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Karen Mortensen

@cbirdfly.bsky.social

Anti-Trump/MAGA. Pro-equal rights & justice. Love my husband (hint: don't hit on me), cats, more cats, too many books and magazines, fresh air, green spaces, PNW beaches, food & cooking, pondering deep shit. DMs only if I know you.

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“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Reggie Williams was walking to the store...

"...Four men poured out of an unmarked SUV with tinted windows. They carried rifles and wore body armor—but no identifying badges."

"He thought of his family. “Deep down, I felt like I was not gonna make it home,” said Williams, who is Black."

08.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Let's all cancel our Spotify subscriptions until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice, and we should refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/zPlaFOfB

28.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

F-ing wow. The Washington Post editorial board has flushed itself down the toilet. Do not resuscitate. Is Bezos writing it himself now?

27.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime

"What separates democracy from authoritarianism, the rule of law from lawlessness and a decent society from an indecent one is not just the goal but the process. The government can, and should, reduce illegal immigration, but it should do so in a way that upholds American ideals."

27.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How?? GoVoteVirginia@gmail.com to find out how.

24.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TAKE ACTION, SCREWED OVER FEDERAL WORKERS!

24.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Rebecca Solnit:

Wake-up calls... "To get ready, to find something to join in order to exercise the power that civil society always has and tyrants always fear, to live out our principles and commitments, to stand up for and with each other. The time to do it is now." 2/2

So join us at Indivisible.

24.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rebecca Solnit:

"The shitbomb video and smashing of the East Wing are useful self-portraits they're giving us. The open corruption, cruelty, and destruction are insults, degradations, crimes – but most of all they're wake-up calls." 1/2

24.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

HCR: "And as I keep saying, this election and I suspect the next two elections are not going to be partisan. They're about protecting our democracy."

24.10.2025 03:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Politics Chat, October 23, 2025 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

The wonderful Heather Cox Richardson happened to make her own impassioned plea for getting involved in your local elections in today's Politics Chat (deep link to the relevant bit): www.youtube.com/live/b0ze3Oa...

24.10.2025 03:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Make America Dumb and Dumber

24.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vote vote vote!

23.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Virginia Important Election Dates - October 24 (last day to register), October 25 and November 1 (last weekend early voting options), and November 4 (Election Day).

Virginia Important Election Dates - October 24 (last day to register), October 25 and November 1 (last weekend early voting options), and November 4 (Election Day).

VIRGINIA!! If you marched in #NoKings, voting is your next best step. Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote using a STANDARD ballot or to request an ABSENTEE ballot!

23.10.2025 10:11 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Exactly on point.

23.10.2025 08:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a voice from the Commonwealth of Virginia - WE NEED YOUR HELP! It's no holds barred, all the way to the finish line.

22.10.2025 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Don't give him any ideas about what else to paint gold. He'll do it.

20.10.2025 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a perfect metaphor.

20.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT With historic healthcare cuts and cost increases looming, Republicans chose to force a Trump Shutdown rather than address the healthcare crisis and limit Trump’s lawless manipulation of federal funds....

TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

20.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

100%! You're right that it affects people nationwide, too. That's why it pays for folks outside the state to help elect Jones and the whole team. Letters, postcards, phone banks. Lots of ways to get involved. Check Swing Left, Postcards4VA, Indivisible, and others!

16.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Video: President @barackobama.bsky.social Endorses @spanbergerforva.bsky.social for Governor in New Ads (Obama: "VA’s elections are some of the most important in the country this year. We know Republicans will keep attacking abortion rights and the rights of women.") bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

16.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0

You're exactly right! The only way states can protect themselves from illegal federal overreach is through the state AG taking bold action. The AG is our SHIELD. Spanberger trying to protect VA without Jones would be like using half a pair of scissors to cut paper. It DOESN'T WORK. We need the TEAM.

14.10.2025 21:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

05.10.2025 04:37 — 👍 13981    🔁 6032    💬 864    📌 344

We should hand out kids' versions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights instead. I would obviously be the witch in the neighborhood that all the kids would hate! 😂

05.10.2025 10:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adopt a Corner DMV · National Day Laborer Organizing Network The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and CASA are calling on the public to Adopt a Day Labor Corner. Please join NDLON and CASA on Wednesday, September 17th, for a workshop and convers...

Do you want to help your immigrant neighbors in DC, MD, and VA? Here's a virtual training and conversation. Sharing from my Indivisible leaders who work directly with immigrants.

Wedn, Sept 17, 6-8pm EST. Register below!

www.mobilize.us/ndlon/event/...

16.09.2025 11:37 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Indivisible, bringing the heat!

06.09.2025 09:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your organization is a joke. You obviously don't give a crap about the ocean, or you wouldn't be opposing wind farms. You are either ignorant and you don't like the way wind farms look, or you are paid by the oil industry to give the impression that environmentalists oppose wind farms. For shame!

23.08.2025 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Go Indivisible!! We are united.

15.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Karen Mortensen (@kcatmama)

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17.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller

You definitely have to add Miller. He's doing all of their jobs, in reality. Seriously! (GIFT article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

13.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller

Oh, he's a nasty bit of White Christian Nationalist fascism on turbo speed.
GIFT article for everyone's reading pleasure: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

13.07.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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