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Judy
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Courage is fear faced with resolution. Benjamin Franklin said “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Come and get me, you effers.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 14d
I don’t think of myself as fearless. I’m afraid but the definition of courage is fear faced with resolution.

Courage is something Donald Trump wouldn’t know, recognize, admire or appreciate much less possess if it came up and kicked him in the ass.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 4h
This was a mostly women thing, probably because most of us have much better hand writing than our guys. I know I do.

We were lots of colored Sharpies, and had to follow the script but could decorate the cards any way we thought would look nice.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 4h
The lists had name, gender and address. I cannot remember whether there was a phone number. We had a script to write and the organizers checked every one of the 500 cards we churned out that morning.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 4h
My church participated in a non-partisan get out the vote postcard drive. The drive was looking for people who were registered but hadn’t voted in a while. I’m in Fairfax County VA but IIRC all of the addresses we wrote to were in Woodbridge.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 4h
You got an electronic one, probably involving a voter list with a phone number. This is publicly available information.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 4h
Most aren’t creepy at all, and in some ways, particularly in a time when armed thugs are out trying to scare people away from polling stations, and a lot of people are afraid to go out their door, the image showing the polling station seems like a good idea.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 5h
Outgoing Trump sucking VA governor Youngkin will probably activate the VA national guard to “protect” Trumps Thugs..
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 7h
The media has relentlessly whitewashed Reid, so almost no voters know how extreme he is, but if you followed him on MAGA radio, this is not surprising AT ALL. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/frid...
"Republican John Reid says Confederate generals were 'remarkable people'" - American Journal News
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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 7h
Jay Jones' statement on the two federal judical rulings finding that Trump cannot withhold SNAP payments.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 5h
Interesting point. Thank you for making it.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h
You are here.
Ron Filipkowski writes: “Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?”
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 6h
Pierson isn't quite right about why Republicans won't negotiate.

With the exception of four brave Republican Congresscritters, every single one of them is AT BEST a child molester protector. I suspect some of them are molesters themselves.
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SNAP cut off. Children and seniors going hungry.

ACA premiums skyrocketing, huge cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.

Trump and Republicans would rather see Americans get sick and starve than negotiate.

We MUST win the midterms and that starts with #YesOnProp50!

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 11h
Dang. Who is this man? And what do I have to do to get him a promotion.

Well done!
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
I’d rather not get to that position any earlier than God intended by stupidity.

So I mask. /end
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
and longer for us to find out about it.

The worst of it is that it is, for now, completely unpredictable.

We won’t find out the full bill for this for decades, until long after I’m in the ground, pushing up daisies.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
It’s obvious every time I go out walking and have to dodge entitled maniacs and their cars.

The worst of it is that not EVERYONE, or even the majority, are showing deficits, at least not yet. Like other problems now seen, no thanks to the FDA or CDC, it takes years for the damage to show MORE
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
This goes beyond intellectual capability, or ability to focus, or ability to understand, and also affects behavior. Have you noticed how much more impatient, how much ruder, how inattentive to details many of our fellow humans have become?

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
Worse, I suspect that each Covid infection knocks some as yet identified but significant number of points off the top of IQ.

Many of the victims literally lack the intellect to do better, or make good decisions, any more.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
Keep himself current. Keeping up isn’t easy. TBF, there’s plenty of info to try to keep current on, and the current administration is dumping an increasingly large amount of false data into the system while systematically blocking the release of anything that contradicts their position.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
He has had several Covid infections. I notice he relies far more heavily on his computer to look up medications, or make recommendations, than he did even two years ago.

Why? Because I suspect he cannot remember and no longer can MORE
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
Mask (sheep like cowardice and personal comfort right now trump common decency to others or avoiding possible consequences later) AND partially from decreased intellectual capability.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
My own doctor, age 55, but with two young children, doesn’t mask any more and declines to mask when I appear. I’d dump him except I can’t find anyone better.

It’s mass amnesia.

My theory is the amnesia stems partially from unwillingness and lack of guts to do what it takes—wear the damned MORE
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
with a walker. If I get sick, there will be NO ONE to take care of me. If I get disabled, we’ll have to pay someone to help us sell our home and move into assisted living.

I plan to avoid this. Wearing a mask is a simple—but neither painless nor emotionally cost free—extra bit of insurance. MORE
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 18h
I mask in “public” (stores, offices, doctors, even church) and at home when I have workers in, without exception.

I do so to protect not just me but my nearly totally disabled husband.

We’re mid-70s and live in a two-story home. I am his sole carer. He can still get around a bit, MORE
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 19h
Belenko’s defection ended years of Western speculation and showed that Soviet engineering favored rugged practicality over high-tech mystique.

In this case, the engineers did not fall for the myth out of plain old stupidity.

Tesla? Well, do the math. /end
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