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Lisa Kay Musil

@liberalruralmama.bsky.social

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Born in NE. Married to Jeff. Have a boatload of adult children and currently living on an acreage in AL. I digitize patterns for embroidery machines and sell them on Etsy. https://sunshinemusildigidez.etsy.com Also working on a trilogy. With dragons.

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · Feb 8

I have the rare perspective of a liberal happily married to a Trump-voting veteran husband who truly believes that 🍊can be trusted.
I use the term MAGA for people benefitting from this regime.
I use the term CULT to refer to the people who unwittingly believe the propaganda.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

Portland comes to the rescue! 🛟

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1h

"Nations are like people. When they grow old and rich and fat they get conservative. They exhaust their energy trying to keep things the way they are--and that's against nature."

Alas Babylon, by Pat Frank, 1959.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 19h

📌 Listened to this and literally
tossed my cookies 🤮 Alex
Acosta needs to go ASAP ‼️

Thanks 💙 Rep Stansbury ✊🏾✊🏻

Let Adelita Grijalva do her job

🐥 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles ‼️

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 1d

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 23h

Another poignant essay from Tom Joad.

The Passing

East Orange, New Jersey February 1961

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”

I beg to differ. This is curated failure.

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I Know Exactly What They Are Doing

Rural foresight

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 1d

“What radicalized you?”

Nothing. It is not radical to believe that the American people should have the same basic rights and supports that citizens of nearly every other industrialized nation do. You only believe this is radical because the US has demonized basic social safety nets as “socialism.”

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

Insightful analysis of the "third term theory" and what it means.

The Third Term Theory

How Donald Trump’s allies turned a constitutional limit into a campaign pitch — and what it says about America’s faith in its own rules.

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

...and massacred communities leave voids that cannot be filled."
(p. 248 Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat)

Love reading about how all these fascist dictators met their bloody ends.

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

"The strongman's stadiums, highways, which his admirers see as proof that he brought the nation to greatness, cannot cover over the catastrophic loss that results from his rule. Expropriated assets, raided companies, interrupted schooling, disappeared parents, kidnapped children 1/2

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

They were on clearance at our Walmart for 50 cents. We bought 2.
My husband said that they were pretty tasteless.

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

Many of the worst items are toast, but not enough.

Important update on the Big, Very Terrible Budget Bill.

YouTube video by Greg Landsman

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 1d

This is about an hour, but I found it really interesting.
It was a "role play game" with morals, esp. concerning politics, as the basis.

Very interesting.

Who gets to decide what’s true? | BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire | Full Episode | PBS

YouTube video by PBS

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

They aren’t elected to govern. They are elected to do the bidding of their donors.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Chumpster, Nepotism is
Against The Law in Government....

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Kudos Rachel Maddow for

breaking this down for us 🐥

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123simco.bsky.social @123simco.bsky.social · 2d

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 2d

Melissa must be HUGE because we're getting some serious weather here in northern Alabama.

I'm not a prayerful person, but I sure am thinking about those islanders.

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Hurricane Melissa latest spaghetti models, Florida forecast, path, trajectory

Melissa developed into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday, Oct. 27, and is expected to have historically catastrophic impacts on the northern Caribbean.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland's left-wing independent Catherine Connolly wins presidential election. 💙

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate history (up to a point)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.

That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

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Lisa Kay Musil @liberalruralmama.bsky.social · 2d

I only realized our cat was pooping in the toilet after trying to figure out which one of our 11 kids was leaving little turds in the toilet and not wiping.

Nope. It was our Tom cat, Kitty-it.