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@stevie49.bsky.social

Life-long Oregonian. Retired health care administrator; lucky to be married to a lovely lady who makes my day every day. Avid gardener, and tai chi participant. No DMs, please.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

He's so busted.

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Profile picture Sustainability (@sustainableplanet.bsky.social) reposted

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky

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Profile picture Forbes (@forbes.com) reposted

Here’s where and when protests against President Donald Trump and billionaire-influence over politics are expected to take place on Monday, organized by the AFL-CIO and dozens of partner organizations.

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Profile picture Laurel Davila (@laureldavilacpa.bsky.social) reposted

“IT’S NOW DAWNING ON MOST AMERICANS THAT TRUMP HAS PERSONALLY APPOINTED HIS TOP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS TO DESTROY THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT INCLUDING THOSE THAT PROTECT OUR NATION’S SECURITY AND THE BASIC HEALTH OF OUR CITIZENS.” — photo and quote by Tracy Knauss on Facebook #Pinks

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

I could understand that more than a few would advise Mr Mus to return to South Africa and shove it.

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Profile picture Cosmic Marvel (@dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social) reposted

Graham Greene has sadly passed away at the age of 73. He played Skully in ‘Echo’

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Profile picture Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info) reposted

If the CDC was going to publish these guidelines its scientists had an obligation to review the evidence behind them. But HHS officials rebuffed repeated requests. “The answer was no—they declined to share any of the materials that they were using to support that decision…CDC has never seen it.”

1/9/2025, 11:29:42 PM | 1705 666 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Hmm...working on a business degree...on the streets?

2/9/2025, 2:01:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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Profile picture Get Out The Mid Term Vote (@gotmtv.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Deniz Opal (@selzero.bsky.social) reposted

Fuck social media read books
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Profile picture Hazen M. (@hazenm.bsky.social) reposted

flip.it/HsCDYV

20/8/2025, 10:24:32 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump wants to marginalize voters who would have difficulty getting to a polling site. There's no other reason. Vote-by-mail works, and that's what frustrates him.

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Profile picture Hazen M. (@hazenm.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture The New Yorker (@newyorker.com) reposted

“Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time.” So opens “A Talk to Teachers,” which James Baldwin delivered to a group of educators in October, 1963.

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Profile picture DianaResists (@dianaresists.bsky.social) reposted

Since it was established in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, the Voice of America has been an effective bulwark against Beijing’s influence-seeking abroad, and an effective means of promoting accurate information for the world. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Worse than useless.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems Goppers couldn't care less.

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Profile picture CCscott (@ccscott.bsky.social) reposted

😡😡😡😡

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll be watching,

31/8/2025, 2:58:25 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝓞𝓹𝓾𝓼 (@opus24.bsky.social) reposted

Wisdom from 39 years ago…

LIFE MOVES PRETTY FAST. IF YOU DON'T STOP AND LOOK AROUND ONCE IN A WHILE, YOU COULD MISS IT. FERRIS BUELLER
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Profile picture 𝓥𝓲𝓻𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓲𝓪 𝓗𝓪𝓵𝓵 📎 (@virginiahall32.bsky.social) reposted

Good night 🌙 and….

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Profile picture Stardust 🌏🎬 (@stardustbluepr.com) reposted

Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.

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Profile picture CCscott (@ccscott.bsky.social) reposted

😜😜😜😜

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Profile picture praying mantis (@gentlem.bsky.social) reposted

apple.news/ArTFZcVViTk-... Pope Leo XIV prayed publicly on Sunday for the victims of the shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota and called for an end to the "pandemic of arms, large and small.” #PopeLeo #Annunciation-shooting #pandemic-of-arms

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Noted.

31/8/2025, 2:46:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Congress is effectively defunct. It is no longer serving the will of the people who voted them into office, no thanks to Republican leadership in both houses.

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

@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”

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Profile picture 🐺☯🤍🅼🆉🅼🅸🅰🅼🅰🆁🅸🅰🤍☯🐺 (@mzmiamaria.bsky.social) reposted

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Time to RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES
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Profile picture Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted

This is some PhD level trolling

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Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Learn to decipher the codespeak.

