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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Worth noting!
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
If they are arresting elected officials doing their job, is anyone safe?
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
A shout out to all the people who put their bodies on the line to protect our immigrant community & our rights. Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Chicago) was checking on someone injured by #ICELawlessness (with a broken leg), when ICE agents demanded then shoved, handcuffed & arrested her. Speak out!
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Wishing you and yours a blessed winter solstice. Be warmed and filled.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Trump's America Trump's AAA+++++
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Blessings
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Do you think Trump is making the authoritarian shift? Has he consolidated enough power with the courts on his side and Congress doing his bidding that public approval doesn't matter anymore?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Is it possible that by identifying certain people as members of a minority group whose rights must be defended we inadvertently give bigots, white supremacist and queer phobic people, a justification for promoting their hierarchical thinking?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Nevermind, I understood that correctly but my brain said, "no way that's a thing, they must be talking about the Navy drilling for its own oil."
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
People oil their navals? Oh wait, I read that wrong, didn't I?
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Make sure everyone you know hears about #ICELawlessness & knows the story of US CITIZEN & IRAQ WAR VETERAN, George Retes. "ICE officers used tear gas, broke his car window, and applied physical force, including kneeling on him, while he complied with their instructions." Is this freedom?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Translation: we'd love to get rid of this popular program that makes everyone's lives better but it's too popular so we can't do that. We have to dismantle it piece by piece instead. We don't have a plan to replace it yet just a bunch of ideas that aren't better and no one likes.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Pantone choosing a shade of white when these gorgeous colors exist was ... a choice. #pantonecoloroftheyear #Pantone2026
Collage of colors from nature: deep purple violet blossoms, a dark green leaf, yellow dandelions, and dark red leaves on a Japanese Maple tree
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Anyone can decorate a tree if they want to but I can totally understand why people would rather not.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Meme showing past me, a conservative shaking hands with me now, a Leftist, both hating Democrats
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Democratic voters are working hard to stop fascism. It would be nice if the leaders of the party joined them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The boats the regime is claiming are going from Venezuela to the US would need to refuel over 20 times to get to Miami. They are lying to us.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The elites in both parties are in bed with the oligarchs.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I used to do the mental gymnastics necessary to believe that God is love and yet is also fully justified in tormenting people for eternity who had never read the Bible. Indoctrination and religious trauma will do that to you.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I remember what it was like to be fully convinced that I had the one true message of Love and Hope and that if I did not go and tell them this "good" news, God was going to let people on the other side of the world who never had never heard of him just die and go to hell.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I know, some of you are going to hate me now. You're going to come after me in the comments and tell me how wrong I am. But I too was once indoctrinated into white evangelicalism.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I mean, think about the hubris and sense of superiority it takes to travel overseas and tell people you just met that their traditional spirituality is evil and they will go to hell for believing in the wrong god.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So this is fascinating. Parkrose Permaculture got a lot of hate after calling out vegan activism for being rooted in white supremacy, but then in this video she goes after Christian missionaries too. And honestly it makes a lot of sense. youtu.be/176fYBdA8VM?...
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Missionaries and Vegan Activists have one BIG thing in common
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Classic narcissist. Accuse others of doing what he himself is doing, being childish in this case.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday? Watch this first. www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
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Should You Boycott Amazon?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Listen, if you tell me that “taxation is theft” I’m going to need you to quit driving on highways or walking on sidewalks or attending a public school or using police or fire services or city snow removal. I would mention libraries, but…
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Trump campaigned like a populist. Which shows that a true populist movement would gain a lot of support from voters. But once in office he showed his true colors by cozying up to his billionaire buddies.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Neither party has done anything to support working Americans in decades.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'm convinced now more than ever that the two party system in the United States is failing us. While the Republicans are clearly the party of the oligarchs, Democrats have largely ignored rural america. A lot of red States aren't actually red, they're just uncontested.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Enjoyed a walk down the local railroad converted to trail.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
clouds this morning
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
At SOTU 2023, MAGA Republicans booed President Biden and called him a liar for exposing their plans to cut Social Security and Medicare. He was right. He is old but would have never taken a wrecking ball to our nation. Neither would have VP Harris. MAGA traitors to Americans say what now?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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On Trump's "Spectacle of Power" - A New Interview With Anne Applebaum
Few have taught me more about our current moment than Anne Applebaum - excited to bring her insights into the Hopium community
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Anne Applebaum guest on the Hopium Chronicles (my paraphrase): Trump has no great plan. He lives in the eternal present and his only strategy is to be in conflict with someone and appear as the winner.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Gone fishing
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sundays are for watching nature documentaries. Today it's Africa's Hidden Kingdoms on Paramount+. www.paramountplus.com/shows/africa...
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Africa's Hidden Kingdoms - Smithsonian Channel - Watch on Paramount Plus
Discover the spectacular wildlife secrets tucked within South Africa's fertile ecosystems.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It's the little things
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote
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Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team
This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Wordle 1,372 5/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Any Wordle players here?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I saw what I believe was a double-crusted cormorant flying overhead in Southwest Missouri this morning. #migration
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump threatens to pull federal funds for US schools allowing ‘illegal protests’
President also claims he will imprison ‘agitators’ a day after administration called for review at Columbia University
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
First the fascists take away your right to protest...
Trump administration

Trump threatens to pull federal funds for US schools allowing 'illegal protests'

President also claims he will imprison 'agitators' a day after administration called for review at Columbia University

Anna Betts

Tue 4 Mar 2025 11.40 EST

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Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to halt all federal funding for any college or school that allows "illegal protests" and vowed to imprison "agitators", in a social media statement that prompted alarm from free expression advocates.

"All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests," the US president wrote on Truth Social.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025....
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
DJT is only capable of thinking in terms of profit and loss.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

President's move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

Oliver Milman

Mon 3 Mar 2025 15.02 EST

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Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America's forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.

The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that "heavy-handed federal policies" have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber."It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security," the order adds.

Trump has instructed the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to increase logging targets and for officials to circumvent the US's Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures' habitats.

This move is similar to recent instructions by Trump to use a rarely-used committee to push through fossil fuel projects even if they imperil at-risk species. Experts have said this overriding of the Endangered Species Act is probably illegal.

The order also stipulates logging projects can be sped up if they are for purported wildfire risk reduction, via "thinning" of vegetation that could ignite. Some scientists have said that aggressively felling forests, particularly established, fire-resistant trees, actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires."What's worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite."

Hanson said logging alters the microclimate of forests, creating hotter and drier conditions that helps wildfires, such as the events that recently ravaged Los Angeles, to spread faster.

"Trump's exact approach, logging in remote forests and telling communities that it will stop fires, is responsible for numerous towns being destroyed by fires in recent years, and hundreds of lives lost," he said.

Environmental groups decried Trump's latest attempt to circumvent endangered species laws that shield about 400 species in national forests, including grizzly bears, spotted owls and wild salmon, and warned an increase in logging could pollute the water supply relied upon by millions of Americans.
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Don't like how your government is[n't] handling _____ crisis? Fix it yourself!
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Is this the new solution to food shortages? Grow/make your own? We don't all have the space or time to farm. And even if we did, is the federal government going to abandon us like it did the actual farmers?
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Jonathan Wedge @jonathanwedge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Can we impeach now?
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
DoNaLd TruMp iS OwNinG ThuH LiBs. 🙄
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