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FlaRainne

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Proud Mom, Educator, only remaining human who doesn't have a podcast!?! Lover of Learning, Freedom, Civility, Environment, Animals, Cooking, Moon & Stars. Born happy & cheerful. Now wake every day braced for another new Fresh Hell.

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks to all who have followed me. I hope to catch up soon returning the follows! 💙 That's the way we share important stuff!! I try to check information, but if something untrue slips by, please let me know! Besides being apathetic, the worst thing we can do right now is spread falsehoods!

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 14m

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/t...

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 21m

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What we know about White House plans for an 'Arc de Trump'

The Paris-inspired proposed monument in Washington DC is meant to commemorate the US 250th anniversary.

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 1h

The United States is a beautiful country, too

Or we were...pre djt

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 23m

Wade through this if you can.

Trump's 12 unhinged moments as he 'plans' to launch missiles at California

Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office last night to talk about his 'crime surge' - and there's plenty more going on in Trump World

www.themirror.com

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 36m

Rotten core

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 48m

“You shall be judged by the company you keep.”

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 22h

Dave Norton

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 18h

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 43m

"This message is not just false; it appears to violate the prohibitions contained in the Hatch Act," Cantwell wrote.

[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 21h

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Cantwell demands investigation into DHS Secretary Noem's partisan airport video

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell demanded Wednesday that federal investigators examine whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem violated federal law by distributing a partisan vid...

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FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 44m

#release_ALL_The_EPSTEIN_Files

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h

He's not opening the government because he doesn't want those secret files revealed. It's not complicated.

FlaRainne @flarainnen.bsky.social · 46m

This!!!

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1h

ICYMI the GOP's main message right now is 'if you're not with us, you're an enemy of the state'

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 50m

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 1d

Remebering Hannah Arendt’s birthday yesterday, 14 Oct 1906.

"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?"
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#History

The half-length photograph portrays a young Hannah Arendt in 1933. Hannah has her hair gathered with a center parting. She wears a dark dress with a fitted bodice and a vertical row of buttons. Her arms are crossed, and she holds a cigarette between the index and middle fingers of her right hand.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people.

The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.

It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

BERNIE: “I worry we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society, where a very small # of people control our economy + have huge influence over both political parties. if there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.”

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Wribbit @wribbit.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Ott, Author @bubba687.bsky.social · 21h

Truth

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be