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La que les canta nanas a las mandrágoras @ladysuzelle.bsky.social · 6h
My inktober work ❤️
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 19h
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 11h
Night night sweet dreamies 🧡🐾 Believe in yourself, even when your dreams seem a little out of reach. You never know what wonderful things might happen if you find the courage to try. After all, every dream starts with someone believing it’s possible.
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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 7h
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curtlarock.bsky.social @curtlarock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Digger” is what you’d get if Hideaki Anno and Wes Anderson did a mind meld. Definitely worth seeing in a theater just for the background sounds.
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Waffles Mcgrawl @waffles-mcgrawl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A friend has a theory why Tucker Carlson is suddenly anti-Trump: He sees the end and understands that the first person who was hanged at Nuremberg was a publicist who shot or killed nobody, but published extreme-right propaganda that created the conditions for it to happen. Julius Streicher.
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🫶🏻Layla🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FAFO moments make me smile.
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Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc @blindcatrescue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Turn everyday purchases into support for Blind Cat Rescue! Enroll your card, set a round-up limit, and choose us. Spare cents add up to lifesaving care for blind, FeLV+, and FIV+ cats. Sign up today! 🐾 🔗 www.roundup.org/
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Dan DeFreest @dandefreest.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blanche was confirmed as AG. Just a reminder: The last time a president appointed an attorney he had personal ties to, was when Nixon appointed his law partner and campaign manager John Mitchell. Mitchell ended up disbarred and spent 2 yrs in prison for his role as AG protecting Nixon.
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Mr. Savile Row @mrsavilerow.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jared Kushner out strolling for property in Cuba.
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Guilherme Briggs as Dracula
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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Feel like this should be a bigger story.
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
GOP should drop Fauci ordeal. It's their fault we don't have decisive answer to covid's origins. Trump fired team who would've been sent to China in Dec 2019 to work with local gov to secure evidence and conduct investigation to determine facts. GOP is reason it was pandemic and not "local event".
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wow! #BookSky
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Juniper Janko @juniper330.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This administration hates children outside of the womb
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I used to think it was crazy that each Flock camera costs taxpayers $2,500/month! But now it all makes sense. These are valuable objects that may contain up to 2-3 lbs of copper and 1-2 grams of gold.
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MartyH @mogo-uk.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Had to give them a plug, because they did ‘the white house’ for free! We need all politicians to declare their sponsors more openly. At least then we know who’s paying for their lunches.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"The current criteria given to GPs in England to refer women...miss up to 95% of patients under 50 who go on to develop the disease within a decade..." I had to push for a mammogram, which led to my breast cancer diagnosis. If I hadn't, I'd probably be terminal by now. shorturl.at/4gPOd
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GPs’ breast cancer guidelines ‘miss’ 95% of young women who will develop disease
Findings prompt calls for review of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence criteria in women under 50
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's a solid fact check by CNN following Kennedy's sewer of lies. It's a start but they need to do more including a substantial video segment broadcast live on TV just like this bat sh*t crazy interview was. www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...
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RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview | CNN Politics
In attempting to rewrite the history of the US Covid-19 response, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday pinned the blame for pandemic lockdowns on Dr. Anthony Fauci, while simultaneously re...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Welp guess we know what we're talking about in tomorrow's Sunday Morning Outbreak News Livestream! (Plus Salmonelleggs, & ANOTHER botulism outbreak in baby formula that's somehow going under the radar. So obvs we gotta talk about… all that.) youtube.com/live/_mjPVY1...
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Yep, Taylor Farms Uses Prison Labor (& Other Outbreak Updates)
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Cyber attacks- Minnesota 😡👇🏼
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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
A gravestone marked as follows with a picture of a semi truck above it and a small black dog to the left of it.

