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Paul Eric Scannell

@pauleric70.bsky.social

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Left leaning woke bloke 🌈 / love Astronomy 💫/ History 🗿/ Nature 🌏 / Animals 🦍 / True Democracy by the people for the people 🗽 Climate change is real and deadly ☠️ Detest far right fascism in ANY form No DM ask for $$ / crypto 🚫 / dating 🚫

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10d

Damn... This was really brave and perfectly executed. The way you guys planted multiple people all around the room and spoke up one at a time overwhelmed their security. This was brilliant. I respect it.💙👏😎

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Craig Williams @voterrooter.bsky.social · 10h

Tardigrade doppelgänger…

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

A microscopic tardigrade, also known as a water bear, walking across a glass slide.

Extremely resilient, it can survive decades without food or water and are the only known animal that can survive in direct exposure in space.

One of the first species and prob last on the 🌎

[📹 Tobin Sparling]

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 10h

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A large part of the reason we celebrate Columbus Day is because Italian immigrants were horribly mistreated, frequently with the excuse of protecting a WASPy American identity or crime prevention. Sound a little bit familiar?

The Incredible Irony Of MAGA's Columbus Day Obsession

It literally only exists because people were horrible to immigrants.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

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PJ1965🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🍊 @pj-1965.bsky.social · 10h

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 TRUMP CONFIRMS HE WAS AN ACTIVE PARTNER IN THE GENOCIDE:

'Bibi Netanyahu would call me so many times asking for weapons I never even heard of, but we got them here didn’t we? You used them very well.’

Absolutely shameless that this is a world leader.🤬🤬🤬

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Patrick @thepakman602.bsky.social · 10h

This is unacceptable

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 16h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 1d

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, and I'm super-thankful for these kind words.

“A charming tribute to the unrelenting and unconditional acceptance a dog gives.”
– Mike Boldt

“We could all stand to learn to love like a dog loves. Kids do it best, and every kid is going to fall for this book.”
– Adam Rex

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 10h

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Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/13

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

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FrancesSierra @francessierra.bsky.social · 11h

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 11h

“I Don’t Know”: Mike Johnson Ducks Key Question About Shutdown Layoffs newrepublic.com/post/201700/... via @newrepublic.com

“I Don’t Know”: Mike Johnson Ducks Key Question About Shutdown Layoffs

Mike Johnson seems to have decided his best line of defense is to play dumb.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Obama torches Donald Trump:

"A lot of what I represented, a lot of what Michelle and I have tried to project-- the values we're thinking about America. My successor seemed to represent the opposite. Not seemed, did."

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Look how Palestinians are getting their hostages back, and then compare that to how the Zionists received theirs.

They flourish on humiliating and torturing Palestinians.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Amanda Odeh 👏👏👏

They kicked me out of the Knesset just for raising the simplest demand, one that the whole international community agrees on:

Recognize the State of Palestine!

Recognize the simple truth:

There are two peoples here, and no one is going anywhere.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

“They hung our bodies day and night, naked, abused and insulted us. They told us, ‘We killed your children. Gaza is gone.’”

Translation: @translatingpal

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during Israel’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex, spoke after nearly 20 months in captivity, expressing shock at global silence.

“For two years I was starved, I went in starving and came out starving,” he said.

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings Day: Pro-democracy and love for America!
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No Kings Day: Pro-democracy and love for America!

October 14, 2025

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 10h

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🕊️The Last Will and Testament of Journalist Saleh Aljafarawi

Please pause and read and absorb his final words.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10h

Eric Warsaw

"Any American who serves in IDF should lose citizenship"

"No more Israeli flags in Congress"

"No more Dual Citizenships in Congress"

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11h

1968 captives freed.

77 killed by Israel in Israeli detention centers over the past two years.

Over 10,000 remain unlawfully held captive.

360 children remain behind bars.

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FrodoLove @frodolove.bsky.social · 14h

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 11h

Yea, I've even heard estimates at 600,000.

Dove With Claws, Esq. @ld58esq.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for keeping the issue bumping. I’m hearing estimates of well-over 500,000 Palestinians dead.

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