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Paula K (or B)

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Midwestern girl, dogs, books, birds.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
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Ky @ky.fyi · 22/01/2026
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I just find it hilarious that his whole cabinet is sloberring praise all over him with ridiculous hyperbole and he is falling asleep while they're doing it. You couldn't write comedy better than this. It's better than VEEP.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/11/2025
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hark, Speaker Mike Johnson! Looking at all the many, many pics of the enormous, joyous “No Kings” rallies throughout the United States today, I am struck by what lovely weather your Lord and Savior provided. Apparently, God is a fan of, as you claimed, "America-hating Antifa terrorists." Glory!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025
Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
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ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
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Jon @sumerian-smog.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
There are so few medications approved for use by pregnant people. It's abhorrent for people who can't get pregnant to attempt to deny minimal pain relief to those who can. Source: dad who gives a shit about his partner.
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J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2025
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
variety.com
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This needs to be studied.
Still hard to believe that access to infinite information made us dumber
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It's not just the authoritarianism — it's how shameless, how *gleeful* this administration is about it
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2025
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 10/09/2025
This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We don’t make firefighters buy their own hoses. We don’t make police officers buy their own handcuffs. Why do we make teachers pay for basic supplies out of pocket?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”
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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The weather dude on TV last night said it's going to be 99 degrees today. I'm demanding that he be fired and replace with another dude that will forecast a high of 82. Am I doing this right?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A cover-up in plain sight. www.axios.com/2025/08/01/v...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
‘1984’ is upon us
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... “We don’t hear them singing. They’re spending all their energy searching (for krill). There’s just not enough time left over—and that tells us those years are incredibly stressful.”
nationalgeographic.com
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it?
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Frustrated Fan @frustratedfan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Maybe my favorite Ryne Sandberg statistic: all but one of his career hits came while he was playing for the Cubs, and the one hit that he had while he was playing for the Phillies was at Wrigley Field.
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Roni 🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 @roni1133.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It meant so much to me as a lesbian who grew up loving the Cubs to see Ryne Sandberg at the Chicago Pride Parade in 2016. It's a rare thing for a player of Ryno's generation to be an ally. He was truly a man of character. As this essay says, I chose my hero well. www.outsports.com/2020/4/20/21...
Ryne & Margaret Sandberg at the 2016 Chicago Pride Parade
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Russia was never a hoax The 2020 election wasn’t stolen Tariffs are a tax on you Haitians didn’t eat pets The Epstein files exist
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Let that sink in for a sec.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6FEGwX1/
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Just a reminder: if you’re opposed to fascism and you still use X, then no you aren’t.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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To Love a Mariner Podcast @toloveamariner.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Among other things, I'm just so pissed that a country that once made winning WWII its whole personality is now building concentration camps
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet."  If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/07/2025
Nearly 12 million people are expected to lose access to Medicaid health care if the Senate version of Trump's spending bill is passed by the House.
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Senate passes Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill as Vance breaks tie
Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump's big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Yes, rural Trump voters will now have to drive three states to get to a hospital but think of all the slurs they can say freely on that road trip now.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Lindsey Graham just said that Jesus wants a 10% taxation rate. This Jesus fellow is wild
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Of the 2 GOP senators whose votes let debate on the abominable Trump bill proceed, 50% say they fear for their lives. Of the 2 GOP senators who voted against debate on the abominable Trump bill, 50% have now announced their retirement from politics. And major media is vote-counting like it's 1983.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
washingtonpost.com
Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend
After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
genuinely fascinating how the extremely rich are willing to pay 200 million in political donations to not pay 10m on taxes
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
So the Iran Nuclear Deal, a sophisticated multilateral agreement reached by hundreds of adults over a two-year period—which kept us safe for years—has been replaced by a pathetic, obviously false bedtime story about a supposedly obliterated nuclear program being told to us by a known con man Got it
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