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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power

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Bookworm. I ♥: scifi/fantasy, little bit of everything movies & books. Sci & hist junkie. BE WARNED: New followers w/o posts/bios, just promoting yourself? Sorry, Blocked. No auto-followbacks. I re-post a lot, but not outrage news. Sometimes w/ OPINIONS.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · Jan 23

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO.

"On January 22, 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau... numbers showed that the Hispanic population of the United States had increased by 4.7 percent since the last count, officially making Hispanics the largest minority group in the country."

A young Hispanic girl with a determined expression crouches against a green sidewalk metal lamp post. In her 2 hands she holds a sign that says in all-caps, "IT'S OUR AMERICAN DREAM TOO!"

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 51m

Hope not. It's been shown several times he's not wanted. By Democrats.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/p...

White House Ghost Stories

1862-1863: Mary Lincoln, grieving over her son Willie's death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or séances in the Red Room at the White House and the p...

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe not anymore? They were removing some in 2019 August and moving people around so they could remove it.

thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

what about the murdered guys

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel reut.rs/48GiDmO

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel

Ecuador's prosecutor's office said on Monday it would not detain the Ecuadorean survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

The worst.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 1h

Extremely hard on male children. It hardens too many too soon and permanently. And that's why the world is the way it is.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/nassauco/201...

Tumbleweed invading beach dunes - UF/IFAS Extension Nassau County

When I hear the word tumbleweed, an image of a dry brittle plant tumbling across a barren road of an arid desert scene pops into my head. Not the image of a prickly plant patching across the beaches o...

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

Who nevertheless were British subjects until 1947.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

People don't seem to be as obsessed about it as they were a decade ago, but now it's moved on to constantly videorecording themselves doing stupid shit. Worse, in vertical video.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 2h

Will they also have large nets around the buildings?

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Brunhilde2525 @brunhilde2525.bsky.social · 7h

Begging people to strip this surveillance gear out of their homes. No Alexa, no Nest thermostat, no Ring cameras, no gd internet linked refrigerators. An actually zone of privacy, for God’s sake.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 3h

As always, expected.

Variety @variety.com · 13h

While ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show doubled cancelations of Disney+ and Hulu, both streamers also saw higher-than-average sign-ups during September.

This helped offset the consumers who nixed their subscriptions.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Disney+, Hulu Cancelation Rates Doubled During Jimmy Kimmel Suspension — but Total Sign-Ups Also Increased

ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show last month drove a surge in cancelations of Disney+ and Hulu streaming services by consumers outraged over the move. However, both services als...

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 11h

Beautiful. A publisher rightfully making their front page the faces of Brown people who are taking the brunt of the claimed supremac y. As they/we have many times before.

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 17h

Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

it’s deeply depressing to imagine being the kind of person who this would appeal to

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

techcrunch.com

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

Nope. At my fastest when I was young I was never single digits pace. And I ran half marathons. 🤷‍♀️

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

Way too many war-like cousins. Not just humans either.

Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 7h

Beautiful photographs illustrating a sad story: “We estimate the population at fewer than 20,000 individuals. Perhaps even fewer than 15,000. They are now critically endangered.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bonobos transformed how we think about animal societies. Can we save the last of the ‘hippy apes’?

They are peaceful, female-led and use sex in everyday interactions. Now a new conservation scheme could offer a lifeline to our critically endangered close relatives living on the Congo river

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

Attempt to get women on board since studies found women were much much more likely to call its bullshit.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

I get really tired of the "richest country in the world" use. No, we are not. There's always been a small number of people who were born/raised here, own everything, and make most of the profit. It's just gotten egregious. That profit doesn't belong to the entire country.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

If they'd been a (bio)chemist they would've know that! Or any fan of "cheese sauce." 😄

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

Not quite this slurry, but many many years ago I knew the chemist who developed instant potatoes and a bunch of other food science things. Sweet, nice person, R.I.P.

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 8h

It’s striking how many local governments, school boards, and small businesses post official statements to Facebook or Instagram and nowhere else, occasionally with restrictions that mean you have to have an account and log in to read them.

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

It feels like that time "everyone" was saying (a few) people believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

"The way the media reported the factoid that millions of Americans believe brown cows produce chocolate milk raises questions about science literacy – but different ones than you may think."

Take that chocolate milk survey with a grain of salt

The way the media reported the factoid that millions of Americans believe brown cows produce chocolate milk raises questions about science literacy – but different ones than you may think.

archive.news.ufl.edu

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🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 6h

Someone needs to show me this 2021 survey cited across various sites claiming 42% of people didn't know Lay's chips are made from potatoes. I've looked, including limiting the date range searched to kick out all these new mentions without links to the survey. Nothing.

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 7h

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Always Sunn y In Philadelphi a character Charlie at a bulletin board with papers connected by tacked red strings to explain conspiracies.

🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power @babewiththepower.bsky.social · 8h

Where there's a will, there's a way.
I'm thankful my parents left rural areas and I lived in a town where I could walk and/or take a bus to several libraries.

8 women on horsback in a black and white photo on a book cover titled "The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky."