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@refriedgenes.bsky.social
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Old Pollyanna, but more discerning. 💙🩵💙🩵💚🩵💙Fav colors are Blue and Green of Mother Earth. OF = Block. I like new followers, and following others, but please don’t add me to packs.

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/04/2026
By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.
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Virginia Democrats Win Redistricting Referendum, Potentially Flipping Four House Seats
By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Republicans are finding out how Americans really feel about their authoritarian tactics. It’s a good day.
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Leigh @goingreennn123.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So it's Congress NOT The President that has the power of the purse. It's also congress who provides oversight to the executive branch. All these failures lead back to Elected Republicans especially Mike Johnson. His failures are costing us all.
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filmat11 @filmat11.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
some good color over the Goldfield Mountains here in Apache Junction, Arizona Tuesday night☁️🌵⛰️
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🧷PussyCatsResist🧷 @pussycatsresist.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
ground.news/article/the-... The Onion won the IP known as InfoWars when it was auctioned off to pay the Sandy Hook families that Alex Jones TERRORIZED after their children were massacred. Alex Jones sued to stop the Onion from taking InfoWars. He lost. 🤣 The NEW InfoWars will be a Satire Site. 😂
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The Onion launches new bid to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars and turn it into a parody platform
Satirical news site The Onion said it has reached an agreement to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars company.
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Leigh @goingreennn123.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Most of our problems can be solved by adhering to the Constitution and the rule of law Taxing the rich End Citizens United, electoral college & qualified inmunity
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"This is an important thing to think about."
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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP’s huge new ultra-deep oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico, 16 years to the day since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster caused the worst oil spill in US history.
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Climate groups sue US government over approval of new BP project in Gulf of Mexico
Advocates expressed alarm as new project drills deeper into ocean bed, pointing to company’s failures at Deepwater Horizon spill
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/04/2026
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
theguardian.com
Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege
The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta
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~<《🅕🅛🅨》>~ @fly1966.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yet another failed Amazon delivery 😑 sent to the wrong address. www.the-independent.com/space/blue-o...
the-independent.com
Blue Origin loses satellite in setback for Jeff Bezos’s moon rocket
New Glenn rocket is being developed to send astronauts to the Moon as part of Nasa’s Artemis IV mission
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime. Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings. Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks. With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour. Further narrowing GOP majority
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 20/04/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. The head of the FAA, the person whose job is to oversee the airline industry, failed to divest his MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR stake in an airline company his agency regulates.
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FAA Chief Dumps Millions in Airline Stock Months After His Ethics Agreement Deadline
Bryan Bedford held a multimillion-dollar stake in an airline company his agency oversees.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 20/04/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.
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Opinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore
“I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What do these companies have in common? -Block -Citigroup -Coinbase -CVS -Dominion Energy -Disney -Halliburton -Hasbro -HP -Kohl's -Live Nation -Palantir -Paypal -PG&E -Southwest Airlines -Tesla -United Airlines They all paid a lower effective income tax rate than you: zero.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Great Question, Winona.......
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
🧪Ivermectin is no match for mRNA based technology.
Those seeking to make ivermectin OTC point to its winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015.
Yes. Ivermectin won the Nobel Prize for its role in treating onchocerciasis and elephantiasis, two parasitic diseases.
Do know what else won the Nobel Prize in 2023?
mRNA vaccines.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/04/2026
Fantastic 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Last weekend, a lot of us took a second look at Xavier Becerra, and it’s good to see him getting the love right now.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Pope Leo is everything that Trump wishes he were: fearless, highly respected, credible, intelligent, beloved. And popular. This may be a good explanation for Trump's continual, puerile tirade against the Pope and why he is failing miserably.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Canada is home to the second-largest Sikh community in the world. This Sikh Heritage Month, we celebrate the generations of Sikh Canadians who have contributed to our shared prosperity, strengthened our communities, and helped build a stronger Canada.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is why he voted with the Republicans‼️ Most don’t believe in a Jewish state because it sets up a society based on religion and ethnic hierarchy. Many people don’t follow the Torah.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 19/04/2026
Amanda Ungaro was deported to Brazil in 2025 and has since become very vocal about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
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Amanda Ungaro Says Melania Trump Knows She Saw ‘Compromising Interactions’
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Mark214 #FDT💙💙 @mark214.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Shoebills are unfortunately not doing too well in the wild. It has been estimated that there are only between 3,300 - 5,300 adult shoebills left in the world according to IUCN. This is due to wars, habitat loss, poaching and capture for the illegal pet trade. TT: birdkeeperkirsty_
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/air-...
