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50501 Northeast Florida ❌👑✌️ @50501nefl.bsky.social · 20d

❌👑✌️ NO KINGS IS BACK IN JAX — Sat, Oct 18!

2:00 PM: Meet @ Friendship Fountain
2:15 PM: 1-mile march thru Downtown Jacksonville
3:00 PM: Meet + Rally @ Duval County Courthouse

Be sure to check mobilize.us/nokings to find caravans and other #nokings events happening near you!

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 1d

It took me a sec to see it was alphabetical listing, hopefully not odds-on listing.

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 1d

On American soil ALL, without exception, are guaranteed certain rights, US citizen or not. The noble thing for ICE to do is stand down. None of these abusive raids and warrantless detention gets us any closer to desired bipartisan immigration legislation.

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I will take a look.

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 4d

Finishing Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch… hate for it to end… What a great read on the heels of Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of a Civility…

Looking for next read #Booksky ?

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 5d

If the dead could articulate their despair maybe Congress, the US Senate, and the Supreme Court would do their sworn duty.

It's up to us to stand up for hundreds of thousands who have died for this country, soldiers statesmen advocates humanitarians -public servants all -
#Resist
#VOTE

Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 15d

If only..

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15d

“Hegseth's Meeting Backfires as Military Audience Starts Chanting, "Epstein, Epstein…"

Sigh. If only.

Hegseth's Meeting Backfires as Military Audience Starts Chanting, "Epstein, Epstein"

The Defense Secretary fled the stage in tears.

www.borowitzreport.com

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 15d

My father, a US Navy veteran, would have called this man of service “The Real McCoy.” His consternation toward remarks of this White House tenant toward the military is tangible.
www.cnn.com/videos/polit...

Retired general’s message to Trump: You’re no patriot | CNN Politics

Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton explains his reaction to President Donald Trump’s comments about the military to CNN’s Brianna Keilar.

www.cnn.com

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for sharing this. A recent story details how the DOJ is doing an end-run around immigration judges right outside the courtroom doors in order to meet their arrest quotas.

Hard to believe anyone voted for this.
www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...

ICE's novel strategy allows for more arrests from inside immigration courts

The Trump administration has a novel strategy to boost arrests and reduce courts' backlog: dismissing people's immigration cases and immediately arresting them.

www.npr.org

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17d

Cardinal McElroy at Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · Sep 16

The lessons, written by award-winning teacher
@mrhonner.com.web.brid.gy, are all free.
So are the links to my earlier series. You don't need to have a @nytimes.com subscription to read them.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 19d

#Humberto is now a Cat 5!
It’s the first time in nearly a century with back to back seasons with Cat 5’s in the Atlantic.
We are seeing our warmer future unfold in real-time, IMO. 1/

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

Someone mentioned the movie A Gentleman in Moscow was good, one I would like to see.

Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

Now, I am turning to another well written book, Forces of Nature by Clay Henderson, the story of Florida Land Conservation, proof that citizens make a difference in protecting our world. #booksky environment ecology climate

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Forces of Nature

Learn more about this book at UPF.com

upf.com

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

And Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is also very good, #booksky

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

Really enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

#booksky
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 19d

Friday night update: Double hurricanes off the East Coast next week with #Humberto and #Imelda. #Hurricane Humberto may reach 150 mph! And #Imelda may dump feet of rain if it stalls. Here’s more…

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

There’s that and the whole notion their views matter one whit to a grown woman struggling with more burdens than she can manage.

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 19d

If we could just shut down the Executive Branch…

Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 21d

Tough to measure the price of corporate free speech since Citizens United, and yet they all are so quiet when you need them to stand up for the right thing.
Exhibit A, Washington Post. Exhibit B CBS, ABC…
Lord have mercy on us.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/m...

More than 100 ABC News veterans urge Disney CEO Bob Iger to stand firm against Trump attacks | CNN Business

The letter, obtained by CNN on Wednesday soon after it was delivered to Iger, was first drafted when ABC suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week.

www.cnn.com

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 22d

Would you like a free personal law firm?
I think it would be nice to have my neighbors pay for any legal needs I may have.
You?
#welfare #corporatewelfare #billionairewelfare
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Justice Department is basically Trump's personal law firm now

From public demands to go after his political enemies to reportedly closing $50,000 bribery investigations into Tom Homan.

www.motherjones.com

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 22d

Because I have plans to read the Epstein files, I will continue to take Tylenol as directed.

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 22d

Do I have his right?
Corporations‘ campaign donations are free speech under #CitizensUnited.
The govt agency FCC has authority to scare corporations for airing individual free speech, so that corporations have free speech but individuals’ speech is subject to corporate mergers?
@maddow.msnbc.com

Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 24d

This GOP seems more Big Government than your grandmother’s FCC.
Watch Dave Letterman lay it out on FCC Censorship:
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David Letterman MOCKS Trump With MASTERFUL Takedown

YouTube video by Really American

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Katie Bark @kbark.bsky.social · 25d

Maya Angelou
This is a Master Class on Dignity Compassion and Self Respect in a world that finds too many lobbing ridicule and darkness in every direction. Looking for a transcript… #peace #unity
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How to Never Get Angry or Bothered by Anyone | MAYA ANGELOU MOTIVATION

YouTube video by Maya Inspiration

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