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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 · 09/04/2026
🤣 Thankfully that scandal actually mattered to voters. These last few years I feared everyone would get away with any dirty deed.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
TACO is a beautiful thing in this case. I got to turn off my 8pm alarm for profound dread.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Why haven't you called everyone in your caucus back and told Johnson you're there waiting on him? It's a strange few days for you to be silent. I'm genuinely surprised. I hope you've got a plan.
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"This day was so curse it needed a priest, a rabbi, and a bundle of sage..." 😂
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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.
nprillinois.org
'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
substack.com
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
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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
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I can't imagine being in the mind of the person who had to code this in as a new alert. Not the people giving orders or passing along orders, but the final human step before the screen. I'd be the head-shaking person taking a deep breath and thinking a meteor strike was once more likely than this.
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
💔 This one hits hard! I look at hers and see my great-grandmother's hands...
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
NYC confirmed 0 across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx & Staten Island. They even said it officially before any story could be spun. NYPD public affairs team's version of saying ❌👑 was getting to say "peacefully exercising their first amendment rights."
Screenshot of @NYPD News official account on Twitter post at 3:27 EST on 10/18/25

"The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted.  We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests."

50k views had been recorded by the time this screenshot was taken.
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Awesome perspective for the video! I couldn't stop watching.
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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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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
If Fox would show even 1min of truth on today's No Kings protests, it would be a miracle. Instead they'll spend the week amplifying whatever lies come next. Violent mobs of frogs and other BS. 🙄
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Walks of Life @oblyn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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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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