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Marie

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🇺🇸 Democracy defender, WAC Veteran ❤️ Mother & Grandmother 🍎 Retired Special Educator 🥗 Healthy cooking,🚶‍♀️Nature walks 🐶 Puppysitter🐾 💙 Protect our democracy, Constitution, and planet. LIft each other up. Vote. 💙

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Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 5d

Secret Agents in Skirts

Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com · 6d

A WAC detachment supported the Manhattan Project in 1944. How do you honor unsung guardians of history?

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#WACIntelligence #WomenInWar #Codebreakers #MilitaryHistory #HiddenFigures

Secret Agents in Skirts: The Untold WACs of U.S. Military Intelligence - Ferry Godmother Productions

WAC intelligence reveals how Women’s Army Corps members decrypted messages and served in military intelligence roles.

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Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 15h

Did you know that a group of toads or frogs is called an army.

Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 1d

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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 1d

Standing in Solidarity with the Portland frogs. 💚

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 7d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Onlyshootswithcameras @terririffle.bsky.social · 17h

Saying hello to an old friend, the Pleiades. Taken from our backyard last week. #astrophotography #astrosky #astronomy #astrobackyard

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Magic Whitney Pet Pro @becauseuarehere.bsky.social · 10d

Here's one from underwater. I was lucky enough to have this green turtle (Honu) swim under me in Maui.

Green sea turtle (Honu) swimming underwater in blue water

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Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 15h

Some days, that would be me trying to download!

Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you, Brian. All followed and shared. 🦋

Brian @bm1970.bsky.social · 20h

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Clark Powers @clarkpowers.bsky.social · Nov 23

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy
justice can have.”
— James Baldwin

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🎃 🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 🎃 📎 @bandroll.bsky.social · 1d

TY @drharmony.net

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Kristen Wixx @kristenwixx.bsky.social · 1d

Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? We got some work to do now.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Now that Trump has helped release the Israeli hostages, he can release the Epstein Files!

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Espresso Cyborg @6cats4adomino.bsky.social · 20h

Much love my friends @lynndaj.bsky.social @beansbeth.bsky.social @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social and @marriedsillynana.bsky.social cheers🍻thank you for sharing the love🤗love the love.

a cartoon of grinch with the caption " i must stop monday from coming but how ? "

Alt: a cartoon of grinch with the caption " i must stop monday from coming but how ? "

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 20h

The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) confirmed Grant County’s first detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI or H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, among sick birds in a large commercial poultry facility in Moses Lake.
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Mary R Morrow @marymorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People Day 🪶🪶

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 22h

Friendly reminder: "I was just following orders" didn't protect those who faced the Nuremberg trials who had once dragged crying women and children from their homes from the consequences of their actions.

#Pinks

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21h

Your yearly reminder that in 1972 the state of Hawaii changed the name of the holiday observed on the second Monday of October to Discoverers Day in honor of all discoverers a& particularly the Pacific navigators whose skill and courage populated the many islands spread across the vast Pacific Ocean

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

It seems that Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country on a French military aircraft just hours before a planned address after the Gen Z revolt and rumours of a coup. He’s believed to be heading to Dubai.

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Aura Wellness Center @aurawellnesscenter.bsky.social · 21h

Image Credit: Cat Memes
😻 There are some salty cats 😾 that we don't need to speak with. 🤣🐭😆

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Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 21h

I like Pixie, too.

Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 21h

Fewer protections in travel, food inspections, disease prevention, air quality, etc. sure appear to be potentially harming citizens on purpose.

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.