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Kathy Zurcher

@kazurcher.bsky.social
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Systems Thinking, U of IL PhD, Husband Tom, Pups: Ella, Angel🌈 Kitty: Minne. 2 bonus daughters, 8 20-something granddaughters & grandsons, FoTS, BunsenBeaker&Bernoulli, #UglyDogs, @PabloTorre.bsky.social fan. Go Cubs! Love MN. Bunsenbernerbmd.com❤️🇨🇦🇮🇨

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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 9h
Mom said (not in her inside voice) “What is WRONG with you?” Well, Nothing. I’m perfect. But perhaps I didn’t have a great trainer. Perhaps I wasn’t raised right. Perhaps my mom is a terrible disciplinarian.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 03/10/2026
Meet Josh Turek — Iowa’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.🇺🇸 An Iowa State Representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Turek is campaigning on lowering costs, affordable health care and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses. #JoshTurek #Iowa #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Meet Josh Turek — Iowa’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. 🇺🇸

An Iowa State Representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Turek is campaigning on lowering costs, affordable health care and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses.

#JoshTurek #Iowa #SheShed
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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#3rdplace. This week's them for #blueskyartshow - your place that is not your home or work. For me, a quiet beach. #watercolor
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Because my Chicago White Sox are playing the Cleveland Guardians in the playoffs, I was subjected to a dishonest anti-trans TV ad that Republicans are running in Ohio to distract from their vandalism of the economy. There are no limits to what Republicans will do for money and power.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/10/2026
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.
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The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses" - Utah Phillips
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ok I am home from the work thing. There was cheese.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A donor told the man running Susan Collins' super PAC he'd illegally route his money through a shell company. The reply: "Very smart." The donor is in federal prison. The man who wrote that runs her super PAC today.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are a few things I am solidly Gen-X about, though, like follow up note to say you are still interested in the job after the interview and giving me any info that you forgot to tell me, or I forgot to ask, and being on time to an interview, not being high. But everything else is whatever.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you show up with your iced coffee in a disposable cup and straw you're not getting the job. But if whatever it is you are drinking--water, juice, gatorade, iced coffee--is in a reusable cup or bottle covered in stickers from the last 10 years? You might be getting that job.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kai, I suspect we're about the same age, and for the last 20+ years I've been hiring and firing people in the (environmental) non profit world. If you show up with a Deer Park water to an interview with an organization that works on reducing single use/plastic pollution, you're not getting the job.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It has begun.
A front yard, in the suburbs, with three distinct (ish) inflatable yard decorations. One is a fox on a stump with a hedgehog holding a mushroom. The middle one is three pumpkins that are shaped like corgi heads, the third is a black cat wearing a witchy hat, on top of a complaining ghost, who is sitting on a jack o lantern that looks super high.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ok I'm late with October's rabbit graphic but hopefully, you all are set with your rabbits for tonight/tomorrow!
An AI slop of a graphic of three rabbits wearing jack-o-lanterns, in a creepy wood, howling at a full moon which is also a jack-o-lantern. The text says: Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, and at the bottom there's a Noah Kahan Lyric from Oribiter: "I'm an astronaut, you're the mooooooooooooon"

So, to recap: we say Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit as the first thing out of our mouths any time after midnight on October 1 for good luck all month. And we are reminded that sometimes our rabbits help someone else, across the globe and we hope someday that their rabbits will help us. 

Here's what I do, I wake up almost every single night, around 2 am, and I say my rabbits then. I go back to sleep. Then when I wake up for real around 6:30, I say them again, but a little louder.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gepotidacin demonstrates quick symptom relief for urinary tract infections More than half the women in the small, single-arm trial experienced symptom relief in 24 hours. Read more: bit.ly/4ysJtsu
Pills and capsules on top of a page with definition of urinary tract infection
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Marshall Julie @mhjulie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She dished up the greatest assist of her career yesterday, you must admit. She wasn’t even in the room!
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Chip Chantry @chipchantry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Self-Owna Lisa (2026)
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so brilliant. Uncommon.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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The Golden Ratio @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daily snaps 9/27/26 youtube.com/shorts/T_uQD...
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truth.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly two weeks into hunting season and Yellowstone wolf 1273M has been killed just outside the park. Wolves don’t know where park boundaries end, yet crossing one can put them at risk of becoming a target. How many more wolves will be killed for the sake of a trophy? 🔗 ow.ly/AwRs50ZSo9R
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump’s decompensating because of failures on multiple fronts. Not one campaign promise has come to fruition. He can't even renovate successfully, even though building is his supposed expertise. 

Trump is so grandiose that he believes he can change reality just by saying it.
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The Golden Ratio @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daily snaps 9/25/26 youtube.com/shorts/6bcNb...
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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Henry also enjoys hockey
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Warrior Princess ⬇️
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve never used my car insurance. Should you cancel that too?
Dr Oz on kicking a million Americans off of their healthcare plans: "There are five times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy
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once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy
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insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes."

