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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 3h

Bette & Stephen 🪄
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Bette Midler serenading Stephen Colbert is EVERYTHING I needed to see tonight. 🤣🤣😍😍😍 For this LOTR nerd girl - this just made my nerd heart squee. 😍😍

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 3h

Is 🧠🐛 catching? 👇🏼

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sunny Hostin to Cheryl Hines: "The problem is that your husband is the least qualified HHS head that we've had in history. I think that's very dangerous. He has spread a lot of misinformation, chaos, and confusion."

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 15h

On occasion a painting will touch all five senses as this one does. 💝

xsquareart @xpsquare.bsky.social · 3d

Caturday art sharing:
Silent Pier
20” x 20”oil on canvas

#painting #oilpainting #contemporary #seascape #boats #fineart #landscape #art #blueskyart #bskyart #artcommunity #artshare

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 16h

👍 good, the more sustained public pressure and media attention the better. Maybe even do this in frog suits. The cameras show up for the frogs. 🐸

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 1d

Portland sure knows how to throw some festive costume party protests.
🐸 🦄 🐿️ 🍄 🐇 🐱 🦖🐒🐓
💃 🪩 🕺

Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters in Portland showing up in costume embody joy as resistance. If those who oppress us can be absurd, so can those fighting for freedom. Humor and creativity remind us that rebellion isn’t only anger—it’s the courage to laugh, to dance, and to exist loudly in the face of control. #Pinks

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 3d

“Animal costumes are the new black.” #Portland
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Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 4d

🐸 🐸 🐸 Trending:

Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 5d

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 5d

What’s next? Probably mothers’ breast milk. 🤯

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

Gov. Josh Shapiro 👏🏼

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

To the Dems: It’s the democracy, stupid.

DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

World Trade waking this morning. 🥱

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 6d

Finding hope in the brokenness, this lyric fragment comes to mind:
“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen) ⬇️

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 6d

Brig. Gen. Alan Gronewold stated that if the Oregon National Guard were deployed, they would protect protesters, not ICE, prioritizing citizens’ safety and civil liberties—a strong stance earning widespread approval.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful and worth the wait!

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 7d

Direct from the front lines of #warravagedPortland.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

#WarRavagedPortland

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes the intended symbolism escapes me. If not for its title I would have entirely missed the intent of this work. 🩵

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 8d

🫶🏻 🫶🏻 🫶🏻

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 8d

Boomertifa!
Coming to you direct from the front lines of *war ravaged* 🙄 Portland, Oregon!
👨‍🦳🧑‍🦳👵🏻👴✌️ 🎸🎤 🎶
#boomertifa #Portland #thislandisyourland

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 9d

“It looked and sounded like a military operation in a war zone. But this was not Afghanistan. It was Chicago.”
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They Came Before Dawn

What happened in South Shore was not law enforcement. It was intimidation, disguised as justice.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 9d

Waxing Gibbous. Nearly full. I still marvel. ✌️
#waxinggibbous #moonrise #nycskyline #hudsonriverviews

Waxing Gibbous moon rising over the New York City midtown skyline on the Hudson River side.

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 13d

Love this tribute so much…
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Jennifer Orkin Lewis (@augustwren)

RIP Jane Goodall

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 13d

🆘 “If you govern by dashboard…the person who designs the dashboard is not a vendor…he’s a co-author of the state.” -Jack Hopkins
Demand competition. Surveillance power must flow through laws you can see.
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@kim.senate.gov
@menendez.house.gov
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Warning: Larry Ellison and the Authoritarian Dream Trump Wants Him to Build

How One Tech Titan Became the Most Dangerous Man You’ve Never Voted For

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 13d

Love the idea of framing 🖼️. …*then the floodgates opened*…indeed they did!

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 13d

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DebraK🦋 @dknj66.bsky.social · 16d

Porcupine balls works 😆👍

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