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Profile picture MikeM3 (@mikeg80.bsky.social) reposted

Trump's Voting Objections

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Flag Burning

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Another uncontrolled vowel movement.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has no problem dishing it out, but he can't handle the national and international blow-back.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

He's counting on continuing to mislead Americans into thinking tariffs benefit us. They do not. Many countries are doubling down by imposing tariffs on American goods. But the reality is nobody wins. Individual Americans will be paying the inflated prices until this insanity stops.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

How it seems...

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Profile picture Brant Reeves (@bireeves95.bsky.social) reposted

She Is A Competent Leader! He Leads A Cult!

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Profile picture CAKE (@thebandcake.bsky.social) reposted

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like they had a get-out-of-jail card from the White House.

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.

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Profile picture Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted

Constantly amazed by the compassion people show! 💜

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

It smells that way.

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Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets

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Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

"Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket has quietly become a pro-democracy media force, expanding its newsroom to 20 staffers as it surpasses 50,000 paid subscribers." Story here: www.status.news/p/democracy-...

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he paid off in Rubles?

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

The health of all in this country is at serious and prolonged risk under Trump who doesn't care, and RFK Jr who appears not to have a clue about the damage about to befall us.

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Profile picture Forbes (@forbes.com) reposted

Multiple CDC leaders have resigned in the wake of layoffs and a shooting at the agency’s headquarters this month.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

You pray because that's all you've got. Nothing that gets the country writ large out of the morass you and DJT have created.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

So, JD, because we don't grieve in the same performative way you expect, you feel emboldened to critique how others process grief in some other way than what you expect. What a small little man-child you are. I grieve for our country that you are a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Boom.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Taken to the extreme he propounds, I'd have to agree.

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Profile picture All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris.bsky.social) reposted

“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you mean the ones who are no longer alive, Vladimir?

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Retured, with too much time on my hands. Front yard.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Part of my world view that believes what you do. I see this as a 76 year-old. People who are marginalized by the GOP still haven't figured out they are on the list of folks who will lose access to medical care and other vital services. They don't have a seat at the table...they are on the menu.

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Profile picture Yaroslava (@strategywoman.bsky.social) reposted

Bread baked in Kyiv today. After a sleepless night, someone still did it. So did I: sent a letter about bread, rituals, childhood memories. My small act of resistance. Exclusive for supporters www.patreon.com/posts/bread-...

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

I guess the grand jury thought it was funny

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

That seems to be the GOP mantra today.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Geez, the last time I looked Norway was a sovereign country, not a vassal statebof the US. Graham needs to to back off.

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Profile picture Scott Smith (@canaansdad1987.bsky.social) reposted

Great to see Kamala speaking up against what is going on. #USDemocracy

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Profile picture Infest The Pat’s Nest (@derblutenpat.bsky.social) reposted

Never in my life will in comprehend why the Access Hollywood tape wasn’t the end for him. Almost 10 years of being deeply embarrassed for this country every day.

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Profile picture Kooth (@koothkeeper.bsky.social) reposted

fascism, but with morons www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fascism-bu...

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

What's the thrust, here? does DJT have a plan to kill off selected grouips of Americans by cutting access to care nationwide along with cancelling immunizations? Thiking about the risk to infants, children and elderly as well as anyone else with immunosuppression.

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Profile picture Kimberly Atkins Stohr (@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social) reposted

This is a 5-alarm fire. Get your vaccines now while you still can www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Profile picture Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) reposted

New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Will he be bringing his brain worms?

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Profile picture Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted

Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

That and so many people giving him directions with a finger.

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Profile picture Steve (@stevie49.bsky.social) reply parent

Nazis would have loved him.

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Profile picture Stonekettle (@stonekettle.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.

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Profile picture Scott Smith (@canaansdad1987.bsky.social) reposted

Yeah. No. The rule of law is complete lawlessness. The one in the White House and everyone under him have committed crimes. He's pardoning some of the worst homegrown terrorists ever seen in this country and anyone else he thinks he can use. #USDemocracy

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