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EllenJean Cooley

@ellenjec.bsky.social

created November 14, 2024

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No, this is free lunch!

1/9/2025, 2:00:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Group lunch

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31/8/2025, 12:42:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From the bird cam

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Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

Putting the military on the street will lower crime. It does in North Korea, did in Nazi Germany, and in the book 1984. The question isn’t will it lower crime. The question is do we want to be a nation governed like this. Until 6 minutes ago the GOP believed in LOCAL control.

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Hanging out at the feeder

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Good morning!

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Hydrangeas

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Latest watercolor – Ms. Maxine

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Thunderstorms

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First visitors to our new bird feeder cam

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Profile picture Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Tyrannies have commonalities. buff.ly/ah2uBgN

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4/7/2025, 12:32:17 PM | 1238 326 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stayin’ cool on a hot summer day! 🌞

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3/7/2025, 5:41:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cow Parade at Old Sturbridge Village

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Profile picture Pema Levy (@pemalevy.bsky.social) reposted

No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Profile picture Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted

Pope Leo urges international diplomacy to prevent 'irreparable abyss' reut.rs/3G1a222

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Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

HONESTY. INTEGRITY. DECENCY. #June14th-ObamaAppreciationDay

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Profile picture Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) reposted

Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol. Hundreds of dangerous felons who brutally beat police officers with impunity were then pardoned by the President on his first day in office. Don’t ever lecture America about law and order.

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Fun day at Dudley Fest!

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Profile picture Senator Ed Markey (@markey.senate.gov) reposted

Marcelo Gomes should’ve been at Milford High’s graduation—not sitting in an ICE detention center. This isn’t public safety. It’s cruelty. It’s about instilling fear into our communities. I join the Milford community in demanding the Trump admin and ICE free Marcelo.

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Ms. Roger says Sundays are for napping 💤

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1/6/2025, 11:15:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HuffPost (@huffpost.com) reposted

The veteran CBS News reporter also accused Trump of working to “rewrite history with grotesque false narratives.”

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Profile picture Senator Ed Markey (@markey.senate.gov) reposted

Bullying students and schools to provoke fear and silence dissent is how we trade democracy and freedom for authoritarianism. This will affect nearly a third of Harvard's students. We cannot be silent.

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Profile picture The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) reposted

Didn't Trump make fun of Biden for falling asleep in front of the press? Look who's sleepy now

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11/5/2025, 12:01:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hanging with a couple BFFs on a Saturday afternoon

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10/5/2025, 11:59:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Iris after in the rain

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10/5/2025, 1:56:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You must whip it!

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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4/5/2025, 9:30:41 PM | 546 54 | View on Bluesky | view

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Warm spring day – perfect for some misting from the water hose! ❤️ 🦙

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Photo of the day

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23/4/2025, 10:22:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So glad I’m vegan! 🌱

22/4/2025, 9:35:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/4/2025, 6:59:44 PM | 31965 6644 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yesterday we said goodbye to our sweet boy Albert as he crossed over the rainbow bridge 🌈 Our house is a little quieter, but we have so many great memories with him over past 10 years that fill our hearts. He’s at peace, running free, rooing as he’s reunited with his friends who crossed before him.❤️

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Baby praying mantis

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11/4/2025, 8:24:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) reposted

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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Profile picture The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) reposted

It’s probably a bad sign when the market chart itself looks like it jumped off the roof

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Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

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It’s YardArt time in Watertown! April 1-30.

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Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

Today, we are being liberated from the burden of economic prosperity and growth! Happy Liberation Day! (Remember: we have always been allies with Eurasia… George Orwell)

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

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Profile picture HuffPost (@huffpost.com) reposted

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history,” Gov. Wes Moore said.

30/3/2025, 9:49:49 PM | 179 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture EllenJean Cooley (@ellenjec.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy birthday Lydia!!🎂❤️

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Happy birthday Or hid!!❤️🎂

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com

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Happy birthday Wallace 🎂❤️

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Happy birthday Jingle, Billy, Marky and Napoleon! 🎂❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Profile picture EllenJean Cooley (@ellenjec.bsky.social)

Today is World Podenco/Podengo Day. They’re loyal, clever, endlessly charming dogs. But in Spain and Portugal, they’re often treated as disposable tools for hunting, then discarded, abandoned or worse. Today, we raise our voices for them. To educate. To advocate. And to open hearts and homes.

