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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12h
Just read yr The Abe Dilemma email. Thank u thank u for "There's no way you could look into his eyes & not try to save him." Happy Doggo can't save all the puppies born into poverty & possible cruelty this particular week; you'd have to sacrifice so so many Abes to be able. It's an awful truth. 😔
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you! Safe *and happy* please!
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The U.S. won't stop getting sicker till millions more realize we were sick already. A healthy country doesn't elect a Trump. A corrupt country does. The GOP - all of the party, donors, and voters - led us here to Trump, not the other way around. He's just the carnival barker pocketing the cash.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I want them out b/c on their own they're deplorable human beings. Trump didn't make them deplorable. Without Trump, they'd have been deplorable human beings. Because they're deplorable, they supported Trump.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The WaPo display page this morning, a continuing chronicle of steep decay.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Do you live in the United States? Are you complicit in all violence that occurs here b/c you're part of our state apparatus, cultural norms and values?
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Agreed, it's not sound reasoning to make any blanket assessment abt morality, social conscience etc about "Cornell" as tho it is a single organism. But I look forward to learning more facts than have thus far been printed abt the Admin's response to rape allegations historically.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An axe murderer doesn't step on the gas that one time not to run over a dog crossing the road. He's AN AXE MURDERER.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay, I read the whole thing. In a vacuum yr post is accurate - ish. But it would, I think, be more accurate to say Pence *one time* did *one* thing aimed at saving the country. The country is not saved; we're in limbo, Pence having made his contribution for years to bring us to this precipice.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👍 Mike apparently has no understanding of the relationship between Mike and every part of the rest of the world that is not Mike.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👍 And woe be unto those on the Dem side of the aisle who spout We must move forward not look backwards. The call should be to move forward with urgency to better application of the law, equally including the rich and powerful.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My impression of him is he's a guy who's spent his life struggling to puzzle through elementary aspects of the human condition. Just not a particularly bright person. But I guess that's a good match for MSM catering to the same.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This type of act - trying all petty avenues - gives me some hope that the GOP doesn't have the magic bullet to just outright chang the vote tabulations. Sad place to be.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
He does not intend to leave.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
earning his latest kickback
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😔 Religions produce a whole lotta societal sickness.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yep. Shows how very lazy so many voters are that in this era with easy info at our fingertips they can't be bothered to go past the most shallow means possible - simple name recognition - as the decider. How stupid is that.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
come on, Maine. geez louise.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Remember this, and get to the polls in November…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😍 How delightful it will be to reach a government that doesn't look like, speak like, or behave like this one.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🤮 Si Newhouse
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So many things wrong with this "deal," but also: it's not a "massive" amount. If we actually receive 1,800,000 tons of diesel from Russia, that's equivalent to: * 3.3 days of US consumption, or * 10 days of US *exports*. It's a drop in the bucket. We send more than that overseas every two weeks.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You're not alone -it's very hard not to wish for an eye-for-an-eye punishment to abusive humans. Seems fair to me. Then I remember that so many of them were abused themselves as children...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Literally nothing too petty for sycophants like Rubio www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep. Exhibit 5,934 of the GOP Congress wasn't and isn't "spineless." This is who they are. They vote in their own interests.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Saddest stats I encounter are this kind of stats. I can deal so much better with humans killing humans, as that's within our collective power to minimize (if only we would); but other species have no such recourse.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yep; you could see Osoff had his prepare line and was going to give it no matter what, not listening well enough & thinking closely enough. unfortunate gap.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hang in there Nina Simone - it'll just be a little while more of your extraordinary patience at the hands of humans. Then ....you'll be amazed at all the love and joy and kindness.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 08/10/2026
Trump and Republicans handed YOUR tax dollars to Big Tech companies like Meta and Amazon. So how much of your money is subsidizing their data centers and AI spending? You deserve the truth. I'm pushing these companies – the same ones that are donating to Trump – for answers.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But it is, you know ... artificial.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Truth 👇 Bomb 💣.........
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I assume to do the conversion will require construction by whatever corrupt company is willing to give him the largest kickback.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks for posting - excellent article that answered many questions I had as to what specific means colleges use to handle these crimes inadequately (in their own self-interests instead of the victims').
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
revolting. The U.S. has got to rid ourselves of our ridiculous slogan claiming we're The Greatest Country on Earth. Humans are awful to the same degree proportionately and everywhere.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
She does exponentially worse than nothing; she votes yes for damage after damage after damage after . . . .
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A timely reminder for readers about what Carl Sagan said in the 1990s. His comments about technology and idiocracy are extremely relevant to the hopium strategies of climate forecasts that rely on technology that doesn’t exist.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/10/2026
www.foodandwine.com/elizabeth-wa...
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Could 3 Major Food Mergers Push Food Prices Higher? Elizabeth Warren Wants Regulators to Take a Closer Look
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is asking federal regulators to scrutinize three proposed food-industry deals involving Kroger, Sysco, and McCormick. She argues the mergers could reduce competition and contribu...
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🥰 Thank you Thunder Valley CDC!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.
dakotanewsnow.com
Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie
Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He's answering in advance our incredulity and outrage when GOP seemingly wins seats against current polls consistently pointing to a blue wave. What has Musk been hired to do to pervert the will of the public?
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riparian2.bsky.social @riparian2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes. I love all the streams and sea and beautiful stone villages, but couldn't live in the UK's vast swaths of denuded landscape.
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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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