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Terrifying warning as Atlantic Ocean current may collapse by mid-century www.rawstory.com/atlantic-oce...
rawstory.com
Terrifying warning as Atlantic Ocean current may collapse by mid-century
The global climate crisis is causing a critical Atlantic Ocean current system to weaken much sooner than previously predicted, according to a study published on Thursday. If it stops, scientists say i...
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isaac @sevier.io · 17/04/2026
12 more states have bills to ban new data centers but Maine passed theirs first. The future is absolutely up for grabs. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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Maine passes first-in-nation freeze on big data centers
The Maine legislature passed the first state ban in the nation on the development of large data centers on Tuesday.  The temporary measure, which lasts for 1.5 years, restricts the constructio…
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row
Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We live to fight another day! A victory tonight—as we killed a backroom deal Johnson and the WH cut to extend FISA authority for five more years. Dropped in the middle of the night. We killed it on the Floor. But, it will be back. So we must keep fighting!
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💙💙💙🗽 Be Kind 💙 #Bluecrew 💙💙🇺🇦🫘🦋🐿🍀🌈💕 @platogue.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"President's absolute immunity from criminal prosecution"? Bollocks! Utter drivel! We pay his salary?! Let's #Resist + #Vote pro-kindness + BLUE ❤️‍🔥✔️ 🗽💙🍀🙏🌏🌻🫂🌥️⛅🦋🐝🐦🐿️🌈💕
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/04/2026
Is blasphemy the last straw for Trump’s Maga base? – podcast
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Is blasphemy the last straw for Trump’s Maga base? – podcast
Jonathan Freedland speaks to Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramírez about whether Donald Trump’s latest scandal comparing himself to Jesus is a step too far for Maga
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NPR @npr.org · 17/04/2026
Earlier in the morning GOP leaders had pushed for either a five-year renewal or the 18-month renewal President Trump had demanded, but both votes tanked. n.pr/4sHyEz7
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House extends surveillance powers for 10 days
Earlier in the morning GOP leaders had pushed for either a five-year renewal or the 18-month renewal President Trump had demanded, but both votes tanked.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I will be really, REALLY happy when John Fetterman leaves the Senate.
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
...says the man with the highest net worth on this rock spinning through the void.
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savefrogs2.bsky.social @savefrogs2.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Republicans are attempting to gut every public asset-- from national parks to healthcare, public education. www.wral.com/story/nyt-iv...
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NYT: Ivanka Trump, Kushner have 'unusual connection' with Chilean company owner that worked with administration to secure mining lease
A Chilean mining company whose owner has business ties to President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner was able to clear significant "roadblocks" in the early days o...
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gynomeg.bsky.social @gynomeg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Take a look at Butte, Montana. Large copper mine in the past, largest Super Fund site in the US. Mine has a giant pool of toxic fluid at the base of it, full of arsenic, seeping its way into the water table. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkele...
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Berkeley Pit - Wikipedia
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
And if it passes? It’s not just a setback you can undo in four years. The Congressional Review Act has a poison pill once a protection is overturned this way, no future president can ever issue a similar one again without a brand new act of Congress.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Here’s what makes this especially infuriating: the mine would be operated by Twin Metals a subsidiary of a Chilean company with a deal to smelt the copper in China. Foreign company with foreign profits. American wilderness destroyed. China gets the copper. We get the pollution.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
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