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@meritricula.bsky.social
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📌Incorrigible news junkie 📌Animal Advocate 📌Educator at elementary, middle/high school, university levels 📌History enthusiast 📌Devotee of good humor 📌Studied/traveled in numerous countries 📌Compassionate but pain-in-the-side opinionated

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Yes, because only one other POTUS has done so, and it's 'the biggest' and he's a malignant narcissist who sadistically enjoys causing suffering
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Beverly D. @writerbeverly.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I don't forget in his first term he asked why we had nukes, if we weren't going to use them. And he wanted to nuke a hurricane. Setting off a nuclear bomb has been his wet dream for YEARS.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
We’re trying!!
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Paul 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @paulcolam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm sick to the stomach reading every bloody day about the rantings of a madman across the pond. Please hurry up and get this man forever off the news.
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Alt: a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a white shirt and tie and he is fuming mad
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eLViS @possum-107.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Putin is the ONLY person trump consistently defers to. There is 100% something substantial going on there between them.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Nolan’s is an extremely brave man and a decent human being.
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
'Conservation, for Dominique Bikaba, the founder and executive director of Strong Roots Congo, has always been entwined with memory, dispossession and survival.' #gorillas #conservation #nature #anthropology
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‘I escaped death a lot of times’: one man’s lifelong work protecting gorillas and communities in Congo
As a child, Dominique Bikaba, was displaced by a new national park in the DRC. Now he is helping to secure land for wildlife and Indigenous groups against the backdrop of ongoing fighting
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It was a cesspool for sure. But I liked exchanging posts with people who were asking genuine questions. Eventually even those conversations were blocked - sometimes even in the middle of an exchange with a right winger. That was the final straw.
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lerris.bsky.social @lerris.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is the literal truth. Musk will bias the algorithm against anyone who is getting too popular on the left on X. X is and will forever be a right wing cesspool. That was the whole point in buying it. Countries of the world need to ban it since it is essentially a foreign propaganda operation.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I left X like because I had about 5,000 followers but got NO responses to anything for months. Others with far more followers were saying the same thing.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The goal for liberals, progressives and the left should not be to become more effective on X. There is no path towards making that happen. The goal for liberals, progressives and the left should be to destroy X. We could achieve that if we all just left. X needs us. We don't need X.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The "ecosystem isn't broken" on X--it's working as intended. X is a fascist propaganda network because Elon Musk manipulates the algorithm to promote fascist content. Musk manipulates the algorithm to promote fascist content because he is a fascist. The game is rigged.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
God and incredible natural resources, seemingly endless land, the extinction of Indigenous peoples through disease and weapons, slavery, the Civil War, an excellent river system…
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Yes. Savvy. Early Christian leaders chose to celebrate Christian holy days on days of so-called pagan observances. The practice reinforcer people’s habits of religious celebrations on days already marked by polytheistic festivals. It worked.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Powerless and no cards to play??? He’s obviously confused and thinking about the GOP led Senate.
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Frankie5Angels @deuce7crakd.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Keep in mind, if that airman hadn't been rescued and was taken prisoner, Trump would've had to say, "I like people who weren't captured," as he said of McCain. Also, it took "an Easter miracle" to retrieve the airman, even though Iran is supposedly powerless against us and "has no cards to play."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter address as pontiff to renew pleas for peace and dialogue, and to condemn violence, as war in the Middle East cast a shadow over the celebrations. “We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent” he said. trib.al/xc8Ta9u
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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Lol the CIA DDO just had a stroke.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I liked Macron’s suggestions….maybe don’t speak every day.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Stable genius.
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GaryThoren @garythoren.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
🌈 Queer Ally — Happy Birthday Pharrell Williams (b. 1973) Pharrell Williams has long supported LGBTQ+ rights, challenged gender norms, and uplifted queer voices. Not queer—but showing up and speaking out? That matters. #QueerAlly #LGBTQ #QueerLegac
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This administration wants to make America dumb,poor and d sick. That way we’re much easier to control.
