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Linda Arbuckle

@lindaarbuckle.com

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Lapsed potter, sewist, owned by a dog, 3 cats, and flock of hens. Knitter, gardener. Vegan liberal atheist feminist. Retired. Living in N Central FL. YES to LGBTQ+ and trans rights. YES to WOKE, DEI. Pronouns: she/her NO DM unless I know you. NO porn.

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 38m

Under this administration, everyone is at risk. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this?

"Gaza's waterfront property, it could be very valuable, if people would focus on building up livelihoods...It's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up"-Jared Kushner, 2024

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 23h

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Terry B @verizon11077.bsky.social · 23h

Voice of Reason @raggapegs.bsky.social · 1d

Let's give her some more work on October 18th. 😅🤣

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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🦋 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊® @thorchrs.bsky.social · 1d

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 1d

Interesting article by HCR about the history behind Columbus Day, and the difference between actual history & its uses, vs commemoration.
October 12, 2025
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October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Allie! 💙

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!
As a water protector at Standing Rock in 2016, her experience protesting against DAPL led to her wanting to do something more. In 2018, at age 29, AOC became the youngest woman to be elected to Congress. She serves the New York 14th congressional district.

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 1d

This showed up via Pattern Review. Announcement from Michael's craft store about future fabric sales. Michaels bought out JoAnns inventory when they closed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgFX... #garmentsewing

Can Michaels Fill the JOANN Void? CEO Reveals BOLD Strategy

YouTube video by Sewing Report LIVE

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

TODAY
We celebrate and honor the first people of North America
Their history, culture, and resilience
Trump cannot sweep history away
Honor and Respect

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Fuck Nazis! @keblaster.bsky.social · 1d

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 1d

[a pic of a porch with the flag that says 'we are all charlie kirk now'

Good lord..there's a cult within the cult, like one of those russian nesting dolls, bur for racists pretending to be christians

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

Tied nearly dead to a barbed wire fence in freezing weather, where he wasn't found for nearly 24 hours. He died six days later in the hospital. Human cruelty knows no bounds.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Kamala Harris: “The rule of law is very much under attack by this president who thinks that the Department of Justice is his personal lawyer and is basically subverting the will of the people around constitutional safeguards”

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Derek May @derekmay.bsky.social · 2d

Remember those goons?

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 2d

This is the same Charlie Kirk who said these awful racist things (among other outrages). Quoted from The Guardian. WWJD? Never say that evil shit.

On race

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 2d

Don't forget cancelling the foreign aid money that paid for other countries to buy American-grown farm products. Or making immigrant labor afraid to come to work.

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 2d

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 2d

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 3d

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Linda Arbuckle @lindaarbuckle.com · 2d

"someone who appealed to a wider audience" is code for "someone who white maga people like better". Bad Bunny is too diverse, too much immigrant appeal, too DEI, too WOKE for them. Yeah, bite me.