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Aletta

@lettybird.bsky.social
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Photographer, political junky & rider of gender fluid giant tortoises. Please don’t DM me.

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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
100% Tariffs are being imposed on all imported medicines starting next Wednesday in the US. 90% of all prescription medicines are imported. Brace yourself America.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Love this:
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Orwell 1945: all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. JD Vance 2025: some Americans are more American than others.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I’m just sentient goo at this point. #Heatwave
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Legally Blonde 3, plot idea: Elle Woods leads the Harvard University legal team that spanks the Trump administration into next week. B Plot: Bruiser bites Kristi Noem & has to be rescued from an El Salvadorian dog pound by Paulette & her husband, UPS Guy.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Is it me or has the same woman performed three of the entries so far? #Eurovision
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I’m torn between Italy & Sweden. #Eurovision
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Imagine the Prevost family Christmas newsletter for 2025! “My brother Robert has had quite the year…”
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
How do we put pressure on @givesendgo.bsky.social to stop that fundraiser? You know the one. #BoycottGiveSendGo
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
How are the Truckers for Trump doing? This feels like a good month to check in on them.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It turns out, tossing the board up in the air & telling everyone you’re a Grand Master, is not the winning Chess strategy Trump thought it was.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A question for the Blue Sky hive mind… if you saw this post would you assume it was a joke? Because about 8 of the 14 comments on it so far think this is real. I thought I’d made it obvious that it was nonsense.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Furious locals on the Heard and McDonald islands react to Trump’s tariffs:
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
One of the best things about leaving Twitter, was the realisation last week, that I had forgotten Laurence Fox existed.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I hope everyone who cancelled their Washington Post subscription recently, is considering subscribing to The Atlantic.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Given how many women #PeteHegseth has cheated on, you’d think he’d remember that when people challenge your bad behaviour, they generally have receipts.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Me every time I hear the @meidastouch.com dude say “Breaking News” on my TikTok feed:
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I made my therapist & myself laugh so hard in today’s session, that we had to take a break to calm down, we sat for two minutes quietly sipping water, with occasional fits of giggling.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s horrifying that it’s come to this, but as someone with a deep affinity for Europe I feel moved seeing that continent come together to try to save itself in the absence of any meaningful aid from the totalitarian regime that’s in the midst of taking over the United States through an illegal coup
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
just wanna retire and go live in some quaint seaside town with my cat where i run a little bookstore that sells magical potions and spells that turn idiots into frogs and maybe help solve a local murder every now and then.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/02/2025
I think I figured out why his spaceships keep blowing up.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Just sent my “what I did this week” homework off to #PresidentMusk. It reminds me of primary school. I know I’m not a Federal Worker & I live in the UK, but I hear he’s really keen on gathering as much data as possible on us all.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Zelensky’s approval rating has never been as low as Trump’s highest approval rating. #SlavaUkraini
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Really hoping the British government is actively recruiting all their favourite American counterparts. Civic minded people are on special this month & we’d be idiots not to scoop them all into our basket.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/02/2025
“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️
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FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety
Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
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Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Ruth Malone, RN, PhD @remalone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window
A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads “We hate him too” yup 👍
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🔴‘I’m a Labour Councillor and This Is Why My Party Should Ground Heathrow Plans and Rejoin the EU Instead’ Rachel Reeves is looking in the ‘wrong direction’ for stimulating growth in the UK, argues Labour Councillor Salman Shaheen bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/h...
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'I'm a Labour Councillor and This Is Why My Party Should Ground Heathrow Plans and Rejoin the EU Instead'
Rachel Reeves is looking in the 'wrong direction' for stimulating growth in the UK, argues Labour Councillor Salman Shaheen
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces. - Rumi #HappyValentinesDay
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
My post gym nap went a little long, and now I’m toasty & warm in bed, so I don’t want to move, but I’ve also only eaten 8 almonds today. Is there a delivery app with an option for them to drone the food through my bedroom window & straight into my hands?
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garfield is eating a piece of food in front of a sign that says " love at first bite "
ALT: garfield is eating a piece of food in front of a sign that says " love at first bite "
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I need to buy whoever did this a pint. #Tesla
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Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We have received hundreds of tips from readers. Many have helped us identify the people helping Musk, who has not been elected to any office, force out government employees and shutter federal offices. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the bi...
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DKMS UK | Delete Blood Cancer @dkms-uk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚨 Nim Needs YOU! 🚨 28-year-old Nim has acute lymphoblastic #leukaemia and needs a stem cell transplant. 🙏 ✨ Give hope to Nim, and others like him, by registering as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/nim_tw
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is so important. If you can please consider registering as a stem cell donor at 🙏 www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...
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Fabian @skypax.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
The Trump administration is paving the way for mass deportations by building new prison camps and invoking the Alien Enemies Act, which was used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans duri...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/02/2025
The good people at @justsecurity.org have a litigation tracker! www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
New data shows UK could be £26bn better off with ‘closer EU alignment’ If the governments mission is “growth, growth, growth” what are we waiting for? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/cos...
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New data shows UK could be £26bn better off with 'closer EU alignment'
Is the Brexit fantasy falling apart after less than a decade? Dissent is growing rapidly - and closer EU alignment has its financial benefits.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
youtu.be/HlPBmT_R0po?...
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Please tell me the crowd are booing every time he appears on a screen.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Liz Cheney to JD Vance: "You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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SKG Murphy @bluelotusoftheeast.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Now in Los Angeles: 8th day of mass #USProtests continue against Musk and Trump's corruption and illegal deportation efforts. #3E #EndImpunity #EndAutogenocide #EndOligarchy
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Aletta @lettybird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I’m starting to believe Trump did a Faustian deal with Elon, “you buy me the Election (a get out of jail free card) & I will let you be President in all but name.” And I think he’s already regretting it.
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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 07/02/2025
In things that you absolutely saw coming, Federalist and Daily Wire writer who accused drag queens of being groomers arrested for child molestation. www.dailydot.com/debug/aaron-...
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Conservative film critic who called child trafficking movie a 'call to action' arrested for child molestation
Aaron Gleason is currently out on bail.
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Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
the human cost www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.IV. infection.

The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a silicone ring inserted into her vagina, needed to be removed right away.

When Ms. Zondi, 22, arrived at the clinic, she learned why: The U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded the study, had withdrawn financial support and had issued a stop-work order to all organizations around the globe that receive its money. The abrupt move followed an executive order by President Trump freezing all foreign aid for at least 90 days. Since then, the Trump administration has taken steps to dismantle the agency entirely.

Ms. Zondi’s trial is one of dozens that have been abruptly frozen, leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear.
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