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Retired writer/editor, birder, film critic, cat mom, docent at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, all-around nature nut
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The bird life in Chicago is nothing short of amazing. #birds #birding #birdphotography #chicagobirder #raptor #hawk #cooperhawk #bluesky

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Only a Felon would let another Felon off the hook. Always these guys never learn!

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In a wooded glade in Hampshire … this Boobook lives at The Hawk Conservancy Trust. I was so privileged to be able to photograph him in the woodland. He looked straight at me and sent a tingle down my spine. #boobook #owl #hawkconservancytrust

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Happy Caturday from Daisy. #Caturday

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More orchids from the Chicago Botanic Garden's India Blooms show. #orchids #ChicagoBotanicGarden

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More orchids from the Chicago Botanic Garden's India Blooms show. #orchids #ChicagoBotanicGarden

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Went to the The Orchid Show: India Blooms at the Chicago Botanic Garden today. The sights and smells were intoxicating!

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Musk is a real liability for congressional GOP. Make them squirm.

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Incredible night and a packed house with @eastvalleyindivisibles.com to hear how their city, county, state, and federal electeds are showing up to be heroes in a time of chaos

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They can be beaten if we SHOW UP AND SPEAK OUT! From a group called Climate Power:

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@jazzypaul.bsky.social How about Artie Shaw's GLOOMY SUNDAY? It's a little depressing, I know, but the instrumentals are so rich and inventive. #Allrequesthour

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VERY important we stop the SAVE act.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, serves as a solemn reminder of the necessity for marginalized groups, particularly Jewish people, to retain agency over their histories and narratives. Read more: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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In case anyone missed what my governor said, here's the excerpt from his State of the State speech that speaks to our moment. www.c-span.org/clip/state-l...

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The entire democratic world wishes Zelenskyy was their leader, so I would say he is doing an admirable job. Carry on and Thank you for the example.

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🚨 Elon Musk is trying to buy another election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is just over a month away, and Musk will spend over half a million dollars to support a MAGA extremist who wants to enforce a 175-year-old abortion ban. We can't match Musk's money but we have the power of the people. 🧵

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Can't wait for this beautiful watercolor to reach me. I found @colinwoodart.bsky.social here on Bluesky, fell in love with his artistry, and commissioned a white-crowned sparrow from him - my favorite sparrow and not a hot subject for wildlife artists. Thanks Colin and Bluesky! #birdart #birds

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Demonstration I attended today at U.S. Rep Jan Shakowsky's office in Skokie. She said not one Democrat is going to vote against passing another stopgap budget. We told her Hakeem Jeffries & the rest of the party needs to put on their brass knuckles. We're in a thug fight, not a polite duel.

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EveryLibrary strongly opposes the Trump administration’s censorship and political interference in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools. www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary... Follow and support @everylibrary.bsky.social to help fight for libraries.

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Proud to join almost 1,000 other DOJ alumni supporting those who are standing up for the non-partisan administration of law. The oath we all took is to uphold the Constitution, not to advance a president’s political agenda. www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...

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Union leaders and electeds rallied with EPA workers today to protest illegal firings by Elon Musk's "DOGE" cronies—the latest in weeks of sustained protests in Chicago. Clean air, water and infrastructure projects are all threatened by the Trump administration's wrecking ball to the civil service.

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