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Midlife Orphan

@midlifeorphan.bsky.social
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Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow sacred humans.

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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sometimes you want to make sure a streaming app works on a new device so you hit play on Murderbot and rewatch the first 6 episodes in one sitting. This show deserves more eyeballs on these short, funny, space hippy + snarky synth episodes! Thanks for creating it (+ Sanctuary Moon) @marthawells.com
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Rebecca Thorne @rebeccathorne.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Moss'd in Space is a cozy sci-fi that follows Torian Razner, an ex-smuggler, as she purchases an alien starship covered in moss--only to find out the moss is both sentient, and has severe abandonment issues. Check it out! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Moss'd in Space
USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne delights in a brand new cozy science-fiction romance series...for fans of Martha Wells! Features original inside ...
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Would that I didn't live a continent away. East Coasters, please show up!
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why is the Emmys broadcast entirely bankrolled by pharmaceutical ads this year? #emmys
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Since "Come From Away" came to streaming TV, I've watched it on 9/11 + always cry for Hannah + all those who lost loved ones that day. Sad to find she passed away last year, but so grateful she + the other plane people shared their stories for this powerful show. www.theatermania.com/news/hannah-...
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Hannah O’Rourke, Whose Story of Loss Is Told in Come From Away, Dies at 91 - TheaterMania.com
O’Rourke landed in Gander on her way back from Ireland and was desperate to reach her firefighter son, who was not answering the phone.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Unconscionable cruelty!
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California Immigrant Policy Center @caimmigrant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today, hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants across the country and thousands here in California will lose Temporary Protected Status. We stand in solidarity with Haitian communities as they face this moment. Our full statement ⬇️ bit.ly/4fC1fRE
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California Immigrant Policy Center Stands in Solidarity with Haitian Community as TPS Termination Takes Effect - California Immigrant Policy Center
Los Angeles, Calif. (July 27, 2026) — Today, hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants across the country and thousands here in California will lose Temporary Protected Status (TPS), stripping away ...
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
These are the kind of Christians that terrify fundamentalists. OWL, or Our Whole Lives, is a sex ed program free of shame or judgment. In my town, it's free at the UCC for 8th/9th graders and attended by the interfaith community. #NoShame #InterfaithCommunity #UCC #UnFundamentalist #Deconstruction
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15/06/2026
Officials have banned reporters covering protests at Delaney Hall from wearing gas masks and carrying bags with other protective gear. These kinds of bans are dangerous and wrong. We spoke to journalists who told us why.
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PPE bans not only risk reporters. They risk the public’s right to know
Journalists who cover protests across the U.S. told us how personal protective equipment keeps them safe and helps them report the news
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Queen Sansa @queensansastark.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Wow, Trump finally got a crowd to show up at the Kennedy Center.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
A social safety net catches people left behind by the wealthy. Who get laid off while the CEO departs in a yacht. Who labor nonstop under high stress until their bodies fail. Who survive domestic violence, who lose the farm, who suffer accidents or disasters. Who tradition calls The Least of These.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Welp, David Crowder is the featured musical guest for this horrifying Christian manosphere event. I had hoped he wasn't all in with the white Christian Nationalists, but this FreedomCon website reeks of it. #Crowder #ChristianNationalist #Nope #deconstruction #Exvangelical #IndependentWomen
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Make it #1! Let's go, Exvangelicals. We can do this!
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Maya May @mayaonstage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tulsi Gabbard just resigned. This is how I'll remember her.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 04/05/2026
#MayTheFourthBeWithYou 🚀 “Rebellions are built on hope.” – Jyn Erso, Rogue One
The original AltSpaceForce profile Pic with the phrase May The Fourth Be With You added to the upper left portion.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This thread is wild. Takeaway: don't use self checkout at Target. This poor woman and her family ...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This!
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 06/04/2026
The U.S. Postal Service is warning that taxes mailed April 15 may take days to be postmarked. Oregon recommends mailing by April 9.
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This tax season has a new sneaky deadline: April 9 not April 15
The U.S. Postal Service is warning that taxes mailed April 15 may take days to be postmarked. Oregon recommends mailing by April 9.
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Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Republican Congress is the reason that Hegseth was allowed to start an unwinnable war. The Republican Congress is the reason we are having the worst measles outbreak in decades. The Republican Congress is the reason that people are being terrorized by ICE.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Just, no.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Anti-life, anti-family villainy.
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Lady Justice 🦋🐝🐸💙 @ladyj2025.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
At what point can we stop this madman?? How long can we let him keep power to destroy us all?
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The Supreme Court's tariff decision means the government may have to pay corporations $175 BILLION in refunds. Corporations raised prices and passed those costs off to you. Your family likely paid $1,700 in tariff fees last year. And corporations are getting the refund. Scam.
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RF_Dude Слава Україні 🇺🇦 @rfdude.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And of *course* the DHS Concentration Warehouses will have gun ranges! Because nothing says "Your life is meaningless" like being locked into a dark hole filled with thousands of others & having to listen all day to the sound of gunfire nearby. Horror unimaginable, paid for by your tax dollars.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...
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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/02/2026
Liberation Day has finally arrived
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Evergreen @evergreen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
One minute your advising the commander why he can’t use sidewalk money to build an airfield because, no, a runway is not just a bunch of sidewalks next to each other. The next minute your getting you ass sanctioned off because you don’t do civil law and no one is listening to you. Army stronk sir
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Incredible. Human Art is powerful and transformative. May the horrors cease. May we persist. May Renee and Alex's memory continue to be a blessing.
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Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Excellent episode for understanding why judicial decisions are being ignored, what we should be focusing on, and how we can gird ourselves for what's next. Highly recommend listening while weeding, scrubbing or any other aggravation-relieving activity. Also share widely after listening!!
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Children run in terror from schools and bus stops. Have mercy.
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Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Getting naturalized means you have to learn your civics, read the constitution and its amendments, and explain what it means. Not the voters they are looking for.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If state officials aren't investigating this, and our DOJ is MIA, what are the options? A class action suit?
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions
A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fascinating breakdown for those of us who generally appreciated the show but missed all the details (and dont speak Spanish, even though he told us we had 4 months before this performance to learn it when he was on SNL). Thank you, @beckyhammer.bsky.social !
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Incredibly powerful testimony and advocacy from a disabled citizen unlawfully assaulted and detained. Hear her story.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We can do both!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
the government is gassing our children.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
They all need to come home.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What *is* the purpose of tear gas? Excellent piece from a reporter who's been through it.
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Midlife Orphan @midlifeorphan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Why does a judge not have a stay in place to prevent this violent removal pf pur Haitian neighbors while the TPS case is pending? What am I missing? #StandWithHaitianNeighbors #LespwaFèViv
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