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@lorettamarkell.bsky.social

Artist, Detroit, Animal watcher, day dreamer

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Post image 01.11.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 125    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I woke up at 4 am - looked up and saw this partial eclipse.

14.03.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bernie Sanders draws massive crowd in Macomb County to fight oligarchy Michigan is still โ€œfeeling the Bern.โ€

www.metrotimes.com/detroit/bern...

09.03.2025 17:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cartoon: Tsk, tsk I've tried to be patient with Democrats latelyโ€”they donโ€™t have many cards to play. James Carvilleโ€™s advice to โ€œplay possumโ€ has some tactical merit, but come on. This administration is a ...

Cartoon: Tsk, tsk www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

08.03.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Oil on canvas, tiger lily

04.03.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Menโ€™s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

28.02.2025 19:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65185    ๐Ÿ” 10164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3285    ๐Ÿ“Œ 621
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Trump Targets the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, a Pelosi Achievement (Gift Article) President Trump seeks to significantly pare back the Presidio Trust, which oversees a signature park near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

22.02.2025 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Fail, Caesar! (Gift Article) We canโ€™t let Trump be a cruel emperor.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

22.02.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Germanyโ€™s Far-Right Comeback Germanyโ€™s attempts to โ€œremember awayโ€ its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

20.02.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New York Belongs to Trump Now New Yorkers want their mayor held accountable.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

19.02.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Those tulips never stop.

19.02.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Divine Rhythm and Blues collage

19.02.2025 00:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A โ€˜great shockโ€™: Julianne Mooreโ€™s childrenโ€™s book under review by Trump administration The actorโ€™s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a โ€˜compliance reviewโ€™ after a presidential executive order

They're targeting children's books now.
#Books #BookBans #Censorship
A โ€˜great shockโ€™: Julianne Mooreโ€™s childrenโ€™s book under review by Trump administration www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

18.02.2025 01:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Revealed: Trumpโ€™s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germanyโ€™s First World War reparations

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

17.02.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Veerrry cold and lots of snow but I love the way the snow makes little stars on that Japanese Umbrella Pine that's not really a pine it's a sacred tree.

17.02.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Washington Post opted not to publish anti-Musk ad campaign after initially being open | CNN Business The Washington Post scrapped an upcoming print ad from a pair of advocacy groups calling for the firing of Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government and Efficiency.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/m...

17.02.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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USA v Canada ice hockey fight: Three fights in first nine seconds before US go on to win A 4 Nations game between the USA and Canada descends into chaos with three fights breaking out between players in the first nine seconds.

www.bbc.com/sport/ice-ho...

16.02.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Opposition Is Already Growing Trump is getting substantial pushback, both from the courts and from other pockets of civic life.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

15.02.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

15.02.2025 03:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42202    ๐Ÿ” 8840    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1531    ๐Ÿ“Œ 511
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OpenAIโ€™s Sam Altman Throws Shade On Elon Musk Over $97 Billion Bid: โ€˜I Donโ€™t Think Heโ€™s a Happy Personโ€™ OpenAI CEO and founder Sam Altman threw shade Elon Musk's way after the latter offered to take control of OpenAI, a move Altman theorized is to "slow us down."

www.mediaite.com/news/openais...

11.02.2025 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Noem warns the public that they canโ€™t trust the government - which she is part of DHS chief signals that Muskโ€™s team has access to FEMA systems containing Americansโ€™ private information

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

11.02.2025 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
U.S. Senate: States in the Senate | Michigan

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09.02.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last spring on Bird Island I saw how an aggressive male swan threatened a Canadian Goose family. I was astounded.

05.02.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Letโ€™s Hear It for the Coyote Hiding in the Produce Aisle The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

05.02.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Europeans on democracyโ€™s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europeโ€™s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

04.02.2025 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Flint Art Museum has a room for children or those of us who are kids at heart to make collages with parts that are magnetized. I could spend all day there.

03.02.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A landscape I painted last summer. I know it isn't even spring yet but I have summer days on my mind. Today it's in the 40's so I'll take a little road trip to Flint Institute of Arts.

03.02.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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State of my mind at the moment. Acrylic on canvas.

02.02.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Make them payโ€™: Canada puts Trumpโ€™s โ€˜first friendโ€™ Elon Muskโ€™s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war Canadaโ€™s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.

www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

02.02.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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