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Seeking understanding, kindness and compassion for people, critters, and community. I'm an ally. Selfish greedy people suck! ☮️🏳️‍🌈⚽️🥾🚵⛰️📚
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Who pays for Trump's legal team? Tax payers?

@charster.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

This hits hard.

Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born enslaved in 1818 and forced to suffer grueling conditions. After gaining freedom in 1856, Mason worked as a nurse and midwife and eventually became one of the richest women in California. She used her money to start a daycare center and fund community care efforts.

Good advice ⬇️

This is really good messaging from Senator Gallego 👏

Trans rights are human rights, and we will fight for them. Always.

Billionaire co-founder of AirBnB Joe Gebbia has joined Elon Musk’s DOGE team, so let’s spread awareness and make sure nobody books a goddamn thing through AirBnB ever again, shall we?

This is in Project 2025.

A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Raise your hand 🖐️ and Repost if you still support President Zelenskyy and the brave people of Ukraine! 🇺🇦 I want all of my 168K friends to follow YOU! 💙 Like ❤️ and repost 🔄 and you will get MORE followers! 🚀 Who is with me? 🖐️

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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Let's be educated and make some changes y'all! Check out VoteSmart.org they provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to all Americans. Want to know how they voted, funded their campaign, who is endorsing them, etc.? It's all at votesmart.org.

Ready to do something? Try 5calls.org. Calling is by far the most effective way to ensure that your representative hears you before they take a public stance. Your congressperson gets regular call tally reports, letting them know how strongly their constituents feel about an issue.

I heard armadillos are moving up into WNC and recently saw this one while hiking on a WNC section of the AT. First time I've seen one here in over 25 years of hiking WNC.

Paul Martin, the inspector general for the USAID, has been fired after resisting the administration. Just a day ago, his office released a report warning that staff reductions and spending freezes put hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars at risk of misuse and waste. This is the way.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social's new bluesky account gets a shoutout from @maddow.msnbc.com !!!

Man greeted by Otter Pup in the water