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Angela
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian Halfling Druid and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing.
Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.
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dirtysubstrata.bsky.social
No more skirting the issue. Okay maybe a little

#FungiFriends
Amanita seen from beneath. It's gills catching the sunlight in different ways all around its cap's edge
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24 Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of 24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion); Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the other Defendants. PAGE 105 – FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; 2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6; 3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and 4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the above orders. This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social
🌖💛 Fri, Nov 7

Bigg’s orcas have held a presence this week.
Today, a large number of inbound orcas upper Admiralty. Ressies? Bigg’s? We’ll see - either way, have a lovely day out there!

📸 L110 Midnight (w/lip flap) during SRKW pass at Pt Robinson last Sunday. By Amber Stanfill 11/2.

#psws
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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nytimes.com
After federal agents descended on a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles this week, they arrested a U.S. citizen they said attacked them — and then drove off with the man’s toddler. Advocates say it underscores how agents have pushed legal boundaries across the U.S.
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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eleanor.lockhart.contact
a lot of people seem to make moral judgments based on "I wish to not be complicit" as if that is the *only* principle and it trumps every other principle. I think our current era is showing us, across a variety of contexts, why this cannot be your One and Highest Thing
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Frog took the box outside. He shouted in a loud voice, “HEY, BIRDS! HERE ARE COOKIES!”

Birds came from everywhere. They picked up all the cookies in their beaks and flew away.
A flock of small brown birds gobble up Toad's delicious cookies. From "Cookies" In *Frog and Toad Together*
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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reshetz.bsky.social
So there’s a website called Deer Of St Nicholas which posts Christmas wish letters from Ukrainian children who had their childhood stolen by the war, anyone can pick a child and get them their present and it’s that time of the year again to achingly scroll it for hours again
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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heyitsdora.com
Not now, carnivorous death ball
Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d
heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings
A staff meeting Wednesday — Roberts’s latest attempt to quell a week of resignations and condemnations over his defense of Carlson — was marked with calls for him to resign and squabbles over whether Christian employees would be forced to participate in Jewish rituals.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.

I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.

We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!

imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
small cabin on tree stumps. Tree stumps look like chickenfeet
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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neilcam57.bsky.social
Let's also go with #BirdOfTheDay 's alt of #fluffy. Best exemplified by 'Curious George', a Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides) chick at the University of Queensland Great Court in 2022
#Brisbane, #Queensland #Australia #birds #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #photography
Tawny Frogmouth chick in its nest and the body of its parent next to it is staring into the camera
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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damianshields.bsky.social
Castle Tioram, Loch Moidart #Scotland #Acharacle #Lochaber www.damianshields.com
Castle Tioram, Loch Moidart #Scotland #Acharacle #Lochaber www.damianshields.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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birderstuart.bsky.social
One of today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes is #fluffy.
I’ve always liked this Northern Yellow Warbler (newly split) photo I took in Wisconsin a few years ago.
A small yellow bird is in the middle of the photo. It is on a branch and has fluffed up its feathers. The background is mainly green leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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debmaluk.bsky.social
Yowza! #aurora in Southern Manitoba this evening #ShareYourWeather. @tamithaskov.bsky.social
Swirls of red and green aurora reflected on a still lake
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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lauracreature.bsky.social
going beastmode (curling up sleepily in my soft little den)
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
A phoenix in the flames of rebirth in the margin

BL Add 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277 CE-1324 CE; f.319v
November 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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annaquent.bsky.social
Thema zum #BirdOfTheDay von @robcrank68.bsky.social ist heute die Nahaufnahme #CloseUps.
Ein Rotkehlchen.
Kopf und ein Teil des Brust- und Rückengefieders eines Rotkehlchens in Nahaufnahme. Vor schwarzem Hintergrund leuchtet das Brustgefieder in der Sonne. Der Vogel schaut in Richtung rechter Bildseite.
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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djinnandtonic.bsky.social
Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
A chart titled "What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?" Basically shows how few pathways there are to lawful permanent residency in the US
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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maoandthesparrows.bsky.social
A crow atop a fence backed by a November woodland.
November 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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rincewind.run
the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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robfreeman.bsky.social
Tonight’s US election results are a hoot. Great work, everyone. 🦉🪶
A great horned owl perches in a lichen-covered tree.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM