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Margaret Yovan

@usuallytactless.bsky.social
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baker of pies, teller of tales, I wish I commuted by bike more than I do, and golly the imposter syndrome is strong with me these days. recently adopted two 5yo male cats and am re-learning who is in charge of the house, especially the feeding schedule.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2026
Wrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 6h
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h
Sorry, cyclists, you have to die because drivers are going to throw a fit
Last month, Dreeshen told CBC News in a statement the province "supports bike infrastructure when it is safe, well-planned, integrated into the broader transportation network and does not reduce existing roadway capacity."
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GlacierLil1776 @glacierlily.bsky.social · 18h
www.cbc.ca/news/world/h... MPs call for investigation after Howard Lutnick-Jeffrey Epstein whistleblower dies www.bbc.com/news/article... Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show - CBS News www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...
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naugtynonnie.bsky.social @naugtynonnie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jon M @concernedcitizenva.bsky.social · 18h
This is amazing 😂😂
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 19h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good on you Emma 👏 👍
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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the kind of ppl supporting Kellie Torres. They use the "r" word. They wash away pro-LGBTQ sidewalk chalk. They root for a woman who is funded by the same conservatives bankrolling Christine Drazan and her campaign to become governor & take away abortion rights. Don't Rank Torres #pdx
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Together, we can take power back from retards like 
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@councilormorillo.bsky.social
 
And 
@counciloravalos.bsky.social
 
The results speak for themselves. Allow them to continue to be in power and continue this unmitigated distasteful. Rational people must reject them.

D3 Peacock incumbents fight Clean & Safe and push Fair Share tax hikes. Working people need jobs and safe streets, not caucus theater. Kellie Torres is the common-sense pick.

#portland #pdx
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A $30,000 diamond ring intended for Trump. Then European natural diamonds got a tariff exemption. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal want answers: ✅ Where is the ring? ✅ Who owns it? ✅ What was it for? Release the records. Answer Congress. #USDemocracy
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 21h
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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 19h
I’m sorry but I might not recover from this
In 1903, a young soldier wrote to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, consumed by doubts about his future...
Rilke wrote back:July 16, 1903
You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, that cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Yours,
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18h
It’s real. amp.dw.com/en/naked-tru...
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Naked Trump statue goes on display in Strasbourg
Titled "The Orange Plague," a gold-coated statue presents Donald Trump sitting on a smaller man's back. The Danish artist blamed Trump for getting in the way of efforts to address climate change.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 23h
they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 22h
Troy Jackson is a champion for Maine. WHO IS SUSAN COLLINS? Thirty years ago, Collins promised Maine an independent voice. Instead, she: ● Cast the decisive vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote helped overturn Roe — and still says she doesn't regret it. #Maine #MESEN #VoteBlue #TroyJackson
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Margaret Yovan @usuallytactless.bsky.social · 18h
will they actually listen to her?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h
When consumers order a product with “sugar free” in the title rather than “no sugar added” I think most people expect the product to have 0 grams of sugar.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 20h
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BARO @baro.bsky.social · 20h
I've known so many people who had racist and sexual harassment at work and after some "golly gosh it must just be differing communication styles and the person not understanding they were offending you" training, the perp just learns to use better dog whistles and continue.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Margaret Yovan @usuallytactless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
well yeah, because they’re now paying for more expensive, unnecessary treatments.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 06/10/2026
Whatever he meant, a Commander in Chief should never talk this way about the people he swore to protect. Our servicemembers sacrifice everything for us, and he just told the world their hometowns are expendable.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
I check my voter registration once a quarter. Probably because i couldn't vote for so long (felon.) Here is your periodic reminder that "felons can't ever vote" is untrue in the majority of states. If you are a felon and want to vote, check your state laws. Outside of KY/IA restoration is possible.
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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇺 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remember Brexit. How's that working out for the UK? Be smarter, Quebec!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Wait, *another* one?
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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This made me laugh
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.
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SpringForward🌻☘️🥀🌺🦋 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 @springforward1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the gangster Presidency works. Donald says he feels “badly” for the accused Cornell rapists, and then the threats begin against women his cult thinks might be the accuser! A vote for ANY Republican is a vote in support of this gangster sh!t! We need to end this, people!
NBC News headline:
Cornell rape accuser faces threats she drop her lawsuit, attorney says.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The hackers weren't brilliant. They were patient. They waited until the people who close doors had been fired by Kash Patel, then they walked in. That's not a hack. That's a business model. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Margaret Yovan @usuallytactless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
how about he pays the money already spent back?
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No. They hijack entire countries and slaughter the indigenous people.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if that were the case it would be an absolutely bastard thing to do to your own staff
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
would VERY much like a local journalist to get ahold of the Clark Lewis employee who quit due to the scuffle yesterday and get their take on what happened, especially wrt the level of awareness management had prior
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Margaret Yovan @usuallytactless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
then this will encourage the “good apples” to speak up instead of turning away and pretending not to see their coworkers’ crimes same with men ignoring other men sexually harassing people. absolutely the same icky cultural norm.
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TheSwamper @theswamper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This would also encourage them to police each other, because the antics of one can affect the other's bottom line.
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RFK Brain Worm Jr. @planetofdinosaurs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hear me out. All police misconduct cases paid out of police pension funds. Because as a citizen I'm really sick of public funds being used to pay these AND having to worry about a cop doing something shitty to me because they have no accountability.
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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 06/10/2026
We need to teach these boys that there cannot be a world where you get to be celebrated as a “serious thinker” and get to use the phrase “talkin’ rape” when describing your conversations.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"May Block..." My God. www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Schumer warns Democrats may block Trump’s judge picks if they flip Senate
Republicans used their Senate majority to block vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination after the 2012 death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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annwiggins.bsky.social @annwiggins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So they ignored the temporary injunction blocking the federal government's construction of border infrastructure in the area?
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
what
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 04/10/2026
Alito wrote Dobbs, putting women in graves, forcing doctors to watch patients deteriorate, and handing raped children to the state. Then he went on Fox to pretend personal beliefs played no role. Women remember. Expand the Court. Codify Roe. Vote them out. #BlueWaveIn30Days @atrupar.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
EL-SAYED: Now you've got a situation with the Strait of Hormuz where we can't move oil and gas-- FOX: That's not true. The WSJ put out a piece the other day that said we're almost a level of getting oil out of the Strait that we were at before the war started AES: So why are gas prices so high?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump Ten Years, Have Been Some Of The Darkest Years.......
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Heartache Kits @hsticka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just heard @npr.org say "no one knows how to fairly divvy up the bill" regarding the increase in utility costs due to data centers. Easy. Data centers pay. The infrastructure, increase, their own bills. If I walk into a store and fuck up everything in there, I have to pay for it. Why don't they?
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