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Kathi Norman

@opnormal.bsky.social
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Retired UHC IT Sr Director; Gaga to granddaughters; liberal AF; North Carolina; support LGBTQIA+; no DMs, will BLOCK sexual content, etc.

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mmpvoirdire.bsky.social @mmpvoirdire.bsky.social · 17h
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Michelle Obama Announces $1.5M Gift on International Day of the Girl
YouTube video by Obama Foundation
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KQ5 @kq5.bsky.social · 14h
Patsy is very popular today, so I'll post her again tomorrow! Have a good night, all!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14h
There is, writes @davidfrum.bsky.social, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 14h
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Amy Sommers 李雅美 @amysommers.bsky.social · 14h
Tell us you’re a thin-skinned petty loser without admitting just how pathetic you truly are.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 12h
Third DATA Center has been hit! Slava Ukraine!
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Ukrainian Drones Hit Third Yandex Data Center in Four Days, Idling AI Supercomputer Hub | SOFX
Takeaways Up Front 1. A Ukrainian drone strike suspended Yandex’s data center in Vladimir early October 11, the third hit on the Russian firm’s server
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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 12h
This is such a great ad. I’m so jealous of Michigan voters get to vote for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Let’s get him elected so we can help him change the world.
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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · 11h
I am shocked a Casablanca way shocked 😮
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Earth @earthin24.bsky.social · 11h
🌏 2026 🗓 11th - 12th October 🕛 12:00Z 🛰 Himawari8
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 11h
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 11h
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 11h
It’s National Farmers Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we give a much-deserved salute to the men, women, and families who are the backbone of our nation and the stewards of our land. Today we recognize the relentless hard work that puts food on our tables and keeps our country running. We will be ok
1900 First modern submarine is commissioned by the US Navy as the USS Holland. named for its designer John Philip Holland
1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House"
1915 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell an English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners
1920 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
1933 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
1944 "Columbus Day Riot": 30,000 fans descend on NYC's Times Square for singer Frank Sinatra's performance at Paramount Theatre (capacity 3,500)
1960 Japanese politician Inejiro Asanuma is assassinated with a sword during a televised debate live on TV by 17-year old nationalist Otoya Yamaguchi
1962 Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
1973 US President Richard Nixon nominates Gerald Ford to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice President
1980 7 spectators stabbed in a fight at Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in Los Angeles,
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1999 The Day of Six Billion is proclaimed as the 6 billionth living human in the world is born
2007 Former US Vice President Al Goreis awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
2020 China announces it will test entire city of Qingdao, 9 million people, for COVID-19 within five days after a dozen cases discovered
2023 Israel says it will not stop the bombardment of Gaza until hostages released, amid growing Gaza humanitarian crisis with 338,000 displaced and population without electricity and water
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MrPassportKing @mrpassportking.bsky.social · 11h
U.S. NEWS: A federal judge has ordered Trump to cancel any remaining television commercials paid with millions of your tax dollar money to promote his political propaganda campaign.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11h
Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.
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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 11h
The tax breaks the state of Ohio give to the data centers negates any funds that could be raised from them. Laalitya hits the nail on the head with this!
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 11h
By the time the European fascisms of the previous century were fully recognized, it was already to late.
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It Has a Name: Fascism
Fascism must be recognized and called by name. Meaning in the headlines. Regarding it simply as a weakening of democracy, as so many are quick to concede, is a recipe for doing nothing.
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💙💙💙🗽 Be Kind 💙 #Bluecrew 💙💙🇺🇦🫘🦋🐿🍀🌈💕 @platogue.bsky.social · 11h
AFT, absolutely true! Now, #ReleaseAllEpsteinFiles. Let's detox from all liars, grifters, criminals, pedophiles, felons, sycophants, traitors, terrorists, wilful enablers, MAGAts + ICE 💩 🤬🤮😡 Let's #Resist with every tool available + #Vote pro-kindness + sane BLUE ❤️‍🔥✔️ 🗽💙🍀🙏🌏🌻🫂🌥️⛅🦋🐝🐦🐿️🌈💕
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💙☯️KarmasKaos☯️💙 @karmaskaos.bsky.social · 10h
Donald Trump can only dream about having a family who truly loves and adores him.
