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Department of Angela

@angelaisms.bsky.social

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Working to put myself back together after covid did its damnedest to break me apart. Again. Wife to Husband, mom to Kids 1, 2, & 3. All cat pictures may be shared with my mom. Will block if you want to pick a fight. Ain’t nobody got spoons for that.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · Feb 27

Reupping and pinning this thread because I think it’s important.

Long covid is awful. If I can help even one person get their life back by just sharing… well, that’s not nothing.

Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · Feb 21

Guys, I think it’s time to share more about my #LongCovid recovery.

I had long covid from August 2022-May 2024. A total of 21 months. I had given up on ever feeling whole again.

Everything changed through a friend-of-a-friend connection to a company called Epi1.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 22h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 19h

If it had three heads it could be a cerbearus.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 21h

painstakingly and with massive resistance) over the course of its history.

So when people argue "it's always sucked, what do you expect," they are 100% playing into MAGA's hands and, frankly, trashing the efforts of their own ancestors to make this a better place (which, in the long run, they did).

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22h

MAGA would regard you as a welcome ally in their campaign to delete the memory and stories of the millions of Americans who have struggled for centuries to perfect our democracy.

Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 22h

How has most of those 250 been for anyone that wasn’t a wealthy white man?

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 23h

I’m really sorry to hear that. And I agree with what you’re saying here too — the fact that there are times to cut ties doesn’t make it okay when you see others bragging about casting aside relationships as though they were fingernail clippings.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

Shorter Mike Johnson: “Submit!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1d

But especially Reagan judges who actually believed every word about liberty, democracy, and the American Way.

Their anger is vicariously *scary* when deployed against MAGA tyranny.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 1d

Okay,

So our troops will be working but not getting paid.

While the Republican House Members will be away from work but getting paid.

Allrighty then.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

They’re not nearly as juicy, so you’d have to work with that.

They are definitely an under appreciated fruit.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

They look like orange tomatoes with Peter Pan collars. They taste nothing like tomatoes though.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

Persimmon pie is, I’m told, quite similar to pumpkin pie.

Which makes sense. They taste like fall. :)

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

The last time it did this was 2022, and I tried making jam with it. It didn’t jam very well, so it had a consistency more like apple butter. But it was super yummy.

Also very good for fresh eating.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

I need to be better about giving it its fertilizer spikes in the growing season too I think. :(

Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

This little tree fruited the year I put it in the ground, which doesn’t really happen often, I don’t think.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it is unbalanced, but also I think it’s just making too much for its trunk to bear up. Kid1 and I went out earlier with a tree stake kit to see if we could brace it, and the top of the tree is literally too heavy to lift very high.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

Ooooh, learning new stuff! Excellent!

Is there a rooting compound you’d recommend? So I can have it ready to go.

Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

Dang. It is literally too heavy for us to pull it upright.

It is the second time this tree has done this, so she might be okay until it’s all ripe. Last time was 2022.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

I have a kit somewhere. I’ll look around for it.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

It’s, um, enthusiastic.

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll be ripe next month.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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