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Samantha Hartke

@sjwriter.bsky.social

Writer. Eurasian. Singaporean. Mum. Manchester United forever. HelLPG. Wine/ whiskey <ahem> enthusiast. All past is prologue. Agitate, agitate, agitate.

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Poster for Dept Q on Netflix

Poster for Dept Q on Netflix

If you are not watching this, then best get on it!

05.06.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

Evil, pure evil

27.04.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

18.04.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 15053    πŸ” 3182    πŸ’¬ 402    πŸ“Œ 146
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Trump’s executive order targeted this museum. Many visitors question why. At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology.

I know why. Don’t you?

30.03.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. - By @NickKristof www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

15.03.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1570    πŸ” 567    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 18
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Spotted in Canada…

06.03.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 19738    πŸ” 4479    πŸ’¬ 440    πŸ“Œ 326

Celebrity sighting in Piccadilly. #DamienLewis . That’s a fine looking man, that. Hello Bobby Axelrod, Dick Winters, Henry VIII et al

25.02.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I think there’s no hope left for humanity, I watch The Dog House and it restores my faith. In dogs. Humanity is too far gone. Only dogs can save us.

23.02.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still my favorite performance of his

16.02.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Map of lower U.S. centered on Gulf of Mexico with this text over Gulf of Mexico. "Gulf of Meaningless Distraction While The Rich Who Pay No Taxes Loot the Treasury & Burn the Constitution"

Map of lower U.S. centered on Gulf of Mexico with this text over Gulf of Mexico. "Gulf of Meaningless Distraction While The Rich Who Pay No Taxes Loot the Treasury & Burn the Constitution"

14.02.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10632    πŸ” 2703    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 104

FFS

13.02.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘‡πŸ¦‹πŸ’ͺ

10.02.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 31028    πŸ” 5233    πŸ’¬ 400    πŸ“Œ 201
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Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.

No one is safe … in case you had any doubts

09.02.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As did I …

07.02.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a public service announcement. Please get a library card. And read your news on paper. And talk to people face to face. Because anything you are reading on this or any other screen may not be real. We need to go old school. Send letters. Meet for lunch. Read newspapers. β™₯️

06.02.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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Awwww yeah …

05.02.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Keep β€˜em coming. They help me make it through the day

05.02.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a special hell for those actively seek to hurt children …

31.01.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tis!

29.01.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE came to my daughter’s school yesterday. The kids were terrified … what kind of a world do we live in where terrifying children at their place of learning is OK?

29.01.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you enlarge the middle pic please? Asking for a friend …

28.01.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gosh, I forget how tall he is and then I remember. Nicole Kidman is quite tall and he’s a good head above her!

27.01.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mass Deportations β€˜Incompatible With Catholic Doctrine,’ Cardinal McElroy Says at His DC Debut The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis appointed Cardinal McElroy, 70, as archbishop of Washington, a high-profile see that includes about 667,000 Catholics in the District of Columbia and fiv...

Cardinal McElroy: β€œwe are called always to have a sense of the dignity of every human person. And thus, - a wider indiscriminate massive deportation across the country would be something that would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”

www.ncregister.com/news/cardina...

26.01.2025 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7827    πŸ” 1875    πŸ’¬ 443    πŸ“Œ 98

Well OK … I’m beginning to believe now. #Superman

26.01.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Updated list of companies committed to DEI

Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans

25.01.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 30005    πŸ” 6539    πŸ’¬ 886    πŸ“Œ 379

"Terrible things are happening outside... poor helpless people are
being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -

Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

25.01.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2058    πŸ” 640    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 31
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And it’s snowing in Texas!

21.01.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks more like me for the next few years …

21.01.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pope Francis calls Trump’s mass deportation plan a β€˜disgrace’ The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next Trump White House.

Si Papa, si ….

20.01.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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