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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Had a good balloon day yesterday. Saw Nate Bargatze and got lots of flowers. It was almost like . . . a funeral. 😀 54 is the new . . . 54. I used to be young. Back when we had real film.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Well. Year 17. Back in the classroom and co-teaching 10th grade English. 🤞🏻for a good year. youtu.be/YaEG2aWJnZ8?...

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Sia - Unstoppable (Official Video - Live from the Nostalgic For The Present Tour)

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I guess I'll give it another go. Words are cool. Rhyming words are even cooler.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

You can’t stop the classics. And, I forgot earplugs. Rookie mistake. @theanthemdc.bsky.social @pixiesofficial.bsky.social

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

MAGA-the party of pathological liars.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

“O’er the clan of MTG, and the idiot conclave.”

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Yay!!! Let’s bring back polio, too!!

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

As a lawyer, I have absolutely zero problem stating #FuckSCOTUS

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Voyagers National Park, the North American Bear Center, the International Wolf Center. I was about 25 feet from 🇨🇦 and sorely tempted.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 50 U.S. Code § 1541 (c) And if that MF uses 116 Stat. 1498 to justify his unilateral action, Congress needs to grow a set and cut his credit card. FFS. And anyone who voted for that Orange Fucktard--have the fucking day you voted for, you pieces of shit.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Be sure to block JD Vance before you go to bed. Someone let the trash in.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I guess Germans enjoy HARIBO. Well, who doesn’t? 🤣

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

AAAAAnnnnnnnndddd that's a wrap on year 16.

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JD Random - RandomWhiteGuy @thereelrandom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“Reading is woke!” MTG… probably.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I had fun, but do not enjoy being a "matron." 😀 Next, getting all the 8th grade shit done and getting her to camp in MN.

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#readandplay (347) #MusicChallenge Pete Yorn ~ Life on a Chain I was waiting over here for life to begin I was looking for the new thing and you were the sunshine heading my frontline I was alone you were just around the corner from me youtu.be/_XwOeJW_9HU?...

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Pete Yorn - Life On a Chain

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#readandplay (344) #MusicChallenge Billy Eilish ~ All Good Girls Go To Hell (2019) All the good girls go to hell 'Cause even God herself has enemies And once the water starts to rise And heaven's out of sight She'll want the devil on her team youtu.be/-PZsSWwc9xA

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Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell (Official Music Video)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#readandplay (343) #MusicChallenge Bentez ~ Good Manners (2024) Act like it don’t fucking matter Give it to you on a silver platter 'Cause I got good manners But I’d rather see you’re mad at me www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6b...

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Bentez - Good Manners (Official Visualiser)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#readandplay (342) #MusicChallenge Yusuf/Cat Stevens ~ The Wind (1971-vintage year 😜) I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul. . . . I listen to my words but they fall far below I let my music take me where my heart wants to go youtu.be/1EjKJuaLZO0

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The Wind (Remastered 2021)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

#readandplay (340) #MusicChallenge Linkin Park ~ In the End (2000) Things aren’t the way they were before. You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore. Not that you knew me back then but it all comes back to me in the end. youtu.be/eVTXPUF4Oz4?...

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In The End [Official HD Music Video] - Linkin Park

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

#readandplay (339) #MusicChallenge The Beatles ~ Norwegian Wood (1965) So I lit a fire Isn't it good Norwegian wood? [There’s always arson, right?] @surfdruid.bsky.social youtu.be/Y_V6y1ZCg_8

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Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#readandplay (335) #MusicChallenge Donna Summer ~ McArthur Park (1978) Someone left my cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'Cause it took too long to bake it And I'll never have that recipe again, again youtu.be/0lPYUGTAVmA

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MacArthur Park

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#nationaldayofprayer From my favorite book of the Bible, Hebrews 5:12 (NIV). I pray that so-called Christians hit the books. 12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!"

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#readandplay (334) #MusicChallenge Fame Cast - I Sing the Body Electric (1980) “And in time and in time we will all be stars.” “Et quand tu seras consolé (on se console toujours) tu seras content de m'avoir connu. Tu seras toujours mon ami.” Le Petit Prince www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-w...

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#readandplay (333) #MusicChallenge Perry Como - Catch a Falling Star (1957) For when your troubles starting multiplying And they just might It's easy to forget them without trying With just a pocketful of starlight youtu.be/_VJlHWESyLI?...

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Perry Como - Catch a Falling Star (Audio)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#readandplay (332) #MusicChallenge The Roc Project (ft. Tina Arena)~ Never (Past Tense)(03) Please don't tell me that you've changed don't wanna hear on how you've lost your evil ways the one who's changed this time is me and i wont go back to feeling helpless and deceived youtu.be/5YmIJt4q31E?...

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Congrats to the Great White North. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#readandplay (331) #MusicChallenge You're only here once so you got to get it right (No time to fuss and fight) 'Cause life don't mean much if measured out with someone else's plight (In time you'll see the light) XTC ~ King for a Day Oranges and Lemons (1989) youtu.be/depsFULhqV8?...

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#readandplay (330) #MusicChallenge The Sundays ~ Here’s Where the Story Ends Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990) So I cynically, cynically say, "The world is that way Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise" Here's where the story ends Ooh, here's where the story ends youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ?...

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The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (Official Music Video)

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Michelle April @madmickideuce.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#readandplay (329) #MusicChallenge Genesis ~ Home by the Sea Images of sorrow, pictures of delight. . . . Endless days of summer, longer nights of gloom Waiting for the morning light. Scenes of unimportance, photos in a frame Things that go to make up a life youtu.be/Tad7weGOYT0?...

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Genesis - Home By The Sea (Official Audio)

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