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TamiaSciurus

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Squirreling around for the best political and science updates. Reality TV is not a basis for governing!

created February 6, 2025

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Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Where’s Kristi?

1/9/2025, 2:30:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would you get on the phone with a demented old man who goes on and on about his perceived greatness or who has slighted him?

1/9/2025, 1:36:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pine Tree Activism (@pinetreeactivism.org) reposted

#Maine #MEpolitics Sept 3, 5-6:30PM - Portland, ME USM Hannaford Hall, 88 Bedford St. Portland, Maine FORUM ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY Free and open to the public. The forum will host events throughout the school year into the spring semester. Registration & upcoming forums:

1/9/2025, 1:29:21 PM | 14 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Let us remember why Labor Day is a holiday--to celebrate workers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwbz...

1/9/2025, 1:33:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ken Bardsley (@kenbar.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 10:19:35 AM | 32906 7677 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

This is the way to celebrate Labor Day.

31/8/2025, 9:15:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 9:06:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Politically.

31/8/2025, 2:39:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Alberta is polically the Texas of Canada.

31/8/2025, 2:39:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Such hypocrisy!

31/8/2025, 2:37:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...

31/8/2025, 2:32:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

I LOVE DC! So walkable and so many places to visit.

31/8/2025, 2:30:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

www.closertotheedge.net/p/what-putin...

31/8/2025, 2:25:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

I sure as hell won’t forget I will make sure my granddaughter knows about this dark chapter of our history.

30/8/2025, 7:57:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...

30/8/2025, 7:22:47 PM | 11371 3609 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kasey (@kasey79.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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30/8/2025, 6:07:36 AM | 2642 537 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

A bit of humour.

30/8/2025, 7:39:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

I keep hearing the line about worms eating into their brains from the song Hey You by Pink Floyd.

30/8/2025, 7:38:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Hertling (@markhertling.bsky.social) reposted

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

30/8/2025, 11:44:49 AM | 21977 6284 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?

29/8/2025, 7:18:21 PM | 8315 3427 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Only for them to die of preventable diseases like measles, tetanus, whooping cough, & diphtheria

29/8/2025, 11:30:42 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 (@econaturalist.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 9:53:24 PM | 111 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

We should be annulling it right now. He has trampled on the Constitution right and left.

29/8/2025, 11:28:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 6:13:25 PM | 18568 4851 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Maybe?

29/8/2025, 11:22:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Every morning, the same question….

29/8/2025, 11:18:12 PM | 78 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Yes, It's Really 💙 Ted Diamond 💙 (@ted-diamond.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 10:49:50 PM | 1521 306 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Just another way for him to dump onNYC.

29/8/2025, 11:11:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

My partner just coined a new word, "murditate."

29/8/2025, 8:48:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

About time someone says this out loud. www.thedailybeast.com/portuguese-p...

29/8/2025, 4:56:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Or buy pseudofed.

28/8/2025, 8:03:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.

28/8/2025, 12:46:14 PM | 11640 2634 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

But if you must do it on the floor, make sure it’s where people will step on it.

28/8/2025, 7:54:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t he use the state’s rights argument?

28/8/2025, 7:50:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸 (@michaelostrogorsky.bsky.social) reposted

FUCK THESE GESTAPO PRICKS! 😡 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

28/8/2025, 3:16:07 AM | 1588 591 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Every Tr*+} administration.

28/8/2025, 7:47:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Agree completely.

28/8/2025, 7:43:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Nerd humor.

28/8/2025, 7:42:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dea Ptah (@deaptah.bsky.social) reposted

Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.

Arches national park, a full moon shines through the opening of red rock like the iris of an eye.
28/8/2025, 3:55:07 PM | 25865 3609 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Can we fast track this? Been wondering how long it would take Blue states to figure this out. www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Item...

28/8/2025, 5:54:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.

27/8/2025, 10:07:42 AM | 7391 2361 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A Republic If You Can Keep It (@arepublicif.bsky.social) reposted

Things #GOP hates: Anne Frank Due process Clean energy Children Women Black people Brown people Democracy Vaccines Things they love: Fascism Gestapo Coal Child rapists White men Voter suppression Measles A police state #GuardingOverPedophiles #RemoveTrump

27/8/2025, 7:32:57 PM | 320 154 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) reposted

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27/8/2025, 9:59:06 PM | 4776 2220 | View on Bluesky | view

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

“The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.” -- Mark Zaid & Abbe Lowell, lawyers for ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez ....Well, hot damn.

28/8/2025, 12:23:49 AM | 714 241 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alt National Endowment for the Humanities (@altnehgov.altgov.info) reposted

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

28/8/2025, 12:14:26 AM | 12320 2896 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) reposted

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

28/8/2025, 12:51:59 AM | 12195 3017 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Masks and no badge or ID. ICE should scare everyone.

28/8/2025, 2:00:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

“Old men want to be rich, rich men want to be king and the king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.” Badlands by Bruce Springsteen

28/8/2025, 12:59:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture arykab1956.bsky.social (@arykab1956.bsky.social) reposted

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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26/8/2025, 11:10:46 PM | 624 197 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted

General Milley reminded everyone the military’s oath after Taco claimed we want a dictator! I think that is grounds to arrest MF Taco! #arresttrump

26/8/2025, 10:40:20 PM | 472 229 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Why hasn't the press provided the full text of Pritzker's speech? Heather Cox Richardson has the bulk of it here. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-...

27/8/2025, 5:51:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Larry Hochman (@larryhochman.bsky.social) reposted

EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN

27/8/2025, 9:48:29 AM | 11817 4544 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

As I’ve said before, he is raping the Constitution.

