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Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊

@norska11.bsky.social

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📎🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮💙 Retired garden buyer, Begonia grower, chicken keeper. *No DM's-unsolicited DM's = instant block*, no lists. 🌈 ally, 🏳️‍⚧️ally, kindness to animals, respect for our beautiful earth, #Pigoneer🐷, Palmoildetectives.com 🌎 Oregonian

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Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 3m

Photo credit and permission: Breann / Steve's Leaves.🌱

Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 5m

Here's Begonia 'Fifty Shades of Gray', a Rex cultorum type of hybrid Begonia from the U.S. Silvery-gray leaves w/ dark centers & margins have tiny speckles. Leaves are both split/spiralled, creating silvery-gray cascading layers. Blooms: pink.
Origin: Steve's Leaves. Needs extra humidity🌱 #begonias

Mel 🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊 @norska11.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings 🚫👑🚫
Average American Frogs ✊🐸😍

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Yacowaco (YAC@yacius on twitter) @yacowaco.bsky.social · 1d

It's good some decent Republicans felt some shame with all this misogynist racist bigoted language in the chat but NOT the Vice President who clearly wants to discriminate against all who are not rich white males. He wants a sick hateful divided USA to promote his unethical fascist agenda.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when your country is run by incompetent knuckleheads.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP that gave us the Jan 6 terrorist attack and then pardoned the terrorists is calling the No Kings rally a pro-terrorist rally. These are despicable people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Solidarity is the only way

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 19h

No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸

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bennythesnitch.bsky.social @bennythesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

I WOULD WARN EVERYONE TO BE CAREFUL
BE PEACEFUL
Don not respond to provocation
I believe Republicans are trying to rile up their right wing goomballs to sow chaos so Trump can declare an insurrection

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Invictus Ghost @invictusghost.bsky.social · 1d

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Sue L. @suecalifornia.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “People who coming out to these #NoKingsOct18 protests are not partisan plants, they’re real Americans concerned about the direction of 🇺🇸 and this authoritarian overreach… I’m going.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICE setting up raids outside churches. Trump’s America. 🇺🇸

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

DNJ: “Convicted ex Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold running for Congress as a Republican…”

Locked up for wire fraud & extortion, he says his “record as a conservative Republican stands for itself”

(🏆 juxtaposition of the day to DNJ’s Scott Broden)

www.dnj.com/story/news/2...

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Ms Kitty @handbastet.bsky.social · 1d

They're arresting him for calling them names.

It's his 1st Amendment right to free speech, even if they don't like it.
I'm not sure which law that breaks,
because they are breaking the their oath to faithfully uphold the Constitution of the United States.

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mac1too.bsky.social @mac1too.bsky.social · 1d

There it is, they’re now going after the truly vocal ones against this regime. 10/18 No Kings just became more relevant America. Release the Epstein files now!

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 1d

We are all Robby Roadsteamer today. ✊

F*ck these nazis.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a common feeling across the U.S. right now, a sense of helplessness. Many people want to do more but feel like they can’t. Remember: every action you take pushes the resistance forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 16h

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
Far-right extremists give presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental rights.
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Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental right...

www.americanprogress.org

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M E L L Y med @mel-med-larson.bsky.social · 16h

I am too
I think a lot of us here are

My question is
The past is remembered
So what we do
With the present?

Because it doesn’t end
With #NoKings

Nor, I’m afraid,
By voting
The courts
Or impeachment …

It HAS to be a
National strike
Money is the only thing
That talks with them

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16h

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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