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Leah

@leahsandven.bsky.social

Knitter turned gardener. Used to own a yarn store. Kinda dyes yarn. Definitely political.

193 Followers  |  101 Following  |  80 Posts  |  Joined: 08.01.2025  |  2.081

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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 39316    πŸ” 14870    πŸ’¬ 566    πŸ“Œ 657
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Worst. President. EVER.

25.10.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 16566    πŸ” 4073    πŸ’¬ 828    πŸ“Œ 200

Is this perhaps the cost of the new ballroom? Is this how he’s paying for it β€œfrom his own pocket”?

22.10.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

29.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33596    πŸ” 10996    πŸ’¬ 547    πŸ“Œ 506
Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks
YouTube video by Robert Reich Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.

The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.

That’s some return on investment β€” so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?

29.08.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1479    πŸ” 605    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 30

Yeah. I was always glad they wore through them before they out grew them. But I admit no one in my family appreciates cool shoe wear either πŸ˜†

27.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Washington state is so progressive Maria Cantwell’s seat would never go to a Republican. She knows it. A decent democrat needs to challenge her.

11.07.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least she has the grace to look embarrassed. Patty has been doing most of the heavy lifting for quite some time.

11.07.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who’s calling the shots???

08.07.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Came to say this

30.06.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Content warning:

For example, on March 16, a woman identifying herself as a detainee at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, called 911. Communication was strained: The dispatcher spoke no Spanish.

"I need help,” the woman said. "I need … ayuda."

Read more: www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

25.06.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 294    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 14

This was my thought. He was embarrassed how it was going. He wasn’t treated how he thought he should be, so he went home on VERY IMPORTANT business.

17.06.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reports are 2,000 people in rural walla walla, wa

14.06.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#nokings in Walla Walla, Wa

14.06.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

14.06.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16347    πŸ” 4068    πŸ’¬ 175    πŸ“Œ 170

Trump is scrambling to spin this.

Netanyahu wasn’t trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy. How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iran’s chief negotiator with Trump.

13.06.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 928    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 13

Haha. I don’t know what’s cuter the sweater or the dog

13.06.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Democratic elected officials should be out leading protests against Trump's authoritarianism. They need to start acting like our freedom, lives, and way of life is on the line. They are.

09.06.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1293    πŸ” 257    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 10

One of the reasons I think β€œdefund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

08.06.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5758    πŸ” 1467    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 56

As a constituent of baumgartner, living in Eastern Washingtonβ€” we have conveyed this (how much his constituents rely on Medicaid) to him over and over. His responseβ€” they aren’t cutting Medicaid to anyone except illegal immigrants πŸ™„ *almost makes you miss Cathy.

08.06.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Broadcast news screengrab showing protesters surrounding a white bus and also impromptu shopping cart barricade with fire in the street

Broadcast news screengrab showing protesters surrounding a white bus and also impromptu shopping cart barricade with fire in the street

Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them

07.06.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 8162    πŸ” 2132    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 76
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live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

07.06.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 9712    πŸ” 3040    πŸ’¬ 233    πŸ“Œ 280

It’s so amazing. I’ve been screenshotting everything for my working friends all day

05.06.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I can do two things at once!

05.06.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My dad doesn’t care it turns out.

30.05.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I often send your newsletters to my MAGA family members and never receive a response. Sent this one along as well. Because maybe the juxtaposition of this vs our president’s lunatic rant will make them aware on some level of… something.

26.05.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WATCH: South Africa’s (white) ag minister tells Trump the β€˜white genocide’ stuff is a lie peddled by radical extremists who want power, who he joined the president’s government to keep out.

Then the (white) richest man in SA said the same thing.

22.05.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1214    πŸ” 385    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 32

We live in a small town in eastern Washington. Not much diversity. We’ve always had problems with the n word in middle and high school but for the first time it’s being used in elementary school. I had to explain to my 8 yo that it’s a word he never ever gets to use. Something is going on for sure.

20.05.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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