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@paarti.bsky.social

Retired international teacher, who is now living in a small mountain town in McCall, Idaho. Living in the states after 40 years overseas, it’s difficult and challenging.

182 Followers  |  96 Following  |  85 Posts  |  Joined: 02.12.2024  |  2.3195

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How would we even know?

06.06.2025 20:00 — 👍 195    🔁 71    💬 9    📌 6

Beautiful!

04.06.2025 14:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My thinking is like - Duh, I put on a seatbelt just in case someone gets too close. Vaccines are great insurance that I’m covered.

04.06.2025 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.

It’s rare to see such CLEAR before-and-after effects.

These graphs? Dramatic drops in disease after vaccine rollout 💉🦠📉

Correlation isn’t causation. But paired with 1000s of vaccine studies?

Vaccine-preventable diseases: absolutely prevented💥
👉 graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

#vaccinessavelives

04.06.2025 14:23 — 👍 301    🔁 80    💬 9    📌 3
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Even with massive cuts to Medicaid & SNAP… even after slashing housing, and gutting public education…

Republicans’ $3.7 trillion tax cuts still add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. Our kids & grandkids will have the GOP to thank for the economic train wreck they will be left with.

04.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 876    🔁 357    💬 43    📌 10

Our government is concentrating wealth and power in a few hands, while its role should be to protect its people.

04.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The updated total is that TACO Trump has now pardoned NINE former Republican members of Congress convicted of crimes.

29.05.2025 11:22 — 👍 3236    🔁 963    💬 158    📌 56
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Taking deep breaths and reminding myself that what I do puts beauty into the world, and it’s ok to balance that with the loud mouth and strong opinions!

18.02.2025 20:09 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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J. D. Vance Warns Courts to Get in Line The Vice-President says it’s time for Chief Justice John Roberts to step in and make judges behave. He’s wrong.

Vance told Roberts that courts shouldn't check executive 'excesses'—then invoked Andrew Jackson's defiance of SCOTUS. The data shows Trump losing 96% of recent court cases across ideological lines. When lawlessness is your only path forward, attack the judges.

26.05.2025 01:24 — 👍 146    🔁 51    💬 9    📌 1

Join in!
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26.05.2025 22:46 — 👍 33    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

The authoritarian script

26.05.2025 21:48 — 👍 121    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 2
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Stop Big Tech Complicity in Genocide & Apartheid

bigtechfuelsgenocide.com

23.05.2025 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This does not make an sense.

21.05.2025 00:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Peters to Noem: "It's costing about $100,000 a day to keep someone in Guantanamo Bay. This is like ripe for DOGE. Why is DOGE not down there? ... we could keep them here for $165 a day."

20.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 2741    🔁 671    💬 68    📌 40
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That's how it is..🤷‍♀️

20.05.2025 07:18 — 👍 591    🔁 137    💬 12    📌 12
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How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

19.05.2025 20:08 — 👍 17362    🔁 3340    💬 388    📌 273

This has to be against the law.

20.05.2025 22:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I could understand her thoughts. She seems to easily ignore reality.

20.05.2025 22:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is true

19.05.2025 21:25 — 👍 396    🔁 73    💬 17    📌 3

An immigrant who has no empathy for another?

20.05.2025 16:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Meet the Right-Wing Ultra-Zionist Immigrant Pushing for Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation 7 things to know about Trump DOJ lawyer and Donald Rumsfeld fan Yaakov Roth.

Meet the right-wing ultra-Zionist immigrant pushing for Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation — here are 7 things to know about Trump DOJ lawyer and Donald Rumsfeld fan Yaakov Roth.

@jasonpaladino.bsky.social reports:
zeteo.com/p/meet-the-r...

20.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 228    🔁 66    💬 8    📌 5
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I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.

This is a political stunt—point blank.

20.05.2025 01:15 — 👍 26993    🔁 7179    💬 610    📌 320

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

08.05.2025 22:15 — 👍 21223    🔁 5226    💬 674    📌 240

THE PENTAGON BUDGET JUST HIT A TRILLION DOLLARS.

Not a single pundit from either political party said “how are we going to pay for it?!”

Don’t dare tell us we cannot ALL have healthcare, housing, and education.

06.05.2025 00:02 — 👍 25332    🔁 7113    💬 661    📌 296
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EXCLUSIVE: An Original Poem From Acclaimed Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha's poem for Zeteo is a moving expression of his feelings and experiences marking one year of suffering.

Congratulations to Palestinian poet and writer @mosababutoha.bsky.social on winning a Pulitzer for his moving essays on the carnage in Gaza.

Read this exclusive poem he wrote for Zeteo to commemorate one year since the Oct 7th attacks and the genocidal war in Gaza:

zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

05.05.2025 21:22 — 👍 127    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 2

Is there no sense of humanity left in Israel?

05.05.2025 21:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First Germany said NO to fascism and Trumpism.

Then Canada said NO to fascism and Trumpism.

And now Australia has said NO to fascism and Trumpism.

The people of the world are speaking with their votes and we want democracy not authoritarianism.

#SheShed

04.05.2025 07:41 — 👍 13138    🔁 2920    💬 456    📌 168
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🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy

H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

04.05.2025 02:40 — 👍 21907    🔁 7366    💬 766    📌 692

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that federal authorities may once again seek reporters’ phone records and compel their testimony in leak investigations, reversing a policy that was designed to protect journalists from intrusive government efforts to identify and prosecute sources.

25.04.2025 22:05 — 👍 9993    🔁 3303    💬 598    📌 285

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