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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · Mar 23

I use this directory often! A great resource

Monique 💙 she/her @badassfeminists.bsky.social · Mar 11

Anybody can create a starter pack, which is a list of up to 150 Bluesky accounts that have something in common - like birds or politics. You can find people's starter packs on their profile page.

This is a searchable directory of starter packs.

blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs

Starter Pack - Bluesky Directory

blueskydirectory.com

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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 18h

Yes! Fanning the clouds away as fast as I can…🤪

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ALT: a close up of a woman wearing a red and white striped shirt .

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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 18h

Frogs are only one part of the resistance ecosystem! All species are welcome

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Ronda's Mystic Solutions 💫 @rondasmystic.bsky.social · 18h

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CascadiaPNW @cascadiaresistance.bsky.social · 1d

Cascadia 🫶

Energy dragon @energydragons.bsky.social · 1d

Never underestimate the power of the northwest forests! Or the joy and freedom we keep sacred!

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

The frog resistance sings a little song! It isn't easy to be green, but Kermit shows us the way.

I'm green. I've always been green. Are you green, too?

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 1d

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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 18h

It will be destroyed just like Twitter was!

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

"A truly worrying aspect of the whole TikTok deal has been the absence of oversight. With the House recessed during the government shutdown, with the Senate paralyzed by fights over the budget, nobody seems to have an eye on 47's TikTok plan."

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok is more than an app. TikTok is an opportunity for 47 to bestow great wealth—& considerable media power—on a clique of allies & insiders.

The details of this gift are taking shape out of the public eye.

Gift link.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 18h

Guess you are getting through to him finally!

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

All I can add to this is: Please listen to Rachel. She is on point.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFG...

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

Great stuff. Really great stuff.

So pleased to hear that Rachel is winning an Edward R. Murrow Aware for her podcast Ultra. She is an awesome history teacher: it's what she does best.

MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 1d

"These are all different stories, different lessons about how to fight really hard fights in America." @maddow.msnbc.com explains the unifying theme that has run through her recent work outside the TV studio at MSNBC.

Watch:

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Bridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 18h

So powerful! Thanks for sharing Fi

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

THE WILD IRIS
by Louise Glück

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.

Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.

You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:

from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Now release the Epstein file hostages. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com · 1d

The one and only @maddow.msnbc.com

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 1d

TONIGHT: @maddow.msnbc.com joins @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

Promotional graphic for MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell featuring Rachel Maddow

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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 1d

PeaceHealth's ongoing 80-bed expansion is positioning the hospital for the next two decades in Whatcom County, a hospital executive said tonight.

PeaceHealth expansion continues amid unknown local impact of federal cuts | Cascadia Daily News

The hospital estimates the 80-bed expansion will cost $336 million

www.cascadiadaily.com

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

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CascadiaPNW @cascadiaresistance.bsky.social · 1d

This didn’t get enough love 🫶

Channel Heed @channelheed.bsky.social · 1d

2021 Native Peoples Dancing at the Portland Waterfront. #indigenous #peoples #day #dancing #native

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier today, I announced the use of Strategic Reserve Funds to help Manzana move its entire apple processing operation from California to Sunnyside, Washington.

This move will give local apple growers a stable and nearby buyer. We must support our growers and farmers.

Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 3d

Today I went to Wenatchee, the heart of apple, pear, and cherry country, to discuss the challenges facing the tree fruit industry.

I'm grateful for the hard work and innovation of our farmers and growers that make our agriculture among the best in the world.