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tortoisedream.bsky.social

@tortoisedream.bsky.social
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Social worker, pragmatic progressive, #WFPB, introvert in a busy world pining for wild places... she/her

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 17h
The Amazon isn't just "the lungs of the earth." It’s a complex, living system that regulates our rainfall, houses 10% of known species, and is home to millions of people. When we burn it, we aren't just losing trees. We are dismantling the life support system of the planet. Protect biodiversity.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re honestly still taken aback by Elon advising the Pentagon on the future of wars. Didn’t we all see how badly he failed with DOGE?
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Plant Based News @plantbasednews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Processed meat is classified as a carcinogen by the WHO, just like tobacco.  A Group ONE carcinogen, in fact. Which means 'does cause cancer' 🦠
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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 30/09/2026
9/30 Mainer and professor of American history Heather Cox Richardson says Senate race in Maine is about “reclaiming our democracy” #maine #MEpolitics
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
She's more offended about being called out for bribery than she is about casting the deciding vote that helped gut voting rights and bodily autonomy. Maine will take out this trash in six weeks.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Warrior Princess ⬇️
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Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎 @petallu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please read and share, donate and join if you can. #MarchForAnimals #EndAnimalTesting ❤️🐾🐶🐱🐀🐁🐒 www.marchforanimals.org
marchforanimals.org
March for Animals | 207 Miles to End Animal Testing
This September, march from Albany to Marshall BioResources and help demand a future where scientific progress no longer depends on animal suffering.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 22/09/2026
I’m glad to see this post reach 2.2K likes and 345 restacks. But I can’t help wondering how many people sharing it know that Jane Goodall was a vegan advocate — and that a significant part of her warnings about “destroying the Earth” concerned the environmental damage caused by consuming animals.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We don't have a "climate problem". We have a greed problem. The planet isn't dying, it's being killed. And those killing it have names and boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Ken Davidson @925games.itch.io · 20/09/2026
We attended a rally today for my wife's colleague who was illegally arrested by ICE on her way to a scheduled immigration appointment. #FreeMaureenNgure
Free Maureen!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Save the date! No Kings is October 17th. And don’t forget to vote early! 🗳️
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 17/09/2026
Remember when Chipotle blamed menu price increases on wage increases while making tens of millions a year?? …that same Chipotle that shamelessly tries to silence folks who are uniting for a voice at work. Surprise surprise, looks like they’re now teaming up with Palantir to track employee illnesses…
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We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir
Guacamole is extra, but a side of Palantir is free.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FOREVER AND ALWAYS MY DIRECTOR 🥳🥳🥳🥳 (Not my video.)
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 11/09/2026
The whims of one person shouldn't control the fate of an entire species. But Trump just signed an executive order directing the Dept. of the Interior to consider delisting gray wolves nationwide and Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest — and push states with species-protection laws to do the same.
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Atomicvegan @atomicvegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Climate change isn't just a weather problem; it's a justice problem. The people who contributed the least to emissions are suffering the most. #ClimateJustice
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I met a grandmother in Houston. Augusta works 10-hour shifts at the airport, but her wages don’t cover her basic expenses. Now she and her 5-year-old grandson are facing eviction. In the United States Senate, we’re going to have Augusta’s back.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 01/09/2026
On September 12, a 14-day march to abolish animal testing will begin at West Capitol Park in Albany, New York. 🐾 If you’re anywhere nearby, join the march – even if you can only walk part of the route!
marchforanimals.org
March for Animals | 207 Miles to End Animal Testing
This September, march from Albany to Marshall BioResources and help demand a future where scientific progress no longer depends on animal suffering.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is why you can't have healthcare. www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigratio…
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ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations
The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👇 vote.org
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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tortoisedream.bsky.social @tortoisedream.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My first two-stranded color work pattern on a Drops Design potholder. It's a bit of a slow go for me but getting a little easier with every row. I love seeing the houses emerge in the pattern! #wipwednesday #knitsky
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2026
Fuck the Supreme Court and do whatever it fucking takes to vote in this election. Have a plan and a back up plan because the GOP plan is to keep you from voting.
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're all about peace and fairness, going vegan is the way to walk the talk and live up to your beliefs.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Playing in our faces
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tortoisedream.bsky.social @tortoisedream.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Proving you can fight fascism and have fun at the same time #Democracy #Indivisible
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tortoisedream.bsky.social @tortoisedream.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My favorite sign at the protest rally today! #AbolishICE
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tortoisedream.bsky.social @tortoisedream.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Our #Indivisible group holds a protest every Saturday. Today we were in Concord CA. We'll be here as long as it takes to stop this immoral and illegal regime. #Rise #Unite #Resist
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Truth hurts, but facts are facts.
You can’t say you’re against animal abuse if you’re having animals confined, exploited, & killed for a snack. 
If you comsume flesh, eggs or lactations, you are not against animal abuse, you are a paying customer of it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Animal farming only continues because we keep paying for it. We have the power to stop supporting their exploitation. 💔🌱 📸 joannemcarthurphotography (IG) | essereanimali (IG) | weanimals (IG) #factoryfarming #quotes #quoteoftheday
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Campylobacter is spreading, evolving and becoming harder to treat because billions of birds are bred, confined and killed at industrial scale.
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Chicken Farms Are Spreading Dangerous Bacteria
We have bred so many chickens, packed them together so densely and pushed their bodies to grow so quickly that we are changing the evolution of bacteria.
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MarcPieterse @marcpieterse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
1/2 Sound on 🔊 #Dairy calf concentration camp #NewMexico #USA 😱👺Listen to this .. even the trucker who made this video is impressed about the scale of this atrocity. Please #DitchDairy TODAY #EndAnimalAgriculture #EndAnimalExploitation #LiveVegan don’t support this cruelty 🌱🙏✌️
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Plant Based News @plantbasednews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Well, when you put it like that... It's giving pointless, unnecessary and at worst...barbaric 🍼 And yet we are afraid of what aliens might do to us 👀 👽 🛸
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The greatest question is no longer how far humanity can go. The real question is whether humanity can become advanced enough to understand what it must stop destroying.A civilization that can reach the stars,but cannot protect the world beneath its feet, is still far more primitive than it believes.
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