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Fran O’Rourke

@frano429.bsky.social

Lifelong Dem, supporter of human rights for all, animal lover, New Yorker, still resisting! Retired but still subbing at a school for disabled children. Love traveling and meeting new people especially Mexico and my cousins in Gweedore.

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I don’t think this is going to end well for Netanyahu, monster that he is!

11.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.

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Anas Al-Sharif on the left pictured smiling with his young nephew who was training to be a journalist. Both were killed by the IDF in their tent in central Gaza tonight. Photo credit to Al Jazeera

Anas Al-Sharif on the left pictured smiling with his young nephew who was training to be a journalist. Both were killed by the IDF in their tent in central Gaza tonight. Photo credit to Al Jazeera

Undated photos of Al Jazeera staffers Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi in their press vests,  both killed by Israeli forces.

Undated photos of Al Jazeera staffers Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Rifi in their press vests, both killed by Israeli forces.

A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed, along with his family members, in an airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 3, 2023 (Photo: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed, along with his family members, in an airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 3, 2023 (Photo: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A group of journalists from Al Jazeera carry the shrouded body of their dead colleague on a stretcher.

A group of journalists from Al Jazeera carry the shrouded body of their dead colleague on a stretcher.

They couldn’t silence their stories.

So they just killed them.

Israel never comes back from this.

10.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 665    🔁 338    💬 20    📌 17
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This is the sweetest thing I have seen in a long time... ❤️ #bluesky

10.08.2025 14:58 — 👍 9370    🔁 1115    💬 214    📌 120
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This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust... 🥺 #cat #catday #bluesky

10.08.2025 20:57 — 👍 11646    🔁 1425    💬 378    📌 150

What other country deliberately destroys its people's own healthcare?

11.08.2025 01:26 — 👍 1185    🔁 342    💬 80    📌 21
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Goodnight Blue Sky

11.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 440    🔁 80    💬 14    📌 5
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haruka_okinawa_sea
Haruka 𓇼沖縄の海を毎日お届け

11.08.2025 00:16 — 👍 827    🔁 126    💬 18    📌 8
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NY’s @GovKathyHochul: “All of a sudden this happens when they refuse to release the Epstein files. No one’s buying this… Texas, knock it off, and we ll knock it off. But we’re not gonna sit on the sidelines.”

10.08.2025 21:47 — 👍 7976    🔁 2149    💬 162    📌 98

What a jealous, pathetic, and insecure little man!

11.08.2025 06:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s probably crossed Trump’s mind more than once that if he gives Putin Alaska, Murkowski is Putin’s problem.

09.08.2025 12:22 — 👍 553    🔁 109    💬 56    📌 10

Yes! That’s why they’re doing it in Alaska. Putin can get there without flying over Europe. I remember Netanyahu had to change his flight plans and avoid flying over Ireland or Iceland because if they had an emergency landing in either of those countries he would have been arrested!

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Fight for teachers and education!

09.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 6395    🔁 1639    💬 78    📌 36
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Stunning! A pigeon doing backflips.

09.08.2025 17:05 — 👍 9843    🔁 1442    💬 408    📌 169

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...

"That's just how it is."

09.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 17833    🔁 5904    💬 551    📌 220
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NYC opens first publicly funded homeless shelter for transgender people Ace’s Place will offer 150 beds and services, including counseling, financial literacy workshops and a work-study program in the culinary arts.

9 Aug 25 -- NYC opens the country’s first city-funded shelter for transgender and gender-nonconforming people experiencing homelessness. Ace’s Place, in Queens, offers 150 beds & is a collaboration btwn the city and an LGBTQ+ nonprofit. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

09.08.2025 06:58 — 👍 220    🔁 59    💬 3    📌 4

Heading out for a week’s vacation in Quebec to some pretty remote areas so not much from me this week.

P.S. - Release the Epstein Files.

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Yayyy! I’ll be in Dublin Saturday am and in my beloved Gweedore by evening! Love the Carrickfinn Airport. What a great service from Dublin to Donegal in an hour.

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lol!!

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Lol. I’m going to Ireland for a couple of weeks this Friday! I can’t wait to get there! My cousins are not fans of Netanyahu.

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Jesus H….

09.08.2025 05:49 — 👍 354    🔁 150    💬 13    📌 8
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Other Blue States, Be Like Newsom! #california #democracy #rockthevote

08.08.2025 23:11 — 👍 482    🔁 160    💬 27    📌 17
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Zero days since someone has picked up a bat they found with their bare hands, to show Reddit and ask for help.

Rabies is out there living its best life.

08.08.2025 15:43 — 👍 78    🔁 9    💬 7    📌 0
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Now here is what I call a Ball Room Blitz!

#Resist
#ResistanceReborn

09.08.2025 09:37 — 👍 228    🔁 134    💬 22    📌 21
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Ain’t that the truth

Gawd what were people thinking with these
Megalomaniacs🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

08.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 8108    🔁 2723    💬 523    📌 142
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Mother bear just walking away like she dropped her kids off at daycare... 😅🤣 #bluesky

09.08.2025 05:52 — 👍 1701    🔁 341    💬 55    📌 30
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Yes AOC ! We absofuckinglutely
Should......

09.08.2025 08:22 — 👍 673    🔁 198    💬 29    📌 7
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The owner of a 125 acre Oregon cherry orchard will lose $300,000 plus this season. His cherries are shrivel like big black raisins, still on the trees…because ICE wiped out over half of his work force….and he couldn’t get them picked. The stupidest MF’r in America…is president.

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