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Debra Mihalic Staples

@dmihalicstaples.bsky.social
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Resident crone of a north Georgia shire. Writer, reader, hiker, nature journaler, all at a leisurely pace. Words in Bulb Culture Collective, Wild Roof Journal, Still: The Journal, Gastropoda, High Country News, South Carolina Wildlife, & elsewhere.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 19h
I signaled this several times this week. #HurricaneIsaias now expected to reach Major Hurricane status. My Friday morning update on the storm and expected impacts. Read -- www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Hurricane Isaias On The Verge Of Becoming A Major Hurricane
Hurricane Isaias likely to reach at least Category 3 intensity before landfall. Will it remain that strong and what are implications for U.S. Gulf Coast and Southeast?
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” ~ Wendell Berry
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look at who’s shaking hands. 🤝 A candidate’s endorsements aren't just PR; they're a roadmap of their true priorities. When you see who is funding and backing the campaign, you see exactly which interests will have a seat at the table. 🗳️✨ BlueVoterGuide.org has your candidates' endorsements.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Georgia DNR, Partners Announce Deal to Restore Beloved Pine Log WMA | Department Of Natural Resources Division
DNR Commissioner Walter Rabon said the pending acquisition has been one of the agency’s top conservation priorities. Rabon also thanked supporters including Aubrey Corp., the Neel family-based busines...
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sunrise song. You'll want the volume up for this one, but not too high. Every coyote within a half kilometre radius decided to make themselves known this morning while I was enjoying the sunrise from the kayak. A truly magical moment. #mammals 🌿
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
PSA for Georgia gardeners: remove joro spiders from pollinator beds. They really are killing native bees. I just found one feasting on a bumblebee.
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🗣️ Reproductive rights are on the ballot whether it's candidates or ballot measures. 🚫 Politicians should not be involved in your choice to have an abortion, IVF &/or take birth control. 🗳️ See what is on your ballot (and who is endorsing them) at BlueVoterGuide.org
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Which side are you on? The side of abandoning Earth, and profiting from apocalypse? Or staying loyal to this planet and its people? This brilliant video from @naomiaklein.bsky.social asks the most consequential question in human history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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The Daily Yonder @dailyyonder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nearly 700 bans have been proposed across the country, with a quarter in rural communities as anti-data center backlash grows ahead of midterm elections.
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Most Data Center Bans Are in Metro Areas, Despite More Facilities Heading for Rural Areas
Building data centers is broadly unpopular across the political spectrum, but so far, banning new development is a mostly metropolitan area phenomenon. While more data centers are located in metropolitan areas than nonmetropolitan ones, two-thirds of all new facilities are planned for rural communities. The rural data center boom comes amidst rising backlash to the facilities. Earlier this year, my colleague Sarah Melotte and I…
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Join scientific illustrator Liz Clayton Fuller @ipaintbirbs.bsky.social on September 13 for a workshop that's sure to be a hoot! 🦉🎨✨ Learn to bring your owl illustrations to life with helpful guidance from Liz. Buy your tickets soon! Registration is limited: academy.allaboutbirds.org/live-event/i...
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Illustrating Owls with Liz Clayton Fuller | Bird Academy • The Cornell Lab
Owls! They’re enigmatic, mysterious, and a lot of fun to draw! Learn to draw owls and then add paint to your sketches with friendly guidance and inspiration ...
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🗳️ Vote by your values, not just by names. 🗣️ Endorsements can reveal where candidates truly stand on the issues that matter most. 👀 Find your personalized ballot at BlueVoterGuide.org and identify candidates who share your beliefs. #BlueVoterGuide #September2026
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology @cornellbirds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Free webinar alert! RSVP to learn strategies to protect and increase the biodiversity of your yard for native butterflies, moths, and other beneficial insects. All registrants will receive a copy of the recording after the event. RSVP: cornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shout-out to the folks @cornellbirds.bsky.social for whatever y'all did to make the Merlin app work on my phone again. Now able to sign in, access my life list, etc. for the first time in six weeks.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Season 5 of the What If We Get It Right? podcast is dedicated to environmental issues in the midterm elections — what’s at stake and how the planet can win. I’m thrilled to be co-hosting this season with the magnificent and wise journalist, activist, and OG climate legend @billmckibben.bsky.social
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 28/08/2026
The creatures in our midst may have answers to life’s vexing questions.
