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Fierce mama, ASD advocate, ally to all who need a helping hand

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M-A.Stay’Legit™️🇨🇦 @bagdmilksowhat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The UN General Assembly voted on adopting a new world map that uses a more accurate reflection of countries/continents size, specifically brought forward by Africa The vote count was: In Favour: 165 Against: 1 Guess which country voted against? Clue: They just renamed a lake.
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Denzel Washington Says 'Get Out'
ALT: Denzel Washington Says 'Get Out'
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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vvaenels @vvaenels.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You mean they went to war after pushing out dozens of senior leaders and we’re surprised its all going so well? Hegseth’s warriors sure proves the Good Ol (white) Boys Club is the way to victory /s Who Moves Up, and Who’s Pushed Out, in Pete Hegseth’s Military
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Who Moves Up, and Who’s Pushed Out, in Pete Hegseth’s Military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been replacing top-ranking U.S. military officers with those who, many argue, show more loyalty to Hegseth and his ideas than to the military itself.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This story about Trump demanding the social security numbers of 17 million truck drivers needs to be told to every truck driver in the country as well as their friends and family.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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vvaenels @vvaenels.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Climate change is not real, they said
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Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) on Threads
For the next person who tells you we’ve always had hot summers.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026
When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Supreme Court Term Limits
Staggered 18-year terms would bring regular turnover to the bench. The result would be a Court that better reflects prevailing public values.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2026
DOOCY: There's a parasite that is giving people in the US explosive diarrhea. When is it gonna be safe to eat lettuce again. TRUMP: I don't know. I haven't thought about it. Are you eating a lot of lettuce Peter?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's so breathtakingly crass to treat the deaths of Americans serving in the military as some contest, a contest that, in your twisted, rotting mind, you think you can brag about winning. There is no reverence, sanity, solemnity, or decorum in this vile regime.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
You Can't Make This Shit Up.......
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🇨🇦CanadaResists🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @rc16921.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh look! The Champs and a Chump! How disgracefully sad and pathetic🙄 #FUCKTrump 🖕🤨
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen out of Trump and I’ve literally seen him shit himself.
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
EXECUTED BY ICE IN COLD BLOOD IN FRONT OF HIS 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Jiminy Christmas, if you bury me in one of your goddamn golf courses, like you did to that first wife you cheated on, I’ll be fixin’ to go to every séance in town and tell folks how she got to the bottom of those friggin’ stairs. Gurl, don’t test me.”
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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
There’s an increase in cyclosporiasis (a parasite that can cause watery, sometimes explosive, diarrhea) reported in multiple states. What to know ⬇️ 1/
Marked Safe From Explosive Diarrhea
STARTER PACK
Wash all produce thoroughly under running water.
Buy whole heads of lettuce, throw away outer 2-3 layers,
Wash.
Cook produce to 158°F
when possible.
"Sorry, Im not eating bagged salad right now."
"Let's make jam!"
Wash your hands.
Scrub firm fruits and vegetables with a clean produce brush.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
What a grotesque vulgarian. It just makes you cringe.
"During their chat, Trump told Merz he had something to show him, and walked the chancellor of Germany into a small study off the Oval Office. It was, Trump announced, 'the Lewinsky room' and he had filled it with MAGA memorabilia, including red hats and boxes of Florsheim dress shoes. 'Just grab whatever you want,' a congenial Trump told his German guests, adding that their wives could sell the swag for 'thousands of dollars.'"
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ukrainians take out oil and military installations. Russians take out homes, apartments, schools and churches. They are not the same.
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Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The NRCC is still trying to market this shit bill that tanked our economy, jacked up healthcare and utility costs, and has already kicked 4 MILLION Americans off healthcare. All to give trillionaires a bigger tax break.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This planet is run by crazy people. ... Think what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so... brief. A few years. In the best of them, a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. — Carl Sagan, Contact
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Paul Leigh -Some Rascal on the Internet @pleightx.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Mitch McConnell's first appearance back in Washington.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Two DHS agents on a doorbell camera.“You are a monstrous human being and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.

