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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 3h

“People in South Shore have felt starved for the attention of government, of anyone in power, for decades,” he said. “It seems like an especially cruel irony that, when such attention finally comes, it takes the form of hostile theater — making a spectacle out of beating up on poor people.”

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

“No public criminal charges have been filed against anyone in connection with the raid … The Tribune has been able to confirm the identity of only one immigrant taken into custody by federal agents that night: a 41-year-old pizza delivery man… who has no apparent criminal history.”

They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.

In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

No Kings #Caturday ❤️

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #SixOnSaturday. Enjoy the persistent cosmos still flowering in the garden.

Flowers in shades of white, pink and magenta arranged closed up in a grid.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

www.opb.org

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 1d

So if you have a burning gardening question, you can email me at bourne2bloom@gmail or subscribe to my Substack below, and I will do my best answer them each month.

bournetogarden.substack.com

Bourne To Garden - Making Gardening Easier | Stuart Bourne | Substack

With over 15 years of gardening, including 7 years at Buckingham Palace, I can help make your garden fit for royalty. Click to read Bourne To Garden - Making Gardening Easier, by Stuart Bourne, a Subs...

bournetogarden.substack.com

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owls standing together, two are looking at the camera, one is looking up in the air.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry Jen. 💐

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you💐

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 3d

🌱 Im not ready for fall but the pumpkins are ready! The small ones were grown in the garden.

An arrangement of various pumpkins of different colors and sizes.the two carved pumpkins are decorative ones we have carted around forever

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 5d

🌱 This will be one of the last few hauls from the garden. Mornings are getting chilly. Something for the memory bank till next season.

Red/pink flowers with yellow center arranged around a mound of different colored tomatoes

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 5d

Osteospermums have been as reliable as ever this year, flowering continuously since spring 🌱

#GardensHour #Bloomscrolling #flowers

African daisies in four colours, orange purple yellow and white

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 5d

The Strawflowers are still doing their weirdly crispy-petalled thing #GardensHour 🌱

A collage of three photos of Strawflowers, comprising two deep pink Strawflowers with a white ring; yellow & red multi-layered petals of a Strawflower; white & pale pink multi-layered petals of a Strawflower with a yellow centre

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 7d

Frithia Pulchra 🌱🌵

#SucculentSunday #PlantSky

Succulent plant known as 'window plant' (for its leaf windows) and also 'baby elephant feet'

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

In Berlin they have Stolpersteine marking where Jews, Gypsies and others were abducted off to concentration camps. In the US, we now have site of abduction notices.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

Funds might materialized? Subject to the whims of somebodies who never served? Adversaries could not have possibly imagined these unfolding scenarios in their tabletop exercises!

Drew F. Lawrence @dflawrence.bsky.social · 8d

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans — latest from me @taskandpurpose.com

One soldier messaged USAA’s chatbot about his denied loan. It pushed a credit card, then said to consider opening an account with Navy Fed.
taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans

Some troops were surpised by hard credit checks and unexpected denials for relief loans by military-friendly lender USAA.

taskandpurpose.com

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

#SixOnSaturday

Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

🌱 The dahlias are still blooming but may not be for long. Mornings are now in the upper 40s. Halp! I’m not reaaaddy!#SixOnSaturday

Closed up of dahlias of different colors arranged in a grid.

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

🌱 The dahlias are still blooming but may not be for long. Mornings are now in the upper 40s. Halp! I’m not reaaaddy!#SixOnSaturday

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you!

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Brian!

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 8d

A confrontation is building between the Supreme Court and the lower courts.

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

www.nytimes.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 8d

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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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social · 8d

This is beautiful, H! Reminds me of my long ago departed Turkish cat with two colored eyes. ❤️🧡💜

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