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Knitter @knittereen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour Orchis mascula, Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac, France
A purple orchid in a field of long green grass, with blue sky and puffy white clouds in the distance
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You gotta admit, their names sure are a cosmic coincidence.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2026
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
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Spike The Rescue Pup & Rex The TV Terrier ™ 🌈 @rexthetvterrier.org · 12/01/2026
Dear Greenlanders and Danes, We're sorry. He's awful and we don't want this Deepest Apologies, The Citizens Of The United States
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It is truly insane to me that our system has the means to end this insanity but the people who can effect it refuse to…even though we are now at a point where in cannot possibly be in their own interest to keep supporting this shitshow
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
70 years ago today my father took these photographs with his mother's camera. He was 13 years old at the time. This rescue operation led to the establishment of local rescue service ("Eiðis bjargingarfelag") which runs to this day.
A Russian ship ran onshore. All the crew was rescued by the locals of the village of Eiði.A Russian ship ran onshore. All the crew was rescued by the locals of the village of Eiði.A Russian ship ran onshore. All the crew was rescued by the locals of the village of Eiði.A Russian ship ran onshore. All the crew was rescued by the locals of the village of Eiði.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/09/2025
💉🧵PSA 🚨 We don’t know for sure but are very worried RFKJ’s ACIP is about to restrict access to RSV monoclonal immunization for babies (nirsevimab and clesrovimab). If your baby is eligible, get them vaccinated asap. RSV season starts late Oct-early Nov. See below for immunization recommendation info
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Knitter @knittereen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I went out foraging for medicinal tea. Basswood/Linden flowers and leaves make a light, floral tea that's great for colds, fevers, and just feeling run-down. I collect it every June and dry it to use in the winter.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is important because every story you are seeing is paired with dozens — hundreds, likely — that you are not. There will surely be follow-up litigation, but this is not something that is being stopped in advance. It's happening, and people are going to die because of it.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/02/2025
- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Cui bono? Who benefits? The new administration has done far more to advance the interests of our enemies than those of the US. The impact, objectives and beneficiaries are crystal clear. And yet, none of this is really even being raised or discussed by the media or the opposition.
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Knitter @knittereen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#Seaglass I have no idea what the pink spiral object is--it's made of ceramic and is pretty cool!
Fragments of blue, green, and brown glass and tile, worn smooth by the ocean. In the middle is a bright pink ceramic cylinder with a raised spiral pattern.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/02/2025
A navigator on large merchant ships told me this morning that the NOAA solar position calendar he regularly uses to compare against his compass is now down. Musk is putting shipping at risk. gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc...
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Nikki @blerdgirl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Well, I won't be stepping into Aldi any time soon. fortune.com/2025/01/31/a...
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Aldi quietly scrubbed its careers website of all DE&I initiatives
According to one employee on Reddit, information on Aldi’s DE&I efforts is now only visible on the company’s internal employee website/portal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW — DOGE now has full access to HHS Payment Management System, I’ve learned. The system distributes almost $1 trillion per year in grants (largest in the govt) and supports all of NIH, CDC + many other public health initiatives. Musk guy Luke Farritor is actively delaying payments to recipients.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/02/2025
BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
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White House preparing executive order to abolish the Department of Education
The planned order follows years of campaign promises from President Donald Trump to abolish the federal Education Department.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
DC, MD, VA: We'll be outside Treasury at 4:45 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...
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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
“It appears as if there is an unelected billionaire more or less running the federal gov right now, who none of us voted for, who seems to be breaking both the law and potentially the constitution all over the place." - Justin Chen, Pres. AFGE local 1003 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘It’s been madness’: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover
Office of personnel management workers say anxiety is palpable amid intimidation and threat of dismissal
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Invictus Ghost @invictusghost.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is now bragging about getting rid of the team that put together the 'Direct File' tax filing system, which allows citizens to easily file their taxes for free. Direct File is a big target of the for-profit tax prep industry including corporations like Intuit and H&R Block.
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Benjamin Lowe @benjaminlowe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
New York City folks: tired of feeling like there’s nothing you can do? Here’s something you can do. Join me tomorrow night at 6:30 PM at 1st and E. 35th to demand NYU Langone stop denying healthcare to the trans kids in their care: actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
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Protect Trans Kids
On January 29th, Donald Trump signed an illegal executive order that attempts to ban gender affirming care for youth under the age of 19, an attempt to detransition all trans children in the US. Despi...
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Elon Musk's feed is about how USAID needs to die and how the National Endowment for Democracy is a scam. We didn't elect this fool. F--- that guy.
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JEFF @jeffisrael.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Wake the fuck up, Democrats and any actual Republican patriots left in Congress. Wake. The. Fuck. Up.
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Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/02/2025
Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You are watching a fascist revolution in real time.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We're witnessing the wholesale hijacking of the federal government by a single billionaire. Struggling to think of a parallel in American history.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
maybe there was actually a pretty good reason for the 14th amendment to have banned insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government from serving in government and the decision to just decide it was a dead letter and ignore it was a horrible mistake?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You guys, we are living through a coup 2.0. Except this time it looks like it will be successful, and a puerile, right-wing billionaire, not even POTUS, is going to be in charge of the U.S. Treasury, government personnel, and basically all of our personal data.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Absolute insanity. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is very very bad. Musk wants access to government payment systems. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Senior U.S. official to exit after rift with Musk allies over payment system
A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.
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