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Bobbi Dempsey

@bobbidempsey.bsky.social

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Writer specializing in poverty, food/housing insecurity, and safety net programs. Also write about entertainment and lifestyle topics. Fan of all things 80s (plus 60s/70s musical icons). Passionate about animal rescue.

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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · Nov 18

Seems fitting for my first post here to honor our beloved rescue dog Ivy, who is now free from pain among the angels. 💔

- Cherish your fur babies 🐶
- Make sure you have pet insurance and know where the nearest emergency pet hospitals are
- Support animal rescues, fosters & volunteers

#dogsofbsky

Adorable French bulldog wearing fuzzy hooded sweater, with a background of illustrated angels, halo, and a rainbow with clouds

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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 11d

Check out this great op-ed by @rexhuppke.bsky.social for @usatoday.com. Just the opening paragraph alone is pure gold. We need more of this in outlets everywhere.

Trump, Hegseth show they're small men acting big in front of military leaders | Opinion

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth held an expensive military meeting-that-could-have-been-an-email hours before the government is likely to shutdown.

www.usatoday.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12d

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 12d

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12d

“We are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worse—they don’t wear a uniform.”

This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 13d

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Here’s the President of the United States of America.

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Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 19d

Forget the not taking Tylenol when you’re pregnant. Find out whatever Trump’s mother was taking and avoid that shit at all costs.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19d

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19d

Can't believe it's possible, but I'm actually going to be rooting for a drug company in a lawsuit.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 19d

The most unbelievable aspect of Trump’s fake story about the nonexistent Trump Tower employee whose son died after getting a vaccine is the part where Trump supposedly asks a distraught person if they’re okay. Nobody’s gonna believe that.

Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 19d

This is yet another time when I wonder if someone on his own team is trolling him. I mean, if you're planning a press conference where the main focus is on acetaminophen, the one word you should make sure he can pronounce would be...acetaminophen.

Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 19d

This is yet another time when I wonder if someone on his own team is trolling him. I mean, if you're planning a press conference where the main focus is on acetaminophen, you would think the one word you'd make sure he can pronounce would be...acetaminophen.

Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · 19d

One of the rescue orgs I support has a sweet French bulldog named Stephen King available for adoption. Would be so cool if his human counterpart @stephenking.bsky.social could sponsor him and maybe cover the adoption fee to help find him a home.

www.snortrescue.org/dog/stephen-...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21d

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 7

The goal of MAHA isn't better health. It's bigger health (and social) inequalities. Because equality is the greatest threat to power.

Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Sep 7

they’re ok if everyone gets sicker as long as poor people get MORE sicker.
Stay tuned for articles on “Consumption: get the new glow in your cheeks everyone’s talking about!” blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/tuberculosis...

Romantic poet Lord Byron wished to die of consumption, declaring: “How pale I look! – I should like, I think, to die of consumption … because then the women would all say, ‘see that poor Byron – how interesting he looks in dying!’”

Famed creatives such as Keats became powerful symbols of the disease. They were seen to be of heightened sensibility, and it was thought that their work was elevated because of consumption’s effect on the mind.

When TB attacked young women of the upper classes, it was treated decidedly differently than when it struck the poor. Unlike other serious illnesses of the time, pulmonary tuberculosis was associated with fragility and sexual attractiveness.

The consumptive appearance entailed dramatically pale skin, an ethereal thinness, with red cheeks and a feverish glow. This became the defining fashionable aesthetic of the time with women powdering their faces, some even using chemicals such as arsenic to achieve a paler complexion.

This obsession with the ‘consumptive aesthetic’ peaked in the mid-1800s, when corsets and voluminous skirts further emphasized women’s slender figures with damaging implications for women’s physical health and social roles. The restrictive nature of the corset made all but the smallest of physical tasks challenging, and excessive use could lead to displacement of internal organs.

This traditional consumptive look was perpetuated throughout popular culture with famous portraits, novels, plays and operas telling tales of ethereally thin and beautiful women teeteringly close to death, or inspired creatives overcome with the disease.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 7

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.

Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.

They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Sep 6

Remember when stupid and uneducated Americans were generally apolitical? Like they didn't know or care. Man, I miss those days. Though not ideal, their stupidity was largely harmless to America. His Magasaty changed that, and now public health and democracy are in deep danger because of it.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 4

Today's bulletin is a must read: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Aug 31

There’s a special place in hell for morons who get millions of people killed.

Damn Moron To Get Millions Of People Killed

Damn RFK Jr. to hell.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · Aug 30

There's a Bob Dylan song for every occasion

And I hope that you die

And your death’ll come soon

I will follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I’ll watch while you’re lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I’ll stand o’er your grave

’Til I’m sure that you’re dead

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 30

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

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Bobbi Dempsey @bobbidempsey.bsky.social · Aug 30

Never in the history of golf will so many people be this incredibly disappointed to see someone spotted on a golf course (if that happens).

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Aug 27

We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · Aug 25

That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.

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