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Lydia

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Public policy student. I learned a lot about disability and eldercare as a family caregiver and the system made me so mad I went to grad school out of spite. For fun: culture, linguistics, historical architecture and fashion, walkable cities, cats

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Alyssa Harad's avatar Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social
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Excuse me, how are these real?? (The sour cherries smell amazing too.)

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Rune's avatar Rune @runicrhyme.bsky.social
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Getting real tired of folks who act like saying you'd rather be shot in the foot than shot in the head means you're extolling the virtues and benefits of being shot in the foot, like, in general.

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Andrew D Thaler's avatar Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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Library funding is almost always justified through patron numbers. The more people a library serves, the more funding it gets. So even if you don't regularly use a public library, get a library card. It costs you nothing and helps everyone in your community.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I really do believe that most people are basically good, mean well, and want to have a positive impact on the world

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I still think this and I try to keep it in mind even while 80% of my feed is people expressing outrage and vitriol at anyone who isn’t wholeheartedly promoting some specific opinion about the best path forward for the world

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Jim Zub's avatar Jim Zub @jimzub.bsky.social
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This photo is pure 2024.

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caitlin cadieux's avatar caitlin cadieux @smilodonna.bsky.social
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If you see this, post a bird.

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juno. stump ($190/$250)'s avatar juno. stump ($190/$250) @juno.bsky.social
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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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Jana Hall (ON FRIDGE DUTY)'s avatar Jana Hall (ON FRIDGE DUTY) @ugobananas.bsky.social
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Just saw a stat that says a country celebrates its independence from Britain ~every 6 days

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me

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Deidre Lynch's avatar Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social
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Has anyone ever done a better job of depicting small city gardens like my own? Edward Bawden, my new art crush (I'm also falling in love with his cookbook illustrations, so more to come!)

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Charm City Slicker (56-32)'s avatar Charm City Slicker (56-32) @sprawlhater.bsky.social
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The national anthem should be 'This Little Light of Mine' and specifically Sister Rosetta's version ('Let It Shine')

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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War Takes's avatar War Takes @wartakes.bsky.social
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I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

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Josh Chafetz's avatar Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social
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On this July 4, please pause to remember that one of the colonists’ complaints in the Declaration was that the Crown was paying its judges.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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I saw something that made me mad and then chose not to post a response to it someone should give me a gift for that

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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What gives me hope are the normal people trying to save things. People running for school board against moms for liberty freaks, college kids protesting, local newsrooms investigating corruption etc. They inspire but also make me pissed off at the powerful people/institutions that won’t defend them

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luke the myoclonic jerk's avatar luke the myoclonic jerk @coolhand.bsky.social
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They just come straight out and say it and nobody listens

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Ashley M. Gjøvik's avatar Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik.bsky.social
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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Aaron Bady's avatar Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social
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It is legal for the Executive Branch to do crimes however it is illegal for the Executive Branch to do governing.

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى's avatar Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com
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"...But the U.N. Development Programme assessment notes that Gaza would need "approximately 80 years to restore all the fully destroyed housing units" under a scenario assuming the pace of reconstruction follows the trend of several previous Gaza conflicts."

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Jennifer Orr's avatar Jennifer Orr @jenorr.bsky.social
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Our pup, post bath.

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Erin 🌈's avatar Erin 🌈 @erinl.bsky.social
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In light of Taylor Swift making crochet cool again, please, please, PLEASE remember this when searching for your own version of her crochet dress!!!!! Crochet can NOT be done by a machine. It HAS to be done by hand. If you find a $25 crocheted dress, someone was criminally underpaid to crochet it.

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Erin 🌈's avatar Erin 🌈 @erinl.bsky.social
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Crochet cannot be done by a machine. If you see a crocheted item in a store, hands made that piece.

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Lyse-Beast's avatar Lyse-Beast @lyse.bsky.social
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One of my favorite memes is the “woman yelling at cat” one, so when I saw this I almost choked on my drink

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Anya Taylor-Ham's avatar Anya Taylor-Ham @griph.bsky.social
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I feel this illustration in my soul. Every goddamn night you gotta decide what's for dinner and it's just such a fucking hassle

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Stella's avatar Stella @antlervel.vet
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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

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eustace's avatar eustace @eustace.link
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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

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Pam Herd's avatar Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social
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Don't be fooled by the Utah ruling. The 'health of the mother' exception is a classic gendered administrative burden. In practice, ambiguity and threats of criminal action, mean physicians won't 'protect' the pregnant person's health. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/gendered-b...

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John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

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Ned Resnikoff's avatar Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social
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On the same morning, the Court said: 1) We should not presume to know more than small town mayors regarding complex, technical questions like whether to arrest people for being poor. 2) I don't see why a "PhD" in "nuclear physics" should have any latitude to implement ambiguous energy rules.

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Lydia's avatar Lydia @lydiabeeyoobee.bsky.social
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I still haven’t seen or heard of this bribery decision through any news source, just on here. I thought the news about Chevron was relatively niche (in my textbook as a first-year MPP student) but even that has got more mainstream attention.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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One thing that’s helpful to keep in mind here, imo, is that these days it’s not really clear just what an editorial board is for, and so as a result editorial boards at big papers are constantly engaged in the project of justifying their own relevance

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Michael Lobel's avatar Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social
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Since there's a lot going on today and a lot of people are feeling stressed & overwhelmed, maybe this is a good time to introduce all of you to early 20th-century artist Tade Styka and his distinctive painted dog portraits

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