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@obscurenyc.bsky.social

Portrait, landscape, and still life painter. jesminardi.com Also, on Instagram and Threads @jesminardi

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Love Crockett

04.08.2025 02:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How the mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was finally solved The platypus was a top secret gift from Australia, found dead in his enclosure as war raged in the seas around him.

I was today years old when I found out that Australia sent Winston Churchill a lone platypus (bargained down from 6 platypuses) at the height of World War II to try and persuade him to help out with the war against Japan.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

03.08.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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03.08.2025 13:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7826    ๐Ÿ” 2182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 449    ๐Ÿ“Œ 151
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This account has 7 followers and 0 following. Probably a bot. Blocking it

04.08.2025 02:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Texas House Democrats hold press conference after leaving the state, breaking quorum
YouTube video by WFAA Texas House Democrats hold press conference after leaving the state, breaking quorum

www.youtube.com/watch?v=14La...

04.08.2025 01:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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More of this please:

04.08.2025 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 365    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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More of this, please.

04.08.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33149    ๐Ÿ” 7116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 816    ๐Ÿ“Œ 453
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, nowโ€™s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

03.08.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14543    ๐Ÿ” 5672    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 476    ๐Ÿ“Œ 242
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โ€˜Grow Upโ€™: Conservatives Rip Trump for Firing Labor Stats Chief Over Job Report He Didnโ€™t Like In a stunning rebuke from both sides of the aisle, conservative senators and economists are openly slamming President Donald Trump after he abruptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statisticsโ€ฆ

Trump fired the nationโ€™s top labor statistician over a bad jobs report โ€” and even conservatives are furious. โ€œGrow up,โ€ said one GOP senator. โ€œYou canโ€™t just fire the people doing the counting.โ€

03.08.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 87    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bass: We just heard that the administrationโ€™s experiment failed. The raids that were happening in Los Angelesโ€”the random pulling and snatching of people off the streets based on the language they spoke, their appearance, where they workโ€”the court has said that can no longer happen.

03.08.2025 03:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21254    ๐Ÿ” 5560    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 636    ๐Ÿ“Œ 268

Refusing food with maggots. trumps America while the WH gets a ballroom. Something is very wrong in this flailing country.

03.08.2025 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is a simple solution, replace those in the concentration camp with Trump admin and ICE Agents, due process denied.

03.08.2025 04:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

03.08.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8532    ๐Ÿ” 3646    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 403    ๐Ÿ“Œ 193
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Itโ€™s time to admit that we as a society have surpassed the acceptable number of Oreo flavors

02.08.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Contractor charged after Alabama toddler in state custody died in hot car A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was charged after allegedly leaving a toddler in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death.

A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was arrested and charged Friday after she allegedly left a 3-year-old boy in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death, prosecutors said.

03.08.2025 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3543    ๐Ÿ” 1272    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 329    ๐Ÿ“Œ 116
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CNN: Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are biggest drivers of manmade climate change?

LEE ZELDIN: We can rely on 2025 facts as opposed to 2009 bad assumptions

CNN: You sound pretty skeptical

ZELDIN: That might be your way to try to twist my words

03.08.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3235    ๐Ÿ” 774    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 559    ๐Ÿ“Œ 136

Fuck ICE.

03.08.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6866    ๐Ÿ” 1015    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 271    ๐Ÿ“Œ 62
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โ€œ.. We have no interest in running a lower-margin business, particularly due to tariffs,โ€ said the CFO. โ€œAnd if this is something thatโ€™s going to be a permanent increase to our cost structure, we have to find a way to cover it.โ€

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/b...

03.08.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1723    ๐Ÿ” 575    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78    ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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"The climate has always been changing" -- played a clip of himself warning about climate change in 2016, EPA chief Lee Zeldin now dismisses it

03.08.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7207    ๐Ÿ” 2163    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 668    ๐Ÿ“Œ 239
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๐Ÿค”

03.08.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6193    ๐Ÿ” 2247    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 282    ๐Ÿ“Œ 122
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Imagine getting fired because math hurt a manโ€™s feelings. Weโ€™re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

02.08.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18830    ๐Ÿ” 4613    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1280    ๐Ÿ“Œ 368

Donโ€™t let them forget, ever, and donโ€™t be distracted: EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN Infinity

02.08.2025 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21559    ๐Ÿ” 6315    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 676    ๐Ÿ“Œ 221

JUST IN: Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as US Atty for DC, 50-45

03.08.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 416    ๐Ÿ” 153    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 262    ๐Ÿ“Œ 332

Everyone drink.

03.08.2025 00:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10202    ๐Ÿ” 1494    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1077    ๐Ÿ“Œ 135

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.ย 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

03.08.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18337    ๐Ÿ” 6002    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 500    ๐Ÿ“Œ 273
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When the terror of ICE is so evident that your cityโ€™s local street artists do what they can to help spread potentially information. Sign by Emeyewhisky.

03.08.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16199    ๐Ÿ” 5096    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 179    ๐Ÿ“Œ 161

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