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Walks of Life

@oblyn.bsky.social
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Strange, fun, sarcastic, exhausted mom with too many pets. Political NYC/Boston/Asheville Dem 💙⚖️ I post a lot about many things. In Helene recovery Child of the 80s. Bronx kid. 🏳️‍🌈🦄 ✡️ My VERY mixed heritage shaped me. Marketing & PR was my life...Disabled

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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I'm living in a daze, watching the world fall apart through a fog. My wife of 13 years passed away a week ago, after a long battle with illness. For an extra twist of the knife to my NYer heart, it was at 9:11pm. My son and I are grateful for so much compassion & the comfort of family and friends.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It would have been more impactful if every dem & any sane republican went back to washington absent the wished-for Johnson's call to return and held a "We're here waiting for you!" press conference.
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Pilounette ✨ @pilounettes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Glad to know the US Congress is out on a vacation and is resting from the strong effort they demonstrated.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If your job includes pulling a disabled woman from her car by her hair, you might want to consider finding a new job.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 14/01/2026
House Democrats just DEFEATED a Republican bill to let employers deny overtime pay or minimum wage to workers if they classify time worked as "job training" or "education." 6 Republicans joined us and the vote failed; GOP leaders then cancelled votes on two more anti-labor bills.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Brave pastor made this call... 💙 The scene shows the biblical Holy Family as targets of modern immigration enforcement. “The goal is to disturb, to make people feel something” said Rev. Andrew Shipley. “What’s been happening to Charlotte families… is disturbing and is graphic and horrifying.”
charlotteobserver.com
Charlotte church adds ICE agents to nativity scene that aims to ‘disturb’ passersby
“If the Holy Family had been in Charlotte two weeks ago, they would have been putting the baby Jesus in handcuffs,” the pastor said.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Trump and his Administration are targeting me because I said something they didn’t like — but here’s the thing: I won’t be intimidated into silence. I’ve overcome challenges a lot tougher than Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 07/11/2025
In 2025, VoteVets & our candidates kicked ass. We flipped the VA Gov seat red2blue with @abigailspanberger.com, elected @mikiesherrill.bsky.social as NJ's first woman veteran Gov, flipped a solid red VA seat, & passed CA #Prop 50. And we'll do it again in '26 and '28! Vets earn swing voter trust!
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'll just leave this here. 😯 I'd like to make it required reading for congress.
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'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)
This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I know there are reasons to be pissed at Amazon, but this week they've found a conscience... If you're on SNAP or Medicaid, they've made prime super cheap. 3.50/month for 3 months, $6.99/mo after. Get the prime pricing & 2 day shipping for HOLIDAY SHOPPING. Just sharing in case anyone needs it.
Blie backgrpund. Prime access logo on top.
Body Text: All of Prime, half the price.
Prime is nust $3.50/month for 3 montbs for EVF AND Medicaid recipients, and 6.99/montb thereafter if you verify with a qualifying government assistance document within 7 days of joining prime.

Yellow button: "Get Started"
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WHO @who.int · 01/11/2025
As leaders head to #COP30, experts are calling to: 🩺 Put health at the centre of climate ambition 💡 Take stronger action for healthier futures Stay tuned for more on health action at COP30 👉 bit.ly/HealthCOP30
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Evil can cover its face, but ICE payments will expose them when the trials come. Unfortunately, that truth does nothing to protect anyone from the monsters in ICE right now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/10/2025
FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."
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Marie 💙 @merrirrro.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great news; let’s see if Felon47 fights it. The money has been there for several years. America’s taxpayers paid this LONG ago. The only point to withholding it is CRUELTY and trying to bully democrats. I can’t wait for our Nuremberg trials. #Voices4Victory www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Judge orders Trump administration to release billions in SNAP contingency funds
The government did rely on contingency funding to keep food aid going when it shut down during President Donald Trump’s first term.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Last minute halloween decor. 🎃🎃🎃Life happened, and the world has gone mad... and I totally forgot.
Lawn covered in leaves with halloween signs.
Nearest: Black with red text: "Danger Keep Out!"
Middle: Skull on top with backbone down left side. White text on black tombstone: "Bad to the Bone"
Porch: Black rectangle with white text "Welcome"
Beige skull on right side of porch.
Hanging from door: Black rectangle with white text: "Haunted" with green creepy mask hanging at the top.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/10/2025
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I've had to make some unusual phone calls in my life, but calling funeral homes for prices is hands down the hardest and most bizarre.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
💔Gabrielle Union on missing black girls that no one talks about. The overwhelming majority of these girls never even have an Amber alert. Trump claims he wants to clean up crime though. Bullshit.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A fun bonus effect of all the #nokings posts and news is the photo + video tour of states, cities, & towns I haven't visited. 😀💙
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raiken @raiken14.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Can someone on a Sunday show interviewing a Republican member of Congress please play a damn montage of Trump, Vance and Hegseth making speeches to active duty military trashing Democrats and ask them if they think that is appropriate? Asking for a Republic.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The best wood, the most beautiful cardboard
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/10/2025
DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
This compilation gives me chills and hope. 💙🇺🇸❌🤴🏼
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25
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John Reinan @johnnyasheville.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Asheville NC. This crowd seems larger than the June crowd at the same venue. The local newspaper had estimated that one at 6,000.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/10/2025
“I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!” Frogs, axolotls, and a hippo take Manhattan to deflate Trump’s “antifa” slur.
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Frogs, axolotls, and a rhino take Manhattan to deflate Trump’s “antifa” slur.
“I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!"
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NoKings #AVL #WNC
No Kings Asheville - Pack Square Park @6pm

FULL EVENT DESCRIPTION
A rally and lantern march—bring your flashlights and light the way. Come dressed as the hero you want to see in the world or lean into the true horror of Halloween and show up as your local GOP.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
And leave your smartwatch at home... 💙
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities? If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Moved this up to the top of the "Terrifying shit they're announcing" list.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 02/10/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2025
NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2025
Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Cashing in my 401K today. I'll eat the taxes rather than gambling it anymore... I hope I'm making the right call.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2025
BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A government shutdown would devastate people with disabilities. ACA subsidies gone. Social Security offices closed. Applications delayed. Call (202) 224-3121—tell Republicans: protect healthcare & disability services. Lives are on the line. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Trump Compared to Hitler in Scorching Speech to World Leaders | The Colombian president also called for the UN to launch a criminal investigation into his U.S. counterpart. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-compar...
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Trump Compared to Hitler in Scorching Speech to World Leaders
The Colombian president also called for the UN to launch a criminal investigation into his U.S. counterpart.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Whoever did this deserves a #resist medal. 🤣 Taking the old spray painting technique and elevating it to this level is incredible!
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A statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands in D.C. is removed as fast as it appeared
The statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands mid-frolic wasn't the first anti-Trump artwork on the National Mall in recent months. But it was the first to be removed, despite having a permit.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
As a 40+ yo woman I thought I'd figured out (or at least muddled through) all the adulting & caregiving things... Then Adult Protective Services comes to "check in" on my wife's ongoing medical care - there is no f'n hint about what they need. Confidence in care doesn't mean I wasn't terrified. 😳
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."
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