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SweetVireo

@sweetvireo.bsky.social
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Marylander. Temporary Austinite. Former paleontologist. Current Protein Biochemist. Designer of things crocheted and knitted. 🏳️‍🌈 🪴💙

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a DC resident i really don't like the way news reporting treats "the President, with a history of 1) wanting to kill unarmed protesters and 2) 'joking' about not leaving in 2029 is yelling he is building well-supplied and well-provisioned snipers' nests throughout the city" as just another quirk
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The narrative forming on the right that everything was going great with the Trump admin until he started the war is absurd. His approval ratings were already in the toilet before that because of everything else he was doing. The war just woke people up who don’t pay attention.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Raoul: The president is a combination of the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. He needs a brain and a heart, and Congress is a Cowardly Lion that needs courage to stand up…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump likes Flock cameras, data centers, deregulated AI, new foreign wars, no carbon standards for coal and gas power plants, crypto scams, selling pardons, and covering up the Epstein files to protect himself and his wealthy cronies, but MAGA cultists think he cares about them.
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Car deB 🇪🇺 🌻 @cartinedeb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A long, likely not complete, list of ties between Germany's AfD party and Russia, posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on that musk-rat site. It's highly worrying that someone like Dumb congratulated 'Alternatives' with their recent win. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu @olgalautman.bsky.social
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Patchy's Music Box 🎶 @asthmaticmage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#touhou
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/09/2026
Why is 'lb' the abbreviation for 'pound'?
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Sweet Vireo Designs @sweetvireodesigns.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW PATTERN!! This coming Monday! This is CALVERA. Calvera is a neutron star in the Little Dipper constellation, a perfect name for a colorwork pattern with stars. It features yarn from Good Karma Yarn and Soap from Maine. #knitsky #knittingpattern #knitting
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As Trump calls for thousands of factory workers in Kansas and Indiana to lose their jobs on Labor Day, the WH puts out a video that doesn’t show a single American worker.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman is not only a terrible, lazy senator who was supported by his parents until his mid-40s, he’s just a garbage human being. No surprise he ended up as a regular Fox contributor where he feels most at home.
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 03/09/2026
SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument Now THIS is what I want my membership dues going towards @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...
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SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Looking into bookstore from
The street at night
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I feel like the kids who did poorly in science and history class are trying to get revenge on the kids who did well at science and history class and now we’re all going to die
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Resistance is growing.
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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Introverts don’t need big plans to be happy. Just give them an empty house, snacks, their favorite playlist, and a blanket. They’ll spend the day avoiding people and half-starting five new hobbies. Pure peace
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026
Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.
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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
FFS! This man would make Al Capone blush.
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David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Steps to Turn Off AI Training on Twitch Desktop/Web * Sign in to your Twitch account. * Click on your avatar in the top right corner. * Select Settings from the dropdown menu. * Go to the Security and Privacy tab. * Scroll down to Training for Generative AI. * Toggle the setting off.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026
Thou shalt ban AI data centers everywhere.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The black lung rate in Appalachia is now as high as it was in the 1970s. Remember: Trump indefinitely stalled a rule that would limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, which causes black lung. Trump doesn’t care about miners’ health. He never has and he never will.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
this name shit would be the perfect time for obama and/or mamdani to do a hit for el-sayed. "we've heard a lot of people attacking dr el-sayed over his name. well, for eight years they called me PRESIDENT hussein obama. and i'm MAYOR mamdani. so maybe its time for SENATOR el-sayed."
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I had to go back to work when my first baby was 14 days old, but I’m glad to know Mitch McConnell has unlimited medical leave…
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Chris Holly @chrisholly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So we definitely can't trust *any* aspect of this administration. I don't believe the FDA typically makes this type of "mistake". 🤬 #StayReadyCrew
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When Lindsey Graham appears in a history book, it'll be his prediction in 2016 that the Republican Party would be destroyed for supporting Donald Trump and then a few lines about how he proved it by becoming Trump's toady. That's pretty much it. That's his legacy. Pathetic lickspittle.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
At least he’s with Mitch now.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Don't be part of the problem Be the whole problem 🎨 Lily Seika Jones
Watercolour illustration of a bunny holding a mace.
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SweetVireo @sweetvireo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What an eveing. Came home to a flooded basement. Splashed dirty/muddy water in my eyes. And now I have a headache.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
reading about the chinese internet slang for donald trump and it just keeps getting more and more interesting!!! thread with more chinese nicknames from wiktionary
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Photo of the year. Great image of America of the past and present.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This might be the greatest self-own of all time.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Shaking my head at oligarch-controlled mainstream media painting democratic socialists as the new boogeymen while ignoring the fact that it is the only natural reaction to unprecedented crony capitalism and corruption.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Omg I just discovered there are four scissor-tailed flycatcher fledglings learning to fly in a nearby tree. Look at these fluffy little cuddle buddies! 😭 #Photography #Birds
Two scissor-tailed flycatcher fledglings sitting on a thin branch surrounded by green leaves. The birds have fluffy white feathers on their chests, with yellow-ish undersides and grey wings.
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon - The Washington Post. Vance seems remarkably ignorant of history. Republicans ended Nixon’s presidency and they have never before been called the “deep state.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/06/2026
I swear to god I thought this was fake www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Did Trump's motorcade drive through newly painted reflecting pool?
A White House official posted a video of the motorcade crossing the landmark on May 7, 2026.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 16/06/2026
I keep seeing book banners framed as concerned parents. I've talked with dozens of political operatives who ban books, not a single one of them has been a parent of a child in said district. If they have offspring at all, they're 47 years old, and have been no contact since the divorce.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/06/2026
I guess the paint is peeling off the grass, too.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/06/2026
Bless this man 😂
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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Bonhoeffer tried to assassinate... Hitler. It's so telling that when a GOP stooge is looking for the name of a bad political assassin... he doesn't name Wilkes-Booth or Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan. He names a hero who tried to snuff out Hitler. He knows, in his fucking BONES, who Trump is.
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SweetVireo @sweetvireo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kinda seems like WYPR (Baltimore NPR) doesn't like Bobby LaPin. This is an early voter speaking. But I read an article about this race from WYPR. That article praised Ferguson and didn't have much positive to say about LaPin. I've been following LaPin on Insta. There's a lot of positive to say.
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