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💙💚📚📰🌳🌎🗳️🌊🏞️🥾💉😷🧠🥄💚💙 “May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong side.” - Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · May 11

Follow your favorite independent journalists and news sources that support democracy.

Project 2025 Tracker.

Project 2025 Tracker

Track the progress on Project 2025

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 37m

Personally, I don’t even think these folks are weird! Nudist gatherings are nothing new.

For me, I especially love the juxtaposition of the perfectly harmless, happy, smiling, free-spirited young girls and gentle spirits captured in the video… right under that fucked up quote.

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 12h

I only see typos after I post. There's gotta be a name for that. I googled it. It's a known phenom. There should be a name!

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 12h

Aaaand my last shred of energy for today got spent on rage-journaling the failures of the American healthcare system as I experienced it over this past year.

I needed that spoon for ordering groceries order, but the seething fury won out. >:(

a computer screen displays a message that says system failure

Alt: A gif of a monochrome computer monitor displaying a message that simply states, "SYSTEM FAILURE". The image jerks across the screen in distress.

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 14h

Pearl-clutching in the name of fascism has gone super weird.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, it helps cut through the grim noise that’s getting normalized. Also gives us a much needed laugh!

It’s funny… the other day I was thinking we haven’t had a dumb internet meme gag like the jogger wearing that horse face mask in too long.

Welp, we were overdue and the universe served it. 😆

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 16h

The school dorks who ran for student council and stuff is what I meant (sorry, wasn’t clear).

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of the school dorks who wanted to snag some clout for college applications, but they’re not popular, not that smart, not natural leaders. Their campaigns and game are unimpressive, but they get what they want out of it.

That’s most of Congress too. Just older and even more lackluster.

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 16h

The first article said the first frog costumed protestor got pepper sprayed in the butt without affecting him, but ICE maliciously sprayed him in his air vent. The protester said his famous bit when he came back to protest the next day, but I bet it bothered him more than he let on.

ICE pepper-sprayed a protester in a frog costume. Now the “Portland Frog” is a symbol of absurd resistance

"Is this really what you guys consider to be 'domestic terrorists?'"

www.yahoo.com

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 16h

I spotted a couple of vague references about inflatable frog costumes, but the comment threads weren’t illuminating.

Finally googled it. This was the first article I came across that summed the story up.

Everyone Is Pointing Out This 1 Reason Why The Anti-ICE Inflatable Frogs In Portland May Be The Best Protesters

"So, I'm out here protesting in a frog costume — especially in a frog costume — just to show how ridiculous the notion that we are violent terrorists is."

www.yahoo.com

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 1d

Weather is finally cooling down a lot. I get chilled now.

I'm loving it. I've been highly intolerant of heat for ages. I welcome it. I'm not struggling, sweaty, and over-baked? FABULOUS. LET. ME. CHILL!

I'm the only person with open windows rn. Gimme that cold sensation! It's scarily delicious.

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed reading this. The journalist captured several well-spoken quotes from everyday people.

The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 2d

On today's dubious holiday, reread our report from the anti-Columbus protest this summer:

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
nygroove.nyc/italians-for...

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already

Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus

nygroove.nyc

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 2d

The UK filters microplastics from their water (the US does not). We’re all inhaling micro and nanoplastics. The mouse experiment described in this article is petrifying.

I finally googled how microplastics end up in the brain. Immune cells gobble them and then they pile up and block brain matter.

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 3d

Haven’t heard any positive updates along those lines. 😞 These assholes are such sick and twisted people.

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

Awful.

I think this is doing numbers because there’s a reason why we have a website called Does the Dog Die.

We can become numb to fellow humans dying and hurting, but don’t kill the dog, people aren’t ever down for that.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 4d

In Trump US, pills pay you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, Pedro knows just how cute and photogenic he is. 💓🐾

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

“Situation Room” is reserved for actual crisis management of domestic and international affairs at the White House. Not these brain deficient manufacturers of it.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 5d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, sure, don’t even attempt to hide what you’re up to as you despoil and poison the principles of medical science.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Mastiff Mom @mastiffmom.bsky.social · 5d

I think we are now living in alternative reality. In memory of the great Willy Wonka - " A traditional truth can only go up and down, but the Trump proof can go sideways and slantways and longways and backways and squareways, and front ways, and any other ways that you can think of."

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

Alt text: the crown sticker is also struck out by a red “X”. (Sorry, didn’t even notice until I posted. I’m unwell and not at all sharp right now.)

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

I was in a foul mood and struggling hard as I trekked to yet another medical appointment this morning, but this made me stop and laugh. This was pretty high up too!

My city’s electrical poles and stuff has been decorated with many anti-ICE and know-your-rights stickers and flyers as well. 🥹

Photo of a “No Parking” sign with the “No” blocked out with a sticker of a crown. This makes it read “No King Any Time”. A small protest against President Trump in 2025.

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marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 4d

So my fob doesn’t work on the main front door. Of course.

Still laughing at myself. I got used to the skeleton keys of Scotland and am not up to speed on the evolution of fob door locks (this one is teeny tiny and built inconspicuously into the door handle itself).

a person is holding a key in their hand with netflix written on the bottom

Alt: A gif of a hand clutching an oversized skeleton key that protrudes on either side of their fist. The background is a dull gradient of murky, dark, mysterious blues.

media.tenor.com

marplani 🌎 @marplani.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve lived in my apartment building through a few leases now and it was only tonight that I learned from a NEW NEIGHBOR that we can all open the front door with our personal fob keys.

I can be perceptive and see things everyone misses. And I can just as easily be the last to know. Omfg. 🤦‍♀️😆

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6d

I am begging men to go to therapy instead of running for office

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 6d

Speaking at a church, Jack Ciattarelli suggested he be called “big daddy” instead of governor if he wins:

“…his grandchildren do not call him grandpa. …They call him big daddy, and I was thinking when we win this race I kind of like that better than governor. Big daddy.”

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