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@melissap1.bsky.social

Former GOP. Despise Trump & MAGA. Here to support democracy, post some cool pics, and hang with sane folks. The photos do not belong to me. I always cite the photographer after ©️, lest unknown. DM = Block. I cannot like or repost nudes or porn.

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“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

18.02.2026 00:25 — 👍 7566    🔁 2639    💬 0    📌 0
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This is just thing that should be released with names.

17.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 3821    🔁 1221    💬 160    📌 64
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Insanity. They are laughing at us.

17.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 8888    🔁 4559    💬 474    📌 306
Autumn in Italy

Autumn in Italy

Happy #Wednesday #Bluesky!

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
Aristotle

#Italy
©️ patheight
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #NaturePhotography #nature #quotes #autumn

18.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn

16.02.2026 22:22 — 👍 17100    🔁 3054    💬 750    📌 170

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

17.02.2026 00:25 — 👍 15579    🔁 4476    💬 444    📌 318

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

16.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 3162    🔁 1231    💬 89    📌 61
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What a humongous piece of shit

16.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 6277    🔁 1249    💬 664    📌 154
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Ukraine is the front line in a wider fight for democracy.

@munsecconf.bsky.social Ukraine House installation featured powerful contrasts in the scale of this war's artifacts. Compare a shot-down Russian drone versus a smaller Ukrainian interceptor (with me & MSC Chair Wolfgang Ischinger for scale).

16.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 1366    🔁 302    💬 46    📌 16

🙏🙏

17.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
'Old Streets of New York'

'Old Streets of New York'

Happy #Tuesday #Bluesky!

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
Armand Hammer

'Old Streets of New York'
©️ Juan Solis
#photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #cityscape #architecture #city #NightPhotography #NYC #quotes

17.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Does that seem fair to you?

16.02.2026 23:11 — 👍 11685    🔁 4747    💬 749    📌 299

Sorry. Fuck Musk. He's a deranged egomaniac. He destroyed Twitter and I hope X will self-destruct.

16.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Well said. The problem is that the leaders of the US government and the people around them are more interested in their ability to profit from the resources of Ukraine and business deals in Russia than a lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.

16.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 2231    🔁 677    💬 69    📌 19
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Short term, medium term, long term: We have to stop funding ICE. Period.

#stopICE

16.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 11300    🔁 2459    💬 285    📌 90
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This is why we must

#ImpeachThemAll

15.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 7600    🔁 1728    💬 566    📌 145

Beautiful! 💕

16.02.2026 11:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sunrise in Gandria, Switzerland

Sunrise in Gandria, Switzerland

Happy #Monday #Bluesky!

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gandria, Switzerland
©️ Carim Jost
#photography #landscapephotography #landscape #NaturePhotography #nature #quotes #sunrise #mountains

16.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 41052    🔁 13892    💬 659    📌 593

Everybody in the world gets it except USA. We have a cancer called Trump and MAGA. Our only hope is Nov. Vote like your life depends on it because IT DOES!

16.02.2026 10:29 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Seen in Munich: "The Orange Plague"

They understood the assignment.

16.02.2026 10:14 — 👍 1718    🔁 439    💬 29    📌 20
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Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

15.02.2026 15:04 — 👍 8866    🔁 2662    💬 256    📌 110
Trump being unpresidential.

Trump being unpresidential.

He's just pathetic at this point. Beyond reprehensible and utterly pathetic. Embarrassing little weasel of a man.

15.02.2026 04:41 — 👍 3738    🔁 1118    💬 221    📌 59
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Says the guy who auctioned off little girls

Says the guy who trafficked little girls

Says the guy who raped little girls

Voter cheating, or electoral fraud, is extremely rare in the USA

Only 39 cases of voter fraud were ID'd in a recent election, a mere 0.000039% of over 100 million ballots cast

14.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 11064    🔁 3487    💬 948    📌 226
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Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show Tom Barrack, a top U.S. diplomat and longtime friend of President Trump, networked and socialized with Epstein for years, CBS News found.

“In August 2011, Barrack emailed Epstein and said ‘just saw Sultan who likes you a lot! I told him you are the best that you are a first class brain inside of a first class human being! Miss u.’”

www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-bar...

14.02.2026 20:25 — 👍 776    🔁 312    💬 67    📌 36
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Seeing as Kash also said Trump was mentioned less than 100 times in the Epstein files and that there was no proof Epstein was trafficking anyone…

I don’t believe this for a second.

15.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 3612    🔁 754    💬 241    📌 46
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“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

15.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 28850    🔁 9975    💬 642    📌 586
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Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.

The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

15.02.2026 05:08 — 👍 13099    🔁 5978    💬 500    📌 386
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Happy #Sunday #Bluesky!

©️ Vivian Maier
#photography #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #humor #dog #dogsofbluesky

15.02.2026 12:07 — 👍 23    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

14.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 4894    🔁 1827    💬 287    📌 106

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