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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖-

@clywat57.bsky.social
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I'm the slowest crocheter I know. I like to cook (because I like to eat). I'm progressive and, dare I say it, liberal. I'm an oversized, somewhat agoraphobic, slow-moving senior who is a bit cranky but nearly always hopeful.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/10/2025
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/do...
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Don’t let Trump bully the Smithsonian and rewrite history!
Recently, Trump said "Big changes are being made at the Smithsonian" (1) after the White House threatened to strip the Smithsonian’s funding if it didn’t change its museums to fit Trump’s far-right wo...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Gift article If you're not fully outraged by this law breaking administration, there is something very wrong with YOUR morals. wapo.st/4jHQfDn
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Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison
The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Lord Fuckwit’s 100th day just as batshit as the previous 99 www.jefftiedrich.com/p/lord-fuckw...
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Lord Fuckwit’s 100th day just as batshit as the previous 99
America staggers as Mad King turns the crazy up to eleven
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
(Environmental Pollution Agency)🤔 -The Environmental Protection Agency plans to cancel a total of 781 grants issued under President Joe Biden, EPA lawyers wrote in a little-noticed court filing last week, nearly twice the number previously reported. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump didn’t declare martial law. He built it. His April 28 executive order militarizes police, guts oversight, and punishes dissent. The Insurrection Act report is hidden. Democracy is being signed away—one order at a time. #Resist #Authoritarianism Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/16KE...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump's administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts... www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says
President Donald Trump's administration has dismissed all contributors to the U.S. government's signature study that informs federal and local governments on how to prepare for climate change impacts, according to an email sent to them on Monday.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Gift article Chilling wapo.st/3YNw5PF
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She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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The Trump administration deported a 2 year old U.S. citizen.
YouTube video by TizzyEnt
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Raskin: So on the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Boasberg themselves, could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnaping..
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Well worth watching & sharing youtu.be/nR0_x3To8ak?...
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MAGA Attacks Veterans
YouTube video by Cliff Cash Comedy
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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100 days of Trump's economy
YouTube video by CNN
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic Pfas from review
Two lawmakers introduced a resolution to repeal a 2024 Biden rule that closed a ‘low volume exemption’ loophole
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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The EPA’s new mission, explained - Firebird Journal
EPA Administrator Lee Zelding says Agency's new mission is “to lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home and running a business.”
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Never forget how awful Marjorie Taylor Greene is 
YouTube video by TizzyEnt
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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As RFK Crusades to 'Make America Healthy,' FDA Suspends Milk Quality Tests
If your next glass of milk makes you puke, feel free to blame Kennedy.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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E.P.A. Set to Cancel Grants Aimed at Protecting Children From Toxic Chemicals (Gift Article)
The cancellations, set to apply to pending and active grants, also affect research into “forever chemicals” contaminating the food supply.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The FDA currently approves the use of Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Citrus Red and Orange B. All are petroleum based and are used in the production of highly processed foods. www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/04/top-...
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Top food officials say artificial food dyes are on the way out
Federal officials say the FDA will begin phasing out approval of synthetic food dyes that are petroleum based. In a media memo released on April 21,
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gift article The effort targets some human rights programs and others focused on war crimes and democracy... At least some of the envisioned reforms and cuts would probably require lawmakers’ consent, as they involve directives that have been mandated by Congress... wapo.st/4cEF8rU
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Rubio unveils sweeping reorganization of State Department
The Trump administration’s proposed shake-up of the State Department targets human-rights programs and others focused on war crimes and democracy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said his dream is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way Amazon trucks deliver packages. “We need to get better at treating this like a business, like Amazon Prime, but with human beings.” #3E #EndAutogenocide azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...
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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: 'Prime, but with human beings'
ICE officials describe Amazon-style deportation system at Border Expo, seeking private contractors to implement mass removal operations
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Redirecting...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer... www.reuters.com/world/us/def...
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Defense chief Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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It was never about protecting women.
YouTube video by TizzyEnt
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Trump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to you open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...
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Trump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to you
This case is about our freedom
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law
The case raises questions about the Trump administration's adherence to limits set by the Supreme Court. It carries the risk of a significant clash between the two coequal branches of government and potentially a full-blown constitutional crisis.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Busted: Report paints vivid picture of Trump corruption
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
From @mechanicalmike.bsky.social Mike is another good one to follow Shaming only works for that feel ashamed. MAGAts don't; and, they have no real empathy to guide them. #TheAlliedForces
I really don't like the tactic of trying to change peoples' minds about extrajudicial rendition to El Salvador by saying "if they could do this to them, they could eventually do it to you".  I dislike it for two reasons:
1: Trump supporters won't believe it, and it's not necessarily true anyway.  Every one of the people who supports this policy secretly knows that it's about race, so they believe white people are immune.  And they could be correct.  Moreover, even if white people are not immune, white supporters of the regime probably are.  Therefore, the "this could happen to you" argument just doesn't fly.
2: If you can only convince someone to support human rights out of pure self-interest, then he doesn't really support human rights at all.
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 19/04/2025
Looks like the 3 Hegseth hires placed on leave this week for leaks were all terminated today. As they should be. I wonder how many other national security violations we'll see with Hegseth at the helm...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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The Trump admin won't to a trade deal with the UK unless they repeal LGBTQ+ protections.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Trump's Bait and Switch: Promise Immediate Gain, Then Inflict 'Temporary' Pain www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Trump's Bait and Switch: Promise Immediate Gain, Then Inflict 'Temporary' Pain | Common Dreams
When people invest, they personally bear the costs of their better future—a lower short-run standard of living. The current national "investment" is being made at other people's expense, not at the pe...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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‘War on tourism’: Trump set to cost U.S. billions as foreign tourists stay clear
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
his term on the state library board, Rapert regularly clashed with his fellow board members over their refusal to support his far-right agenda, prompting him to complain that he was a victim of a "hostile work environment” because he is “a Christian white male.” www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
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Christian Nationalist Jason Rapert Topples The Arkansas State Library Board
Unable to get the Arkansas State Library Board to enact his right-wing agenda, Christian nationalist Jason Rapert got the Arkansas state legislature to remove every member from office, to be replaced ...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
apnews.com/article/abre... Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador's vice president in push for prisoner's release
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Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with El Salvador's vice president in push for prisoner's release
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday and met with the country’s vice president to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump adm...
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🙄Gift article wapo.st/42gTLOP
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Analysis | Trump’s ‘tiny’ fish, a ‘giant faucet’ and ‘beautiful water flow’
Trump’s whopper of a fish tale has its roots in a tour given by politically connected farmers in California’s Central Valley.
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
😳😱😆😂 youtube.com/shorts/tJUcC...
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#Trump is fixing the egg crisis in America! #Kimmel
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Sean Solo @spqesq.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Colleen -🫶✌️🖖- @clywat57.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Trump Defies Supreme Court Order on Deportation
YouTube video by The Keith Boykin Channel
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