Norman Ornstein ®
@NormOrnstein
Not just a snake oil salesman. A serial liar. People who don't use their insurance are healthy, paying into the risk pool to keep rates lower for others.
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Espy @esp1371.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#UglyDogs can relate to this statement.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fatniss and I voted. In Virginia, for my district, we have Senate, Congress, and 3 amendments. We voted for @markwarner.bsky.social and @repsuhas.bsky.social and yes on all three amendments.
A ballot for the Commonwealth of Virginia, in English and in Spanish, for Amendment 2, which is codifying Marriage Equality into the constitution. Amendment 1 codifies the right to abortion and Amendment 3 codifies the right for felons to vote after they have served their time.  Right now all these things are legal under state law but they need to be codified into the constitution in order for the next shitty administration to not just legislate them out. Can they remove items from the constitution? Yes, but it is a long process. This is the last step of this long process. 

Of course we voted yes on all three and voted for Mark Warner who better get a lot more combative in the Senate, and Suhas Subramanyam who is a pretty good guy and doesn't take much shit but as always, could be more of an asshole in my opinion. 

Then we went to Costco and wished everyone who voted R in the last 45 years ate tainted lettuce.
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found my I VOTED sticker--it was still in the car.
Prince William County's I voted sticker for this year--it features the Marine Corp Museum memorial, A tree of some note (?) the year 1731 which maybe is the year the county was founded and a stylized cannon  which considering the year is from the American Revolution, NOT the Civil War.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Trump literally did not get Zelenskyy get a word in during the part of their bilateral meeting that happened in front of the cameras. He talked about himself and made genocidal threats as Zelenskyy sat there stone faced.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We literally created things like the UN to end that concept.
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The Golden Ratio @thegoldenratio4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes it's like they are auditioning to be cartoons 🥺🥺
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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This November, your ballot will ask if Minnesota should modernize the State Constitution to get more funding to public schools – at zero cost to taxpayers. Vote YES. (Not voting is a "NO" vote, so do NOT skip this question!!!) Find out how much your district will receive here: voteyesmnstudents.org
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Vote Yes: Boost Funding for Minnesota Public Schools
Vote Yes for a constitutional amendment to boost Minnesota public school funding without raising taxes, benefiting every student statewide.
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Jen @jeneye127.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Then it was on the final destination: Kansas City! I got barbecue at Joe’s on the Kansas side. I had the pulled pork and it was fantastic.
A picture of the outside of Joe’s barbecue in Kansas City, KansasA container with three bottles of barbecue sauce. The container says: THESE ARE THE

BARBECUE SAUCES

MADE FAMOUS AT THE

LITTLE GAS STATION

AT THE CORNER

47th & MISSION,
IN
KANSAS CITY,
KANSAS.A plate with a pulled pork sandwich, a side of barbecue beans, and a side of macaroni and cheese. In the background is a glass of water and a glass with a delicious lager
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They’re likely trying to prevent defections, but I understand why everyone thinks this is ominous - there’s a lot of intel out there that Putin is planning a major escalation, likely in the Baltic States. Which would be an absolutely moronic thing for him to do, but here we are.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please run on this please Republicans this is a great message
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Kate @k8c.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My main thought when Michele Tefoya told every driver in MN to budget better to buy gas was "pretty sure it feels less good to be in the Millennial/Gen Z position in an avocado toast lecture than it does the Boomer/Elder Gen X one, ma'am. But do go on."
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Jen Coleslaw @jencoleslaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here's Waffles trying catching a veggie burger. Some of my throws were terrible.
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Not Quite Old @notquiteold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Paint Your Pet with wide range of skill level, but peak level of fun.
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Melody Lee Lacy @melodyleelacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cubans vote Republican because they believe Republicans are tougher on Russia... But Trump is a Russian asset as well as an anti-Hispanic white supremacist. I would like to see more leading Democrats saying that in English and Spanish.
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LEGO Allan Houston @legoallanhouston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I voted WITH Republicans" - regardless of what comes next - should be disqualifying for any Democrat in this cycle. Jesus, people. Read the room. Nobody is looking for nonpartisan cooperation right now.
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Jen @jeneye127.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Then it was time to walk around downtown New Glarus! It’s about 2 blocks. 😁 But there’s a Swiss restaurant and a bakery, and some souvenir shops.
A plate with a steak sandwich on it, next to a glass of beer, and Swiss roesti (fried potatoes with cheese)Small wooden figurines, including two St. Bernards and some cows.A bakery shelf of bienstich, a honey and cream cake. And yes, I bought a piece to take home.
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Michigan Maple Man 🍁🇨🇦 🇬🇱🥄🌲🐓⛷️🚵🏼‍♀️🎻🏕️🔨💋🐝🪵🌻🌈❄️🛶💙📎🐸 @mimapleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wish I was. My wife broke her femur a week and a half ago and has been in the hospital ever since. She will be there until 9/26 and then home with a walker and a wheelchair so I will be her caregiver…
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Kathy Zurcher @kazurcher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
x.com/lorenzotheca...
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) on X
I'd like to ask my friend Nico Carney @CarneyPurr67561 to please tell his dad, @MarkJCarney, that most of the world thinks the prime minister is doing a most impressive job. Yay, Canada!
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Kathy Zurcher @kazurcher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@jencoleslaw.bsky.social I meant to send this to you, the ultimate tennis fan. 🎾 💚
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