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AnnMB48
@annmb48.bsky.social
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UK Resister 🦋🦋 I love my family (family includes my dog) & my garden. I love to grow flowers from seed. Then I photograph them! The photos help me through the winter 😊🌸🌼🌸 Retired teacher. Passionate about education! NO DMs! 🪴Where are my gardening friends?
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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 18d
Sometimes a picture says it all.
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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 3h
Good morning Amy 👋🫶
Happy Thursday.
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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 3h
Good morning Ro. 😊🫶
It’s been a long week but…
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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 3h
Good morning Jaye! 👋💙
I like the sound of that one!
Which reminds me…
I have a bottle of mulled cider somewhere 😉
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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 3h
Good morning Brenda &friends 😊👋💙
I love the look of this place! I’ll stay on the patio and enjoy the view. 😊
Happy Thursday!
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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 4h
Good morning #BreakfastCrew

Happy Thursday!🌸🌼🌺

A luxurious getaway with something for everyone for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡☀️🌳

The bar is open & breakfast served till 11am ET. After that, it is self-serve!

Come meet some new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcome!

Comment ✍️ & say Hi!👋
#BlueCrew🦋
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 18h
AN ANGRY CAT IS THINKING: "MAN, I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS SHIT"
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h
The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h
Huge thanks to everyone who showed up outside the Supreme Court today to stand up for voting rights!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h
Yep. Wormtongue keeping Theoden captive with AI.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h
You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
The trial of Sydney Reid, who was initially charged w/felony assault for videotaping ICE, then charged w/misdemeanor, and whose case has been beset by all sorts of discovery problems since, has finished.

Judge Sooknanan threw out allegation involving one of two "victims" (on same assault charge).
Case Name: USA v. REID Case Number: 1:25-cr-00244-SLS Filer: Document Number: No document attached Docket Text: Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan: Jury Trial as to SYDNEY LORI REID resumed on 10/15/2025 with the same jury of twelve (12) and two (2) alternates. Oral motion by the defense for a "mistrial", heard and reserved. Government rests. Oral Rule 29 motion by the defense, heard and granted as to Officer Liang only. Defense commenced and concluded their case in chief. Oral renewed Rule 29 motion as to all other portions of the Information, heard and reserved. Charge conference held. Jury Trial continued to 10/16/2025 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 14- In Person before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. Bond Status of Defendant: PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE; Court Reporter: Bryan Wayne; Defense Attorney: Eugene Ohm and Tezira Abe; US Attorney: Travis Wolfe and Jason Facci; Government Witness: Agent Eugenia Bates: Defense Witnesses: Jessica Mason and Katie Campbell-Morrison. (znbn)
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 20h
"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein
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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 20h
"Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
One of the people whose visas Marco Rubio canceled was snitched by right wing South Africans.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/s...
He Tweeted Charlie Kirk “Won’t Be Remembered as a Hero.” The State Dept. Revoked His Visa
Nota Baloyi is one of several people who lost a visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18h
Trump’s Wildest Claim Yet: Tariffs = World Peace?
Trump’s Wildest Claim Yet: Tariffs = World Peace?
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17h
Which means no need for ongoing reporting to Congress, no 60-day clock, and none of those pesky "rules of engagement" that Hegseth hates that might keep military folks from carrying out an order, or dumb international law "rules" that get in the way 6/
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17h
🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
Links:

protectdemocracy.org/work/impound...

www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/trump...

apnews.com/article/8601...
The impoundment threat, explained
Trump’s position is wrong. There is no inherent power to impound.  The history of presidential impoundments make this clear.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
This move isn’t about helping troops, it’s about testing how far executive power can stretch. If left unchallenged, it sets a dangerous precedent where any president could redirect funds for political ends. Congress must act, or risk losing one of its most essential powers.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power of the purse. By attempting to reprogram federal funds without approval, Trump is directly challenging that separation of powers. This violates the Impoundment Control Act, the very law passed after Nixon’s abuses of budget authority.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
This is unconstitutional and illegal. A memorandum doesn’t grant anyone the power to override the Constitution.

Trump has signed an order expanding his administration’s authority to redirect unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown,
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17h
what is happening
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
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