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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. San Diego is not collateral damage,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria posted. “We are not expendable. And we are never a ‘small price to pay.’ Keep our city out of your reckless war talk.” @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The shreds of this iteration of the Republican Party (formerly self-syled as the party of law and order) deserve 40 years in the desert over their clear contempt for our Constitution and the rule of law. American voters can make a difference. Vote Trump's enablers out of office. #VoteBlue

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah. Something to note to any purple-district Democratic congress critter who keeps talking about the need to deport "just the criminal illegals" even as ICE keeps on profiling brown folk and even detaining citizens with papers. It's not just the GOP winking and nodding at ICE excesses. 🙀🤬

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't expect that with this Republican party.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump stumping for himself in deep red states like Alabama is a sop to MAGA audiences still watching Fox News. Those living in the real world see the blue wave coming... even in #Kansas 😊 #VoteBlue

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Time for a different Congress, one that will rein in Trump's hopelessly corrupt administration. 30 days to midterms.

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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can hardly wait for the voters to get tired of these clowns who can't govern and who only play partisan gotcha politics for their paychecks.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well someone should tell Fox News that the winds have shifted. #WakeUp

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We pay taxes to provide for seniors' healthcare but now the govt runs a trial of paying private companies 25% of a procedure's cost when they use AI to DENY that care... a monstrous abuse of power, a nauseating example of Trump admin's corruption under the guise of "saving" taxpayer funds. 🔥🤬😵‍💫😖

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#ICE needs to be stopped in its tracks by #DHS while we elect a new Congress that will refashion laws that govern how immigration is handled in the USA, because clearly it's not being done properly. Too much violence, poor hiring criteria and training. Unconscionable and unconstitutional.

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US citizen injured in Illinois after ICE agents mistook him for fugitive, tried to arrest him

A man was left bloodied and injured in an encounter with immigration enforcement agents in a Chicago suburb.

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s not your imagination, groceries ARE much more expensive 😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, not ready for 2028. Tie too short, not enough paunch. Back to pre-K, JD. All these guys in the WH are gonna need schooling for new day jobs in 2029 no matter if they ever get the Trump style right or not. #GOP #fail

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow! My fix for a cloudy Monday! 💕 #birds #ColorIsTheThing

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great story about how the opposition to a settlement of the Paramount Warner's merger case has exploded Kudos @megjames.bsky.social and thanks for quoting our Contrarian analysis of the Ellison bluff to leave LA

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Opposition grows to Paramount-Warner Bros. merger settlement as deal enters critical week

Critics of the $111-billion Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. urged California Atty. Gen. Bonta and other state atto

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rep. Joyce Beatty is a national hero again. Hands off the Kennedy Center!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every day that major media fail to clearly declare that the president is out of his mind and is building a dictatorship is a day when they are betraying their duty to the American people.

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Donna - sooo tired of this whole administration. @m00dswing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Of course they will. Follow the $$. How much did their lobby fork over to trump to kill the regs?

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Transitional Fossil @transitfossil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I know! let's restart The Troubles!" what a f-cking complete moron. stunning stupidity.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 – 1783), Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes and flowers paintings #womensArt

Painting of a close-up of a thistle with spiked green leaves and two pink flowers with two butterflies, all against a black background

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Liz knew well, as did so many others.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And the hits just keep on coming. It will take decades or maybe centuries for the USA to figure out how to even get back to the imperfect state we were in before Trump first threw his hat in the ring.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Could do this in the USA if we ever got past the idea of just having periodic "Infrastructure Week" announcements instead of actually building a more robust grid and asking the petrodollar boyz to take their feet off the necks of renewable energy endeavors. #ActOnClimate #CleanEnergy #Renewables

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fires back at Trump: “Mexico is not and will not be a colony or protectorate of any foreign country. Proudly we are a free, independent, and sovereign nation.”

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bernie's social security bill needs to be signed into law 👇

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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Meanwhile in Canada: "cartoon by Michael de Adder: signs #DonaldTrump is killing the US economy: global selloff of US Treasury Bonds, repatriation of gold reserves & declining use of the Petrodollar... the guy who conned his way through life & managed to bankrupt casinos is an economic disaster..."

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Jordanian editorial cartoonist Osama Hajjaj salutes Canada’s response to the U.S. bloviator in chief.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So it’s both a fake story and we have plenty of munitions, and they’ve given over 50 polygraphs to attempt to find the leaker. Makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If we don't stand up for good #journalism, we will help Trump demonstrate that democracy dies in the hogwash of state propaganda.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ain't it the truth! We must be open to helping make each new day into one to be cherished later on in memory. #TempusFugit #CarpeDiem

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape of a field with treeline in the distance under a dramtic sky

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Insanity. They should instead be trying to line up visas and someplace to live outside the USA after Congress flips and drops the "impeach, convict and remove" hammer on their whole darn circus. 🤡 🎪🔥 #WestWing #rogues

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Feel like that movie's coming around again.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Created in 1999 by Japanese modern woodblock master Nishida Tadashige (b. 1942), Shinki Itten (3) ("Change of Heart / A Fresh Start") stands as a captivating example of the artist’s celebrated feline series.

The print features a sleek black cat (kuro-neko) turning its body in a fluid, inquisitive twist to look back over its shoulder. Rendered in velvety, deep obsidian tones with subtle blue-grey highlights along its back, the cat’s lithe form creates a dramatic graphic silhouette. Its wide, amber-yellow eyes hold the viewer with startling intensity, capturing that quintessential feline state of sudden alertness—a fleeting pause where curiosity and poise converge.

Nishida’s composition offers a sophisticated interplay between traditional screen painting techniques and contemporary sōsaku-hanga printmaking aesthetics. The background is printed in rich, metallic gold reminiscent of Edo-period gilded folding screens (kin-byōbu), complete with a subtle wood-grain embossment (mokume-zuri) and delicate panel lines. Inscribed at the top in bold, calligraphic kanji is the four-character idiom (yojijukugo) Shinki Itten (心機一転)—translating to "a complete change of mind," "turning over a new leaf," or "a fresh perspective." The cat's physical pivot mirrors the literal meaning of the phrase, framing the animal's spontaneous glance as a philosophical metaphor for mental transformation and renewed awareness.

In Japanese artistic heritage, cats have long occupied a cherished and enigmatic space, from Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s playful Edo-period woodblocks to Hishida Shunsō’s iconic Meiji paintings. Nishida Tadashige honors this lineage while infusing it with clean, graphic modernity.

Aesthetically, the work relies on the striking contrast between the radiant, enduring warmth of the gold field and the soft, shadowy presence of the black cat, invoking the quiet mystery of yūgen. The animal's unstudied, graceful posture exemplifies iki—an effortless, refined stylishness rooted in urban sophistication.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

US data centers directly consumed about 66 billion liters (17.4 billion gallons) of water in 2023, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with indirect water use from electricity generation adding nearly 800 billion liters more. Source: gpusmith.com/articles/en/...

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The word "hopes" is carrying a lot of weight there, and may not translate well to "expects," no matter if McConnell's staffers intend us to hear it that way.

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Liz R @lizr2301.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This guy Trump oversees the destruction of future American military leadership while trying to put up a monument no one wants and that is more suited to a megalomaniac's dictatorship than to the travails and progress of the American democratic experiment so far. 🔥

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2026

BREAKING: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll RESIGNS. Driscoll is the guy Buria told to approve certain firings because "Trump won't want to stand next to Black female officers." The Army now has ZERO Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth

Dan Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026

Roberts wrote that the ballroom’s construction is “likely unlawful.”

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