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Traveler & avid reader. I’m curious about everything. I love birds, pie, baseball, travel, and cats. I love science and follow the facts. 🔵 St. Petersburg, Fl. 🧵: abaesel2
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Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. Langston Hughes

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Reacher! Is back...woohooo.

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.   A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal

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Wow — Bannon calls musk a “parasitic illegal immigrant” and says DOGE hasn’t found “one penny” of savings in the proposed budget. unherd.com/2025/02/stev...

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

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Watching SNL 50 celebration. Up first Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter. #SNL50

Last night, we went to the cozy Jaeb Theater at the Straz Performing Arts to catch David Nihill’s standup show. He’s a great story teller, clever, funny, and wicked smart. We caught his show awhile back at Side Splitters in Tampa and couldn’t wait to see him again. It was so good to laugh.

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

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WestJet sees 25 per cent drop in passengers wanting to fly to U.S. since tariff talk started: CEO www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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A worsening measles outbreak has taken root in Texas, sickening two dozen and hospitalizing nine on the western edge of the state, where childhood vaccination rates have dwindled in recent years.

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

🚨 Trump & Elon Musk illegally revoked $80 MILLION in congressionally appropriated FEMA funds from NYC’s bank account yesterday—money previously disbursed for shelter & services—says NYC Comptroller Brad Lander. Lander is demanding that the state pursue legal action. Statement:

**NEW CALL** Demand your reps work to reverse the Trump admin's decision to cut NIH and NSF funding! These cuts will cause an immediate and massive funding shortfall at research institutions nationwide, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing critical scientific research. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

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i have robins! When we lived in PA we had Robins for much of the year. They have a bird song/chatter that I love. They only migrate through here in St Pete. So we have a huge flock for one or two days as they drink from the fountain and eat and chatter. Today is one of those days. Makes me happy.

"... we don't even say we're sorry, because we've been put under a gag order. I can't even talk to my partners. I can't even say, 'Hey, I'm really sorry to have totally fucked you over and your life.' That trauma will reap generations of resentment toward America."