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family: mantids
order: Mantodea
I always pray before I prey

💫ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny 🧬
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#DavidBowie⚡️
poses for a portrait in 1976.
CREDIT: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
#PearlHarborRemembranceDay
In 1942, FDR signed into order the U.S. Office of War Information. Its aim was to provide info to the American public during wartime. It was terminated in 1945.
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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@scoremywordle.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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47 is becoming a petulant child. He spews out his hatred between frequent naps. He thinks FIFA is a real Peace organization. A peace prize for a president who watched as fishing boats are bombed. The blood on his hands won’t wash off. Follow and create your protests
December 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
dear Fed Gov-
leave intelligent, successful, well-run states alone. Just because we care more about our kids’ safety than your criminal, almost supernatural ability to line your pockets by harming people doesn’t mean we’ll let you fuck us up too.
AG Alliance opposing this.
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“Out with idealistic utopianism. In with hard-nosed realism.“
-Hegseth
apple.news/A4t6-D6zeTra...
Forced, oppressive Nazi dystopia is not the same thing as realism.
Pete’s substance abuse & dark tetrad personality traits leave him unable to navigate these natural consequences for his behavior.
Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy — POLITICO
The Defense secretary, speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum, outlined defense priorities that focus on the Western Hemisphere and reevaluate the U.S. relationship with Europe.
apple.news
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

ffs, #Ohio:
This elementary school playground is infected with #bird-flu.
Do better.
This virus is airborne & has mutated to kill a human.
If you’re downwind of St Bernadette school, Clermont County, OH-
watch for Sx & seek medical attn
'We don't know why the birds have died' | 72 vultures dead at Clermont County school
Ohio wildlife officials cleaned up the carcasses of 72 black vultures on Friday morning, which were splayed across the ballfields and campus of a Clermont County elementary school.
www.wcpo.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Rest in Peace, Emilie 🪽
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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walking out of the library today w/ my kid, an army servicewoman in fatigues passed us going in, & asked my kid’s name. She peeled this off & gave it to them. I said thank you for your service, everything is so hard & it isn’t fair to you. Her jaw set,a tear welled up,& she told me…1/3🧵
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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@gentlem.bsky.social
@gmf1369.bsky.social
#resist
#strongertogether
#fuckice
Everyone should go to this user's posts and read all three parts. I am not talented enough to quote all three parts into this one post.
PLEASE forward 😞

Prove you're not scum ICE, 😡 by quitting.
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walking out of the library today w/ my kid, an army servicewoman in fatigues passed us going in, & asked my kid’s name. She peeled this off & gave it to them. I said thank you for your service, everything is so hard & it isn’t fair to you. Her jaw set,a tear welled up,& she told me…1/3🧵
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
the only difference is the German was actually a real doctor
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey, KKKristi?
Who’s minding your goons?
You are aware that adult jobs have responsibilities, right?
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
www.ice.gov/doclib/deten...
It appears #ICE has not reviewed nor updated their p&p on use of force & restraint since 2016.
I’m fairly certain all of us have seen direct footage of agents violating these.
www.ice.gov
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM