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Florida born. 🤷‍♀️ Retired RN 🩺 Public Health. Hawai'i home for many years. 🎶 Music and fast car lover. Award nominee music producer. #Photography #Read Healthcare for all. Nature. Rule of law. Save the oceans. Not playing dead to the Orange Felon. 🚫DM

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · Nov 30

Only blue sky's ahead.

Stay strong, people! 💪 🦋

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 5h

Agree.

It's truly mind-blowing.

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 6h

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Jeffery 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 6h

The more you know 💫

#TrumpShutdown #RepublicanShutdown

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 6h

Again, try listening to President Obama's conversation....

It even touches on your belief that only *you* have all the answers :)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is looking for a few good frogs. 🐸

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 1d

The question isn't if I'm afraid for my safety because I am outspoken.

The question is whether I'm afraid of what could happen if people don't speak up.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 7h

Try listening to President Obama's *entire conversation* on the last Marc Maron podcast.

It touches a lot of the topics in our running "discussion."

PS Sorry to hurt your feelings 😉 Have a nice day :)

alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 7h

Great conversation, President Obama.

Perhaps the folks who are especially upset that Gov. Janet Mills has entered the race for senator in Maine- can try listening to this entire conversation.

I hope Graham Platner ultimately wins the Maine senate seat, but a true democracy welcomes challengers.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 8h

There's always been a fight over the true story of America. I believe deeply in the story that says we’re all created equal, and that if we can treat each other with decency and respect, all of us will be better off.

I talk about this and more on the final episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Watch now:

My Conversation with Marc Maron | WTF Podcast

YouTube video by Barack Obama

www.youtube.com

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10h

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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Roseymelhill💙💙 @roseymelhill.bsky.social · 1d

I miss him every day of what we are dealing with now. Was he the best? No. Did he make mistakes? Yes. But he was so much better than what we have today. Can’t even compare the two.

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Bayjmin Tuckles @bayjmin-tuckles.bsky.social · 8h

Wonder what Charlie would have thought about a shooting victim getting a posthumous medal. After all, he believed that having some shooting deaths occur was just a necessity.

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 8h

...Or maybe your hurt feelings and being unable to discuss thoughts that you already hold in cement is the problem.

alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, he has a different story today with his new ad.

Good on him.

The real mystery is why did Janet Mills step in...besides the Chuck Schumer, push story?

Maine is pretty conservative.

Again, I hope Graham Platner wins the Primary.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15h

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 18h

I have an uncle who is currently 102. He's sharper than 72 y/o Susan Collins is now.

The point is I don't care how old they are if they can beat Susan Collins, go for it.

Graham Platner is a strong candidate and I hope he wins.

Do the Maine folks feel that way too?

Let democracy play out!

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 22h

No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 23h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.

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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social · 21h

Why discourage Dem. candidates from entering a race that opposes a do-nothing GOP candidate like Susan Collins?

Even Graham Platner doesn't mind Mills is in the primary race. He understands that's part of the democratic process.

I like Platner a lot.

Hope he wins.

But STOP the BS divisiveness!

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 22h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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