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Desert dweller, interested in sciences, democracy, environment, arts and culture. ~ La Cultura Cura ~ No Kings, Tyrants, or Kleptocrats

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 11/07/2026
Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.
Closeup of a snowy plover sitting in the sand
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Thomas/Thom @thomasfein.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Musicians are dropping tracks re the situation in the U.S. quietly and swiftly. This one from U2 is dedicated to Renee Good, according its ending caption. First time I’ve heard it. ☘️
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U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Forbes @forbes.com · 27/01/2026
ICE officers will be used as security for February’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, despite opposition from Italian government officials.
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ICE Will Reportedly Be Used As Security At Winter Olympics
ICE officers will be used as security for February’s Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, despite opposition from Italian government officials.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community. I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Every day that Jonathan Ross, Gregory Bovino, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Donald Trump walk free is an intolerable breach of justice.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 23/01/2026
BREAKING Trump withdraws invite for Canada's Carney to join 'Board of Peace'
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Arizona Luminaria @azluminaria.org · 22/01/2026
The Tucson City Council voted unanimously today to draft an ordinance blocking ICE from using city-owned property for civil immigration enforcement azluminaria.org/2026/01/21/tucson-m…
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Tucson moves to block ICE use of city property - AZ Luminaria
The Tucson City Council directed the city manager and attorney Wednesday to craft an ordinance barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from staging or carrying out civil immigration enforcement on city property. Mayor Regina Romero opened up the discussion saying it’s important that residents feel safe on city property, regardless of their immigration status.  “We’ve […]
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
May the four winds blow you safely home. What a gift of a life. Love to everyone in this crazy and beautiful universal family.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 09/01/2026
Just one day after Renee Good was gunned down by ICE in Minneapolis, federal agents under Trump have shot more people, this time in my neighborhood. I am furious.
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Pima County Democratic Party @pimadems.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A statement from Chair Robbins on yesterday's shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis & the legacy of political violence here in Pima County, 15 years after the horrific shooting on January 8th, 2011.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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Samota📎 🐸🪈 @samota.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy Solstice Bluesky “...This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar...” ― Margaret Atwood
Happy Winter Solstice card with white wreath and dark blue background
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
NEW: Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us that Trump is a schmuck. (He was also a friend, and I'll miss our very long lunches.)
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Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck.
The president's remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
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Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Choose where you want your money to go~ to millionaires and billionaires, or back to your community. Tucson - Consider buying a membership to Reid Park Zoo or the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. What else?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/11/2025
Last night’s lavish White House dinner showed us the global oligarchy coming together in plain sight. By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document flip.it/BTb1bl
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This 5,500-Year-Old Kish Tablet is the Oldest Written Document
Beer, goats, and grains: here's what the oldest document reveals.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
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Dirk VanderHart @dirquez.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I've been hearing all day about rumors that ICE wants to set up a new outpost on the Oregon coast. Newport officials say their airport is in the agency's sites. #orpol www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Newport officials raise alarm about possible new ICE facility
Rumors have spread since last week that the Trump administration is planning an outpost on Oregon's central coast.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/10/2025
Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/10/2025
Has anyone confirmed that the priceless items in the East Wing were moved out before he demolished it?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
White House "changes course"? No. Trump lied. This was always the plan, obviously. Now people can see it, is all. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19/10/2025
Portland's No Kings protest saw more than 40,000 people marching in the streets. Read more: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... Video by Vickie Connor/The Oregonian
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Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Found this video while explaining the Portland Frogs to someone. Enjoy!
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 18/10/2025
The president has one core job under the Constitution: to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Not thwarted, diverted, blunted, revised or ignored. Faithfully executed.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/10/2025
Little Wolf of the Kumeyaay tribe giving the blessing. #NoKings #SanDiego
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/10/2025
"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11/10/2025
Outside of Portland's ICE facility last night, Kenny from South Park got married to a unicorn. The betrothed Portland couple said they decided to get hitched on site to bring some joy and fun to a dark time. "People can be fun loving people and still protest." www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona has passed one of the most moving and powerful resolutions memorializing the role of the jaguar as a protector of the O’odham with deep cultural and spiritual ties. The resolution also calls on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to…”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
AOC: And when Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it and to fight for it.
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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
She basically invented astrophysics. She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally. She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe. She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
It’s Furry Friends Friday! 🐾♥️ Another tough week. But we are survivors. Find your joy this weekend.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
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TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000)
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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
From Rep. Rosa DeLauro: The courts have decided: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought broke the law. The American people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being spent, but time and again, Russ Vought hides the truth. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked
Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16/09/2025
“When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say: Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.” A life of art, activism, and heart. R.I.P. Robert Redford. 🕊️💫
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2025
Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech: "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I'm increasingly convinced the only thing that will destroy MAGA is MAGA. After Trump departs, they will eat each other. It's already happening. The lies, hate, violence, ego, and vanity and inner fighting. Dem leadership won't step up. Corporate America is complicit. Institutions are corrupt.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
“Question,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on May 23, 2008. “Which one do you prefer,,, lewd and lscivious conduct ,, or procuring minors for prostituion.”

At the time, he and his star-studded team of defense lawyers were closing in on a generous plea deal with federal and state officials in Florida, and Epstein was trying to negotiate the state charges to which he’d plead guilty. Maxwell’s response was matter-of-fact:

From: gmax <gmax[REDACTED]>
To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, May 23 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re:
I suppose Lewd and lecivious conduct..I would prefer lewd and lescivious conduct w/a prositute if possible
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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We warned he would attempt to become an authoritarian. We warned that Project 2025 was indeed their playbook. We warned that not voting for Harris could be a death sentence for our democracy. And, here we are.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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