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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

Fluoride is in volcanic rock at rates from 100ppm - 3000+ppm. It can leach into water.

The municipal fluoride levels for dental health are .7ppm. Natural fresh water (non-volcanic) averages .1-.3ppm.

RFK is looking for problems where none exist.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

DSCC needs to support the dem already polling ahead of Collin’s & strongly resonating with ME voters!

People need representation, not DSCC consultants & the somewhat milquetoast dem leadership.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

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Todd Warner @tbwarner1.bsky.social · 16h

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

Methinks Sunny has a Pavlovian type reaction to mom on the phone. 😻

The unconscious petting of lap cats when talking establishes a delightful, powerful result!

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t conflate the two.

Can you deny the ever-downward spiral of normalizing racism has been a metastasizing party feature of the GOP since Brown v. Board of Education?

The racists & nationalists co-opted the “true conservative” brand to further their aims. Isn’t that why you’ve broken with them?

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

Insecure, wounded racists.

Hurt people hurt others & enjoy it.

The glee is the key.

No excuse, just the reality. Look at Miller, for example.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

If you have EVER benefitted from free public or institutional libraries…read this & support the professionals who enhanced your life & nurtured your curiosity & growth.

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 5h

🧵It has been clear for years that a key difference between past instances of book banning and the present censorship cataclysm is that the banning happening now targets not only books, but librarianship as a profession and libraries as an institution. 1/4

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4h

Their hate & ignorance are blazingly obvious.

One & all are privileged brats stuck in childhood rage assuaging their wounded egos by persecuting others. Many are sociopathic, others simply trying to be one of their perceived “cool kids” sycophants, living on crumbs of approval by head bullies.

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 5h

Lack of accountability is a feature of GOP politics & narcissistic celebrities.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Every election matters, freedom m dog-catcher to president.

Vote for people who support freedom & reject hate. See who you Teacher’s Union supports & vote for them for School Board.

Do your due diligence & vote from the “bottom up” for freedom over fear and equity over hate.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Encourage local ranchers to sell direct to consumers. Eat seasonally. Create CSA’s & community gardens (Victory gardens from WWI).

Produce more food locally, not as much commodities. With the reduction in farm labor, communities will need to support farmers to produce products they need locally.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Be on the lookout. These behemoths raise energy, water & local tax costs, but provide little return to the community. Billionaires profit, communities suffer for what? A quick answer to a question you could research yourself.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S. n.pr/4qa6s7U

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

This admin is NOT America.

It is authoritarian anathema to our Constitution, laws & freedoms hard fought over 250 to enable.

Up is down in their propaganda push. Call them on it at every turn!

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

No, not humanities…and not a degree.

They must buy their way in (golden visas), swear fealty, and demonstrate shared hate (only fascist social media support) b/c these are the only things that matters to these authoritarians.

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

He says it because every accusation is an admission. These are the grifter’s trilogy of money-making. Been steeped in them his whole life.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Intellectual flight set Germany back. We won’t have any Marshall Plan to help support recovery from this damage. Rebuilding global trust as a free society with reasoned governance will take generations.

Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

China’s hyper efficient LLM tech uses smaller machines that do not require the huge electric & fresh water inputs of the huge U.S. types. Ours will be obsolete - eating up land, raising electric prices, using gal. of precious fresh water and getting obscene tax breaks making the rich more $$.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Or someone who is supported by and beholden to billionaires & dark money groups who have that kind of $$.

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) will follow suit.

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Kathy @katvan62desertrose.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Here’s how tariffs work. Your costs go up, and that money gets transferred to the wealthy.

Whether you’re progressive, liberal, leftist, libertarian, communist, socialist, moderate, democrat, conservative, Christian, atheist, Gen Z, Boomer… we have the same enemy. It’s the oligarchs.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Outdoor Solace @outdoorsolace.bsky.social · 4d

He perpetrated genocide in the Caribbean & enslaved native human beings in a quest for riches. (Sound eerily familiar?)

He “tarnished” his own reputation. We recognize today that this kind of exploitation of fellow humans is anathema to civil society.

Celebrate indigenous resilience, not greed!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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