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LynnZ 🦋

@zizij.bsky.social

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Real Estate Developer & Designer// UT Austin Alum// Accidental Activist// Snarky at times// Politics by any Meme necessary// NEVER TRUMP

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1h

210 facilities have been identified where young Ukrainians are trained for military service. The largest numbers of these “re-education” sites are located in occupied Crimea (19), Krasnodar Krai (15), and Tatarstan (9).

In these institutions, children are forcibly militarized.

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1h

Yale University study has revealed Russia has forcibly deported around 35,000 Ukrainian children.

And, have built an extensive network of military camps, sanatoriums, boarding schools, and other institutions aimed at “brainwashing” kidnapped Ukrainian children.

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 10h

#RepublicanShutdown2025

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 12h

Special education services have been significantly impacted after last week's mass layoffs within the Dept of Education, and it could have an immediate impact on children with disabilities

"Do people realize that this is happening to this population of vulnerable students?"

abc7.com/17993643/

Special education staff decimated after government shutdown firings: Sources

The nation's special education services have been significantly damaged after Friday's mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abc7.com

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 13h

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 13h

they don’t care about Americans

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 16h

funny

not funny

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 22h

Gaza ceasefire outlook darkens as Israel delays aid and Hamas tightens grip by executing men in the street

Trump has given his blessing to Hamas to reassert some control of Gaza

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Hamas fighters tighten grip in Gaza, clouding future of ceasefire

Hamas fighters carried out public executions, defying Israel's assertion that war cannot end under President Donald Trump's plan until the militants are disarmed.

www.reuters.com

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 22h

This photo needs to be in History books; or at the very least, Psychology 101 books

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo, the first U.S.-born pontiff, adds his own pastoral tone, linking social injustice to moral decay:

“Either we regain our moral and spiritual dignity,” he writes, “or we fall into a cesspool.” (Reuters)

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo XIV Confronts Trump-Era Immigration Policies Dividing Conservatives—for strong call to defend poor and migrants and critique of global market systems that deepen inequality

catholiconline.news/u-s-news/pop...

#PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #Immigration #CatholicOnlineNews

Pope Leo XIV Confronts Trump-Era Immigration Policies in First Apostolic Exhortation, Dividing Conservatives – Catholic Online News

catholiconline.news

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 23h

The University of California made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

when will MAGA ever learn

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

Ceasefire? What ceasefire? 😳

Sending back hostages, so America looks the other way—

Make no mistake, Bibi will now flatten Gaza

thehill.com/policy/inter...

Israel opens fire on several people in Gaza to remove ‘threat’

The Israeli military said Tuesday it opened fire on what it described as several suspects approaching troop positions in northern Gaza, as local authorities reported six people killed. The gunfire …

thehill.com

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy.

Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life."

Simone de Beauvoir

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

exactly

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LynnZ 🦋 @zizij.bsky.social · 1d

Trump slammed Time magazine for using the worst photo “of All Time” for a cover story about “his triumph” in getting the Israeli hostages freed by Hamas.

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welp

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disgusting

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