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@pakenney.bsky.social

Writer/Editor. Native New Yorker, West Coast transplant. Extremely fortunate. Good weird. Healthcare(for all), politics, birds, hockey, travel, music and books. Opinions my own.

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Growing threat? My dudes. Where have you been and where should we start? Salem Witch Trials? Fundamentalist LDS. Orthodox Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives divorces and instead harass them and essentially hold them hostage, often for years?

19.06.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

18.06.2025 20:08 β€” πŸ‘ 26839    πŸ” 18700    πŸ’¬ 841    πŸ“Œ 1169

It’s a valid question, but lets people off the hook. If you were 18 or younger and Fox was invented and you became indoctrinated, ok. There was lots of time and history before Trump 1. Were these people just hatched and so innocent they were totally vulnerable to the misinformation machine?

18.06.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you are right, but the unfortunate truth is that Idahoans (and voters in many other states) have allowed their governments to be taken hostage by the most extreme right wingers. It’s nice to care deeply, but you also have to vote responsibly.

18.06.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet Blanca #A5704883, a sweet little 5 month old husky mix, surrendered alongside her two siblings. She arrived just June 5 and is quickly running out of time. Located in Palmdale CA, we have to help her. Please repost/share and pledge if you're able...

18.06.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1590    πŸ” 826    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 40

Idaho has made it clear that it does not care.

18.06.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
But when I say kindness, I'm not talking about "being nice." I'm talking about
being able to hold your own heartbreak, so we can go on living - go on resisting, go on building, go on healing.
So we can meet cruelty again and again and not lose our humanity.
The kindness I'm talking about
encompasses courage, respect and compassion. It helps us get out of bed in the morning, it helps us to lead. It's the opposite of weakness -- it's the foundation for a lasting strength.
And it's really hard to be truly kind. To have kind thoughts towards yourself, or towards someone you don't agree with.
But it's the Seed, that will grow into action, if you nurture it.

But when I say kindness, I'm not talking about "being nice." I'm talking about being able to hold your own heartbreak, so we can go on living - go on resisting, go on building, go on healing. So we can meet cruelty again and again and not lose our humanity. The kindness I'm talking about encompasses courage, respect and compassion. It helps us get out of bed in the morning, it helps us to lead. It's the opposite of weakness -- it's the foundation for a lasting strength. And it's really hard to be truly kind. To have kind thoughts towards yourself, or towards someone you don't agree with. But it's the Seed, that will grow into action, if you nurture it.

Sandra Oh’s commencement speech at Dartmouth is spectacular. This idea of discomfort as a vehicle for transformation & change is important to me too & what she says about kindness is everything ✨ home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/06...

17.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

The Dems will never learn. The moral high ground is GONE. Guys like Mike Lee are out here making light of political murder and Klobuchar is talking about manners. Who is going to tell her? That moment is long gone.

16.06.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What an absolutely chilling attempt by the NYT to normalize something that is so extreme and rare.

15.06.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 536    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 7
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SchrΓΆdinger's parade - the crowd was both sparse and dense.

15.06.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 17391    πŸ” 2806    πŸ’¬ 1399    πŸ“Œ 432
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when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

15.06.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17754    πŸ” 3312    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 393
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Such a sweet smile.

12.06.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9157    πŸ” 1898    πŸ’¬ 641    πŸ“Œ 192

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon.

Win-win.

10.06.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5230    πŸ” 1295    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 37

If they hung Lee when they had the chance none of this would be happening.

10.06.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only if you were a Nazi eugenicist.

10.06.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

09.06.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 23850    πŸ” 5564    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Not to be unserious, but boys with this speech cadence plus a lisp have been a red flag since grammar school.

10.06.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

10.06.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15999    πŸ” 5703    πŸ’¬ 648    πŸ“Œ 329
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The Anti-ICE protests are spreading.

There are now large protests sprouting up in New York City. This isn’t just happening in Los Angeles anymore.

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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

09.06.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 27873    πŸ” 7887    πŸ’¬ 960    πŸ“Œ 471

This is the way!

09.06.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WOW. The NYT CAN write an accurate headline!

09.06.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone I know who is no-contact with a father or other male relative β€” this is him.

09.06.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Terry knew exactly what would happen when he said this. ABC’s terms of employment are very explicit about restrictions on employees’ personal political activities and expression, and the policy’s application is entirely subjective.

I never thought I’d say this, but thank you, Terry.

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08.06.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

This is the way. Priorities!

09.06.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NFK.

09.06.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They are literally arresting people AT WORK. And if they aren’t at work it’s because they were AT IMMIGRATION COURT AS INSTRUCTED or THEY ARE MINORS!

09.06.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not self-segregating when a white supremacist buys the platform. You are not that dumb. Maybe that intellectually dishonest, but not that dumb.

09.06.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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