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@expatmichael.bsky.social

Italian American ESL teacher & Italo Disco lover living in Rome. Progressive politically to the core. American University class of '86, born in Connecticut. I love my universal healthcare.

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Then why doesn't a Democrat ever win for the Senate?

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Welcome to the weekend and happy Saturday 😊 hope everyone is having a great day so far!!

04.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 114    🔁 66    💬 41    📌 13

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@hopeful66.bsky.social

Thanks so much!

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Please check out my (long overdue!) latest Starter Pack. It is chock full of some of my favorite Blue Sky posters and some of my newer friends. I hope you will love following them, I know I do! 🙏💞🌊😽 See you online! KKG

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@sentenne.bsky.social

Thanks so much!

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@hopeful66.bsky.social
I've said before, but it bears repeating: hopeful is one of the best community builders that I've met on Bsky💙 She knows so many cool people, the kind that make your feeds so fun to scroll. She always boosts the smaller accts, too. Some of the best accts are the small ones
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Had a great Neapolitan pizza in Rome this evening. #sorbillo #prati #Roma

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share.google/cOVAbo7Cw28f...

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this failure is not a Barack Obama🙏

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Netflix Has Survived Boycotts Before. But It Hasn’t Seen One Like This. We’ve seen this movie already—and it always flops.

wrote about the transphobic campaign on X, spearheaded by LibsOfTikTok and Elon and many other usual suspects, to boycott Netflix over mere LGBTQ+ representation on the platform—and why it's different from, but isn't likely to do much better than, the previous right-wing wars on Netflix:

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“.. If victims disobeyed an order .., Taylor and Brannon punished the victims with public humiliation, .. sleep deprivation, physical assaults, and threats of divine judgment in the form of sickness .. and eternal damnation.”

@craigtimes.bsky.social #Florida
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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bsky.app/starter-pack...

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These boats are carrying food, baby formula and medical supplies—items that are desperately needed in Gaza.

International representatives have independently verified the cargo on each ship. They pose no harm.

It's only aid.

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👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

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So, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and Angus King are the three that voted to keep the Gov open so they could destroy healthcare and our benefits. To thank them you need to find very smart, loyal people and primary them when their term is up. They are traitors to Democracy and need to go.

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Fried Pizza

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