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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sea puppy enjoying dinner at the Ballard Locks fish ladder. In past years they've tried deterrence measures to try to keep our pinnipeds away from the main choke points but seem to have given up this year. This harbor seal was partying in the main chute with a few friends!

Harbor seal looking up at the camera with the back half of a salmon in its mouth. You can see the bright pink inside of the fish. The seal has big, cute eyes and is surrounded by dark green water.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Don't threaten me with a good time!" (Also, my whole vibe these days might be "disgrunted lesbian".)

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is the message. Any Democrat willing to sacrifice trans folks—especially kids—will sacrifice anything.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Watching basketball with my 6yo, and she turned around mid-commercial break and asked in all seriousness "Mama, do I need to ask my doctor about Skyrizi??"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Naah, I want them on trial.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Oh my god, 100% this, every day without end.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/02/2026

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks.

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Harven Cosset @harvencosset.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This is no longer politics. This is literally right vs wrong and good vs evil. There is no gray. If you support Trump now there is a special place in hell for you and anyone else who does. Tear it all the fuck down and restart. Stay. Angry.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This entire weekend

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 09/11/2025

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Disney: produces Andor, a show about the hard-fought resistance to a dictatorial, authoritarian regime. Also Disney: cancels a comedian/late show hosts’ show because it’s what an authoritarian dictator has wanted for years.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 18/09/2025

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 11/08/2025

Remember if you are angry and you wanna do something, one really important thing you can do is vote, I’m not talking about 2026. I’m talking about this week, next week, and the week after there are elections every single week multiple times a week that is where it change begins.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is infuriatingly stupid and a devastating loss to health research across the globe. Our tax dollars paid for that, and they just broke it for no fucking reason

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I dunno, I was awake during hand surgery this week and it was better than *gestures at world*

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

but more than anything else, lesbians want THESE FUCKING CREEPS TO STOP CONSTANTLY WATCHING US ALL IN PUBLIC AND TRYING TO GUESS BASED PURELY ON VIBES WHETHER OR NOT GOD GAVE US A VAGINA IN ORDER TO DECIDE WHAT ROOMS WE’RE ALLOWED INTO

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 11/04/2025

Every state should do this, this is fantastic!!

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

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Stanley from Yale to Toronto

Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 24/03/2025

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The White House did not *obey.* That is the more relevant verb, given that this is about flouting a court order, separation of powers, and the Constitutional crisis we are in. This kind of word choice is critical.

a judge ordered planes to turn around. the white House didn't listen.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I got the Covid vaccine at 19 + 21 weeks of pregnancy, and 20 more weeks later my baby was born healthy with Covid antibodies. I know that because a scientist tested her blood. Vaccines work.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/03/2025

Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide. The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway. I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/03/2025

This is about making an example out of Columbia to scare the rest of academia. There's nothing Columbia could have done to stop this. It's an ideological war to destroy universities.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17/02/2025

For people that work in tech *only*. An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period." In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/02/2025

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 27/01/2025

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Yule log cake! Delighted with how it turned out, and a great end to a nice solstice dinner.

Roll cake made to look like a forked tree log, decorated with sugared cranberries and rosemary and meringue mushrooms.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

What we woke up to this morning. Yeah that's preschooler finger scoop marks through the leftover pumpkin pie . . .

3/4 of a leftover Thanksgiving pumpkin pie with missing sections scooped out by small human fingers. The pie is in an aluminum tin on a black counter with the foil that was originally covering the pie next to it.

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

One of the fun things about Seattle is that we can grow such a wide variety of plants. Turns out yuzu is cold-hardy down to ~10 degrees so we can even grow a citrus! This is our first sizable crop and I am excited.

Picture of a yuzu tree full of almost ripe yellow, nubbly citrus fruit

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Jen Bourey @jbourey.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Took the kids to see the salmon run at the creek nearby. Apparently it's the most fish the park has seen since the 90s! Of course the kids were most interested in the dress ones . . .

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I never wanted to live in interesting times.

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