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Indie Aut. Stuart Miller📖✍️🤓 Believe in yourself & your potential @stuartmiller1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦💙💛 We stand with you Ukraine and President Zelenskyy #UkraineStrong
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 11/10/2026
Thousands of women in the skilled trades took over downtown Houston yesterday! Women from across the U.S. and Canada came together to celebrate their strength, their skills, and the doors they’re opening for the next generation. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For 10 yrs Corporate Media has kissed his fat ass "Why won’t media sound the alarm that Trump is unhinged?" 1-Thx Mark open.substack.com/pub/stopthep... THIS IS WHAT THEY GET FOR IT & FAILING US: Can the Sherman Act Be Used To Silence the Press? 2-Thx Joyce joycevance.substack.com/p/can-the-sh...
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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
💙💙Can’t wait!💙💙
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the past two years, at least 44 governors, 70 US senators and 185 members of the House and their staffs and families have been subject to threats of violence, according to @nytimes.com investigation. @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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Threats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Grifting 👀🤑
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS, indeed...
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😀😂🤣
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mitch McConnell had a busy night. He stayed up way past his usual coffin time to open SNL.
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump is a greedy, stupid, incompetent, sadistic, serial sexual sexual abuser, and traitor. The idea he was a successful businessman who was (even remotely) qualified to serve as POTUS is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For the folks who are still in my mentions telling me this was a hoax: The military doesn’t move strategic bombers for funsies. There was clearly specific intelligence that necessitated emptying Fairford of B-1s.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
yeah, the reason republicans are just not going to budge from texas is the reason why armies try not to abandon their capitals. it isn’t necessarily a strategic defeat to lose the seat of power, but it is a profound blow to morale.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit Donald Trump tries to take our voice and power away. What do we tell him? Your fucking hands off our vote
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 05/10/2026
A Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress after redistricting
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A Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress after redistricting
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Trump’s new AI chatbot wasn’t hallucinating, he lost the 2020 election. But when the newest rollout from the White House contradicted Trump’s rhetoric, they pulled the plug. Now when asked about it, the AI tool says “I do not offer political commentary on elections” and dismisses the question...
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What an asshole congress person!!!
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a freak-show.
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The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of W...
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Covid cave dweller @mariablack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
😂🤣😂
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Jack Resists 'Sic semper tyrannis' 8647 @jack2011.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When you peel back the Trump onion, there’s just a pile of shit in the middle.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 11/09/2026
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Teachers pension plan pledges $10-billion in new investment in Canada by the end of 2027
Pension fund says it intends to invest in both publicly traded equities and private assets
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Sue in Rockville 💙🦋💙🦋💙🦋 @sueinrockville.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#NeverForget911 😢 Too many people may not remember the ultimate sacrifice made by the passengers of UA Fl 93 who fought back & brought it down rather than let a 4th pane attack US Remember these 33 passengers & 7 crew whose bravery must never be forgotten en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanksv...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11/09/2026
Twenty five years ago, extremists attacked America. The destruction, loss, and images of that day will never leave anyone who witnessed them. Today we honor the memories of the lives lost, and the heros who saved so many on 9/11.
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Maggie @courageousgirl2.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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New Mexico leaders ask Apple and Google not to use ‘New America’ on their maps
Members of the state’s congressional delegation said they don’t want a repeat of what happened with Lake America and the Gulf of America.
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 10/09/2026
The deadliest day of President Trump’s Iran war was more than six months ago, but the families of these fallen servicemembers have been left in the dark about what really happened. These families and the American public need answers, now.
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Gold Star family calls on Army to release internal probe into deadly attack on Kuwait base: "My son died unnecessarily"
Six Americans were killed in the March 1 strike on a tactical operations center in Kuwait.
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Kathi Norman @opnormal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nic headline...
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Whatifisaidit @whatifisaidit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Republican Terror Grows As Gold Standard Poll Shows Democrats Leading In Texas
The midterm clock is ticking down and the latest bipartisan AARP Poll of the Texas Senate race shows James Talarico leading Ken Paxton 48%-44%
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