast can be seen in the lower-middle of the photo.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
People seem to be worried we'll be a poor country if we have poor people immigrating here, instead of the actual problem of becoming a poor country because the rich people already here took everything for themselves.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
wow
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Singing Resistance: Minneapolis Community Comes Together in Song
YouTube video by Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
While speaking during a hearing on the impact of ICE on Minnesotans, attorney and Indigenous activist Chase Iron Eyes describes the occupation of ICE as an "insurrection" that is a "constitutional crisis that is disturbing the peace of all Minnesotans right now.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding: www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/01/2026
The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
(around the No Kings logo, images of megaphones, and a photo of protesters holding signs that read “ICE OUT”) MARCH 28
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
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TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mon gets it. It’s time to rebel.
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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