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DenverChick

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Former Texan now in the beautiful State of Colorado Dog Mom Democrat LGBTQ+ Ally No MAGA If you post AI images, I will not follow you.

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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · Jul 9

My quick tutorial on adding Alt-Text to graphics that contain only text. Don't be deterred by all the steps. I gave things like "select text" and "copy text" seperate numbers, so doing this is simpler than it looks!
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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · May 19

A quick tutorial on adding Alt-Text using Google Lens

1) Before adding your picture or photo to your skeet, click on your photo until the "Share" icon shows up. It will look something like this: [Share icon]
2) Share the photo to Google Lens.
3) In Google Lens, move the picture sizer to include all the text. Google Lens will ask you to select the text in that area.
4) Select the text.
5) Copy the text.
6) Hit return to go back to your post.
7) Add your photo or picture to your post.
8) Click on the "ALT" button on your photo.
9) Paste copied text into ALT. It should still be in your buffer. Hit "Save" .
10) Click on Post to post your message.

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VanillaRage @vanillarage.bsky.social · 4h

French writer, Albert Camus once said-"Be careful, when democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but not to inquire about its health."

And with a thin smile, it fluffs the pillow, smooths the sheets, and whispers, "Rest now—I’ll take it from here."

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Good stuff.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Welch: Mike Johnson-If he's a big Christian, he should be fighting for the marginalized, fighting for the poor. But instead he weaponizes his faith to lure voters in and then dicks him over every chance he gets.

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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · 49m

Same

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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

🤣🤣

CocobeansServant . @cocobeansservant.bsky.social · 1h

Spicy little weirdo’s..

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1h

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

While Trump plays trade war like he’s holding all the cards, our executives are coming back from China terrified.

They’re walking through “dark factories” where robots run the show so efficiently the lights don’t even need to be on.

One exec saw a plant pumping out phones with zero human workers.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

China is a humble superpower. They’re not bragging about this. They are just getting it done, and that’s why people are shocked.
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Access Restricted

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

Using the IRS as a weapon to go after Trump and MAGA's enemies.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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frankwheller.bsky.social @frankwheller.bsky.social · 2h

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 10h

"It fundamentally changes what those corporations are." CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social breaks down exactly how states can—and should—get corporate money out of politics.

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lin11c @lin11c.bsky.social · 1h

What a f*cking liar. The murders are overwhelmingly Right Wing. Mass shootings. Right Wing. Since this douche is too stupid to parse information, here's some pictures. ☠️

A pie chart of political murders from TIME by Cato Institute showing right wing political violence is most prevalent by a wide margin.

Percent of murders tied to political extremism through 2021.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · 1h

Adding Alt-Text

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Rogelio Garcia Lawyer
@LawyerRogelio

So Trump drops a big (approx 40x60 feet) expensive political sign in my largely Hispanic neighborhood in Houston TX about a week ago which upset me .... I wake up this morning and this is what the sign looks like now hahahahah

Photo of a huge roadside billboard that says
"TAKE TRUMP TO PRISON"

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Kane Lawless 420 @kanelawless420.bsky.social · 1h

In my home city...

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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21d

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

Bolts has been working hard to cover the upcoming elections so it’d be nice to get the account above 100K followers by election day in 3 weeks!

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 3d

Voters this fall will decide major ballot measures that’ll affect how elections are run—we’re watching referendums in California, Maine, New York, and Texas.

Learn more in our guide to November’s elections:

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 1h

#StressBreak #BoomerTV

Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things.

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'The first time sci-fi was presented as serious drama': The forgotten 1960s show that was the original Black Mirror

Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · 4h

How's that working out?

Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11h

Let me guess. Mr. Hamas had tears in his eyes and said, “Sir, we love you, you’re the greatest, we think it should have been you who got the Nobel Peace Prize.”

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 8h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Terri Lyndie @terrilyndie.bsky.social · 5h

"Justice Department delayed breach announcement"
www.cbsnews.com/news/f5-sour...

Cybersecurity order warns of "imminent risk" to federal agencies following possible breach

Officials warned that attackers could exploit the vulnerabilities to steal credentials, move laterally through networks, and potentially take full control of targeted systems.

www.cbsnews.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!

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Dena McClung @deenabobeena.bsky.social · 5h

The system has been in trouble since the very early 2000s. It's been nigh impossible to replace the retiring controllers with new trainees all this time, and now we've crossed a brink that may be unrecoverable.
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The government shutdown is putting a renewed spotlight on the cracks in the US aviation system - Sentinel Colorado

"It's like having a drought the year after you had a drought," Greg Raiff, CEO of Elevate Aviation Group, told The Associated Press.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

I have seen a range of opinions and reactions from across the ideological spectrum on the Young Republicans thing, but one take you really don’t hear from anyone is that they are shocked this was happening.

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