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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · Nov 19

Free range flock! #chickens #homestead

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 6h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · 8h

Stop killing fishermen, release the Epstein files.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · 9h

Great conversation! 🩷🇺🇲💪🏼

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Melinda 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽 @melindajean.bsky.social · 1d

Very consequential conversation! Please listen and share! @kimwehle.bsky.social & @glennkirschner.bsky.social
glennkirschner.substack.com/p/professor-...

Professor Kim Wehle discusses the New NYT reporting on the Supreme Court

A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

glennkirschner.substack.com

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 11h

#WeThePeople
#Lawrence, #Kansas, 12 October 2025
Closing Thought: "OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE IN DANGER NOW!"
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Photo: Post-event, a substantial poster, flown previously at the protest, flies now on a mast-like pole and stabilized by a boom and gaff (horizontal poles at its top & bottom) attached to the trailer hitch of an SUV. It is executed and printed in the style of American anti-fascist posters during the Second World War (reminder: the United States fought *against* fascism in that war). In it, Donald Trump, holding a chain with a lock, peers learing over a globe turned to show North America on the left while Adolf Hitler peers similarly over the same globe on the right, holding a "German Luger" pistol. Hitler wears a German officer's peaked cap with a swastika. Above their heads in the graphic is a red banner reading "WARNING!" Across the bottom of the poster, in red letters against a black background: "OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE IN DANGER NOW!"
Tom made this poster and rig.

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 11h

The "Vibe" of #WeThePeople
the intersection of 9th & Massachusetts in
#Lawrence, #Kansas, 12 October 2025
Cntd: 7/8

Photo: Fred, in glasses and a bucket hat, holds a hand-made, cardboard, red letters outlined in black, reading, "BRING BACK DUE PROCESS – Un-mask ICE – No more Gov't sanctioned kidnapping." Fred served in the 2nd Infantry Div in Korea in 1969 and '70.
A protester behind him, beyond the photograph's depth of field, wears a ball cap covered with at least a dozen pins.

Photo: A nice couple sits on a concrete wall in front of the US Bank in downtown Lawrence, him in a flat cap and her in a fatigue cap, with their VERY, very good dog, in a pink collar. They hold signs. His reads, "YOUR VOTE MATTERS" and hers reads "RESIST TYRANNY."
Other protesters mill about behind them. Parts of a US flag and a Ukrainian flag are visible behind them.

Photo: Patrick, in glasses and a ball cap, stands in a t-shirt, emblazoned, "NO FAUX KING WAY / 86/47" in front of a store called The Third Planet. Other protesters and a few shoppers are visible behind him.

Photo: Rosa, in a surgical mask and black blouse, holds a sign that reads, "OLIGARCHS ARE THE PROBLEM NOT IMMIGRANTS." All the letters in her home-made sign are black except the NOT, which is a bright red.

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Earthbound420 @earthbound420.bsky.social · 15h

Really? BOO FUCK YOUR GUNS!🖕🏼

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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · 16h

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 16h

October in Cabot Vermont

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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks for posting

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 1d

Parents will ask "is something going around?" and we would, based on media reports, anecdotal data, and experience would answer "oh yeah, probably something viral".

The CDC produces the NREVSS dashboard which tells us exactly what diseases are "going around".

Is has not been updated for 3 weeks.

A screen shot of the NREVSS dashboard produced by the CDC. It is a plot and line graph showing the detectable respiratory viruses including influenza, RSV, COVID, ets. The last data points are from september 20 and according the the subtext it was last updated 9/26/25.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"Trump is perversely helped by the fact that you can’t tell whether you should attribute a specific Trump claim to his melting brain or his melted soul."

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-he-lyin...

Is He Lying Or Crazy? Does It Matter?

Living in the world the president dreams up.

www.thebulwark.com

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🌹A Touch Of Rose @esporoe1.bsky.social · 17h

💪🏼🪧🇺🇲🩷 #WeThePeople #LFK
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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 1d

#WeThePeople
coverage continues (6/n) with a No Kings on Abbey Road Vibe in the crosswalk on the east side of the intersection of 9th & Massachusetts in
#Lawrence, #Kansas, 12 October 2025
REMINDER: The next NO KINGS is THIS SATURDAY
( also: shout out to @protestgirl.bsky.social )

Photo: Three Lawrence-ians march a NO KINGS banner across the crosswalk, south to north, on the the east side of the 9th & Massachusetts intersection in Lawrence, Kansas, with a fourth walking closely behind to round out the Fab Four in this (probably) unintentional recreation of the Beatles' famous Abbey Road album cover.
And if you have not signed up for and made plans to attend a No Kings demonstration near you, this would be a great time to do that … here: https://www.nokings.org/
I assure you: There you will be able to find a gathering near you.
Behind the Fab Four, a local site of US Bank is visible. Plus more protesters.

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

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 1d

We need to talk about the unicorn ... the frog ... the chicken.
But 1st, a quick reminder that #Lawrence, #Kansas, is one of the very rare communities in the US with historical experience with being burned down by insurrectionists. After having been sacked 7 years earlier by domestic terrorists.

Lawrence Massacre - Wikipedia

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · 1d

So, with that in mind, let's stipulate that most residents of #Lawrence, #Kansas, have historical knowledge of what violent insurrection and domestic terrorism might look like … and that the unicorn, frog, and chicken pictured here, as we Missourians might say, "ain't it."

Photo: A unicorn stands on the southeast corner of 9th and Massachusetts in Lawrence, Kansas, with its purple front hooves raised playfully.
Written on its flanks, but not visible in the photograph, are the following messages:
"Claim Your Rights"
"Speak Truth"
"Resist With Joy"
"Be Kind"
"Unicorns," it tells your reporter, "are friendly, and they don't force their beliefs on anybody. I don't think anyone's ever seen a violent unicorn."

Photo: The upper torso, head and wings of a chicken as it crosses Massachusetts Avenue at 9th Street in Lawrence, Kansas. Your reporter would have liked to ask why, exactly, it decided to cross the road. We may speculate that it intended to get to the other side. It should also be noted that it crossed with the light, as per the pertinent governing ordinances governing the crossing of streets … by chickens.
Behind the chicken, also in the crosswalk, over the chicken's left shoulder (on our right), we can see a woman wearing a Ruth Bader Ginsberg t-shirt, on which the jurist is depicted wearing a crown.

Photo: A frog stands on a sidewalk at the intersection of 9th and Massachusetts in Lawrence, Kansas. It seems bewildered. The frog later informed your reporter that being a frog on an 80-degree day in Kansas is hot work. "My shirt," it said, "is soaked through … drenched. I'm looking forward to cooler weather."

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

This is great

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

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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LaRoeBoat @johnlaroe.bsky.social · Mar 9

#InternationalWomensDay #KansasCity #resistance
LRB: Where do we join?
@stinkysparrow.bsky.social points to his feet, says, "Right here, in the street. It's us against the oligarchs."

Photo: A guy in a hoodie and t-shirt, wearing glasses, holds a sign that reads, "This is class warfare. Join us."

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