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Rebekah 🍉

@grrrl.bsky.social

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teacher + doctoral candidate + mama to a teen & cat • reader of good books • watcher of bad TV • brokenhearted ex-pat • recovering loudly • she/her/y’all used to be @grrrlmeetsworld over on the bad place words here: https://grrrlmeets.substack.com/

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · Jan 30

Everything may be terrible, but I bet you can find one good thing for today.

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 8h

this genius is the rep for my GA hometown

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 8h

I see the problem now, too much development

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 2d

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 1d

The whole Katie Porter news stories are so sadly predictable

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 2d

I’m an atheist and even I’m tempted to pray. Such an icon and gift to the world.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

anyone who was ever really into music has had at least one hot person condescend to them about the smiths. this doesn't work on me

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

Julia Roberts explains we should listen to the Smiths even if Morrissey's problematic

Julia Roberts Explains We Should Listen To The Smiths Even If Morrissey’s Problematic

Morrissey and the Smiths come up in After The Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s new movie starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. As Time’s review ex...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 2d

that supposed bailout that's coming won't help, and more farmers are going to suffer -- and I know that the suicide rate is already high enough as it is.

This is shameful governing.

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 2d

this is a must-see interview -- this US farmer lays out the stakes in such a compelling way: youtu.be/FcuiJSKonqE?...

All I could hear are my Ag students, & it breaks my heart to think of the pain that these farmers and their families are going through -- for a job that is already hard & thankless.

Soybean farmer on Trump's tariff war: 'I mean, where do they want me to market this stuff?'

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Josh Johnson is hilarious and needed.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Q as Bondi Stonewalls Senate

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Trump Dodges Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Q as Bondi Stonewalls Senate | The Daily Show

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 3d

In the Canadian province where I live, we call hoodies “bunny hugs”

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 3d

I really hate bullies.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 4d

11:30pm. Finally time for me to take care of myself, woo 🎉

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 4d

she persists

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new ink, old lessons

a lasting reminder to keep living inside the paradox, not outside of it

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 7d

the institution broke my heart again today, but it didn't break me.

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 8d

I am already looking forward to the month of May, when I will finally be able to take a breath.

just don’t remind me that it’s only Oct 2

Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 8d

see for yourself:

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Trump & Hegseth Lecture Generals About Being Fat and a Visit from Gov Gavin Newsom & Seth Meyers!

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 8d

well, I guess I’m a Kimmel fan now — because he is bringing it and is relentless.

a man in a yellow shirt is standing in front of a pink background and a blue star .

Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is standing in front of a pink background and a blue star, and is giving snaps

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 9d

Putting this up there with Nutlick

Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 9d

Someone called Pete Hegseth, Pete Keg’s Breath and I’m dying 🤣

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 10d

new quotable for my list: www.mediaite.com/media/stop-a...

'Stop Attacking Pedophiles!' Ted Cruz Lampooned for Awkward Gaffe in Senate Hearing

Sen. Ted Cruz was the butt of jokes on Tuesday after he said Democrats and Republicans should come together to "stop attacking pedophiles" during a Senate hearing on Tuesday

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · 10d

so many good and engaging things in my life right now that are helping to drown out the bad.

yet at the same time, it's all so exhausting to maintain it all -- and I am realizing how it's only 4 weeks into the term.

What can I do, but keep going? And hope nothing falls down in the meantime