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My garden is my happy place. I love working in a greenhouse🪴🌸🌼🌻Love history books. Amongst many hobbies, I love trying new recipes. Home sewist, my sewing machine is my other happy place. Never bored. Yes I believe in science and climate change.

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foodmkr77.bsky.social @foodmkr77.bsky.social · Dec 18

“HAPPINESS” IN THE GARDEN open.substack.com/pub/joeseals...

This right here

“HAPPINESS” IN THE GARDEN

The Microbiological Reasons

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16d

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 30

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 23

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Aug 23

Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 18

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · Jul 2

I'm voting NO on Trump's Big Ugly Bill, the largest health care cut in our nation's history.

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foodmkr77.bsky.social @foodmkr77.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you for voting no!!

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Rep. Lauren Underwood @underwood.house.gov · Jul 2

Keep up the PRESSURE! House Republicans do not have the votes to pass their tax scam and everything is stopped while they "negotiate.” @housedemocrats.bsky.social are voting NO.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 2

To all you "Christians" gloating and laughing about the cruelty of Alligator Alcatraz:

Jesus would like a word.

And then a ferocious slap.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · Jun 30

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · Jul 1

Republicans voted against Medicaid funding for life saving substance use disorder treatment.

Republicans are abandoning American families to give tax breaks to billionaires.

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · Jun 30

Instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires, my Republican colleagues should be supporting rural and children’s hospitals that save lives.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · Jun 30

There are only 33 people in America who make a billion dollars or more per year.

Republicans are ready to explode the deficit, shutter hospitals and rob kids of food—

So the top 0.00002% can get a tax cut they don’t need. Read that again.

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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · Jun 23

Not one single time have I ever got flowers and thought, “no. I shouldn’t have done that.”

Gazania or treasure flower in bloom. Also called a tiger daisy

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Jeff Pearlman @jeffpearlman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Straight from the Bible ...

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Bookshelfie @bookshelfie.bsky.social · Jun 17

#booksky

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · Jun 13

Never give up!

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16th Gen from Mayflower servant Geo Soule @pattistoll.bsky.social · May 22

Reason #4,782 why I'm still avoiding CNN.

@cnn.com

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · May 22

Make it stop, for the love of god.

(CNN must be getting a cut of sales, right?)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 22

folks they're still at it

(yes, this is happening right now on CNN)

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Apr 28

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.

The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 3

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election.

70% of these donations went to Republicans.

Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Apr 2

If there was ever a symbol of why we need to get big money out of politics, reform campaign financing, stop conflicts of interest, and tax great wealth, Elon Musk is it.

Kudos to Susan Crawford on this big victory for democracy, labor rights, and reproductive freedom in Wisconsin.

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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · Apr 2

Near the moment Booker crossed the finish line, he alluded to the fact that, as a Black lawmaker, his very presence on the floor was a direct defiance of Thurmond’s 24-hour plus effort to fight Civil Rights.
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate

Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

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Anthony31 @anthony31.bsky.social · Apr 2

#gardenfeed

Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · Mar 27

“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
~ Susan J. Bissonette

🌱 Or a gardener.

Happy day from a now coolish (for us) #GardeniningZone10a 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport ☀️

Yellow orange snapdragon flower, green leafy background

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