27/8/2025, 4:41:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sandieglo (@sandieglo.bsky.social) reposted

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26/8/2025, 7:11:36 PM | 26 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Stephen Miller is the defacto president since 47 is clearly demented. He just goes along with 47’s vengeance campaign while pursuing his and others’ fascist takeover.

26/8/2025, 7:09:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.

25/8/2025, 9:19:09 PM | 16862 3928 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mary (@roughrider994.bsky.social) reposted

youtu.be/UOTAdvc1MJM?...

25/8/2025, 7:49:08 PM | 239 74 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Feeling less safe each day.

26/8/2025, 3:46:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Geneva 🇨🇦 (@geneva1111.bsky.social) reposted

Perfect rant 🌠

25/8/2025, 7:32:43 PM | 194 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

Born to Run came out 50 years ago today. Here is my favorite song off the album, Thunder Road, although I like them ALL. Here is great version of the song although the filming is meh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3M...

25/8/2025, 11:12:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

And I am Spartacus. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

25/8/2025, 11:03:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam B. Bear 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇬🇱 (@adambear.bsky.social) reposted

If this country has enough Money to deport migrants to Uganda, why are there insufficient funds for School lunches?

23/8/2025, 4:29:40 AM | 450 109 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chef Toneman (@tonemanb.bsky.social) reposted

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23/8/2025, 2:35:55 AM | 1278 411 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gabe Ortíz (@tusk81.bsky.social) reposted

It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...

23/8/2025, 4:33:37 PM | 24651 5006 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) reposted

Support For: Making election day a holiday: 74% Allowing convicted felons to vote after serving their sentences: 66% Automatic voter registration: 59% Allowing any voter to vote by mail: 58% Pew Research / Aug 10, 2025

22/8/2025, 7:38:58 PM | 219 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) reposted

Support For: Electronic voting machines requiring a paper ballot backup: 84% Requiring voters to show government issued photo ID to vote: 83% Making early, in-person voting available for at least two weeks before election day: 80% Pew Research / Aug 10, 2025

22/8/2025, 7:39:05 PM | 186 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) reposted

You probably pay more in federal income taxes than some of America’s biggest, most profitable corporations. It’s not right — and we cannot afford to let it continue.

22/8/2025, 7:52:55 PM | 5141 1127 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

And the Trump-Epstein-Russia connections.

22/8/2025, 8:44:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

He comes across as slippery and smarmy, but who else better to pull this off?

22/8/2025, 8:40:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Where would people be able to send you pics of cars and their plate numbers?

22/8/2025, 8:37:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

22/8/2025, 3:26:35 PM | 18510 5370 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he can get more people to register to vote and then actually vote.

21/8/2025, 6:12:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Didn’t consider this.

20/8/2025, 6:52:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Should have that legislation here in the US especially for anyone in the Executive branch.

20/8/2025, 6:15:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is raping the Constitution now.

19/8/2025, 6:10:06 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

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19/8/2025, 5:52:29 AM | 16271 4379 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Levin (@civilwarmemory.bsky.social) reposted

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

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19/8/2025, 10:47:04 AM | 22410 6439 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

And these foreign leaders are just humouring him and thinking he should be in Memory Care & NOT the White House. How did we get here????!

19/8/2025, 5:47:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow!!!

18/8/2025, 4:08:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

But Putin didn’t get lunch on the last day….

18/8/2025, 4:04:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 7:34:06 AM | 6139 1784 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, right.

18/8/2025, 3:57:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Follow the money (stock market gaming) or the kompromat that 47/Putin has on them.

18/8/2025, 3:56:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen (@jukka-pekka.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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18/8/2025, 3:12:16 PM | 104 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

This would explain a lot.

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18/8/2025, 12:20:32 PM | 15000 4444 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted

I'm not a fan of Gavin Newsom, but I'm a fan of Democrats fighting back aggressively and creatively against fascism instead of playing the same tired game of hoping things just work out. I wish others with a national profile would have the guts to fight back aggressively and creatively, too.

18/8/2025, 1:04:06 AM | 2293 293 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Every day, the same question here too.

18/8/2025, 2:41:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

👇👇

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17/8/2025, 12:20:43 PM | 12863 4347 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has posted statement saying: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is UnAmerican”

17/8/2025, 11:04:09 PM | 8628 2258 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Life comes at you fast

17/8/2025, 10:09:38 PM | 28596 11431 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JJ in DC (@jjindc.bsky.social) reposted

FREE DC!

17/8/2025, 8:32:57 PM | 46 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale Ryder (@kryton3298.bsky.social) reposted

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16/8/2025, 10:53:57 PM | 11400 3085 | View on Bluesky | view

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

A tale of two vibes.

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16/8/2025, 4:14:59 PM | 13451 3566 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Larry Hochman (@larryhochman.bsky.social) reposted

Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Wholesale inflation up .9%. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Strikes out with make-believe peace meeting. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein $60 million taxpayer money on golf outings. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein

16/8/2025, 11:58:23 AM | 17332 6459 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted

UCLA 💙💙👊🏻👏🏼👏🏼

16/8/2025, 2:05:12 AM | 1080 399 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Last night, chants of “FREE DC” echoed loud and clear through the Washington Spirit broadcast, absolutely incredible. Huge shoutout to everyone who made noise. Free DC is doing amazing work! ✊💚

16/8/2025, 6:42:16 PM | 8741 1552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social) reply parent

Love that turn of phrase—“treason weasel.”

15/8/2025, 10:35:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TamiaSciurus (@tamiasciurus1.bsky.social)

A little humor.

15/8/2025, 8:17:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view