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Beautiful Penny!!❤️

16/3/2025, 6:06:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy birthday sweet Bellas!!❤️❤️

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Profile picture Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

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Happy 6th Birthday sweet Bob! ❤️🎂

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Profile picture Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted

"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

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Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

Quick reminder: @elonmusk isn’t the leader of a country at war, and didn’t wear a tie in the White House and wore a stupid cap

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

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Profile picture Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) reposted

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

Democrats: Empty libraries, gymnasiums, lecture halls, anywhere. Book the space and dare these pathetic House Republicans to show their faces. Share this if you agree.

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Profile picture EllenJean Cooley (@ellenjec.bsky.social) reply parent

Yay for warmer weather!

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Final pet portrait assignment – collage of Albert

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Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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Hello handsome boy!🥰

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Breakfast – the best time of day!

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This week’s pet portrait DFCPreschool classroom rabbit Alice in acrylic

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This week’s “Pet Portrait” – minipig Lunchbox in watercolor

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Bob is the sweetest!❤️

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Profile picture The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) reposted

Jon Stewart & John Oliver Welcome America to Its Trump Monarchy Era youtu.be/IdygrcFcyyY

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Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.

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Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

Any minute now the White House will publish an Executive Order announcing that they are removing Pope Francis and replacing him with JD Vance

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Profile picture HuffPost (@huffpost.com) reposted

“It feels like a dark time is ahead. We’re going to try to weather it, but we’re not optimistic that it’ll pass soon,“ lamented one biomedical researcher.

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Colored pencil portraits

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This week’s Pet Portrait assignment in watercolor

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So great to hear! She looked good when I saw her Wednesday ❤️🐽

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So adorable ❤️❤️

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

“‘He’s basically the norovirus,’ she said. ‘Every day he spews executive orders all over the place, and while we struggle to clean up all the puke, he comes out the other end with something even worse.’”

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Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

Experts say a fifth of U.K. meat consumption is by pets, not people. If Fido eats lab-grown meat, they say, it could cut the country's carbon footprint.

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Profile picture The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted

You should print out your Social Security Statement. Elon and who knows how many countless others now have access to your private information, so it'd be wise to have a record of it.

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Profile picture City of Watertown, MA (@watertowngov.bsky.social) reposted

YardArt registration is open. Read more...

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Profile picture Senator Ed Markey (@markey.senate.gov) reposted

If Congress and the judiciary permit the abolition of USAID to stand, nothing will prevent Trump or Elon Musk from doing the same thing to the CDC, EPA, FBI, or any other federal agency or department.

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Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

So the world's richest man spends a fortune backing Trump and is given the go-ahead to... -Run an "efficiency" agency despite having billions in govt contracts -Replace civil servants with his own cronies -Gain access to sensitive Treasury payment systems See the problem?

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Please repost to join this apt apology to our neighbors.

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Profile picture Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

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Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

Trump admin does not believe that federal employees do much that is worthwhile and that gutting capacity would not create problems. FAA has an air traffic controller shortage. Trump offered all FAA employees the chance to quit if they did not turn up for work for 7 months. Does that make you safer?

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Dougie looks very cozy in bed

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Profile picture The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com) reposted

In Massachusetts, officials suspect that the bird flu has killed dozens of wild birds in Boston, Amherst, and Plymouth. In other states, it’s reached poultry farms. We asked infectious disease experts what you can do to keep yourself and your pets safe during this outbreak.

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Profile picture Heather Thomas (@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social) reposted

So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.

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Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

Dear members of the press, Can one of you, PLEASE just ONE: When Trump says we deleted all the evidence, please for the love of God, push back. The evidence is all here: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

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Profile picture The Daily Show (@thedailyshow.com) reposted

11AM: How bad could the new administration be? 4PM: And Elon did that how many times?

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