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Brooke Bert

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Boy Mom, Dog Mom, Wife, Artist, Actor, Director, Educator and obsessed with the work of Samuel Beckett Movie lover Extreme Left, Progressive Tottenham Supporter I am an American living in Paris Jeanne La Pucelle amateur historian 🇫🇷 🇵🇸 NO DMs Please

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Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · Aug 7

"just because you lost me as a friend doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that. I still wanna see you eat, just
not at my table."
Attributed to Tupac Shakur
It’s just a perfect quote no matter who penned it.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11h

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 14h

Wait - so there was a peace deal in place under Biden, but Netanyahu met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago (tinyurl.com/4fn64wah) and scuttled it to give them both a political win.

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘?

Nobel?? More like the Hague.

⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 11h

😢

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13h

[Exit Angelo.]

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 11h

Beckett quote of the day:

“I knew it would soon be the end, so l played the part, you know. the part of - how shall I say. I don't know.”
Samuel Beckett
#Beckett #Irishliterature

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 21h

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 18h

Love to you Shaggy! What a beautiful boy!!!

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 1d

The release of the 20 remaining Israelis held by Hamas and the release of nearly 2,000 Palestinians held by Israel is extremely positive news for those held and their loved ones. 1/3

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

The King is in high rage.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this happening? Isn’t the world bad enough? We don’t deserve abominable fashion choices from the past regurgitated into our nightly doomscrolling whilst suffering from societal collapse!!!

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

What is this?!?!? Common Mother Fu**ing sense?!?!?
How dare he!!!!!!

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I – like Trump and RFK Jr. – do not have a medical degree.

So, when questions surrounding medical treatments emerge, I listen to people who do.

I get my information from doctors and public health experts – and urge you to do the same.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

Did they bring all the mutilated Palestinian children back to life?
You wrote “fantastic news” so I’m all like, “where’s the fantastic news?”
You people make me sick.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

217-224-9484. Quincy Family Practice Center. My mother was a nurse. My sisters and I called there a million times a day. “MOOOOMMMMMM!!!”
I could go on with all the numbers from my childhood.
660-695-3685. My nanny. I miss her so. I dial every once in a while just, because.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the timeline I was born into. I wasn’t asked and I find it all so very rude.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute bestest!! She gives millions of people hope. And that’s the bestest thing a bestest girl could do.
❤️ 💡 🐾

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 1d

And the threat posed by Israel? Yes? It must end as well? Yes, senator?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!"

I’m a Chunky Geometric Statement Necklace, and I’m Here to Solve the Woman Invisibility Problem

They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger? Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey ...

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 2d

I was just talking with my husband about this song. I remember the video playing over and over on MTV when I was a teen.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 3d

Western media reports on
Israeli hostages ; Palestinian prisoners
Israeli 'operations'; Hamas attacks
And neglects to use the word illegal when referring to Israel's actions:
Illegal occupation of Palestine
Illegal settlements in the West Bank
Illegal blockade of Gaza
#FreePalestine

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 3d

Way to go Anthony. You just needed a little time and a lot of love. ❤️ 💡 🐾. Thank you for the dose of hope. Bless
You all for everything you do for the dogs and the world.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 3d

Love Reims. Did you see the big cannonball still lodged in the facade of the cathedral?

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 3d

Merci beaucoup. j'espère que tu passes un beau samedi aussi. 💐

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 3d

Boy is this the truth.

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 3d

"The only freedom we truly crave today is freedom from Dumbness. Nothing else matters."
—Hunter S. Thompson

Brooke Bert @brookebert.bsky.social · 3d

Oops I reposted twice. It’s so good it deserves it.