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Jan

@janmalvern.bsky.social
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Nature lover, avid reader, love my husband, dogs and horses. Politically, I'm left of center: a former Republican who wised up in 2016 when Trump was elected. I live in a red county in Colorado.

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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interesting. I've also noticed less quality in eating out and in clothing.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dylan Ratigan blames the current financial abyss on Reagan, and I applaud him for saying that. He also spoke at length about the moral injury incurred by the government giving huge bailouts to the big banks in 2008. He is 2 for 2 in my book.
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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.ms.now/the-beat-wit...
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CRASHOUT: Trump's job slump & BAILOUT BUBBLE exposed by Wall St expert on live tv
Journalist Dylan Ratigan joins MS NOW's Ari Melber to discuss the Trump economy. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just watched your excellent show with historian Jon Meacham and members of the Miami Haitian community. Our union is at its most imperfect point in our 250 years. Our country must turn to the collective We and away from the greedy Me. We have deep roots and we must tap them and be fed, as aspens do.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
@theweekendmsnow.bsky.social
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Coffee&CannabisClub-𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐊𝐜𝐮𝐟 @coffeecannabisclub.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It sucks to know things don't have to be this bad. It sucks to see things others fail to recognize. Most of the pain we are all feeling doesn't have to be. We've instead accepted it. We've accepted it and blamed each other instead of blaming the people making the decisions that cause it to suck.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Bessent is the twat.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This interview is a 5th grade level class in identifying propaganda and diverting attention away from the question. Not great, CNN.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Washed sand around where I live would also be contaminated with oil from road runoff, but I can keep it in mind.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Interesting, washed sand with organic matter is a great idea.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/05/2026
I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Look at the line of jackasses behind T. Such losers.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We have all of that. My goal is to encourage a biodiverse area. Here is a juvie GHO.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The cover crops are prairie and mountain grass, they send down the deep roots. But, then, the pocket gophers have been taking out my hard work. Rocks are a great base, but I'm a little old to be hefting them now.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
That's a great resource. My 5 acres always provide a challenge.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I like those techniques and their environment is harsher than mine.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My climate zone is supposed to be 5b, but I know it acts like a 3. The blasting winds strip moisture and lower temperatures quickly, but I am a very determined gardener. This summer is supposed to cook up a lot of wildfires. I hope we have prepared enough for the weather.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
That's okay, I live in the shadow of Pikes Peak on 5 acres that alternates between clay and sand. I've worked really hard to build soil for my garden using wood chips and newspaper to smother invasive grass and weeds. I also have a greenhouse for tomatoes, peppers and other plants. 20 years here!
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The worst people come out to parade their malignant ideas.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The hugel depends on material rotting, but in Colorado it is dry, and rot needs moisture.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This sounds fantastic, Pia. I live in Colorado where it's so dry, that hugelkultur is difficult.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tina Peters knew the law, knew she was breaking the law and attempted to follow DJT's conspiracy to overthrow the election. She was convicted in her home county by a jury of her peers. Clemency by Colorado's Democrat Governor in not popular here, and angers many, including me. Shame on him!
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
All the president's men are in tune with the lying.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Shame, it is good to know who supports which candidates. Where is the sunshine?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
MacKenzie Scott Was A Success While Married To Bozos. Her Debut Novel Won The American Book Award in 2006,And Her 2nd Novel Followed in 2013.She Stepped Away From Amazon, to Raise 4 Children. In 2019, Bozos Announced They Were Divorcing. She's A Great American........
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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
If Colbert ended up being anything like Zelensky, I would be all in. Comedians are better Presidents than bankrupt pu$$y grabbing grifters.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The lone girl in the kid group doesn't smile at Trump, and with her arms crossed over her chest, seems wary of him. Smart girl.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Buddy voted 95% of the time with Trump. Is that "your values," #Georgia? This person does not belong in the House and definitely not in the Senate. Vote him out. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Musk is a dirty capitalist and only received a hand slap for costing investors money.
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Kim Lyons @kimly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ
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Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case
Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2026
Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is my favored advice, too. Initiate a lot of investigations, enough to make the news every single day.
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maryrussell.bsky.social @maryrussell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This day always amuses me with the Star Wars connection, and this jar definitely made me smile.
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Large Johnson @flytyingguy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We are in a recession caused by by policies and people the über wealthy supported. Maybe it’s time to get rid of the über wealthy.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Some thoughts on the Second Amendment and Alex Pretti. (Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, April 15th, 2026)
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This Great Horned Owl mama buzzed my dog on our morning walk, telling him that she wasn't tolerating any foolishness from him in her domain.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A win! Thank you for always making your voices heard. The House passed a DHS funding bill by voice vote this afternoon, ending a 75-day shutdown the longest agency shutdown in U.S. history. The GOP caved. The bill funds DHS but includes no money for ICE or Customs and Border Protection.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.
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steve52.bsky.social @steve52.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Because most people don't actually dig around and find out what the person asking for their vote is really all about. They listen to what they say, without looking at what they have done. That's why so many people fell for Trump and his "I can fix it" bullshit, instead of looking at his history.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️
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Chris is pissed for 4 more years @aussiechris52.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If the WH new ball room is critical for future security of POTUS, maybe he should cancel all future rallies, golf games, Mar-a-lardo stays etc and just hunker down in his bunker. I for one would enjoy the break.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Note to my fellow Dems: The 2026 and 2028 elections will be "change" elections. But mere promises to change or talking points about change won't do the trick. Candidates need to embody change. They need to be the change we want to see. It's not about a position. It's about who they are.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” – Native American Proverb Columbines (State Flower of Colorado) blooming in the Colorado Rockies Photographer: Lars Leber Photography
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
2) We can all see that. And, bring back the focus on people's wellbeing to win elections. Culture wars and grievances aren't helpful. Divisions aren't helpful. Work for the high American ideals that we were raised to appreciate.
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Jan @janmalvern.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
1) Listening to Anne Applebaum, an expert on Hungary and the people who brought down Victor Orban: the message for democrats and others who want to win: create a broad coalition that focuses on the economy, healthcare and education, and one that targets the corruption or our leaders.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.
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