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Writer, gardener, reader, avid Democratic activist, #TeamPelosi, retired media prof, cat lady. No DMs. I follow back as much as I can on this fast-growing platform, if you have a bio. (My award-winning book is Adventure Journalism In The Gilded Age.)

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Post image 21.07.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

He and Mike Johnson both.

22.07.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh. I also have eight chickens, in a very secure coop and pen setup. But the mice! Yeah, they’re around (not in the house where the cats are, tho.) I guess I’m running a full-service owl buffet.

22.07.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So the raccoons can’t actually eat from the feeder, tho they tried it.

22.07.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve got a squirrel proof feeder there but yeah, the sparrows etc do drop a big circle of random feed onto my deck down below.

22.07.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s because most doctors keep a few appointments open every single day for urgent cases. (My doctor clued me in.)

It’s because you’re in urgent need of care.

22.07.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! Plenty of ground squirrels running amuck this summer, even up in the tree sliding along thin branches to score mulberries.

22.07.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for the info! Yes, I’m over run this year with ground squirrels and have no issue with feeding an owl on rodents. But not on my songbirds.

22.07.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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22.07.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Raccoons, large and small, just outside my bedroom window, here for mulberries, unripe grapes, or the diet and birdseed?

Raccoons, large and small, just outside my bedroom window, here for mulberries, unripe grapes, or the diet and birdseed?

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Ack! Half an hour later, these little bandits arrived. I couldn’t get a clear vote but there seem to be five or six:

22.07.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Owl sits two feet away from bird feeder that’s nestled into thick greenery.

Owl sits two feet away from bird feeder that’s nestled into thick greenery.

#birds. So, happy campers, does this new arrival mean I need to take down my bird feeders?

22.07.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Whoa listen..

22.07.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Democrats’ 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face Plus: The big difference in where money for the midterms is going so far.

The Dem 2026 messaging seems, at this point, pretty damn simple. Donald Trump is running a protection racket for the elites.

www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

21.07.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1228    πŸ” 293    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 16
Trump EXPOSED After DOJ’s Legal Move on Epstein UNRAVELS
YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump EXPOSED After DOJ’s Legal Move on Epstein UNRAVELS

Trump’s latest head fake with the Epstein Files is his DOJ’s motion to unseal grand jury transcripts.

I walk through the legal filings and explain why Trump continues to try to hide the Epstein Files from the public.

youtu.be/77ANdWFkjkw?...

21.07.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 929    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 7

How devastating for this precious child. ICE has become a terror to too many good people who have done no harm nor committed crimes. A war on immigrants made possible by Miller and Trump. Resist. Resist. Somehow reunite these families torn apart by these fascists in power.

21.07.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Her mom was a farmworker. She never came home. ICE took her, tortured her, and forced her to sign her own deportation. Her daughter is still waiting.

This is the war on immigrants. The war on Indigenous people. The war on mothers.

ICE isn’t brokenβ€”it’s evil by design.
#OnYourSide

21.07.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 669    πŸ” 468    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 34
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I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

21.07.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3441    πŸ” 1454    πŸ’¬ 120    πŸ“Œ 75
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A judge in DC has ruled that the Trump administration has to stop violating public disclosure laws. This is about the administration's efforts to take over Congress' power of the purse & altho the opinion is 60 pages, what the judge has to say is worth your time. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

21.07.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4531    πŸ” 1475    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 68

The King family’s own RFK Jr:

22.07.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
A tweet from Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) includes a photo of her seated in a leather office chair, smiling, with Dr. Alveda King standing beside her, resting a hand on Bondi’s shoulder. Both women are smiling. Behind them are American flags and Department of Justice flags, indicating a formal government office setting. A desk lamp and framed photographs are visible in the background.

The tweet text reads:
β€œGreat to spend time with Dr. Alveda King today before the release of the MLK Jr. files. Her uncle, Martin Luther King Jr.’s, dream still lives on today in our great nation.”

A tweet from Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) includes a photo of her seated in a leather office chair, smiling, with Dr. Alveda King standing beside her, resting a hand on Bondi’s shoulder. Both women are smiling. Behind them are American flags and Department of Justice flags, indicating a formal government office setting. A desk lamp and framed photographs are visible in the background. The tweet text reads: β€œGreat to spend time with Dr. Alveda King today before the release of the MLK Jr. files. Her uncle, Martin Luther King Jr.’s, dream still lives on today in our great nation.”

The King Center, and the children of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, have repeatedly distanced themselves from Alveida King, who was MLK’s niece.

She is not close to his living children, Bernice and Martin, and they have made it clear that she does not speak for them or the King Center.

21.07.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4765    πŸ” 1515    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 148
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Public outrage is mounting - Built hastily on a remote airstrip, the 39-acre camp cages over 1,000 in flood-prone tents. They’re packed into overcrowded pods, drinking from toilet spigots, enduring raw sewage flooding their cells, constant light exposure, and medical neglect.

21.07.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructureβ€”402 documented attacks in just 6 monthsβ€”represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

22.07.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 872    πŸ” 357    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 12
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PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

22.07.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 32147    πŸ” 7908    πŸ’¬ 667    πŸ“Œ 470
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White House removes Wall Street Journal from Scotland press pool over Epstein bombshell A White House spokesperson declined to comment on if the Journal would be included in the pool in the future, either on the White House campus or on subsequent trips.

We've seen this playbook in the darkest days of history: Dictators targeting independent journalists and dissenting views β€” using power and threats to silence those who tell the truth.

Today it's WSJ, AP, NPR, Colbert. Who's next?

We must resist together or we will fall apart.

21.07.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1797    πŸ” 542    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 22

Here's me literally doing exactly that.

#StandingWithStephenColbert

21.07.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 26315    πŸ” 4142    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 116
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, Bernice, weighs in on Trump's release of the MLK Jr. files

22.07.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2974    πŸ” 612    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 40
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Speaker Mike Johnson is protecting Jeffrey Epstein and his clients?

Hmmm. . . this might be a good time to remind everyone that Mike Johnson met his "adopted" (never really adopted) son (who never appears in family photos) at a youth camp. And was the dean of a law school named after a pedophile.

21.07.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4842    πŸ” 2092    πŸ’¬ 371    πŸ“Œ 149
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This is what fear looks like.

21.07.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 35042    πŸ” 9364    πŸ’¬ 2731    πŸ“Œ 853

#EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN #EPSTEIN!!!

We aren’t letting it go.

Ever.

Expose them all.

#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles

21.07.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The US is in the hands of a gang of psychopathic criminals led by a mad king with a collapsing brain, and the media just keeps pretending this is all normal.

21.07.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5764    πŸ” 1535    πŸ’¬ 231    πŸ“Œ 75

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