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La Perry

@whidbeyrose.bsky.social

Loves cats, democracy, and journalists who are unafraid of speaking truth to power! Technical writer living on an island in the Salish Sea. Beauty is where you find it. #BlueResisters

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See the difference? ๐Ÿ‘€

01.10.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17199    ๐Ÿ” 5715    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 243    ๐Ÿ“Œ 165
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America first right?

01.08.2025 03:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3970    ๐Ÿ” 1300    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 162    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63

RIP, Janey. You are missed.

25.07.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is important. The people telling us we can't trust the numbers are the ones distorting the numbers.

03.07.2025 17:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, itโ€™s time to cut it out. Itโ€™s one thing to steal one kidโ€™s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, thatโ€™s real ugly.

03.07.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19062    ๐Ÿ” 5145    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1379    ๐Ÿ“Œ 343

Sarah Longwell nailed it.

03.07.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind ALT: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind

Happy Canada Day!

01.07.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 480    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using โ€œAlligator Alcatraz,โ€ but itโ€™s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.

01.07.2025 22:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2908    ๐Ÿ” 684    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 93    ๐Ÿ“Œ 68
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Bluesky Sunday sermon

29.06.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11448    ๐Ÿ” 2687    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 247    ๐Ÿ“Œ 108
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#animalrights #veganism

29.06.2025 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white โ€œOnly caring about your own right is exactly how you lose themโ€.

From a distance you can see a mountain landscape with a blue sky and a few hazy clouds. on the sides of the picture you can see parts of trees. On the left in light green, on the right a smaller dark green tree further away. in the center is a black box on which is written in white โ€œOnly caring about your own right is exactly how you lose themโ€.

29.06.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18867    ๐Ÿ” 4258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 153    ๐Ÿ“Œ 142
The majority cannot deny that our Constitution was designed to split the powers of a monarch between the governing branches to protect the People. Nor is it debatable that
the role of the Judiciary in our constitutional scheme is to
ensure fidelity to law. But these core values are strangely
absent from todayโ€™s decision. Focusing on inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals, the majority ignores the
Judiciaryโ€™s foundational duty to uphold the Constitution
and laws of the United States. The majorityโ€™s ruling thus
not only diverges from first principles, it is also profoundly
dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to
sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the
Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate. The very
institution our founding charter charges with the duty to
ensure universal adherence to the law now requires judges
to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness.
With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

The majority cannot deny that our Constitution was designed to split the powers of a monarch between the governing branches to protect the People. Nor is it debatable that the role of the Judiciary in our constitutional scheme is to ensure fidelity to law. But these core values are strangely absent from todayโ€™s decision. Focusing on inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals, the majority ignores the Judiciaryโ€™s foundational duty to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. The majorityโ€™s ruling thus not only diverges from first principles, it is also profoundly dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate. The very institution our founding charter charges with the duty to ensure universal adherence to the law now requires judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness. With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

27.06.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2653    ๐Ÿ” 929    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ag A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich

30 years ago, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.

I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84

19.06.2025 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8595    ๐Ÿ” 2523    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 262    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

Just a reminder that Mexico was one of the countries that sent brave men and women to help fight the wildfires in L.A.

Donald Trump sent no one.

๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

11.06.2025 05:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is who they are. They're not here to help, they're here to hurt.

11.06.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@cliffschecter.bsky.social this is what Seymour Baron did after the Kent State shooting in 1970; begged students to sit down. Glenn Frank begged and pleaded that the students please disperse before more students were hurt and killed by the Ohio National Guard.

11.06.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

When you have no ideas, no plans, no clue, blame the previous administration (but never explain or prove why it's their fault)

11.06.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud.

Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud.

So I sounded the alarm about DOGE slowing down Americans' benefits based on those liesโ€”and they backtracked.

We're not letting DOGE get away with messing with Americans benefits.

30.05.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2303    ๐Ÿ” 573    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 93    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.

A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.

Thisโ€ผ๏ธ

28.05.2025 11:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32223    ๐Ÿ” 4832    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 714    ๐Ÿ“Œ 285
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Highly contagious COVID strain detected in CA amid vaccine crackdown A highly contagious new strain of COVID-19 has been detected in California and in other states, a discovery that comes as federal officials announced they will no longer support booster shots for hโ€ฆ

KTLA reports >> Highly contagious COVID strain detected in CA amid vaccine crackdown. ktla.com/news/highly-...

27.05.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 597    ๐Ÿ” 286    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
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BREAKING: In a new uncovered audio tape, RNC Chair Michael Whatley admits that Republicans voted for the largest tax increase in American history.

28.05.2025 01:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1883    ๐Ÿ” 903    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
28.05.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.

Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.

@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

21.05.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8441    ๐Ÿ” 4561    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 852    ๐Ÿ“Œ 688
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MUST WATCH: They didnโ€™t just burn Tulsa โ€” they burned proof.

Black wealth. Black futures. Gone.
And now theyโ€™re banning books so you never learn it happened.

๐Ÿ“š ERASED tells the truth theyโ€™re scared of.

Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

22.05.2025 02:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13028    ๐Ÿ” 4913    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 393    ๐Ÿ“Œ 186
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@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: "Reality is that hospitals are gonna close, nursing homes are gonna shut down, people are going to die if these Medicaid cuts and their efforts to detonate parts of the ACA are successfully enacted into law."

22.05.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6763    ๐Ÿ” 2283    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 304    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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@warren.senate.gov: "They're fighting over how many children should go hungry so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island."

22.05.2025 03:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20377    ๐Ÿ” 6122    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 329    ๐Ÿ“Œ 186
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Looking back at our Putin cover 25 years ago. "it is not what he says that matters. It is what he does. And most of the significant things that he has done, both in his short career as a political leader and in his longer career as a spy, have been scary." economist.com/leaders/2000...

22.05.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 269    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

While I appreciate the "lock him up" and "impeach him" sentiments (and I'm with you), if Mueller, Garland, and impeachment taught us anything, its that 1) SCOTUS is corrupt and 2) We have to do this ourselves. As I've been saying for nearly 8 years: it's up to us. Always has been.

21.05.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19713    ๐Ÿ” 4140    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 684    ๐Ÿ“Œ 183

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