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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I don't know why I bother to get on here. I don't know if I can handle three years and 10.5 more months of being assaulted with the fall of our democracy every single freaking day.

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 18/02/2025

As an example of great community, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently supported her community by educating them on their rights with a guide and webinars to undocumented immigrants. Are YOU leading YOUR community from the front? What are you doing to support your community? youtube.com/shorts/7ldZq...

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Community Example: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #shorts

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 16/02/2025

I made a pivot for my business when I heard Heather Richardson Cox speak with Jon Stewart on his podcast shortly after Donald Trump was elected President. Build a community and take care of it. #resistance youtube.com/shorts/MV43R...

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Community Example: Heather Richardson Cox #shorts

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 17/02/2025

I believe Tolkien said it best

“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

They're all traitors in my opinion.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How long before they go the way of Venezuela and just start making judges you don't agree with them "disappear" ?? 🤬😡

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 08/02/2025

Visit my YouTube live stream at 4 PM Pacific TODAY for how authors can make the most out of joining Bluesky youtube.com/live/K4MCGqn...

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/02/2025

Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’ Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Robert Reich: This is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans: It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making Canada the 51st state, the media has gone ape-shite wild. Meanwhile, Trump’s goons…

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Robert Reich: This is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans

It’s a coup. As Trump talks about taking over Gaza (“beautiful shoreline”), Greenland (“great minerals”), Panama (“very strategic”), and making Canada the 51st state, the media has gone ape-shite wild. Meanwhile, Trump’s goons are taking over the…

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I knew it was going to be bad but I have to admit I'm Shell shocked by this letter from Heather Cox Richardson today because it lays out in no uncertain terms that we are experiencing a coup of the United States government. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...

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February 3, 2025

I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Impeach Trump. Yes?

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I can't deal anymore with these people deflecting instead of answering a question straight and/or being accountable AT ALL. 😡🤬

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I realize we're limited on social media by the number of characters we can use but could y'all stop throwing around acronyms that don't have any explanation? There's a lot of government offices and agencies that average Americans don't have memorized. 😡

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Framing Biden actively participating in a genocide as the Dems "not doing enough on Gaza" is a choice. People are just falling all over themselves to absolve Biden and Harris for their role in Harris's loss.

Post from Patton Oswalt:
"The Democrats didn't do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement."
"Well, Trump won and now he's gonna destroy Gaza."
"Yep. We're paying the price for the Democrats' incompetence."
"We?' The Gazans are paying the price, not us"
Pause.
"I needed to make a statement."

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I will not allow my mother's path-making history to be dismissed.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I know it's hard but can we maybe hold their hand and tell them they're wrong? I like this take.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide.

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”

Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence.

“In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked.

Shumate said, “it absolutely is.”

“Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

People not voting is a major reason why the Nazi party one in Germany.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/12/2024

Michigan man pleads guilty to plotting mass shootings against LGBTQ+ community Mack Adam Davis, 22, of Owosso, admitted in court that that he attempted to conduct a mass killing of individuals at the Shiawassee County Democratic Party headquarters and a nearby bar called the Rainbow Bar.

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Michigan man pleads guilty to plotting mass shootings against LGBTQ+ community

Mack Davis of Owosso admitted he attempted to carry out mass shootings at a political party headquarters and a nearby bar.

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 21/01/2025

If you haven’t yet built your community, now is the time.

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My 2nd place photo winner in a journalism contest a few years back. Atlas Township MI if I remember right. #photo #nature #barn #winter #farm

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Kitten poem I sure would like to go get me a snack, But it seems there's a fuzzy warm kitten in my lap. Everyone knows the unwritten rule; That the dumping of cats on the floor is for fools

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sometimes change requires construction and sometimes change requires destruction. Don't assume just because everything's going to s*** that it's a bad thing. PKS~12.29.2024

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Your Author Platform with Jon Friedl, Ph.D. @handle.invalid · 19/01/2025

So, you ask where your audience hangs out on social media. What if you're not a fan? Oh, no! Your personal preferences are of minor consequence. It's your fans' choice that matters most. There is likely a strong correlation between what you like and what they prefer. youtube.com/shorts/Zuf-_...

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Which Social Media Sites? #shorts

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you follow obvious scam accounts, accounts linked to x-rated sites, or your followers are 95% single women, you're going to be blocked

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

But when I get home the last thing I want to do is open up the laptop and sit down and write. How do I overcome this?

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Paula Schmidt @schmidt-sky1961.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I know recently I've added several people or followed them who are writers. Can y'all explain this to me? Sometimes when I'm driving around in my car and come across a particularly good song it brings out the poet in me and I want to go straight home and write. 1/2...

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