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Sonya Harrell

@sonyaharrell.bsky.social
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Perpetual student, triathlete, crazy-cat-lady-in-training, lawyer. Seminoles ♥️ and Jaguars 🩵. Skeets (is that really what they’re called?) are made in my personal capacity and have absolutely nothing to do with my employer.

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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thinking of you and your sweet girl. My 17-year old cat is also on his 9th life and I’m trying to spend as much time with him as possible. Give your girl some chin scritches from us, and I hope she perks up soon.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The world is less beautiful today. Thank you, #DollyParton, for all the joy you brought us through the years. We will always love you. Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#eclipse2026
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I would kill or die for Larry
A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#MemorialDay hits different this year. In memory of these thirteen and all the others who made the ultimate sacrifice. www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/u...
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The lives behind the 13 US troop deaths tied to the Iran war | CNN
On this Memorial Day, grieving families are remembering the 13 US troops who have been killed so far in connection with the war with Iran.
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Aquilino A. Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They didn't want to award the Capitol Police a medal or a plaque but want to reward the people who orchestrated and took part in the violence that injured me and ended my career. Why did we risk our lives for then? What a betrayal this is to us and to the rule of law days after “police week”.
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Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
On Tuesday, when the world was ending and no one cared about this, I wrote an essay about Artemis II, memories of the wonder of Apollo 8, and the lost loves of science, diversity, internationalism... ... and hope share.inquirer.com/3v1Yiv
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In 1968, a moon shot brought hope. Did Artemis II? | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, lies about Trump’s health should be a huge scandal
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Ah, yes, the traditional Presidential Easter message. Maundy Thursday followed by Good Friday then Resurrection Sunday then Power Plant Tuesday. #25thAmendment
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Great speech, dude.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Spring forward... Fall back... whatever. Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
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Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet
Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Exactly 46 years since the Miracle on Ice! #TeamUSA 🥇🇺🇸
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We should never have allowed the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln to be submerged in a meaningless "Presidents Day."
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026
If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

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That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰
Based Yankee
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You and Bad Bunny should be deported
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/02/2026
“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:
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The Sports Section With Swagger
My old corner of The Washington Post raised some of the best journalists in the business.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
40 years since they slipped the surly bonds of earth. “Make your life count -- and the world will be a better place because you tried.” - Ellison Onizuka, #Challenger crew challenger.org/news-insight...
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Forty Years Later: Remembering Challenger, Launching the Future | Blogs | Challenger Center
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"Pete Hegseth might consider adding another task to his many duties, one that would be of immense help to the nation and to the armed forces: He should shut up." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out
By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Never forget that without Trump, these are people who would never have been within a million miles of any job that carries serious responsibilities - and they know it.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
What amazingly stupid international policy.
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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Success! #whamageddon
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/12/2025
“I now find myself comforted less by the songs of my childhood and more by the music I came to love as a teen and young adult,” radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “I still have fond recollections of my childhood, but I also have a kind of newer nostalgia.”
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An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist
A roundup of songs that evoke a new nostalgia
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
MAHA Wins
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This is what they voted for.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@radiofreetom.bsky.social had some great lines in this article. All of his articles have some great zingers, but this one was spectacularly spectacular
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Why do these articles never ask the basic question of "does the president have the power to do that?" because the answer is obviously and clearly no.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/12/2025
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“In effect, Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: Quiet, piggy.” Thanks, @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
They’re calling it the Festivus Speech™️ because it was just 15 minutes worth of airing of grievances
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no
Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history.
He doesn't care about the life of the mind
OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper.
He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or youngson. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them
— and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he'svery ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I agree. No one who supports Trump should be able to say "oh, I didn't see/hear about that post about Reiner."
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, we must resist it, resist it without bitterness or despair by being bright lights in a dark time.” From The Daily Stoic, Dec 15, 2025 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... This material may be protected by copyright
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In a World Gone Shallow, In a World Gone Lean | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
Podcast Episode · The Daily Stoic · 12/15/2025 · 9m
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
So much senseless violence: Brown University, Bondi Beach, Rob and Michele Reiner. Devastating.
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Yes. #GenX Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
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Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
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Sonya Harrell @sonyaharrell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Time to wear ear plugs when going shopping #whamageddon
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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