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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Absolutely devastating. Congress, the courts, SOMEONE has to stop this from happening. Reason # infinity why I will never NEVER forgive a single person who voted for The Felon. #USFS #ForestService
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/04/2026
The future of the border is one of endless expansion and externalization—well staffed and automated, optimized by artificial intelligence, and implemented by men in green. From 2024:
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The future of the border is even more dystopian than you thought
Automated surveillance and AI are here to stay—whether Trump builds his wall or not.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A live oak in my front yard
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/04/2026
Many of us have loved a tree. It’s not all that unusual to feel that particular bond. It’s also not unusual for that bond to feel a lot like friendship, says RJ Laverne, a master arborist. wapo.st/4bRxcoK
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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
#PuertoRico for Twitler anything that hurts Puerto Ricans AND #SolarEnergy is a win-win. Cutting funding does both.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
And Happy Easter to you. Mr President. Or is Jesus just too woke?
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES Proud_To_Be_Purple @proud-to-be-purple.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
the profanity alone is a sign of a demented mind step up Repugnicans grow a spine before America is dead
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Nothing like mocking a theocracy as crazy while empowering crazy theocrats at home.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Sleepy” Donald Trump during cabinet meeting. I’m sorry, are we keeping you awake?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Democrats File Sweeping Lawsuit to Stop 'Unlawful' Trump Attack on Mail-In Voting | Common Dreams
President Trump's mail-in voting restrictions face a lawsuit from Democrats, arguing he lacks authority to change election laws.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
😅😅This is precious!!
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Ajediday @ajediday.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Friday
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Bought a triple cat bowl holder so when they’re eating the mogs can line up perfe... Oh, never mind.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
No website where Mary Wollstonecraft quotes break 600 likes could ever fail. This is literally what success looks like
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s almost like we told Marjorie Taylor Greene this would happen.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
At this time last year, many Republican leaders believed there was a path to preserve their narrow House majority and easily hold the Senate. Now they privately concede that the House is all but lost and Democrats have a realistic shot at taking the Senate" Let's get it! apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump’s Iran war leaves Republicans adrift ahead of midterms
Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to lower costs and end wars. A year and a half later, he is a wartime president contemplating whether to send U.S. ground troops into an expanding conflict...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fuck. That’s what I was worried about. Makes sense, though - the Warthog pilot would naturally be open to more risk if trying to keep a downed crew member from being captured
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The US Department of War Crimes.
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Ranked News @rankednews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🇱🇧🇮🇱💥 Hezbollah attacks in Kiryat Shmona For daily global news videos, please visit Ranked.News/videos
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Birthright citizenship is the law — the Supreme Court must protect it  #TheHill
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Birthright citizenship is the law — the Supreme Court must protect it 
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I too thought society was advancing beyond benighted views of the LGBTQ community. Then came DJT’s fetid regime and Bessent. What a disaster of a human being and what a miserable face associated with LGBTQ. I’m glad you disavowed this creep. I admire your courage.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/03/2026
🚨 President Zelenskyy and analysts say Russia may have provided Iran with the exact coordinates of the E-3 Sentry at Prince Sultan Air Base. www.aa.com.tr/en/world/rus...
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Russia took satellite images of US base in Saudi Arabia with Iran before strike, Ukraine claims: Report
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is 100% certain Moscow is aiding Iranian strikes, also warning that Russia profits from prolonged war - Anadolu Ajansı
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Average Americans will get one thing from this war. Crushing debt that our descendants will spend their lives paying for.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/03/2026
Iran destroyed a US Air Force E-3 Sentry in an airstrike on a Saudi Arabian base. There are only about 15 of these aircraft, valued at approximately $500 mill each, and losing one is a serious hit to the U.S. ability to detect and track threats at long range. And there’s a Russia connection… 1/2
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/03/2026
Old man Trump has been having chats with his imaginary friends again. 🥴
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I couldn’t care less about his sexual orientation but I sure care about being lied to. And his lies are so dumb. How stupid does he think Americans are? (Rhetorical question. We know the answer.)
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Kai2.0 United We Resist! Divided We Fall! Liberty is fading! @kaini4kreation2.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Im a gay man so the point is not that hes gay (entirely). The point is did you know he was? Did you know hes helped laws to be created to hurt the lgbtq community that he himselfgot coughtup in? That he had to move tk protect himself? He still supports the regime, Hes a repugnant-con (republicunt).
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump is destroying our country. I guess he’s going after another one now.
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meritricula.bsky.social @meritricula.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Maybe overtime tax break enthusiasm will be dampened by the $6000 tax deduction for seniors which didn’t do anything to reduce my taxes.
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