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Why I talk to animals - High Country News
The creatures in our midst may have answers to life’s vexing questions.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Rebecca Parton RIP, ❤️ US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian #WomensArt
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy 19th Amendment ratification day to those who celebrate, which better be all you MFers. US women won the right to vote on OTD, August 18, 1920. Here’s incarcerated suffragette Helena Hill Weed who helped make votes for women happen, 72 yrs after the Seneca Falls Convention first demanded it.
News photo of woman in a white dress behind bars. Caption: “Helen Hill Weed of Connecticut serving a 3 day sentence in a DC prison for carrying a banner reading ‘Governmenrs derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.’ (July 1917).”
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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David G Haskell @dghaskell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In honor of today's eclipse, here's a 30-sec video of what the total eclipse of the sun sounded like back in April of 2024...as totality hits, birds go silent, humans cheer, and crickets immediately start their night-time songs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know: propub.li/4g078bJ
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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wildfires. A poem in the Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie
A new poem about the wildfires in the Highlands by Scotland’s makar
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 27/07/2026
An organization that represents the data center industry is trying to get Georgians to think of the electricity-hungry facilities more favorably. New from @alander.bsky.social.
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Pro-data center group launches in Georgia to try to win over critics • Georgia Recorder
A new data center industry group is embarking on a Georgia-focused publicity campaign to improve public opinion of data centers in the state.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Nearly two dozen Red Wolf pups were born in the wild this spring in North Carolina The 23 pups born in the wild this year marked the most since 2013. While not all the pups ultimately survived, their arrival briefly doubled the number of Red Wolves living on the landscape.🙌🔗 wapo.st/4vEWa1a
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Red wolves, once nearly wiped out, had a spring baby boom in North Carolina
The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.
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Third Act Georgia @thirdactga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
HEY ALL! Another take about Georgia Power using eminent domain to steal homes and land away from people. CBS News: www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...
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Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to help power AI data centers: "It's theft"
Georgia Power says building a new transmission line will require acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Lemon cuckoo bumblebee on butterfly weed
A fuzzy-looking bee with pale yellow and black bands sipping nectar from bright orange flowers.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.
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Pod Save Patriarchy (or Whatever That Sorry Platner Spectacle Was)
For at least a decade we have been told that this and that and the other thing must be tolerated in pursuit of the elusive vote of the working class or the white working class which often means the wh...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The roots of some of our worst climate policies, it turns out, lie in an intellectually corrupt Ivy League collab with Big Oil. It should piss you off billmckibben.substack.com/p/youre-payi...
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"You're paying the bills, buddy."
Princeton, BP, and a sad but extremely revealing chapter in the climate fight
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:
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ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?
A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box
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Grist @grist.org · 17/06/2026
Georgia is losing farmland fast. Is a state conservation fund enough to save it?
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Georgia is losing farmland fast. Is a state conservation fund enough to save it?
A development rush is expected to convert 10 percent of farmland into housing or industrial sites over the next 15 years.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On the poetics of Rachel Carson’s environmental vision.
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Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: On the Environmental Vision of Rachel Carson
In her acceptance speech upon receiving the National Book Award for The Sea Around Us (1951), biologist and author Rachel Carson (1907–1964) explained: “If there is poetry in my book about the sea,…
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day. Of course I’m republishing my Bobbie Gentry article! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
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Searching for Bobbie Gentry
America’s culture of cruelty and those who dare to notice.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sleepy bees 🌿 #bloomscrolling
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As the flowers bloom, let’s plant the seeds for a sustainable future. 🌷 This spring, use your vote to elect leaders committed to climate action and environmental justice for every community. 🌍  See which orgs have endorsed your candidates. BlueVoterGuide.org  #BlueVoterGuide #March2026 #Voterizer
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Happy birthday to marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964)! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when she published Silent Spring in 1962 she captured the world’s attention to the risks to health & environment posed by pesticides & DDT in particular. 🧵
My linocut portrait shows a short-haired woman (Rachel Carson, later in her life) looking over her shoulder at the viewer in this oval-shaped print on 9.25” x 12.5” cream coloured washi paper. Above and behind her are assorted birds, below is water, various fish, sea turtle, kelp and small sea life. She’s got a monarch butterfly on her shoulder. The print is in a gradient of purple at the bottom through turquoise to slate at the top. Sea life includes jumping salmon, shark, sea turtle, anemone, urchin, crab, shellfish and kelp. Bird life includes an osprey with a fish, a black skimmer, a peregrine falcon, a flock of Canada geese, an American robin, a chestnut-sided warbler and her favourite, a veery. Some animals are hand-tinted with gouache.
