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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · 14h

I'm in Missouri and I doubt it. This is a state that voters approved expansion of Medicaid, sick leave, legal weed, and abortion rights only to elect officials who have, or are trying to repeal those initiatives.

Agriculture is big, and most voted for Trump because they knew they'd get bailouts.

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · 18h

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 23h

🗣 Repost if you agree, America does not have any kings and we do not want any! #NoKings

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · 20h

St Louis we marched in a thunderstorm.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 14d

Pink empress Mantis

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · 16d

We already know she rejects reality

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Sea Hag @seahag.bsky.social · Sep 18

Librarians at #UMN and other places are capturing sign content at national parks via Save Our Signs - find out more here and help save our shared heritage
sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Save Our Signs

Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Sep 14

I want to know why it isn't a bigger deal that a Fox host called for the "involuntary lethal injection" of people who have mental illness.

Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Sep 12

If that's the case they are doing something right.

Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Sep 12

I work with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. They are high risk, it was the leading cause of death for people with IDD in 2020, and we have COVID cases already. I want to be vaccinated to protect them. Even if it doesn't stop transmission it shortens it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.

Unconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptives

MSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Missouri GOP saying they want to reflect voters is laughable.

Missouri voters, who mostly vote Republican (St. Louis City here, it is endlessly frustrating) approved sick leave and abortion rights last fall. The legislature has rolled back sick leave and is fighting to ban abortion again.

Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Sep 4

They don't care what voters want. Missouri voters (I am one) approved sick leave and abortion rights last fall, and the Missouri legislature has rolled back one and is fighting the other. The GOP said MO voters, who mostly vote red, are "like a teenager with a checkbook".

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 1

"'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.'"

Labor Day: ‘The March of the Mill Children’

Remembering what it took, across decades, to end the exploitation of children in factories.

www.thebulwark.com

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why don't you show the source?

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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · Aug 25

A great way to round the long weekend off. A just now, purely by chance observation of a Humming-Bird Hawk-moth in the garden

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · Aug 25

1/ Happy Monday! While summer winds down and my daughter heads to first grade (cue the usual mix of pride and twenty forgotten forms), #publichealth is heating up. From Covid-19 to radioactive shrimp and flying maggots—here’s what’s happening and what it means for you 👇

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Aug 25

I was pistol whipped and carjacked in front of my home about a week before Big Balls. It sucked. Life goes on though and there is a suspect in custody. Even if that hadn't been the case, I wouldn't be ok milking it to justify an authoritarian take over.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 24

"The DC resistance isn’t manifesting this week as recognizable members of Congress marching up and down Pennsylvania Avenue..., but as an array of ordinary DC residents documenting what’s happening in their neighborhoods and mobilizing pop-up actions based on the information being shared."

The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough

It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.

www.motherjones.com

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”

― Carl Sagan

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Aug 14

Lowering age limits equates to lowering standards. Or, high-school seniors with guns and an arrest quota is not how you do legitimate law enforcement. www.thebulwark.com/p/prepare-yo...

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Aug 10

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

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Birds-n-Bugs @benderbuteo.bsky.social · Aug 7

The US in a nutshell.
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious.

Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September

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