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Laurel

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I had a dream that I was taking a quiz and the first question was whether I could name the last 5 digits of pi. No, I cannot.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Yes.
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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Once again, thank you @bennet.senate.gov this was 🔥! This is what we need from every Senator and Congress person. They need to be held accountable for this.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Molotov Cocktail @mollycocktail.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Who called him Pete Hegseth and not Whiskeyleaks?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025
BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.
fpwellman.substack.com
EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Have I mentioned the cover-up is worse than the crime? Because the cover-up is worse than the crime.
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Laurel @orioletucker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Unwelcome in Denver, unwelcome at The Antlers, unwelcome anywhere in Colorado. It deeply offends me that the GOP thinks my city is a safe haven for the far right. If Venu is unwilling to cancel, join us in protest on the day of the event.
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Laurel @orioletucker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#SomethingBeautiful to cleanse your palate
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Peter @peteandthegang.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Posting this again … Come on Bluesky. We need all 32 million of us to pick a day and time. And step out for 15 minutes a half hour all across the country. And show the world we are standing for our freedom. And felon47 and his government they are heading to jail.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19/03/2025
This is a US court of law, refusing to bar illegal actions of the Executive branch out of an explicit concern that its agents will react with deadly force.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Chris Alexander @chrisa327.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
media.tenor.com
a man wearing headphones is making a funny face and says you are nailing it
ALT: a man wearing headphones is making a funny face and says you are nailing it
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Okay okay, just hear me out…
Kramer from Seinfeld saying:

IF WE DEPORT ELON FOR LYING ON HIS IMMIGRATION PAPERS…

WE CAN SEIZE HIS ASSETS AND BALANCE THE BUDGET
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The aurora right above me
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
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Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID "The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people." Well done.
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James Hicks 🌈♾️ (ASD) 🌈🦋 (ADHD) @drenethdolly.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's possible that some of them lack the stomach for a constitutional crisis. You don't need to bet on Republicans Congressmen. But you do need to call them. Make it as hard for them as possible.
abcnews.go.com
Some Republicans defend courts against Trump administration attacks
After Vance’s comments that “judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power,” some Republican lawmakers find themselves defending the judicial branch.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
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RadarNick @radarnick.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you want to know where Donald Trump gets his vision. Look no further than Hitler, Mussolini, Bonaparte and Franco.
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David C Cathcart @dccathcart.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Monday afternoon doodle
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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · 17/02/2025
Feeling a little overwhelmed of late, had to take a bit of a mental break to quiet thoughts. I endeavored for my brain to look like this photo, #SomethingBeautiful photographed while drifting by on a kayak on the Cosumnes River. #PhotographersUnited #BirdPhotography #Kayaking #Silence #Solitude
A great white egret stands on a curved branch of a downed tree. The background is a soft, dark tangle of branches and grasses, and there are grasses in the foreground as well.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Sometimes I think about how close we were to the fun stories about VP Walz saying some truth that Republicans would turn into multi day scandals.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This is what happens when you're an uninformed immigrant. Someone tell this weirdo to study up for his naturalization exam.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
✅ DEI Employer of the Day™ DSW "We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI], and call on our associates, customers, and communities to hold us accountable to showing it every day." The NAACP Black Consumer Advisory encourages consumers to 'buy-in' on companies that back their values.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We agree.
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Laurel @orioletucker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
CO 5 - who are we running to oppose Jeff Crank? I want to put my energy into getting that going because appealing to any sense of rationality or actual values is not working. He's obviously not on speaking terms with reality. @radarnick.bsky.social - know anyone? #ColoradoSprings #CODistrict5
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
nbcnews.com
CDC 'disease detectors' among hundreds fired as Trump administration ramps up agency cuts
Administration officials last week informed CDC leaders of plans to cut up to 10% of its workforce as it targeted federal probationary employees.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 16/02/2025
hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...
theverge.com
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/02/2025
When a judge stops the president from doing something illegal, that’s not a “threat to democracy,” that’s a check on the president’s power. That's the whole damn point.
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Laurel @orioletucker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#SomethingBeautiful to cleanse your palate
An isolated snow squall over Colorado Springs in the midst of sunshine and blue skies
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Laurel @orioletucker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Happy Valentine's Day! My annual tradition is a trip to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Today I actually got to pet Acacia, one of the youngest red-necked wallabies, but then she got the zoomies so here's a picture of the mob matriarch Matilda, instead. #ValentinesDay #AceOfHearts
Side profile close up of a red-necked wallaby holding and munching on a delicious stick she found
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I’m just saying it feels like this level of sustained anxiety should be burning more calories than this
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
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RadarNick @radarnick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The NIH supports scientists who provide research on cutting edge drugs such as the new Diabetes drug Ozempic. The support through the National Institute of Health provides the funds needed for these scientists to operate the labs needed to develop these drugs. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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Kippy Spilker @kippy.geminai.com · 07/02/2025
Last night at a work event, I saw #SomethingBeautiful. I'm not sure Olaf the Owl thought the same. haha. He stared at me for nearly a full minute like this. Perhaps he sensed my adoration ... #PhotographersUnited #Owls #Falconers #Raptors #UnrequitedLove
A man holds a beautiful great horned (I think) owl, which is focused very strongly on the photographer. This is at an event, so indoor lighting, and a slide show playing in the background.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I'm having salad for dinner. Actually, it's fruit salad. Well, mostly grapes. OK, all grapes. Fermented Grapes. Wine. I'm having wine for dinner.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Fact. Let's see some justice for America, already.
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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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