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🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩

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The Bog at Frostbite Falls. Pointing north, measuring up, & changing the world day by day. Exploring patience, patterns, hiccups, & connections. MN, NZ, #BookSky, #bees 🐝, journalistic integrity. #GenX Quantum Realm #WWFRD 🚋 #Proginoskes #MGlit #Dragons

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🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩 @berryfields.bsky.social · Nov 6

Identify your feelings and reactions. Journal them, speak them, but know that online spaces often are not the best choice for hot takes -- yet that's where we often find them. If you're finding community, choose spaces that honor your mental health needs.

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🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩 @berryfields.bsky.social · 32m

This post offers a gift link to the same piece bsky.app/profile/joep...

Joe Public 🇨🇦 @joepublic.bsky.social · 15h

Anne Applebaum : Why Trump Turned to the Sewer

The authoritarian playbook.

🎁 gift article (I'm just passing on the link)

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 2h

www.wsj.com/tech/aws-out...

The Day Amazon Broke the Internet for Millions of Americans

The prolonged outage offered a reminder of the fragility of global internet connectivity and Amazon’s role underpinning much of online infrastructure.

www.wsj.com

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NeoJNW @henlopen.bsky.social · 1h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...
And this is our "Deal-Maker" President? Well beyond the soybeans, folks, ALL of America suffers from his self-inflicted damage.

Opinion | Trump’s Great, Self-Inflicted Soybean Debacle

www.nytimes.com

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Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 1h

Why the ‘No Kings’ Protests Matter - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Why the ‘No Kings’ Protests Matter

Huge demonstrations won’t translate into immediate political results, but there’s a reason the president is so bothered by them.

www.theatlantic.com

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elizabeth @kat223.bsky.social · 1h

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’

What the man who has Trump’s ear learned in prison

www.theatlantic.com

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Whip Clyburn Dem - MEDICAID LOVER @annaconda1.bsky.social · 1h

GIFT LINK- STAND UP TO TYRANNY - NO KINGS!!!!

Anyone who has ever read the Federalist Papers knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them are about Donald Trump.

- @joshtpm.bsky.social

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

The Subtle Genius of ‘No Kings’

The turnout and character of the weekend’s No Kings demonstrations speak for...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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John Carroll @galactus-us.bsky.social · 1h

"Without conceding to any of Trump’s demands, Putin was given a second summit with him this year — this time hosted by Hungary’s pro-Putin Viktor Orbán. Zelenskyy will need to dig even deeper for the necessary forbearance in the coming days."

Putin’s mesmeric sway on Trump

Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield

on.ft.com

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Betty Garthwaite @bettygarthwaite.bsky.social · 56m

Gift Article: @lilyjaniak.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

‘I was here’: Ida B. Wells’ family still feels her fight against erasure — and ‘Suffs’ shows why

Family legacy is complicated for the descendants of Ida B. Wells, in a way that only underlines the message of Shaina Taub’s musical “Suff,” touring to BroadwaySF’s Orpheum Theatre.

www.sfchronicle.com

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🌠🐻 Margaret Abberley🌻🧩 @berryfields.bsky.social · 42m

Not even gonna try to spell her name correctly? Not all people want to sing their piety from the mountaintops, and I am more inclined to trust people who show their beliefs through their actions vs how loudly they proclaim how virtuous they are.

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Brandt Robinson @brandtrobinson.bsky.social · 13h

Ann Applebaum reminds us that the Saturday’s 2700 “No Kings II” rallies, protests and demonstrations were very significant, but only how we channel this mass movement towards ORGANIZATION, that results in overwhelming ELECTORAL ACTION. Sorry if you hit a paywall… In solidarity. ✊🏾❤️🇺🇸

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer — The Atlantic

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign.

apple.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Part of the reason this struck me is that I've had my head in the 1960s DOJ for a while.

The DOJ press secretary back then was a Pulitzer Prize winner who'd been reporting for twenty years (except when he was winning medals in WWII).

Today, it's the dumbest meanest airhead in middle school.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 14h

#MediaLiteracy with @thelolo.bsky.social #LoLosLounge
youtu.be/duC5vAyKRIU?...

disinfo is killing democracy

YouTube video by Lolo’s Lounge

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14h

But remember — it was “mild for children” 🙃

By tern

Just think about it.

Seriously.

They told you that covid infection would not harm children, and now long covid is the *most common chronic illness in children*.

Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

tern @1goodtern

Just think about it.

Seriously.

They told you that covid infection would not harm children, and now long covid is the *most common chronic illness in children*.

7:50 AM · Oct 11, 2025 · 27.4K Views

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 15h

My God. 🥹

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19h

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

South Koreans held their government accountable earlier this year. And now they’re protesting for American’s rights and democracy on No Kings too!

Thank you South Korea! #NoKings ❌👑

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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Madrid, Spain!
#Madrid #NoKings #Spain

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 17h

Across the ocean in Sevilla, Spain, 100 people gathered to stand with Americans defending democracy. 🌍💙
From Andalusia to Appalachia, the message echoes the same: no crowns, no tyrants, #NoKings — ever again. 👑❌🇺🇸

@KayeKoonce.bsky.social

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Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 1d

Just a thought — 7 million people turned out for #NoKings. That’s more than the entire population of New Zealand (5 M), Denmark, El Salvador, or Singapore (6 M). An entire country’s worth of people showed up!

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Michael Barthel @mibawi.bsky.social · 3d

#NoKings > While we're just getting up, the first No Kings solidarity events "No Tyrants" have already taken place outside the US and are currently taking place... like here in Melbourne, Australia!

Happy #NoKingsDay ... Be creative, be peaceful but don't be quiet

#NoKingsOct18 #NoKingsDayOct18th

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mycfjdp.bsky.social @mycfjdp.bsky.social · 3d

Happy No Kings Day!! From Blue Mountains, Australia!! (Visiting from Pittsburgh, Pa!! #NoKings

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 3d

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!