“The way you are protecting the obvious execution in Minnesota, even as we see the videos, will lead to your downfall. Even Trump will turn on you before the end, and you will be a sad, despised man who eats himself alive with shame at your own pathetic weakness.

“You will never know peace. You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself. But wherever you go, you will find yourself. You will torment yourself until your last day on Earth.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Awful: After SCOTUS ruling, Trump is free to deport thousands of Haitians from deep red Clark County, Ohio. It may now take a big economic hit. Oh, well. If you vote for the guys that lied in your faces so viciously about immigrants, this is what you get. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2124...
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This MAGA Ohio Town Could Soon Face the Mother of All ICE Raids
Is Springfield, Ohio—home of the Haitian community that Trump and Vance brazenly lied about in 2024—about to become the next Minneapolis?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
11:42 AM • 6/25/26 • 670K ViewsJill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 92K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K ViewsJill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The owner didn't need to speak; the dog handled the entire situation Original post
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
How many Amendments of the Constitution of the United States are they planning to get rid of? www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools
The Texas education board on Friday approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian teachi...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The military has quietly reinstated mandatory flu jabs for recruits just two months after Hegseth scrapped the 80-year-old rule.
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Pentagon Pete Humiliated by Major U-Turn as Air Force Flu Outbreak Explodes
The military has quietly reinstated mandatory flu jabs for recruits just two months after Hegseth scrapped the 80-year-old rule.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Morning Kitten
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026
The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com
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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Listen to @billmckibben.bsky.social Third Act is going to be a powerful force. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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How Trump 'Outrage' Is Driving Retired Americans to Take Action
Third Act is an organization of Americans over 60 who are fed up with Donald Trump and his administration, and who are working to protect democracy.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/06/2026
Look, if the Knicks winning closed the Hellmouth portal, we could do 1, 2, 3 in a month.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/06/2026
Few better ways to celebrate this city — and the World Cup — than cheap eats. That's why starting June 11th through July 19th, New Yorkers can celebrate the World Cup with $26 meal deals at hundreds of restaurants across the five boroughs, and discover what makes New York City the world's city.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/06/2026
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants. According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet: “These people built the country, not the complainers… Me. Guys like me, they built the country.”
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 07/06/2026
Former Ohio Congressional candidate Carl Setzer delivered a masterclass testimony against data centers on June 1. A clip:
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Jeffries: It was in the Oval Office. And the guy—the president—was literally falling asleep. I couldn’t believe it. Now, we’ve seen this happen in Cabinet meetings before, but the cameras are rolling, this Cabinet secretary is talking, and he’s falling asleep. Something is really wrong right now.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“Whether those men were doing legal or illegal work, children were left without the person who brought food home, in families that were already extremely poor.” Some were fishermen. None got a trial. None deserved to die. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 04/05/2026
This checks..
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
29 April 1945 | US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany. It became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camp system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered. #history
Aerial photo of the Dachau concentration camp.Crowds of prisoners of Dachau standing in front of the line of barracks. The fence of the camp is visible on the left.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/04/2026
BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Donald Trump acquired the Eastern Airlines Shuttle in 1989 with $365 million in loans. By 1990, the airline had already defaulted on its debt and was returned to creditors. Spirit Airlines, you’re in good hands.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/04/2026
But Hunter Biden sold art!
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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What!! Are you telling me the richest man who sentenced millions to die with his USAID cut also may have polluted rivers?
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Evil. Fucking evil. Donald Trump is evil. He’s an evil human being.
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
AOC had a little chat with RFK JR. The chat I dream of having in the elevator at the Capitol . image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/04/2026
Full circle moment: President Biden returns to Syracuse to unveil his official portrait. From law student to President—now immortalized in his portrait, and cracking jokes about the Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman.
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