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
⚖️ 32 states have State Supreme Court seats up for election. 🗣️ From reproductive rights to fair maps, these judges hold our future in their hands. 🗳️ Voting Blue ensures a bench that protects everyone.   👀 Find out about the judges on your ballot BlueVoterGuide.org #BlueVoterGuide #May2026
Classical courthouse façade draped with a large banner reading JUSTICE CAN'T WAIT.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/05/2026
NEW: Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
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A U.S. Senate Candidate Says Foreign Truckers Are Making America’s Roads Unsafe. His Own Truckers Have Caused Harm.
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This Mother’s Day, let’s give more than just flowers. 🌸 Mothers deserve policy, not just praise. Support candidates who fight for paid leave, affordable childcare, and healthcare. 🗳️ Find your candidates at BlueVoterGuide.org #BlueVoterGuide #May2026
Brown envelope with a "Happy Mother's Day" card and a bouquet of pink tulips on a textured gray surface.
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BlueVoterGuide.org @bluevoterguide.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
GA voters: Primaries for Congress, State & Governor are 5/19! Some nonpartisan races are General elections. Use BlueVoterGuide.org to research candidates & judges who will protect democracy. Early voting is ongoing—don't wait, go vote! #BlueVoterGuide #April2026
Colorful word cloud of Georgia city names featuring large Georgia and Atlanta text, hand holding a marker at right.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Georgia officials knew chemicals from carpet mills were polluting local water. The people did not
State officials knew nearly two decades ago that toxic chemicals called PFAS were spreading from the carpet mills of northwest Georgia into rivers that are the region's main source of drinking water.
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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Some words take us back immediately. Dallas. Columbine. Sandy Hook. And, Kent State, which happened 56 years ago today. We remember "Four dead in Ohio," but let us also remember their names... Allison B. Krause, 19. William Knox Schroeder, 19. Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20. Jeffrey Glenn Miller, age 20.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“I would never deny a witch her will.” @legroff.bsky.social considers the radical act of doing nothing.
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Lauren Groff: There is No Such Thing as Boredom, Only Noticing
My soul is so full that we are here together tonight. Thank you, Hannah and Maribeth for your loving, clear and steady vision for One Story. I can’t believe it has been eighteen years since I had t…
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 29/04/2026
Affordability is leading voters’ concerns heading into the midterms. But Democrats are still embracing abortion as a top issue in some state Supreme Court and downballot races across the country.
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Abortion isn’t *the* issue in 2026. But it’s still definitely *an* issue.
Democrats are still embracing abortion as a top issue in some state Supreme Court and downballot races in the 2026 midterms.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Need info for your primary ballot voting choices? This is helpful: @bluevoterguide.bsky.social
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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 17/04/2026
Reminder: If you’re not registered to vote in next month’s primary election, you have until Monday to mark that off your to-do list.
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Time is running short to register to vote in Georgia’s May 19 primary election • Georgia Recorder
If you’re not registered to vote in next month’s primary election, you have until Monday to mark that off your to-do list.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr
Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.
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Debra Mihalic Staples @dmihalicstaples.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Thinking about this today. No reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alas,_B...
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Alas, Babylon - Wikipedia
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/04/2026
Trump’s frenzied bloodlust must be stopped. Contact your elected officials and demand that they use every tool available to Congress to end the regime’s illegal war with Iran: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
Trump on “Truth Social”: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”
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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"Remember the old adage about how an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will eventually type something beautiful? Well, the Internet disproves that." ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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