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Linda M Smith

@doubleexposure.bsky.social
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West coast native, CSULA and Antioch grad, nature and animal lover, avid photographer. Born in LA, lived in the Bay Area for 7 years, migrated to PNW. Persistence of vision. I never give up. 500px.com/p/lums94?view=photos

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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats sued the Trump administration Wednesday for using taxpayer money on campaign-style television ads promoting President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump sued for using taxpayer money on campaign-style ads ahead of midterms
While Trump himself is not on the ballot this year, Democrats argued the taxpayer-funded ad campaign is part of an effort to bolster Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New research indicates Walmart is working to compile massive amounts of data on individual shoppers and potentially charge them different prices, despite the company’s denial. This shady tactic is called surveillance pricing, and Walmart isn’t the only corporation planning to use it. Watch.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump regime wants to dismantle the International Criminal Court because it plans to continue committing war crimes. The Trump regime is refusing to allow international election monitors because it plans to continue committing election fraud. They are not being subtle.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
EXACTLY! For those of us with supplemental health insurance to pay the 20% Medicare part B does not, you can tack on an ADDITIONAL average between $3000 to $5000 depending on your plan and location. $90 is a joke!
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YukonCorneliusJack @yukoncorneliusjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the fury if PM Carney wins TIME’s Person of the Year & a Nobel Peace Prize. The Wrath of Con will be felt around the world. #FuckTheFelon
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash | Wyoming | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash
Officials in Wyoming had called notion to host game in Grand Teton national park ‘deeply unwelcome’
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026
Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?
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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News
A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Ugh. Something else nobody asked for. Most folks just want their passports as quickly as possible, at a reasonable cost, and without Trump’s image soiling it for the next 10 years.
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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize buzz
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has built a global profile by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Steve 52 NO KINGS, NO FASCISTS @radicalsenior52.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of Seattle's Realest
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Barking Squirrel 🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🦰🇺🇸🇨🇦 @barkingsquirrel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honest to God, I think we would all be better off in every news organization stopped covering Trump.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Swaltersky @swaltersky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The parade of interesting sunrises continues on the Seattle water front.
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Puget Sound Storm Watch @pugetstormwatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even within 24 hours of a potential wind event, there is still a considerable spread in max wind gusts across Western Washington. The following chart shows 10th and 90th percentile wind gusts from 5-11 AM tomorrow. Greater spread = less certainty. #wawx
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't worry. We will remember.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/g2fRNm4xND0 #KING5 #Seattle Seattle becomes first city in the U.S. to ban surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is a practice used in some grocery stores that adjusts the price of an item based on a consumer's data. KING 5 | Seattle
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Washington State to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is 0-25. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...
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🚨 United States of America v. Hobbs
Learn more.
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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Trump reportedly to form health funding board that could veto ‘woke’ initiatives
President’s latest order expected to bring NIH funding under control of Trump administration to align with agenda
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey, News Outlets! How about just ignoring Donald Trump? It will drive him crazy. His parents never gave him enough attention, so he is still a thirsty brat who needs CONSTANT attention. Start the news with "Trump lied again today" and then move on to news about people/things that are interesting.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026
Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration.
Two bandaids, one for my COVID shot and one for the flu. I didn't know which is which, I didn't look.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
They live in a false reality they have built around themselves…..
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
45 million acres is the size of Washington state. Stripping protections and opening that much public land to industrial logging isn't "resource management"—it's a permanent fire sale. Tell your Rep to stop it: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So the best dealmaker in the entire world cannot make a deal when the other side is dying to make a deal and is calling constantly? Does Trump know this makes absolutely no sense?
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Tina Says #VoteOutTheCorruption @trcfwtt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hope the SPLC has a golden dome around their database. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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White Nationalist Who Met With Peter Thiel Admired Terroristic Literature
A white nationalist propagandist who met with billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been deeply embedded in the movement for well over a decade, and has provided an ideological bridge between suit-and-...
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is an excellent guide on what you can and should do to help if someone you know is taken by ICE. The most important thing - 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁. There's PLENTY we can do help ensure a fair outcome.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
. OMFG. This is one of the things I’ve been fearing for a while He’s going for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to steal the midterms Americans. Are you as scared as I am for your democracy? .
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m gonna be real, thanks to climate change, jokes about Seattle rain just make me sad We’ve been in a drought for a very long time. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. The Olympic Mountains don’t have snow. It’s just not funny
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 12/09/2026
Statement from President Obama and Michelle. #NeverForget
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