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Gemma

@gemmadstone.bsky.social
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Artist | Mom | Dog mom | 🩵 | Inspired by nature, connection, and adventure | Chaser of textures, colors & calm | #billsmafia #jewelryartist

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always." -- Mahatma Gandhi, born #OTD 1869
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth just declared victory in the wrong war… My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Pete Hegseth Just Declared Victory in the Wrong War
The combative culture warrior in the Pentagon may soon be Congress’s top target.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Down Home North Carolina and individual voters, Elias Law Group has SUED North Carolina over its last-minute restrictions on absentee ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina mail ballot restrictions will cause ‘arbitrary disenfranchisement,’ new lawsuit warns
The suit follows the State Board of Elections' vote to pass new absentee ballot memos — skirting legislative review and ignoring significant public dissent — the same day the state started sending out...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in power glorious, glorious Gloria Steinem  www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pete Hegseth has failed in every mission except one: keeping his job. But firing or forcing out everyone else in the Pentagon will not make Pete Hegseth into the secretary of defense America and its men and women in uniform need. Me on Driscoll's resignation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches Off the Rails
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A BIG disclosure in a lawsuit brought by Trump against Capital One reveals the bank closed more than 300 of Trump’s accounts in 2021 after a months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience. I explain the details here: youtu.be/YDTqowVWjfc?...
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Trump HUMILIATES Himself as BOMBSHELL Filing EXPOSES Financial SECRETS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I want children to know what it feels like to catch tadpoles in a stream,climb a tree,hear frogs after the rain and watch butterflies drift across a meadow. I want more parks, more hiking trails, more protected wilderness and more places where nature is left alone simply because it deserves to exist
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Lush Green Forest River Landscape
ALT: Lush Green Forest River Landscape
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tom Nichols: “It was shameful when Pete Hegseth says to Gary Peters: ‘shame on you’. Shame on Pete Hegseth for trying to dodge a really important question about the failure of this war.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.
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Thea O'Ryan Files @theaoryanfiles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Long live Patti
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Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition @bearsearscoalition.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Bears Ears is an interconnected living cultural landscape. Its significance cannot be reduced to individual sites because the relationships among its waters, plants, animals, and sacred places give this ancestral homeland its meaning. Map courtesy of The Wilderness Society.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
E. Jean Carroll spent nearly a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world. She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won. She is one of my personal heroes. We all owe her a debt of gratitude.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm glad that Graham Platner is out. But it is so disturbing to contemplate that the man who was *twice* elected president makes Platner look like an amateur when it comes to serial sexual assaults.
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Wyldefire @wyldefire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.
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Via Afrika She/her 🏳️‍🌈 @viaafrika.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You will never get away from the Epstein files….. never…..
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Gemma @gemmadstone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Yes, please.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/07/2026
Lawrence O’Donnell dismantles the myth of Graham Platner. And warning signs were there all along. Information was publicly available, but ignored. Maybe the U.S. Senate shouldn’t be someone’s first political job. No public office. No real vetting. Hype isn’t a substitute for scrutiny. 🧵
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Gemma @gemmadstone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yep.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I hate that in the year 2026, we still have this happening
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Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A Tennessee conservation nonprofit has acquired a 600-acre tract bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, protecting one of the largest remaining privately owned parcels next to the park from future development. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-smokey...
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Great Smokey Mountains Will Soon Get Even Greater – Thanks to Nonprofit’s Land Purchase
The Great Smokey Mountains is set to get just a little bit greater thanks to a 600-acre donation from a south-focused nature nonprofit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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TLDR Swinton @thedoodlebear.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It's interesting how everything people used to proudly call "public" when I was growing up (public parks, public libraries, public schools, public transportation, public television, etc) is suddenly "socialist" now that rich people are spinning it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Not one man who used Jeffrey Epstein to help them rape underage girls has been arrested. But a man has been arrested for placing his hand the Reflecting Pool's water. #NationalPriorities
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Common Cause North Carolina @commoncausenc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
On Tuesday, the NC House passed anti-voter House Bill 958 on a party-line vote, sending it to the NC Senate. There's still time to stop this harmful legislation. Learn more and add your voice at ccnc.me/ProtectMyVote
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Does he remember we can see his voting record?
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Rep. Kean has a documented history of opposing paid sick leave and paid family leave legislation.
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Gemma @gemmadstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Carolina Hurricanes appreciation post! What a series and fantastic win! I love this team! #gocanes #carolinahurricanes #stanleycup 🖤❤️🌀🥅🏒
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2026
on the return of racism to the US military
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Way to go, Albania! 🇦🇱
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Head, best known for his roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died at 72
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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