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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
#Gratitude has been an important part of healing. #grief pixiedustforcaregivers.com/2025/11/30/g...
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Gratitude For That Special Place In My Heart
Thanksgiving has passed and I appreciate the opportunity to contemplate the things for which I’m grateful. I believe Walt Disney was right when he said, “The more you are in a state of gratit…
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
On this July 4, I thank the true patriots, like my dad, who have fought for and supported this country. I apologize for the idiocy that has poisoned this country, possibly irreparably. It is not a happy July 4, certainly not a happy Independence Day.
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Eric Dane Breaks Down in Tears Over ALS Diagnosis: ‘I Don’t Think This Is the End of My Story’
Eric Dane had his first sit-down interview since revealing his ALS diagnosis. The actor broke down in tears in a teaser for the upcoming 'Good Morning America' interview and said he doesn’t think his ...
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
During #ALSAwarenessMonth, in my Disney way, I convey ALS through Ben's experience, as well as how it affected me as his #caregiver. We must fight this regime's reckless and severe budget cuts to research for ALS and other diseases. pixiedustforcaregivers.com/2025/05/24/o...
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On ALS and What Ariel Learned About Losing Her Voice and Herself
Halloween 2012 May is ALS Awareness Month, and as this month concludes, in my Disney way, I want to describe the progression of ALS as Ben expressed his experience and as I witnessed it. This also …
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Happy Mother's Day to moms of all creatures, great and small. If you're missing your mom as I do mine, I hope that good memories are a comfort. pixiedustforcaregivers.com/2023/05/14/m...
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Mother’s Day Through a Disney Lens- She Lives in Me
We were always Mickey Mouse fans! Today is Mother’s Day. My grandmother believed that every day should be Mother’s Day. The truth is that when my mom was alive, every day WAS Mother’s Day. We were …
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2025
Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Important facts:
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It cannot be forgotten, ignored, or dismissed.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
1942 Voice of America ws launched to counter Nazi propaganda. Since then for 360 million ppl- incl in N Korea, it has been the source of fact-based news in 49 languages Against Congress orders & altho tax payer funded, Trump shut VOA down calling it “radical propaganda“. Trump is not for America
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
State AGs are suing HHS and Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for abruptly and unlawfully cutting $11B in critical public health grants—without warning or legal justification. (CO, CA, MN, RI, WA, AZ, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, WI, KY, and PA.)
INTRODUCTION
With no advance notice or warning, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services ("HHS") abruptly and arbitrarily terminated $11 billion of critical public health funding
beginning on the evening of March 24, 2025. This funding provides essential support for a wide
range of urgent public health needs such as identifying, tracking,
and addressing infectious
diseases; ensuring access to immunizations; fortifying emergency preparedness; providing mental
health and substance abuse services; and modernizing critical public health infrastructure. These
termination notices and substantially similar subsequent notices (collectively, "Public Health
Terminations") immediately triggered chaos for State and local health jurisdictions. If the funding
is not restored, key public health programs and initiatives that address ongoing and emerging
public health needs of Plaintiffs (collectively, "Plaintiff States") will have to be dissolved or
disbanded. Large numbers of state and local public health employees and contractors have been,
or may soon be, dismissed from their roles. The result of these massive, unexpected funding
terminations is serious harm to public health, leaving Plaintiff States at greater risk for future
pandemics and the spread of otherwise preventable disease and cutting off vital public health
services.
2. The sole stated basis for Defendants' decision is that the funding for these grants
or cooperative agreements was appropriated through one or more COVID-19 related laws.
According to Defendants, this vital public health funding has been terminated "for cause" because
"the grants and cooperative agreements were issued for a limited purpose: to ameliorate the effects
of the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no
longer necessary as their limited purpose has run out." HHS, Notice of Award (Mar. 24, 2025). In
communications to grantees, that bare statement (or slight variations thereof)Defendants' analysis and explanation as to why "the grants and cooperative agreements are no
longer necessary" and could be terminated "for cause." Pursuant to these conclusory, boilerplate
statements, Defendants issued mass terminations for billions of dollars in vital public health
funding with no warning and effective immediately.
