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"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold." ~ Hunter S. Thompson My local reporting: https://muckrack.com/julie-butcher My writings & such: https://butchershop-nobonesaboutit.com

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · Nov 24

Welcome to the California GARDENERS feed! Please click on this post for more info ☀️ 🥑 🍊 🌺 🌵 🌴 🩴 🌹

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 2h

I'm believe I'm gonna read my first Scalzi!

Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 12h

“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.”
~ Mac Griswold

🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow 💛 #Bloomscrolling 🦋 #FlowerReport

Three yellow petunia blooms, green and garden-y background

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 13h

Orange you glad to greet the new day?!? And that beautiful orange flower?!? 🧡 🧡 🧡

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 22h

Maybe he'll get raptured before Monday.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool! Thanks!

Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

I agree! That is lovely!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

And to you!

Two Nasturtium blooms (yellow & orange) against green leafy background

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

“Your heart is likely to be very big if you have loved many cats.”
~ Susan Howatch

Willie queries: #Caturday? Today? Not every day?

Gray cat sitting comfortably on a red garden chair, staring cat-like, paws slightly crossed

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine it was your team? Those poor people!

Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 1d

He really wants someone to bunt.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

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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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 2d

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
~ Frida Kahlo

#FlowersOnFriday 🌱 today my ever-blooming Rosa 'Frida Kahlo'

#BloomScrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport

dark coral colored rose, lightly striped; green leafy and black background

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 3d

Truer words.

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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 3d

To love a baseball team is to suffer

nerdydodger.bsky.social: trienen? id rather drink bleach

Blisterrich.bsky.social: [picture of SpongeBob wearing a dodgers hat and drinking bleach]

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Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to reading this one!

Julie Butcher 🌴 @juliebutcher.bsky.social · 3d

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

💜 #PrettyPurpleThursday joy to all you lovely gardeners of BlueSky #BloomScrolling 🌱 #FlowerReport