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Mental wanderer but grounded in Wisconsin. 2025: Regenerative Unity. Every student should get into their food: grow it, pick it, cook it, share. Views my own. #HSM4A https://substack.com/@verbostratis

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · Aug 12

I could see this group using T to get the “extraordinarily strong executive” Russell Vought calls for “to put in place Christian nationalism” (via @hcrichardson.bsky.social), then happily dropping T for Vance, a “Christian” in their interpretation of the word.
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President Donald J.

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 10h

We change. It all does. Both thankfully and unfortunately.
My frustrations, understandings, and musings stirred by people like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social. And many others. Grateful for them all.

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In the “Good Old Days,” We Forgot Who Paid the Price

What we need isn’t nostalgia—it’s the courage to sow something honest, compassionate, and sustainable in their place.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2d

Folks:

There are going to be a LOT of inflatable animal costumes marching on Saturday. 🙃

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2d

They are SO scared of the mass display of opposition that they’ll see on Saturday that they’re claiming the protesters will all be paid.

Flop sweat, folks.

If they were a truly strong majority, they wouldn’t care.

They’re not.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

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On October 18th, we say #NoKings

YouTube video by Home of the Brave

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 2d

An incorrectly forecast typhoon path. Support needed afterwards.

What are we doing?

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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Jason S @jasonswritings.bsky.social · 5d

"Don't blame the government shutdown on us but also we control EVERYTHING and we are refusing to seat a new congresswoman to hide the epstein files and we refuse to negotiate and we lie to the media and your faces and yippee it's time for some REDUCTIONS IN FORCE TO START! But yeah, don't blame us!"

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 4d

Yeet this shit into the sun.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 4d

As a constituent, I'm so glad @baldwin.senate.gov opposed this. I wish all my reps did and would.

A trillion on "safety" without seemingly a thought on exactly *what* are we protecting.

Waukesha Resist @lizanne4077.bsky.social · 4d

While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill www.commondreams.org/news/2026-ndaa while the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans play politics with troop pay and nuclear security and refuse to reopen the federal government. Shame

While Ripping Trump Authoritarianism, Over Half of Senate Dems Help GOP Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill | Common Dreams

Senate Democrats are blasting Trump's increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, but over half of ...

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Billy @billyidles.bsky.social · 4d

This is a powerful image

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of white teachers and parents with special ed kids voted for Trump. Or refused to vote for Harris. Same thing.

Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 4d

What if I told you white parents with kids with special needs voted for Trump......some white teacher that work in special education did too. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 4d

What if I told you white parents with kids with special needs voted for Trump......some white teacher that work in special education did too. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 4d

For everyone who is grinding through each day .,.

CBS Mornings captures the joy of the relentless 24/7 news cycle

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Mark Pocan @markpocan.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing says “Nobel Peace Prize” like deploying the military against your own citizens.

a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

ALT: a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 5d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 5d

Love when people narrate their own illegal activity in real time.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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SusanB💜🌏🌍🌎 @verbostratis.bsky.social · 5d

That last paragraph.

Hope he and his sycophants read it a few times slowly.

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