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LadyTbirdRN

@ladytbirdrn.bsky.social
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Wife and mom, soon to be retired RN. Author, genealogist, hiker, Michigander. Democrat. “Dogs and cats living together…hysteria!”

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is beyond embarrassing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stolen assembly line valor, Mike
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ll always love this
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The corruption never ends.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
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Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And this is precisely what JD Vance did throughout the 2024 campaign, attacking Haitians, Somalis and assorted other minorities.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto @cortezmasto.senate.gov · 05/08/2026
I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Archaeologists excavating on Triquet Island—a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada—uncovered a settlement dated to 13,600–14,086 years ago. ​
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"No other country does birthright citizenship," Trump told reporters and the public yesterday. Not a single reporter told him he was wrong – that 32 other countries have it – even though all of the reporters knew that, or they should be fired for not knowing it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/06/2026
Been reading On Courage. It should be required reading for Dems: “This basic arithmetic problem means sometimes living with contradictions, even embracing them.” Politics isn’t about finding people who agree w/you on everything. It’s finding enough people to push the jeep out of the mud together.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
These geniuses don’t seem to realize passports are for American citizens, when they LEAVE the country 🤦🏼
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The would be a pretty funny bit of satire, except it's not satire.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
secretary pete hegsgeth, everybody
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Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
A flu outbreak at a basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is growing to at least 222 cases and four hospitalizations.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/06/2026
This is an unfathomably evil act that will be a foul stain on our nation’s history forever. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...
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U.S. Plans to End AIDS Funding for South Africa
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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Education is the largest threat to fascism. Eliminating civic education, ineffectual standardized testing, making higher education only available to the “haves“ & keeping public educators in poverty has decimated US educational systems
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Conservatives used to remind us every 20 minutes that Reagan never took off his jacket in the Oval Office because he had so much reverence for the White House.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ossoff: This is what small men like Trump, Vance and Miller will never understand. Our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas. Americans are a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions. That is what makes us exceptional.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An effective push back against GOP culture war tactics? Seems to me it should be.
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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡
Goose chilling among the flowers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2026
all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state
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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.
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LadyTbirdRN @ladytbirdrn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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It’s Black disenfranchisement, not ‘partisan warfare’ | Press Watch
Too many journalists are averting their eyes from the racism of redistricting
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.
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New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling
Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics. This move comes after the 2010 U.S.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2026
Q: Who are you going to endorse in the Texas Senate race? TRUMP: I'm looking at it. I think the Democrats have a weird, weird candidate. Six genders, a real hit on Jesus. This guy is bad news, with his mask from relatively recently. He was a vegan.
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LadyTbirdRN @ladytbirdrn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
They Were Promised New Septic Tanks. Trump Called It ‘Illegal DEI.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
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They Were Promised New Septic Tanks. Trump Called It ‘Illegal DEI.’
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Georgia 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦉 🌻 @georgiegeeez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of
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Democracy's Anger Translator @lostmydisguise.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." — FDR
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LadyTbirdRN @ladytbirdrn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Trump Administration Orders Rapid End to Some Hunting Rules on Federal Lands www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c...
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Trump Administration Orders Rapid End to Some Hunting Rules on Federal Lands
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 02/05/2026
I am guessing that “FOUR” did not sound as ominous as “MULTIPLE.” Four from across New Jersey.
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