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Chrystene Thompson

@phoebes-pen.bsky.social

Public educator, GOP refugee, former homeschooling mom. I enjoy theology philosophy, the sciences, and culture. Julia Childs, Flannery O Connor, and Greta Gerwig are my muses.

128 Followers  |  215 Following  |  57 Posts  |  Joined: 10.11.2024  |  1.4347

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It’s time we took our civic lessons to heart.

08.06.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Revolts often happen in the spring.

08.06.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is so true. You need to reward yourself especially when you are doing hard things!

15.05.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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love this @rokhanna.bsky.social

We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos

Please share off line as well !!!

03.03.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 33987    πŸ” 10319    πŸ’¬ 1465    πŸ“Œ 463

Citibank just landed in my β€œEvil” list.

01.03.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

01.03.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 43133    πŸ” 12311    πŸ’¬ 730    πŸ“Œ 414

Very soon, I will officially unregistered myself from the Nazi Party in California..the Republican Party.

23.02.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds lovely. I am hoping I can turn some tides either my dad over the National Park service. He is a former Eagle Scout and grew up surrounded by nature in Minnesota

21.02.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

16.02.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 96583    πŸ” 22694    πŸ’¬ 2669    πŸ“Œ 1166

Dear world, please sanction my country, the US. In this nation. $ $peaks. We’re too brainwashed to get rid of him

14.02.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

14.02.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 35363    πŸ” 21179    πŸ’¬ 592    πŸ“Œ 684

I was raised that we Christians wanted a theocracy. What we got was fascism.

Let the reader understand.

05.02.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

It's like MAGA is reading the fundamentalist commentaries on Revelation and adopting the bad parts for themselves. Truly, they are Babylon.

05.02.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Finally officially deactivated my X account after Musk’s Nazi tweets.
Now to get some natural Vitamin D today and put positive things into my brain.

25.01.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they won’t fund us in an emergency for tue taxes we already paid then maybe we should become our own country.

22.01.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right wing free speech warriors saying β€œI’m only saying what everyone is thinking” need to read Freud’s Civilisation and It’s Discontents. Freud suggests the existence of civilisation depends on us not saying what we think much of the time.

06.01.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you, Librarians.

07.01.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Four years ago, while watching Fox News, I realized that those who were warning against the dangers of Trump we’re right all along.

06.01.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I dissent, that would get out of hand quickly. Due process of law. If vigilantism gets out of hand, there is no pulling it back.

11.12.2024 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bt Timothy Egan who wrote The Worst Hard Times. He beautifully captures the life of Edward Curtis and the lives natives Curtis photographed.

11.12.2024 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This book was fascinating.

11.12.2024 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

About to face 27 second graders, and I am so, so tired. How?

10.12.2024 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg, are you a teacher, too?

10.12.2024 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! Let’s also say that about education!

04.12.2024 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I spent so many years studying a justice system that I no longer recognize.

01.12.2024 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14642    πŸ” 1750    πŸ’¬ 505    πŸ“Œ 89

That book was transformative for me.

01.12.2024 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes the only reason I wear pants to church is to silently rally for the feminists.

01.12.2024 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please keep extending the olive branch. Lean in. Build relationships with those that are different from you. I cannot tell you how valuable those relationships were to help me develop a more rounded viewpoint and leave the MAGA cult. Demonstrate to others that disagreeing doesn’t have to he vicious

28.11.2024 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California, health officials say California health officials warned the public to avoid drinking one batch of whole raw milk from Raw Farm, which has issued a voluntary recall.

If only there was some way to remove viruses from milk www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

27.11.2024 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 29715    πŸ” 4939    πŸ’¬ 1318    πŸ“Œ 510

I actually laughed out loud imagining myself using these at the dinner table.

28.11.2024 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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