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Lady Columbia

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Mother and protector of all immigrants, native peoples and citizens. I am endowed with great beauty from the Redwood Forests to the Blue Ridge Mountains. I have cultivated a free and democratic republic for all to live, work and thrive!

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
www.latimes.com/environment/... Absudistan Chronicles
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Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Trump ordered 2 Cali dams opened to back up his “I opened the pumps” story 🤦🏼 www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The Resister Linda Cardwell 🦋💙 @cardwell4u.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Danasia Elder, one of the flight attendants on American Airlines Flight 5342 perished in the crash. My condolences to the family of beautiful servant. My sincerest sympathies to all who loved her.
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Noreen Stroud-Petersen @noreensmiles.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
She’s probably hoping to be a personal assistant of some sorts for doing this.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is a tremendous relief. I’ve been so stressed out about this.
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Walking Flex. 🕺🏾 @meechiee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Take yall children to those black history events that will be held at some local libraries. It starts at home
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/02/2025
Musk, Trump & Our Money Trump ousted a top Treasury official for blocking Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team access to the system that pays Social Security, Medicare, tax refunds, and federal contracts. They’re not just coming for government waste—they’re coming for our money.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 01/02/2025
As the Pacific Coast Highway reopens this Sunday, we’re surging CHP patrols and keeping The California National Guard on standby. We’re reinforcing our commitment to protecting residents in Malibu and the Palisades, motorists, and first responders in the days and weeks ahead.
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Black Nerds Create @blacknerdscreate.com · 01/02/2025
Black History Month is absolutely happening over here and it’s going to be magical! BNC’s Annual Black Magical History Month Celebration is back! We hope you’ll join us in this month long celebration of Black characters, stories, and people! 💜✨
Promotional Graphic for Black Magic History Month. Bold yellow title text reading “Black Magical History Month” and a subtitle in white text that reads “A celebration of Black magical stories, characters, and people. The background is purple and with a faded filter
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
During 🤡’s first gig, we had resisters who kept a nonstop vigil at the White House with various light up signs. If you know who they were, PLEASE let me know! THIS IS WHAT WE NEED RIGHT NOW! An organized (peaceful) DC protest. I’m in. Who else? (We really need our white allies to lead here. 🙏🏽)
2019 photo of resisters who held a light up LIAR sign in front of the White House during Trump’s first term.
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Silver Rider @cat-linc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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What Communists Won't Tell You — Sarah Paine
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
They're such hypocrites.
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'Make America Healthy Again' Fans Get Blunt Reminder Of Their Michelle Obama Hypocrisy
This you, GOP?
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自由と正義のRainbow Cleric 🏳️‍🌈🇯🇵 @reinbowcleric.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It might be my proximity to China/ North Korea having grown up in Japan but anytime I start to see praising of the Chinese system of government in jest or not I immediately think of the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and LGBTQIA Chinese It's not a utopia www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-at...
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China’s atrocity crimes in Xinjiang are entering an even darker phase. The UN must act.
The suffering of the Uyghur people continues in Xinjiang, and the United Nations has a responsibility to act on its recommendations.
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Tim McElreath @mcelreath.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I briefly got DeepSeek to discuss the political repression of the Tibetans regarding the selection of the Panchen Lama before it got yoinked #DeepSeek #Tibet
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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Comforting to know we have a SecDef who doesn’t know the difference between short-range rockets and ICBMs.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
7/ The point of all this is to destroy U.S. power in the world. That primarily helps China, who is INCREASING its aid programs as we disappear. China - the place where all of Trump's billionaires make their products and want deals to open markets. Think there's a connection?
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Cherie Wong 王卓妍 @chercywong.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Disappointing that PIFI used « Chinese Canadians » as the diaspora community targeted by the PRC 👀 Last I check Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hongkongers and Taiwanese communities aren’t « Chinese » Tsk tsk
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A second federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump admin from freezing federal funds impacted by the President’s executive orders. Blockety, blockety, block. 😂🤣
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a man wearing sunglasses and a white shirt with the word block written on it
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a white shirt with the word block written on it
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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just found out #Temu stole my mug design. I have reported it but it's just really sad how common this is. To bring creativity to life, artists need to make a living from what they do. You can help them. You can do that. Support them, follow them, buy from them if you can. Show some love.❤️ 🎨
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RFA Uyghur @rfauyghur.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Uyghur activists have welcomed the Biden administration’s blacklisting of a further 37 Chinese companies for ties to slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, the largest addition yet to an import ban list introduced under legislation passed in late 2021. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...
