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@forestandflame.bsky.social
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Rooted in truth, blazing through bullshit. Moon-chasing, forest-roaming, chaos-wrangler with zero patience for injustice. Burn bright, grow deep, and question everything. This is Forest&Flame—unapologetically wild and woke.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/07/2025
Although “people in China are acutely conscious of the limits of permissible speech,” Lavender Au writes, Chinese students living in the United States never expected to be contending with similar worries:
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For Chinese Students, America Feels Just Like Home
But not in a good way.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just don’t go, this is why the power structure is how it is. Once we stop following the carrot we’ll have less to lose.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/07/2025
Methane is the 2nd most impt heat-trapping gas driving climate change. Tracking its emissions is key to implementing effective solutions. I’ve worked with satellite data for many years, but I’m not an expert in control systems. If you are, I’d love to know: how often does this happen? And why?
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Exclusive: Bezos-backed methane tracking satellite is lost in space
An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos that detected oil and gas industry's emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane has been lost in space, the group that operates it told Reuters on Tuesday.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2025
#ICYMI: U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
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How El Salvador’s Government Impeded a U.S. Probe of MS-13
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…
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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#ProudBlue Hmmmmm…but MS13 is invading our country. Didn’t he say he needed to protect us from these transnational gangs? Unless it enriches him somehow. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Trump releases MS-13 leaders as part of deal with Bukele
The same leaders his task force once prosecuted are now being traded to El Salvador to avoid testimony about power-sharing deals they had with Bukele
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A radical Christian just murdered the speaker of a state house but the real worry is the theocratic muslim who said the bus should be cheaper
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oooh they’re mad!
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Because unfortunately government is part of the same oligarch snake. If it was about law and order Trump would have not made it to the ballot at all. Make a circus during the biggest transfer of wealth, who benefits?
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Kidnappers for sure they’re running for their bosses payday. If they were actually efficient they wouldn’t be running around. I wonder how much they spend with these “raids”. Makes sense why they’re over budget. What do they do w/ $9 billion a year for 22 years!?
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Christine Is Fed Up With Republicans @coralgableswang.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Trump & the GOP have: -Killed CFPB rules saving consumers $15B in overdraft and credit card late fees -Dropped 22 CFPB actions against corporate lawbreakers -Halted $100M in restitution owed to student borrowers They're on corporate predators' side, not yours.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So hypocritical, so blatant, how they use these talking points. They cause division while they reap the benefits.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Imagine if the rich paid their fair share. There wouldn’t be a need for fake money. But people keep hoping they’ll be rich one day so they believe their indoctrination.
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Steve Nelson @beachdabber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I mean he is winning for the ultra rich. Is that what he means? that the democrats don’t lay down the hammer for their owners 🤔.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s basic manners though, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it. Save your feelings for your safe space.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Yet again America is bombing the Middle East and yet again we the American people are given a very lame excuse as to why.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/06/2025
Today we filed amicus briefs challenging the Trump administration's politically motivated efforts to defund NPR and PBS. Freedom of the press is essential to our democracy. We urge the court to block these unconstitutional attacks on the First Amendment.
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God @thegodshow.com · 20/06/2025
Remember that time Elon said Donold is in the Epstein files on main? It was two weeks ago but it feels like two years. That’s intentional.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/06/2025
Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history. This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
the thing about Zuck is how at this point he has decided that he is the model who should be in all the advertising and all the public facing material, its basically impossible to see anything that company does and not see his face plastered on it, guy has legit decided he is the product ppl want
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 21/06/2025
Karen Read’s case is such an example of what I KEEP saying to women Stop dating cops. Do not hang out w/ cops. Don’t hang w/ people who ASSOCIATE w/ cops A house full of people banded together to frame that woman (SLOPPILY) for murder. And they will not be charged now that she’s been vindicated 2X
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Give the racists what they want while the rich take the biggest transfer of wealth. Privatize everything and make the wealth gap bigger.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
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He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica
A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
But they scream guns don’t kill people lol! So sad these fellow human beings are so unhappy they make up shit in their heads to make their life more miserable. And then hate their neighbors or anything that seems different to them. Sad existence.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Texas has been violating federal law for decades by sequestering individuals with severe disabilities in poorly run nursing homes without offering them alternative living options and services in the community, a federal judge has ruled." Sounds like Texas.🤷‍♀️ www.rawstory.com/texas-nursin...
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Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes: judge
Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rulesBy Stephen Simpson, The Texas TribuneJune 20, 2025"Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursi...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
How much you wanna bet that some of these masked “agents” were among the pardoned? I’m going with “highly likely.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Concerning…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The stewards of turtle island had it figured out, there is nothing natural about this current system. To think that colonizers killed 90% of the peoples of turtle island for this hell on earth.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thank you for your efforts, this country has been riddled with a decease since its inception and it’s becoming its demise unfortunately. Always appreciative of people who know their history 🙏
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
30 years ago, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84
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A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ag
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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?
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(In memory of Chip) Benson and Patrick McSploot 👆 @chipandbenson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
That’s exactly what this is about. Distraction. For all of this and that lame duck, low energy spectacle
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Moulton: It turns out the U.S. Army is not great at doing Soviet-style or North Korean-style parades, because that’s not what people sign up to do… Imagine how much veteran housing you could build for $40 million. You could help a lot of vets with that kind of money. And this parade helped nobody.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
FIFA Club World Cup ticket sales tank dramatically after the Dept. of Homeland Security bragged that agents would be “suited and booted" at the stadium in a now-deleted social media post
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FIFA Club World Cup Ticket Sales TANK After DHS Says Agents Will Be At Stadium
Tickets to the opening match that were once $349 (and up) could be had for just $4.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 16/06/2025
Dont open the door for cops unless they have a warrant. I have a speaker on my outdoor cameras to talk to anybody who comes. And if an unmarked car pulls you over, call 911 and ask them to verify
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Whatever happens in the coming days/weeks, just remember that these sociopaths claimed up and down they’d never drag America into another war.
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forestandflame.bsky.social @forestandflame.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Literal terrorist, is he on a plane to El Salvador? Weren’t we sending dangerous criminals there, even citizens?
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