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thecherrybombe.bsky.social

@thecherrybombe.bsky.social
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🔹INFP with ADHD. 🔸Annoying "foodie"-type. Mostly cheese. 🔹Midwestern AF (...you can take the girl outta Chicago...). 🔸 Pansexual Brick House ™️. She/Her. 🔹Trying my best to navigate red state bullshittery in SW Missouri.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21/05/2025
This animation shows how temperatures have changed over the last 100 years for each February-April period. On each map, red shading indicates warmer than average conditions, and blue shading shows the opposite. Note the trend. Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025
ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This Is What True Privilege Looks Like. The Arrogance Of Such Statements!
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lola1985.bsky.social @lola1985.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🤬😡🤬 💙✊💙✌️💙🦋💙
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20/05/2025
Don't miss the scariest committee hearing of the year.
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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A rogue president with a loyal DOJ isn’t unstoppable, unless we act like peasants. Courts can stop him. States can sue him. Whistleblowers can expose him. But it takes all of us, loud, sharp, fed up. Power bends to pressure. So push. Hard. Clean House with your votes, or get steamrolled. Our call.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/05/2025
Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
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Victoria Dooley, MD @drdooleymd.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
When you think you’re paying for healthcare but you’re literally paying a company to not give you care. This is America.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Fact checking alone isn't enough when these people speak Fact-twist-checking is the new gold standard. Sheesh.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Adriana Smith’s story MUST be told so America can understand what’s at stake when draconian abortion laws like the one in GA keep a brain dead pregnant woman on life support just so the fetus can be delivered. What kind of dystopian hellscape has Dobbs created? m.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYT...
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GOP Bill Faces INTESE SCRUTINY Amidst Shocking TRAGEDY
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2025
Don't let up. Hold their feet to the fire. (DoJ: I do not mean to literally light feet on fire.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/05/2025
“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Number of US gas stations currently selling gas for $1.99: Zero. @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social @nbcnews.com 🇺🇸
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2025
Is it too much to ask for an IRS Commissioner who understands the law?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Crockett: That’s why they hired everybody from Fox because all they’re trying to do is put on a show.. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody… *Applause* Van Drew: *bangs gavel*
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2025
A Georgia high school kicked out a senior weeks away from graduation because she had a trans prom date. www.wrdw.com/2025/05/20/g...
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Ga. teen forced to change schools over transgender prom date
A decision to force teen's exit “is not reflective of the Christian values you claim to uphold,” the Cobb County girl's parents tell school administrators.
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Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Yeah, that's weird. Wonder how that happened.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/05/2025
Whoa! New polling shows that a majority of voters in EVERY SINGLE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT oppose cuts to Medicaid. Members of Congress should take note. ☎️ Flood the Capitol switchboard to voice your opposition to the bill from hell. 202-224-3121. Defend Medicaid! Defeat Cancer!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I remember that story www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...
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Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists
NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/05/2025
None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.
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Lawyer for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison arrested
Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/05/2025
MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/05/2025
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Dear America, Have you had enough yet? I have.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination. Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France. Sheesh.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My statement on the charges filed against me:
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 20/05/2025
I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2025
NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social
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Helene’s Unheard Warnings
As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few ...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Netflix has picked up Sesame Street. Brand-new episodes, as well as past seasons, will premiere this year for its 300 million subscribers and will also air on PBS.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is a clear statement by CNN that a man who incited an insurrection against America 4 years ago and told 31,000 lies in his first term still has credibility People should be fired for this sort of thing, as it's these journalistic atrocities—all *dangerously* counterfactual—driving readers away
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/05/2025
Guy who got a "free" $400M plane from Qatar was up late tweeting about corruption.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
GOV. @andybeshearky.bsky.social : “All children are children of God. I didn’t want a legislature picking on those kids. If they show them hate, I’ll show them love.” 🏳️‍🌈 As @GovBillLee signs hate bills (despite having a sister who is married to a woman), next door Beshear leads with love.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I can see this is going to be a day where the task of sifting through piles and piles of garbage to find actual news that matters to normal people is going to be extremely difficult.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/05/2025
Man child who court ordered to complete mandatory retraining to learn how to not exploit cancer charities has question on why a woman with a Doctorate in Education didn’t detect cancer.😑 The fascism is unbearable enough and the sheer stupidity makes it just that much more insufferable.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The Director of the FBI is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl. In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 lbs of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
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Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/05/2025
Van Hollen: "Trump's visit to the Middle East- my view is the narrative here was selling out US national interests for the private gain of his business. He essentially gave away the crown jewels of US AI and semiconductor tech to the gulf in exchange for a $2b investment in his stablecoin venture"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In Georgia, women’s bodies are merely human incubators. Just ask Adriana Smith’s family. My latest piece on Substack katiephang.substack.com/p/just-a-ves...
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Just a Vessel: Georgia Keeps Legally Dead Pregnant Woman on Life Support
Georgia's fetal heartbeat law proves the CONTROL and the CRUELTY have always been the point
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Threatening to sue for bad press. Again.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The FDA has approved Novavax COVID19 shots for those aged 65 and older or those 12-64 with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for severe COVID19. It doesn’t make sense to restrict it to ages 65 and up, but this is what happens when Congress confirms an anti-vaxxer to lead HHS.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
After Donald Trump's private pollster showed Marjorie Taylor Greene would lose a Senate race by double digits, she's considering running for Georgia Governor. No, I'm not kidding.
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a bigfoot holding a cup of lemonade and wearing a pink headband
ALT: a bigfoot holding a cup of lemonade and wearing a pink headband
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/05/2025
Jobs are coming to Oklahoma —but so is a tidal wave of toxic waste. Emirates Global Aluminum is investing $4 bill to build a massive aluminum smelting facility. But the production process generates “red mud,” a corrosive byproduct that can cause severe environmental damage.
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Good morning !
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Hospitals go out of business when Medicare and Medicaid are cut. Period." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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