3. The Public Health Terminations exceed Defendants' statutory and regulatory
authority and are unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"). The foreseeable end
of the COVID-19 pandemic is not a lawful basis to terminate "for cause." See, e.g., 42 U.S.C.
§ 300x-55(a) (allowing "for cause" terminations only based on the grant recipient's "material
failure" to comply with the agreement). Defendants have never alleged, much less demonstrated, any failure by fund recipients to comply with the applicable terms and conditions of the grants and
agreements. Nor did Congress limit the funding at issue here to the period of the COVID-19
emergency. During the pandemic, Congress made wide-ranging public health investments
extending beyond COVID-19 and the immediate public health emergency. And after the pandemic
was declared over, Congress reviewed the COVID-19 related laws, rescinded $27 billion in funds,
but determined not to rescind any of the funding at issue here. See, e.g., Fiscal Responsibility of
Act of 2023, Public Law 118-5, Div. B, Title I.
4. The Public Health Terminations also violate the APA because they are arbitrary and
capricious, for reasons including: (1) assuming, with no legal or factual support, that all
appropriations in COVID-19 related laws were only intended for use during the pandemic, when
the relevant statutes indicate the opposite; (2) failing to undertake any individualized assessments
of the grants or cooperative agreements, including any analysis of the benefits of this public health
funding or the dire consequences of termination;
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Truth Will Reign 👑 @truthwill-reign.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love Her enough.” Cory Booker
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Karin Schall @karinschall.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker. 👇👇👇
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Theater is my peace, joy, inspiration. George Clooney is my WOW!!! What a gift to see him on stage!!!!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Whatever page of the Atlantic it's on, it's the biggest story in the country. Indeed, the biggest story in a while. So try not to sound like idiots--if only for the novelty.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Today, thousands of openly-transgender service members will put on their uniform and do what needs to be done because they honor their oath to our country, while Pete Hegseth denigrates their service and violates his oath by brazenly sharing classified intel in text groups. Just a reminder.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The people out to destroy this Republic hate courage more than anything. Put it in their face, every day.
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Yet another "proud" #magaMORON moment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/03/2025
rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer right now:
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/03/2025
Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Happy Purim!
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It's almost as if a gibbering degenerate President with zero understanding of markets or respect for the rule of law who is engaged in moronic tariff wars and a wholesale betrayal of our alliances is bad for the market. Strange how that happens.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pete Hegseth has gotten the Pentagon to scrub a photo of a B-29 Superfortress ‘The Enola Gay’ (named for the pilot's mother). It was the plane that dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, but the pilot's mother's name was "Gay." We are not just a country being run by bigots, we are one run by stupid ones.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ready for a busy week, everyone???
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A reminder for these times.
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Saneman @saneman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The caravans are coming!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Tim 💙💙💙 @kattykit64.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Convicted felon hasn't been out of the Country since January 21. Gee, I wonder why? Most countries don't allow Felons.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Next thing you know, Trump will expect Jews to stop saying negative things about Hitler.
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Blue Sword, Resist @blueswordresist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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whimsyandstuff.bsky.social @whimsyandstuff.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Wake up, magaMORONS.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Just so we are clear - the reason why JD Vance has constantly refused to go to Ukraine is because he is a coward. He would NEVER go there and meet with their soldiers or talk with their leaders. Because their courage and integrity would show him for what he is - a sniveling jerk.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Saneman @saneman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
How to think about democracy. Read here:
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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RaveninAK @raveninak.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?
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Tim 💙💙💙 @kattykit64.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🖐
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𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 @allthingsisheretoo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A Picture Speaks Volumes. Upside-down American flag hoisted in a striking demonstration on El Capitan, Yosemite National Park in response to job cuts affecting U.S. National Park workers. Originally posted on instagram. 02/23/2025
Upside-down American flag hoisted in a striking demonstration on El Capitan,  Yosemite National Park in response to job cuts affecting U.S. National Park workers.
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