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Samota📎 🐸🪈

@samota.bsky.social

Desert dweller, interested in sciences, democracy, environment, arts and culture. ~ La Cultura Cura ~ No Kings, Tyrants, or Kleptocrats

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Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 6mo ago

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community. I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

Arizona Luminaria@azluminaria.org · 7mo ago

The Tucson City Council voted unanimously today to draft an ordinance blocking ICE from using city-owned property for civil immigration enforcement https://azluminaria.org/2026/01/21/tucson-moves-to-block-ice-use-of-city-property/

Tucson moves to block ICE use of city property - AZ Luminaria

The Tucson City Council directed the city manager and attorney Wednesday to craft an ordinance barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from staging or carrying out civil immigration enforcement on city property. Mayor Regina Romero opened up the discussion saying it’s important that residents feel safe on city property, regardless of their immigration status.  “We’ve […]

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Samota📎 🐸🪈@samota.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy Solstice Bluesky “...This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar...” ― Margaret Atwood

Happy Winter Solstice card with white wreath and dark blue background
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 9mo ago

Last night’s lavish White House dinner showed us the global oligarchy coming together in plain sight. By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.

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Democrats@democrats.org · 10mo ago

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care. Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Aozora@aozorasf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3