SPEARS
LEONARD

MAY 2, 1943 KAZABAZUA, QUEBEC
MAY 3, 2013 OTTAWA, ONTARIO

BORN ON A MOUNTAIN RAISED IN A CAVE, TRUCKIN' AND F___IN'S ALL HE CRAVED
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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inform98.bsky.social @inform98.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senate GOP unanimously abandons Trump after he opens door to Ghislaine Maxwell pardon www.rawstory.com/trump-maxwel...
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Senate GOP unanimously abandons Trump after he opens door to Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
Every Senate Republican went on record against a presidential pardon for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, breaking with President Donald Trump, who has refused to rule one out.Sen. Jacky Ro...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/07/2026
Dr. Fauci had us wear masks during a global pandemic. RFK Jr. collects raccoon penises. But okay.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/07/2026
Mitch McConnell stole two Supreme Court seats. Now ask yourself this: If McConnell were still Leader and a Democratic senator had been missing from public view for more than six weeks, what would he be doing right now? 1/2
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 28/07/2026
Released in 1997, Gattaca was a box-office disappointment. But it's become one of the most influential cultural texts to explore biotechnology and its social consequences, especially in a world where CRISPR-based gene editing and consumer genomics are becoming more common, writes David A. Kirby.
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Gattaca and the quiet Doomsday of genetic determinism
Gattaca was a box-office disappointment when it was released in 1997. It has since become one of the most influential cultural texts to explore biotechnology and its social consequences, especially…
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Never forget... People didn't want a black woman as president. So instead, they voted for a 34 count convicted felon, pedophile / rapist who bankrupted 100's of companies, was sued over 4500 times for non-payment of stuff he decided he didn't want to pay for, who just happens to be a total moron.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trump is holding rallies now claiming the economy is the best in history. I can't even imagine how dumb someone would have to be to sit there and listen to that. Republicans in Congress are tied in knots trying to figure out how they're going to campaign because the economy is shit right now.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Calculating criminals!
Chyron reads

5 ARRESTED IN MATH LAB BUST
Laurel County
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an 11-year-old girl from Texas, died by suicide on February 8, 2025, after her family stated she was relentlessly bullied and taunted by classmates who threatened that ICE would deport her parents and leave her alone. Trump ignited the evil in the worst Americans.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Need to get every politician in office or running to say this. Period.
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Michele Fiore raised more than $70,000 for a memorial statue honoring Las Vegas police officer Alyn Beck, who was killed in the line of duty. She used the funds for cosmetic surgery, rent, and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her in two hours. Trump pardoned her before she was sentenced.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/07/2026
Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. map.citationneeded.news
A screenshot of the map, with a side panel open showing Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Side panel contents: Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Intermediary Entity When Walter Shaub, then Director of the Office of Government Ethics, called on President Trump to divest from the Trump Organization during his first term, Trump instead transferred his operating businesses to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust. Many had urged him to use a blind trust. Critics argued the DJT Revocable Trust fell far short of that standard: Trump remained the sole beneficiary, his son controlled the assets, and Trump could revoke the arrangement at any time. Shaub later commented that the arrangement was “meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective” and that “setting up a trust to hold his operating businesses adds nothing to the equation. This is not a blind trust—it’s not even close.” Established 2014 Sources ↗ Stenglein, Christine, "OGE Director warns Trump’s business plan insufficient", The Brookings Institution, January 11, 2017 ↗ Craig, Susanne, and Eric Lipton, "Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire", The New York Times, February 3, 2017 ↗ Kravitz, Derek, and Al Shaw, "Trump Lawyer Confirms President Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants", ProPublica, April 4, 2017 ←controlled by Donald Trump Jr. According to a 2024 regulatory filing, Donald Trump Jr. "is the sole trustee and has sole voting and
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Carolirene @carolirene75.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I was going to say it’s because voters are ignorant, but I’m way past that. We just need to get going with what we have.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is a matter of Congressional record!
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'm laughing out loud. Love the swollen ankles. 😅
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Moodyblues1973 @moodybkues1973.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nothing we can do????? Hope Dems have prepared????? Not hopeful.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Brave Sir Robin Ran Away
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Gotta love this.
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