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RFA Uyghur @rfauyghur.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children whose parents were detained by Xinjiang authorities in internment camps that began in 2017. RFA has found that at least six such schools are still operating in Yarkand, Keriye county and Kuchar City. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...
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RFA Uyghur @rfauyghur.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
U.N. experts on Tuesday urged Thailand to halt the deportation of 48 Uyghurs held on immigration charges to China, where they would likely face torture, and treat nearly half of the group’s members for “serious health conditions.” www.rfa.org/english/uygh...
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Timothy Grose @timothyagrose.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I shared some thoughts about developing methods for digital/remote ethnography at a time when few have access to regions such as the Uyghur homeland and Tibet. open.spotify.com/episode/4MXW...
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Digital ethnography of the Uyghur region
The Remote Chay Podcast · Episode
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Xinjiang Victims Database @shahit.biz · 29/01/2025
Today marks ~7 years since the death of Muhemmed Salih (shahit.biz/eng/256/), a famous religious scholar who was detained in December 2017, despite being over 80 years old. He died at the No. 1 detention center in Urumqi a month later.
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Entry 256: Muhemmed Salih
Muhemmed Salih (often "Muhemmed Salih Hajim") has been described as one of the most respected and influential Uyghur religious scholars. He is credited with the being the first scholar to translate th...
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Lady Columbia @ladycolumbia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Managing the Risks of China’s Access to U.S. Data and Control of Software and Connected Technology
U.S. policymakers need to develop a more systematic and comprehensive framework for managing the data security and influence risks that come from cross-border data flows, Chinese software, and connect...
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Lady Columbia @ladycolumbia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Omg. The crash in Philly is a Jet Rescue air ambulance, and has resulted in the tragic loss of all personnel onboard, including the flight crew, medical team, and the patient under transport.😢
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 01/02/2025
BREAKING: At least 6 people killed in Philadelphia plane crash, including 2 pilots, 2 doctors and a patient - FOX29
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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Criminal trump orders deletion of info about climate change. He ordered the US Dept. of Agriculture to remove any mention of climate change from websites. Also the DHS has removed any mention of Ukraine. His whole administration is being built on lie's & propaganda. Very dangerous.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Constitution is written, as its first seven words provide, on behalf of "we the people of the United States." The people are sovereign. We elect 537 representatives to exercise our sovereignty in the federal government. The President is the most powerful of them, but he's not sovereign himself.
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
But my eggs…
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Lady Columbia @ladycolumbia.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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International regulators probe how DeepSeek is using data. Is the app safe to use?
The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Elon Musk is taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies... without an FBI background check, security clearance, or Senate confirmation.
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An employee working for an agency funded by federal grants working in HIV care just told me that their manager said the CDC website is expected to come down "in its entirey" and "to save what they might need." Targethiv.org, run by the Health Resources and Services Administration, is already down.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
REPORTER: Do you have any concerns that your commentary about things you described as common sense could in any way interfere with the thorough investigation of the crash? TRUMP: No. I think they'll do an investigation and it'll probably come out the way I said it ... I was right on all of it.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Donald Trump's looming 25% tariffs on Canada tomorrow: "If the president does choose to implement any tariffs against Canada, we're ready with a response. A purposeful, forceful but reasonable, immediate response."
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Lady Columbia @ladycolumbia.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🫣RFK Jr doesn’t know if the Covid vaccine saved lives.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 31/01/2025
I met David Hogg days after the Parkland shooting and I’ve watched him develop into the leader he is today. David is exactly the kind of person we need guiding the Democratic Party into the future and I’m proud to support his candidacy for DNC Vice Chair.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Trump: “If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going to come in the office and report ... then they're going to be terminated.” Does this include presidents who spend most of their time at the golf course?
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You might want to put gas in your car today. Canada is America's biggest source of imported oil -- supplying almost 60%. When Canada slaps a retaliatory tariff on their oil, gas prices are going UP UP UP. All because of Donald Trump.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Cowardly political reporters are actively covering up Trump’s racism.
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Political reporters are actively covering up Trump’s racism | Press Watch
The traditional media is once again failing a basic test of its competence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
REPORTER: With the govt offering buyouts, are you not afraid more aviation incidents could happen with less staffing? LEAVITT: POTUS is intent on ensuring that we are increasing staffing . That's why he signed a very strong EO on his 2nd day immediately terminating DEI hiring practices at the FAA.
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