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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓

@bridgetknits.bsky.social

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Left-handed mirror knitter, spinner, antique wheel aficionado. Reads voraciously. Proud coffee snob. Likes cats more than most people. Not a Kiwi, just married to one. LSG.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · Nov 14

This makes me happy in otherwise unhappy times.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 3h

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 2d

#knitworthy

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Denise Thomas Patrick @deniseky.bsky.social · 6d

These things need to happen:

* All blue states need to file the same lawsuit as Oregon to keep National Guard from other states out of their sovereignty
* All blue states being extorted by the regime need to keep all federal tax monies paid by its constituents.

Do not pay to fund this regime.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, he's doing just fine for an arthritic 15-year old boy. When he sleeps, he sleeps like the dead.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 8d

Of course he's running the house. It's his job!

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 8d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d

History repeats.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 8d

He just can't anymore.

#caturday #siamese #meezers #blueskycats

A lynx point Siamese cat sleeps on an olive green sofa with his front legs stretched out and his face in between them.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 10d

You can add New Jersey to the list.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 10d

But we can't afford to continue the ACA subsidies.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10d

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10d

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for the encouragement.

Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 11d

I've been struggling since last spring. I put down a nearly-finished fair isle project after my regular knitting group suddenly got political and I left never to return. I haven't been able to bring myself to pick it back up again.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 11d

This hit my mailbox today!

Hoping it helps to jolt myself out of a near complete loss of knitting mojo ... 🧶

#knitting #knitsky #knittersofbluesky #shetlandwoolweek #sww

Photo shows a copy of Volume 11 of the Shetland Wool Week Annual.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 11d

Frank Burns may have been a doofus, but at least he meant well.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 12d

If we still had anything resembling a functioning Constitution, he would be impeached by lunchtime & convicted & removed from office by the close of business today.

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Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to see that refusal to watch the damn video isn't just a personal idiosyncracy.

Bridget 🧶🕸🕷📚🐱🐱🐱☕🥓 @bridgetknits.bsky.social · 12d

I learned left-handed continental when I was young and impressionable (way back in the 80s 😁) and that's the only way I can knit comfortably, unless I'm doing the 2-handed stranding thing - then it's pick with the left and throw with the right.