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Krootie

@krootie.bsky.social

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Trying to turn green, WOW, GW2, and Sims4 player. Passionate about genealogy, and gardening. Prefer to self-roast coffee beans for the best flavor. Married, grandmother of three, two sibling brothers. Pets - aquarium, leaf frogs, and elderly birds.

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 21h

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Trump appoints George Santos commissioner of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, saying, “Believe me, no one knows more about fraud than Kitara Ravache.”

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible to be hit by space debris while you’re flying a Boeing. That’s how you get social media engagement in a high class manner.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15h

After Trump leaves we should tear down his ballroom on day one

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19h

A careful analysis of the glass and metal impacted by the object should be able to reveal its origin.

Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah

“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data.”…

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Slashdot @slashdot.org · 10h

Foreign Hackers Breached a US Nuclear Weapons Plant Via SharePoint Flaws

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Foreign Hackers Breached a US Nuclear Weapons Plant Via SharePoint Flaws

Foreign hackers breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) by exploiting unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities. The intrusion happened in August and is possibly linked to either Chinese state actors or Russian cybercriminals. CSO Onl...

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 20h

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 14h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23h

Incredible artwork by @4nikkolas.bsky.social.

Original artwork that mimics the famous raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, with the marines replaced by protesters in inflatable animal costumes. The Statue of Liberty and a city landscape are in the background.

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 14h

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 1d

engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 1d

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

The East Wing was first added in 1942, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily to provide office space for the First Lady’s staff and to conceal a newly built underground bunker known as the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) during World War II.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11h

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

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Krootie @krootie.bsky.social · 11h

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Massive Amazon outage takes down Venmo, Snapchat, Alexa, Reddit and much of the internet – all the latest AWS updates live

An AWS earthquake has given the internet a very bad day

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”

The cuts:

📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)

📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)

📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)

📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

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Krootie @krootie.bsky.social · 18h

Modern replicas of Hitler's 'adult' youths:

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Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 19h

James Comey responds to Lindsey Halligan's claim that his counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, ever "improperly disclosed classified material." Says the claim is "provably false" and an "effort to defame" Fitzgerald.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h

The president's poop video has officially entered the danger zone kennyloggins.com/response-to-...

Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
October 20, 2025

Late Saturday, Oct. 18, President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.” The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).

In response, Kenny Loggins has issued the following statement: “This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately.”

He continues, “I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

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MAGA Mike makes FATAL MOVE over CONGRESSMAN COVER UP

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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