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Michal Ashley

@mash56.bsky.social
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Supporting women’s rights, democracy, climate change, NATO/Ukraine, science/vaccines, animal rescue and more. Support LA and rebuild Altadena (Eaton Fire).

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/08/2026
With more than 100mn record sales to her name and a renown stretching far beyond the boundaries of her genre, Nashville star Dolly Parton ranks among the greatest artists in the history of country music. ft.trib.al/s1KgHJB
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Michal Ashley @mash56.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
c.org/YrpG7j7vBN Please sign to protect #sealions
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Close La Jolla Children's Pool Beach Permanently to Protect Its Seal + Sea Lion Population
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Michal Ashley @mash56.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
c.org/YrpG7j7vBN Please sign to protect #sealions
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Close La Jolla Children's Pool Beach Permanently to Protect Its Seal + Sea Lion Population
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/08/2026
Nothing says alpha male like being wheeled to safety between the dinner rolls and the Sterno cans.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/08/2026
Jackie, the bald eagle whose nest in the San Bernardino Mountains in California has been featured on a livestream watched by millions, died on Monday after weeks of intensive care. Jackie had been receiving treatment since she was attacked by other eagles last month. nyti.ms/4gokSOP
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 10/08/2026
After a weeks-long battle with a mysterious illness, Big Bear’s beloved bald eagle Jackie has died. Read more: www.latimes.com/environment/story/2… 
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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
RIP Jackie🥺🦅 Really sad news...
RIP Jackie
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
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Vox @vox.com · 08/08/2026
America finally has an mRNA flu shot. Now comes the fight to actually use it. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The strange reason flu shots have been so hard to improve
America finally has an mRNA flu shot. Now comes the fight to actually use it.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Refreshed free link. as.ft.com/r/fa99339a-b...
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Trump and the Fifa debacle
The US president is the first leader since Benito Mussolini in 1934 to intervene publicly in his team’s favour
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/06/2026
I’m not going to hail Barrett and Roberts for allowing us to count our votes. It’s a huge win for democracy, but it shouldn’t have even been a question. That we were one vote away from disenfranchising votes is all the more reason to expand the court in 2029.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
An entire section of the Trump admin’s blue $14.2 million waterproofing paint layer has detached off the floor in one area of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, following days of chemical treatment by the NPS to remove the algae blooms
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
THIS is HUGE! Researchers at Mie University in Japan have successfully used CRISPR Cas9 gene editing to remove the extra chromosome 21 responsible for Down syndrome from human cells for the first time. The team is led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume. Published in PNAS Nexus
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico: “I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas.  That’s why I'm supporting you.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump's White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released by a government watchdog group.
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Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for co...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/05/2026
I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymandering we’re seeing in the South, makes complete sense if you remember it was all in Project 2025. This was part of the plan. It’s white supremacy and too many ignored it.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.
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ApplesHardcoreYo @appleshardcoreyo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There have been very very very few positive "media moguls" in all of American history, people who have left the industry and the world better than they found it. Ted Turner was one of those very very very few: www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Ted Turner, Who Shaped Cable TV and Launched CNN, Has Died at 87
The high-profile media mogul was also a philanthropist and U.S. landowner; “I’ve won more than most.”
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 06/05/2026
CNN says founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died.
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CNN says founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died - The Boston Globe
Turner’s signature achievement was creating CNN, the first 24-hour, all-news television network in 1980.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Every Democrat's platform for 2026 and beyond must address the needs of real people AND structural reform of our broken government. That includes an expanded Supreme Court, a strong push to make DC & PR states, changes in Senate rules, an end to Citizen's United and serious campaign finance reform.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself. Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/04/2026
No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/04/2026
Holy shit, it wasn’t your imagination. Look at this poll. New Gudelunas Strategies numbers show Xavier Becerra surging, the same momentum we’ve been seeing online. Not a top-tier poll, but still, the direction is clear: Becerra is rising fast after Swalwell dropped out. Keep the polls coming!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In his lawsuit against @theatlantic.com insisting he's not a drunk, Kash confirms he did get locked out of FBI systems on April 10. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
23. The Article’s assertions that on April 10, 2026, Director Patel
“panicked, frantically” announcing he had been fired, engaged in a “freak-out,” and
“is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy,” are false. On April 10, 2026,
Director Patel had a routine technical problem logging into a government system,
which was quickly fixed. Director Patel’s sole focus is on carrying out the
administration’s law enforcement priorities. Prior to publication, the FBI expressly
informed Defendants that the firing rumor was a “made-up rumor,” and that the
“freak-out” and job-jeopardy claims were fabricated
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Matt Schlapp grifting off Hungarian taxpayers comes to an end.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In case anyone is still confused
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🇱🇹 4fouls @4fouls.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Why do you think President Trump posted that photo depicting Jesus? Nancy Pelosi — 🔥😂 "You should ask a psychiatrist. It needs diagnosis, not conversation"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/04/2026
Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt www.wired.com/story/govern...
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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion
“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14/04/2026
Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar said on Monday that if Russian President Vladimir Putin were to initiate a call with him, he would speak with him and tell him to end the war in Ukraine. to.pbs.org/4tKD0Gn
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After election win, Magyar says he’d ask Putin to end the Ukraine war: 'It would be nice to end the killing'
“If Vladimir Putin calls, I’ll pick up the phone,” he said at his first news conference after his landslide win against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a Putin ally.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/04/2026
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Волод... # -32m ...
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Congratulations to @magyarpeterMP and the
TISZA party on their landslide victory. It is important when a constructive approach prevails.
Ukraine has always strived for good-neighborly relations with every European country, and we are ready to advance our cooperation with Hungary.
Europe and every European nation must strengthen; millions of Europeans yearn for cooperation and stability.
We are ready for meetings and joint constructive work for the benefit of both nations, as well as for the sake of Europe's peace, security, and stability.
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Rosegarden54🦋💙🦋 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/04/2026
Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power
Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2026
BREAKING: Victor Orban has CONCEDED to Magyar www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Hungary election live: Polls in Hungary close in tightly fought election after 16 years under Viktor Orbán
Prime minister has been trailing in the polls to Péter Magyar in race that could have repercussions for Europe, the US and Russia
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