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Spike's Buddy

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Living a blue life under blue skies. Though I love facts and learning about the worlds of science, nature and the arts, I meditate to see the big picture as well.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the history of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most. SMH. Politicians lie. These politicians lie so often it seems like breathing.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21h
Love this 👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.
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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have
A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.
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Bjørn (No ALT? No RP) @sarcasticsmall.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
The problems, consequences and cost of AI are critical to know in order to make decisions on its value as a tool for individuals and societies. If these claim against the EU are true, it's a serious issuse.
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John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢 @johnmoffitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Indeed
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
Georgia’s election board asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate a leading nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program, potentially adding yet another probe based on hyper-partisan conspiracy theories to the department’s portfolio. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia’s GOP-controlled election board wants DOJ to investigate nonpartisan voter roll maintenance program
Despite his request for a federal investigation into ERIC, the board's executive director appeared to know very little about the organization during a meeting earlier this week.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your children are much safer in the company of drag queens than: 1. Pastors or priests; 2. Republican men; 3. Billionares; and 3. Frat boys.
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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes. That is Why Republicans own the States that have a poor education level and highest welfare numbers. Education is Republicans Biggest Fear. They know an educated American would never vote for Trump or a Republican.👊🇺🇸😎🗳️🧢🧢🧢🌊⚖️⚖️
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Mary @fascismiswrong1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Collins needs to be out of his job.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Pilots in beautiful machines dropping bombs down air chutes into drug slash nuclear factories?
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Getting ready for a reinvigorated Iran War just in time for Thanksgiving. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three accompanying destroyers left their port in San Diego earlier this week and are expected to arrive in the Middle East by the end of November. ft.trib.al/ZzidYwc
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US deploys thousands of troops to Middle East as Donald Trump weighs strikes on Iran
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt expected to arrive in the region by the end of November, a US official says
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Receptioniste @receptioniste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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canada-keith.bsky.social @canada-keith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Heritage Foundation who with Russel Voight wrote Project 2025 a blueprint to Fascism that Trump has endorsed & has actively supported tearing down many of our laws, institutions etc.😡 This is Evangelical White Nationalism to destroy Democracy for Fascism. 😡👊🇺🇸😎 No Thanks 🙂‍↔️ Republicans. Vote Blue
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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍👍👍👍👍💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think we all saw that coming
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"
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tiffany ann @kittennursekc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes you have to hide in the bathroom and cry after walking a client through the euthanasia process for a 20yo cat they’ve had since she was a kitten. Fuck, man. I’m gonna try to get some amazing paw prints for them, though.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey Mr. Plumber, if we have any plugged up toilets, we'll call ya. Otherwise, sit TF down.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a bad faith conspiracy nut blows himself up:
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Sen. Schmitt’s Unparalleled Buffoonery
And a polling apocalypse for the GOP.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course they did. Lives don't matter to them, only wealth and power does aje.news/hw0a4g
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US Senate blocks resolution seeking report on Americans killed in West Bank
The resolution cites a 'lack of accountability' by Israel's government and an 'inability to secure justice' by the US.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026
⚠️ ICE/DHS is creating a humanitarian and public health crisis by concentrating people into camps in inhumane conditions Find out about ICE in your area: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/... Find an org near you that’s fighting back: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/membership/d... 🚫 🧊
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Organize and Advocate to Abolish Detention
Across the country, people are uniting to protect immigrant family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. ICE’s detention centers are everywhere, which makes federal policy a local issue in communities nationwide. Detention Watch Network advances federal advocacy to end immigration detention and supports local member and state-wide campaigns through information sharing, strategy development, public education and communications.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How much I would love to have a normal night's sleep again, instead of staring at the ceiling and thinking about how russia struck a school today during the day, and an animal shelter at night, where poor dogs and cats had no chance of escaping their cages. How a private house in Kyiv is
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Antique leather-bound folding library pole ladder. IG: Vivre Interieur Authentique Netherlands www.instagram.com/vivre.nl?stk...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTF???? No… we need #GuardrailsForAI NOW!!!!! The new jobs should be to KEEP US SAFE!!! www.reddit.com/r/MeidasTouch/s/0tUn…
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From the MeidasTouch community on Reddit: Musk: There is Overemployment because of AI🤣🤣🤣
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump defenders in the Senate are a disgrace. They can’t event set a perjury trap without ensnaring themselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart (Gift Article)
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli
A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Dr. Jimmy Oshet @oshetjimmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“ without a shadow of doubt” Yet Republican still embrace and fawn over the president who committed crimes against the United States. That is definitely their brand. Checkmark treason, and bestiality as OK for public office. 
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A disabled Downey resident was detained Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. by masked individuals during what appeared to be a federal immigration operation near Smallwood Avenue and 4th Street.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration’s illegal cuts to FEMA have undermined the nation’s ability to prepare for and respond to natural disasters. Congress must hold the line against further efforts to weaken FEMA and rebuild the agency’s capacity. bit.ly/4ypsAyP
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Administration’s Arbitrary, Unlawful Cuts to FEMA Funding and Staff Threaten American Communities
Grant cancellations, staff reductions, and other policy changes far overstep the president’s authority while limiting FEMA’s ability to respond to disasters.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Go For It Ladies.......
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Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋 @uniongrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How embarrassing that it was a woman (Amy) who knew that he was so misinformed that he confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks. Amy, my future Governor, was awesome! We know our sports in my State! What a sickening display of a petulant child. Please vote! 🗳️
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026
Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
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Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t wait for this day.
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