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Retired special education. #FBR. #proudblue. #BlueResisters. #StrongerTogether Happily Married. E PLURIBUS UNUM Promoting Equality! Block No or few posts. LGBTQ support. I Block 🚫 DM&Nude&Crypto&daters. Non evangelical minister.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello! I stand for equality. There is wisdom gained in the growth of equality. If you support this growth mindset for equality, let's follow each other.
I stand for compassion's courage in generating change from a mindview of superiority to a mind view of equality.

2 pictures of Jesus. 1 white skinned.1 brown skinned. Under white Jesus: white, Christian, patriotic, justice through retribution, died for your sins, silent in the face of oppression, condemns sinners, endorses church and state, a king, endorses holy war. Historical Jesus: Jewish, ionized by Rome, justice through restoration, friend of sinners and outcasts, liberates the oppressed, critiques religious people, subverts empire,no violent, homeless man and a refugee, had half siblings

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louiseamd.bsky.social @louiseamd.bsky.social · 27m

Just going to leave this here..🙄🤣🤣🤣

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@RuadhMairi.blusky.social 📎🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇷FuckICE🐸 @ruadhmairi.bsky.social · 27m

Jimmie Don Bowman is a self-confessed LIAR.

He TOLD us if he had to make up stuff he would. SO HE DOES CONSISTENTLY.

All ya need to know about that wee wee man.

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✙ 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 - 🇺🇸 𝒜𝒩𝒯𝐼𝐹𝒜 ETERNAL @unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 19m

Flip Oregon ? Uphold the Constitution?

ORGOP is insane. And those hats!

2 fascist clowns cheese for MAGAt media.

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 16m

Our economy is so fucked...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHDq...

Let's talk about Trump, debasement, Gold, Copper, and grandma....

YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch

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Madonna Lennon @madonnalennon.bsky.social · 7m

I'm Batman Damnit @theangryamerican.bsky.social · Jun 11

I don't think Republicans are going to like the consequences of their actions when we prevail.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

Last month, a Mainer found 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum in her Amazon package. Republicans quickly pointed to it as proof of election insecurity, but now some suspect the stunt may have been staged by the referendum's own backers. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

www.democracydocket.com

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3h

Donald Trump's DOJ isn't just facing its prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey being thrown out; it's also facing its attorneys being disbarred, according to a former Watergate prosecutor.

'Hall of shame': DOJ lawyers said to face 'severe consequences' for following Trump orders

Donald Trump's DOJ isn't just facing its prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey being thrown out; it's also facing its attorneys being disbarred, according to a former Watergate prosecutor.On Sunday, Nick Akerman, a former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. Attor...

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David Howard Wilkinson007 love y'all❣️🌹❤️💕🇸🇪🇫🇮🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 3162437380 @dhwilkinson007.bsky.social · 7m

Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 22h

SCRAP THE CAP
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 1d

I remember sitting in a room listening to Scholz advisor Wolfgang Schmidt blather that Germany couldn’t possibly send Ukraine tanks because there’d be German iron crosses painted on them and then Russia would say Germany was at war with Russia.
We’ve come a long way.
We can and must go further. 🇺🇦🇩🇪💪

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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 2h

Sunday Favs
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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 34m

Those frogs. I tell you

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 12h

1/ The distance between Trump's image of America & reality is huge. Portland: "Every time I look at that place it's burning down. There's fires all over the place .... When a store owner... rebuilds a store, they build it out of plywood... because they know it’s going to be ripped down." #ProudBlue

Trump says Portland 'almost an insurrection'

President Donald Trump on Friday again mentioned Portland during a news conference, describing the situation in the city as "almost an insurrection."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING
AG Letitia James is launching a full-scale fraud investigation into Tr*mp’s entire property empire, every tower, every deal, every shell company.

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ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @ellohhlo.bsky.social · 4d

Your daily reminder:

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I feel like we are living it in real life

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Congratulations! We are stronger together. Keep resisting!

A painted portrait of signers of constitution

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 41m

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 40m

Virus annihilated comprehension skills

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Now you made me laugh. Great reply.

Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 41m

Have fun

a black and white cat is playing with a toy on the floor

Alt: a black and white cat is playing with a toy on the floor

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I think i will.....🗑

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And my friend don't believe gay people support the GO☭. Wow

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 50m

Karma woke up this morning and slapped dude into a Death Camp.

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15h

So now congrats to Hector Luis Valdes Cocho, Cuban activist, dissident & gay man, founder of Latinos For Trump.
He used to rally Latinos to vote MAGA, against their own interests-until he was detained by ICE. He'a now being held on criminal charges, pending deportation.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

😂 😂😂Latinos for Trump Leader Hector Cocho DETAINED BY ICE! 😂😂😂

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