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Nana Ogg

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Married. No DM's. Bitcoin is the new Amway & I'm not interested. Democracy. Horses. Art. Grandkids. History.Gaming (Nana Ogg is my handle). Generally being a good human. Trying to survive life with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. NO DM'S.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 8h

Be aware…Covid is here

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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 6d

I have taken 100's of these in the last 12 years and still I take them bc the colors are just amazing.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 6d

More of Trump using the justice dept as his personal weapon to take out any potential opposition? 🤔

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 7d

Just finished @scalzi.com's new book "Shattering Peace". It was as wonderful as the rest of his books. I'm going to have to start a reread until he writes some more. 😁

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 9d

As a Halo Player, they can f'off. All the way. Master Chief would be against Dump, period. But they have to co-op this kind of thing to make them feel better about their bad choices.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 9d

Mosquitos. But yeah, people. We are the worst thing that ever happened to this planet.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 11d

And I don't stick around to way those either. They have dumbed down movies and shows bc people don't pay attention, but people don't pay attention bc they're dumbed down.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 15d

Nope

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 18d

Didn't get to protest today bc had to drive to Cincinnati & OMG the storm. At times I could only drive 20mph on the interstate, everyone with flashers on, wind blowing rain sideways. A 7.5 hour drive turned into a white-knuckled 9 hours. Wow. Mad respect to any who protested in that weather.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 20d

It's Venmo also

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 20d

What is going on with PayPal and Venmo? Both are saying "Something went wrong, try again later".
#hacking?

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 22d

My hair currently looks like a pile of wayward pond fronds bc my favorite hair stylist retired. No one else has cut my hair for 33 yrs. Guess I'm growing it out for ponytails now.

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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 24d

Yesss. I hate that, especially the ones that pop up, play, and have the tiny little "x" to close that is nearly impossible to hit without it opening.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 27d

Instead of getting mad at dumb drivers, I now point at them & say "Get the ticket you deserve."
It's surprisingly effective. Again today just minutes after pointing at a car driving way too fast & weaving in/out of traffic, I took an exit to find them sitting at the bottom,pulled over. Lol

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · 27d

He deserves a Goodest Boi award! And I love how she says "I'm not his owner, I'm his grandma".

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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Oct 6

My chart is AWFUL. Twice just this yr, they have checked the WRONG person for both my Hubs & I. One resulted in his ins being billed for another man's visit & X-rays.That took months to correct & we only found out bc we received a bill for the balance bc he hadn't met his deductible yet!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Oct 5

Last week, Missouri GOP leaders blocked a voter-led ballot measure to stop the state's new Trump-approved gerrymander, a move that a voting rights expert says is part of a broader national effort to undermine direct democracy. https://bit.ly/3Ky0Ofw

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Oct 4

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
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Stand with Dan.

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Oct 1

If Hegseth/Trump want to eliminate all non-christian, non-male, non-white members of the military then let them. When this goes bad we can always use them on the right side of history. Ya know? Just a thought...

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Oct 1

Listened to the Trump/Hegseth speeches to the military leadership all I could think of was what a Master Chief said to me yrs ago: "The most important 6 inches in battle aren't in the pants or around the waist, they're between the ears. I'll take a smart pudgie woman over a fit male idiot any day."

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Oct 1

When I heard about this meeting being called I figured it was going to be their opener to a Loyalty Oath to Dump. It was.
Next, I predict that should they actually do that, or try to make the military kill US citizens, we could very well see the first administration removed by the military.

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This is a great read!!!

open.substack.com/pub/barrygan...

So Is The Military Ready To Rise Up Behind Trump?

In a snapshot that perfectly frames the recent “gathering of generals” in the US, Trump openly threatened to fire all US generals he “doesn’t like”.

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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Sep 30

It's strange watching MASH and knowing that so many of them are no longer with us. I know I'm getting old because more and more are gone, leaving only memories. And cultural references that this newest generation don't understand at all.

Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Sep 29

I've lived in this EDS body for 50+ years & I'm still learning new ones. My fav, tho, was when I popped a vertebrae out & the doctors just stood there looking at the X-ray like "huh. I didn't know that was possible." I wish I had a grand for every time I've heard that.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Sep 29

Hi, it's Lisa Desjardins ( @lisad.bsky.social ), PBS News’ Capitol Hill correspondent.

Did you know we have a weekly politics newsletter? It's called Here's the Deal.

It's an email rooted in some basic beliefs: Complicated can still be clear. And, chaos can be understood.
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Nana Ogg @nanaogg.bsky.social · Sep 28

We drove through Missouri, Arkansas, a piece of Tennessee, Mississippi, & Alabama on vacation. What we saw was shocking. People selling anything & everything trying to have cash to pay bills. Brand new Starbucks closed w/o warning, dozens of empty buildings. Everything had a weird vibe this time.