πWant to thank you all for your very kind and thoughtful messages. We were an "us" for 36 years, and not a single day went by where I didn't feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I'll be back when I can function a bit better. β€οΈ
26.07.2025 00:18 β π 2672 π 166 π¬ 713 π 21
@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social Hey, I was moved and now I will be teaching 4th grade Math & Science for the 1st time. I'll have 2 classes with 56 plus kiddos in a title 1 school. We go back in 2 weeks. I appreciate anything.Thank you! β€οΈ #clearthelist
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24.07.2025 00:50 β π 50 π 7 π¬ 5 π 3
Damn, I was told Peace President, but all they do and say is "War", "War", "War".
15.07.2025 17:02 β π 336 π 74 π¬ 46 π 6
Yewp. he wants a permanent over-burdened underclass of low-wage workers with no education, choice or recourse. And so does the Heritage wing.
15.07.2025 16:57 β π 39 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0
"His techno-optimism is a thin veil over a dark, fascist impulse, a desire to build a future where technology serves not to liberate, but to segregate, control, and ensure the perpetual supremacy of the Silicon Valley oligarchs."
15.07.2025 16:24 β π 408 π 128 π¬ 13 π 4
Teabagging the Liberty Bell
When youβre Donald J for βgeniusβTrump, they let you do it. You can do anything. Because itβs an fβng cult.
He could teabag the Liberty Bell, light the Federalist Papers on fire, and scream βI AM THE PEDOPHILE ELITE!ββand Charlie Kirk would host an INCEL summer summit in his honor.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
15.07.2025 16:29 β π 1664 π 285 π¬ 77 π 9
All of them are relentless gobbing pigs at the public trough. Just too many cool vacations and sporting events and expensive plastic surgery temptations to attend by private jet. I mean, that's what the Big Bill was for, right?
15.07.2025 16:55 β π 288 π 93 π¬ 17 π 5
ROSEN: Despite being removed as national security adviser, surprisingly, you've been on the WH payroll. You've said you'll root out waste at the UN. Can you confirm whether you've been receiving a salary?
WALTZ: I was kept on as an adviser transitioning a number of, uh, important activities
15.07.2025 16:34 β π 7988 π 2583 π¬ 503 π 209
βI do solemnly swear that I will obey Donald Trump and never release the Epstein list.β β Pam Bondi
15.07.2025 16:35 β π 900 π 240 π¬ 73 π 17
I wrote this story too long and too slow so that you could feel the layers and layers of policies and forms and bureaucracy smothering these Womenβs Domestic Violence Centers.
The funding is slowly being choked off and it is a tragedy.
11.07.2025 17:54 β π 101 π 26 π¬ 1 π 0
The Paperwork Will Kill You
How America Abandons Its Most Vulnerable
Across the country, womenβs domestic violence centers are closing their doors,not because the need has gone away, but because the funding has.
When a center closes,Itβs a crisis hotline that stops ringing. A child who loses a trauma counselor. A woman who now has nowhere to turn.
11.07.2025 17:39 β π 1119 π 572 π¬ 44 π 31
Friday night dahlia haul in the occupied City of Angels.
12.07.2025 05:48 β π 901 π 88 π¬ 56 π 5
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12.07.2025 05:04 β π 11 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
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12.07.2025 05:29 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Beautiful. Your garden is always a treat.
12.07.2025 05:03 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Beautiful. LA and the flowers. The occupiers are not. Viva Los Angeles and death to ICE.
12.07.2025 05:16 β π 30 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Between this idiot move and a crippled FBI, terrorists are seeing less enforcement.
12.07.2025 05:11 β π 112 π 20 π¬ 10 π 0
Checking in to see what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is up to today
11.07.2025 23:35 β π 1993 π 425 π¬ 749 π 146
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12.07.2025 05:01 β π 356 π 73 π¬ 10 π 4
Purple hue dahlias from occupied City of Angels.
12.07.2025 05:01 β π 742 π 66 π¬ 43 π 4
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
"Since the start of Trumpβs second term, the Court has routinely allowed the administration to implement objectively unconstitutional actions by pretending that theyβre simply making a narrow procedural ruling rather than blessing Trumpβs wholesale destruction of democracy."
10.07.2025 20:26 β π 3729 π 1053 π¬ 171 π 61
Heβd probably look better blue than orange.
09.07.2025 18:04 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
Iβm sure this is nothingβ¦
09.07.2025 16:35 β π 834 π 312 π¬ 51 π 14
Trump wants to treat animals almost as cruelly as women.
10.07.2025 21:46 β π 298 π 106 π¬ 50 π 3
NEW: Joe Biden's former WH doctor pleaded the 5th today to decline questions from the House Oversight Committee.
It's a strategy that Trump allies used 30+ times during the Jan. 6 probe and was effective in ending lines of questioning
w/ Hailey Fuchs
www.politico.com/live-updates...
09.07.2025 14:37 β π 1203 π 203 π¬ 76 π 15
Doocy tries to get Trump to react to a John Fetterman quote, but Trump has some trouble understanding it and has Doocy read it again
09.07.2025 17:45 β π 473 π 105 π¬ 65 π 18
The pitch email bounced back, so here are mine:
09.07.2025 17:45 β π 72 π 9 π¬ 3 π 1
Producer, screenwriter, actor. The right has gone completely wrong. DMs and trolls blocked.
Married, retired biologist, computer jockey, and jack of all trades out of necessity. I live in Darkansas in reality, at the beach in my dreams. I play NYT Word games. I often voice frustration with expletives. Be aware. DM w/o OK=blocked.
When did respecting the US Constitution become a partisan issue? How did we get here? How do we get out? Can we just laugh again please? Fighting for the survival of the country you love is stressful.
Recently deleted meta, yβall stuck w me now.
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