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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 5m

Would have totally been worth pulling over and getting out the "real" camera but it was a narrow road and cars were coming up behind me. So it goes.

JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 7m

Downy woodpecker is like, "Did you see that?"

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 12m

I wish I could have gotten a better picture. It looked so cool.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16m

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 15m

Gwaaawwk

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 16m

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 17m

Drake wood duck tries to draw me in with the hypnotic gaze of its red eyes. 😵‍💫

Male wood duck looking directly into the lens of the camera.

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 22m

Titmouse pauses to have a thought. Tuft is not deployed. I'm not sure what that means.
Kensington Metro Park, MI
Oct 4, 2020

Small gray bird with black eyes and rusty-colored flanks looks like it's pondering something as it stands on the pads of my pinky and ring fingers.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 32m

She won a futuristic pope hat?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "$18 trillion is going to be invested in the United States. That's more money than ever invested in any country before." (The entire US GDP is about $30 trillion.)

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 45m

Snuff films.

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 53m

www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

Trump praises Duterte for 'unbelievable job' cracking down on drugs in the Philippines

Trump disclosed that the U.S. has stationed two nuclear submarines around North Korea.

www.politico.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12h

Glamorous garden visitor, the Black-Billed Magpie. This is one of a local family that nested nearby #birds

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 7h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

If we don’t speak up for the communities that Trump is terrorizing right now, we will be next.

His authoritarianism will come for all of us in the end. https://youtu.be/tkaBlgXR8tY?si=bJcUxXZWMrae4kwx

No One Is Safe From Trump's Authoritarianism

Robert Reich

youtu.be

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 1h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...
Donald is getting addicted to the rush of ordering extrajudicial executions. Reminds me of another one of Donald's heroes, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela | CNN Politics

The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

www.cnn.com

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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 22h

Adelie penguins porpoise because it's efficient and it allows them to breathe while they are hurrying to wherever they are going which in this case was back to the colony at Paulet Island
🧪🌍🦑🦉

Full shot of dozens of Adelie penguins porpoising out of the water with an ice shelf in the distance

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

Dear @SteveScalise,

How could a rally of millions & millions of Americans simply reaffirming our founding principle of “No Kings” be a “hate America rally?” Do you not agree that we must never have kings in America? Shame on you.

Sincerely,

Your Former Congressional Colleague

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2h

The whole linear progress of time thing remains a challenge for MAGA.

A tweet by WeThePeople reads, “Jack Smith was hired months after the raid.” The post quotes a tweet by Aaron Rupar showing Eric Trump in a TV interview, saying, “Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father...” The screenshot shows Eric Trump speaking on a Fox News-style broadcast with a city skyline backdrop.

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry about the quality. It was a drive-by pumpkin patch shooting.

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 3h

The Great Pumpkin Patch.
Dexter, MI

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 3h

Nice work!

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