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Ophelia

@ophelialives.bsky.social
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Saddened by the state of the world. I rehome spiders. I tend to judge people on how they load a dishwasher & how they vote. Music is my church. I like to polish shoes. Just muttering into the void.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is Judge Susan Crawford. She's running for the deciding seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 1 against a massive influx of Elon Musk's $. It's a very significant election. Go to crawfordforwi.com.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
⏰ it has only been 10 years, @marshablackburn.bsky.social will probably get around to it eventually
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025
You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
theatlantic.com
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I will never get bored with the UK adds. Keep going folks!
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12/03/2025
Here are the top 5 dog reunions of all time!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
He was always a used car salesman at heart.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 07/03/2025
IOWA!!!!! On TUES, you might have the chance to flip stare house seat!! If you live in state HD 100, you get to vote for D, Nanette Griffin Every seat we can flip matters, especially if we can flip a seat in a district and D hasn’t even run in since 2022 Vote!!!!! www.nannetteforiowa.com
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
And there it is. Motherfuckers.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Not even hiding it.
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky! Get up and walk out!!! For the love of god…
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 27/02/2025
Get the word out on these special elections We win these three and we take the house No more trifecta No more BS from Trump We need people in these districts to step up and fight for it Contact your friends and neighbors and raise hell gayforcongress.com joshweil.us blakegendebienforcongress.com
Graphic with all three campaigns mentioned
The links are in the copy in the post.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Howls make the whole world smile 😊
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Chief Shenanigans Officer @shenanigans55.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So now NO ONE is looking out for workers’ safety?? 🤬
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
His release was long overdue!!
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“For the basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.” JFK
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edjoelink.bsky.social @edjoelink.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
President Obama, where are you 🦇🌆 youtu.be/ZkPSbp3zTfo?...
youtu.be
Come Back, Barack - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Marc Johnson @blogguero.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Houston, we have a conflict of interest.
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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
IM NOT IN A BAD MOOD, IM JUST SMART.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🇺🇸 Happy Birthday, Abe. Sadly, they still haven’t gotten over it.
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Grey @mgreys.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Kara @karac1963.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
For the old, white folk in the back like me that needed some help with interpreting #KendrickLamar’s #halftime performance last night, I got some help from a 30 something. Brilliant! 🤯
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Off the ketamine and on the blow- easier to keep those late nights going even later. Wait until he starts getting the paranoids ….
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/02/2025
A statement from the Kennedy Center
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dear world, please tell me the craziness is about to horribly implode and go away. I don’t think I can do another week.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Oops 😬
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
truthout.org
Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Rejection letter day… I suppose I’ve aged out of being able to be employed 😭 Anyone hiring around here?? Sad - down - rejected
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ALT: a close up of a cat 's face with a blurred background that says ' i am ' on it
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Alex Cole @acnewsitics.com · 04/02/2025
This is so good.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
She’s right
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Question for anyone not raised in the U.S.: how maybe continents were you taught in school?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
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🆂🆃🅴🆅🅴🅽 🌈☕🐸 @zencoffeebreak.com · 31/01/2025
tattoo? i can barely commit to placing a cool sticker
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps
For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders.
Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the
Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle.
In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets
that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.
Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that
has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps.
This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical
office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025:
Print - The New York Times
TV - NBC News
Radio - National Public Radio
Online News - POLITICO
In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the
Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets.
Print - New York Post
TV - One America News Network
Radio - Breitbart News Network
Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously.
The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new
outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps.
Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media
Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon.
(John Ullyot
Acting
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Friends! Wolves in MT could use your voices. The MT House is voting on HB 176 TODAY at 1 pm MST. Call 406-44404800 + leave a message for MT legislators asking them to vote no on HB 176. The bill aims to kill unlimited numbers of wolves across the state until the population reaches 450.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 31/01/2025
I’m so grateful to be sworn in for a second term in Texas 30! Thank you to the nearly 1,000 friends, family, constituents, and elected officials who joined me for Tuesday’s swearing-in. I’m honored by your support and will keep fighting for Texas 30.
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@eliothiggins.bsky.social will your Feb 6 lecture be available online?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 30/01/2025
Heroes
Tweet from MapQuest:

fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it

3:01 PM • Jan 29, 2025
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.
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Ophelia @ophelialives.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@jimacosta.bsky.social I wish you all the best in your future endeavors & extend my heartfelt gratitude for sharing your wisdom & knowledge with us. Your skills as a journalist rank alongside the greats of the field,such as Rather and Cronkite. Thank you!!! Let us know where you’ll be next. xx
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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#MondayMotivation
Crossing things off my to-do list. I didn't do them. I just don't want them on my list anymore.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
TW: Discussions of animal cruelty, sad images of confined animals Huge thanks to the Humane Society of the US + Ohio authorities for rescuring 100s of foxes, wolf-dogs, coyotes, raccoons + more from a fur farm in OH. They were being tortured + would have eventually been killed for they fur.
worldanimalnews.com
Hundreds Of Foxes, Raccoons, Wolf-Dogs, Skunks & Coyotes Rescued From Fur Farm In Ohio - World Animal News
Photos by HSUS This weekend, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Ohio authorities completed a rescue operation of hundreds of animals from a fur and urine farm near Cleveland, Ohio. The...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/01/2025
This goes hard
Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post.

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the
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Dan Appalachia @danappalachia.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Gotta love the BBC.
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