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@retiredpt.bsky.social

Mom and stepmom of 8 total adult kids. Recently retired. Love holistic health, gardening, anatomy nerd, crafting and life in general.

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Hostile Takeover “Department of Government Efficiency” Hijacks The Federal Government

“Make no mistake, what’s happening right now is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private agency operating with a broad mandate and no concerns for the stability of the United States or the interests of the average American.”
Alexander Vindman

open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

03.02.2025 10:55 — 👍 13081    🔁 5101    💬 444    📌 217
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5 calls app
You can get this app from Google play or the Apple equivalent...
Put in your zip code and it will give you , your elected congressional representative.
It will even assist with a script should you require it....
Keep your message on point.
And get busy dialling....

03.02.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Onward we go!🧵
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21.01.2025 12:17 — 👍 3324    🔁 767    💬 57    📌 25

So wrong

22.01.2025 03:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DELETE IT and pass it on !!

21.01.2025 12:48 — 👍 11778    🔁 6848    💬 360    📌 389

Bluesky needs more emojis, as this makes me angry.

22.01.2025 03:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tim Kaine to Elise Stefanik: "The notion that Democratic senators are for open borders and allowing illegal aliens to vote is a fantasy."

21.01.2025 16:13 — 👍 33985    🔁 5368    💬 1353    📌 356
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It worked

22.01.2025 03:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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absolutely brutal

22.01.2025 01:59 — 👍 52049    🔁 10350    💬 2556    📌 1184
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FACTS!!

21.01.2025 14:15 — 👍 17637    🔁 4602    💬 533    📌 188
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Brave yourselves for more of the like.

21.01.2025 00:35 — 👍 25997    🔁 9534    💬 1018    📌 624
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Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.

20.01.2025 23:10 — 👍 28484    🔁 6844    💬 1105    📌 400
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As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice.

20.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 21743    🔁 5538    💬 617    📌 255
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Gayle King said: Where are the Black and brown folks? And people on the right are losing their shit.

Get used to it, Gayle! They think inviting Black folks is DEI, so—CANCELED!

21.01.2025 04:22 — 👍 9358    🔁 1896    💬 541    📌 92
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The ConsHAS BEEN DELETED FROM THE WHITE HOUSES WEBSITE

21.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump can essentially now order anyone to harm someone and just pardon them and he just did that 1500x. He is making a mockery of the United States and the Justice system and its still day 1.

21.01.2025 02:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

so wrong and a slap in the face to the capital police who were just trying to protect the capital.

21.01.2025 03:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

21.01.2025 01:19 — 👍 103098    🔁 16504    💬 1743    📌 1019
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

08.01.2025 01:52 — 👍 24818    🔁 6401    💬 862    📌 341
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“For my next attention seeking trick, I will have you concentrate on Greenland, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Panama Canal—instead of my absurdly unqualified cabinet picks or that I have no real plans to fix the border or bring down food prices. Look, America, a rabbit!”

08.01.2025 18:46 — 👍 21299    🔁 6008    💬 1047    📌 383

Just joined. Looking for like minded, progressive individuals who support rights for all!

14.11.2024 23:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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