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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 5h

I made a store return, refilled a prescription and replaced my electric toothbrush head: a story of triumph (I have ADHD)

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 8h

My spin on that would be staying in CCC-built cabins in state parks

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 8h

This is why they hired Bad Bunny!

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 13h

Also apparent in Mike Johnson’s comment that Lee Greenwood should be performing at the Super Bowl instead of Bad Bunny. They think they can make us like Lee Greenwood

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 14h

Plenty of people also seem confused about who was president in, like, July 2020

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

this is a top-tier post

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

The cranberry beans make an incredible pasta e fagioli. But they’re all good! They usually have pintos and/or lentils too

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in my Bean Phase (again). Made Rancho Gordo corona beans tonight, paired with sourdough & a nice red. Sublime

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

antifascist only one more syllable, just saying

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 1d

Among the winners of this year’s MacArthur “genius grants” are climate experts Kristina Douglass and Ángel Adames-Corraliza. We talked to them about their research and why winning $800,000 is a particular lifeline right now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

Who needs disease detectives, it’s not like there are any novel viruses we’d want to understand

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

He signed it!!

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

what happened

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

These are workhorse pots and pans and some people like to collect them for their looks. So what?!

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

If I got this "5 things" email, for that reason I'd lean hard into top edits, source approval, newsletter workflow, yadda yadda

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: It would have been one of the world's largest photovoltaic power plants. Now it's canceled [gift link]

US Cancels Major Solar Project in Nevada Biden Had Championed

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development.

www.bloomberg.com

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 3d

👍 to more sustainable funeral options

Water cremation is coming to Montgomery County

Two entrepreneurs are taking advantage of a new law and plan to offer water cremation in Montgomery County.

www.thebanner.com

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 3d

Such a weird plan that even the State Department admits it's weird
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears

Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 3d

That’s nice of you to say. But there are lots of good accounts here!

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 3d

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 4d

I was able to sustain a freelance journalism career for several years partly because of Twitter. I don’t know if Bluesky can do that for people now. Hope so

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 4d

That is quite upsetting behavior

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 4d

Ha, my husband is a big Stewart Lee fan

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