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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 59m

Bulgari has a collection of jeweled snakes for fall. Make of that what you will.

The NYT is serving me Bulgari ads today. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 13h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 1h

Klein panicked. Forgiving his human weakness is a personal choice. What we can't do is heed him. People who said Kirk would be forgotten & Portlanders dancing around in frog costumes are better prognosticators & foxhole companions than someone constantly & publicly peeing himself in fear.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 2h

In hindsight, his 6 bankruptcies were a hint.

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Attorney General Anthony Brown @oagmaryland.bsky.social · 21h

I joined 18 attorneys general in supporting a legal challenge to federal executive orders that attack diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs, and strip funding from organizations serving LGBTQ+ communities, especially transgender individuals.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 3h

More important that the 51st vote is loyal than long-lived. If it comes down to Platner v. Mills, then Mills gets my donation.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 3h

'My right to pillage & conceal the proceeds is God-given.'

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 19h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 3h

Creativity is looking at whatever happened and seeing what else could happen. Yams, some type of bean, hazelnuts, spinach, mushrooms. Dinner.

Prince song, order, symmetry, a whole book chapter.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 3h

You can do a bad thing well or a good thing badly but when it comes to doing a bad thing badly, Republicans are unbeatable. They dominate the field of sucking.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 5h

Still I appreciate the Honey Do list.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

This is what people in Chicago have to do to keep their neighbors safe.

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 19h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 5h

I don't want to hear from Bernie on how Democrats should conduct our business for the same reason I don't want to hear from the Lincoln Project. He's not one of us, doesn't have our best interests at heart, & his track record stinks.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 5h

Word. Renewed respect for Portland and by extension all humanity. Truly the best of us.

40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 5h

Don't understand baseball but I love joy. Joy's the best.

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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 7h

The #WIPSnips word for October 11th is "welcome"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
October 11 - welcome
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 13h

A theocratic libertarian. Ah yes I see.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 19h

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans don't have a plan for ending the shutdown. They want (but don't need) Dem votes for draconian cuts in return for soft promises and a very hard commitment to claw back any actual concessions by recission. It's a whole mess.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 17h

Ah. Apologies.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

This is what tyranny looks like.

Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his personal attack dog to go after his political enemies.

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40% Chickpeas @chickpea7.bsky.social · 17h

Sanders (advocating strongly for federal employees harmed by the shutdown) v. Schumer (advocating strongly for people who will lose their healthcare b/c of the CR)

What makes Sanders' message better than Schumer's?

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 18h

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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