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Gardener68

@gardener68.bsky.social

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Master gardener, dog lover, political junkie. Gardening & my dog keep me sane & ready to navigate the global Twilight Zone politics. “All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.”

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · Jun 16

“We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves.” Amen!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 15

AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 32m

He’ll likely be coming for you, George, and yet you are relentless in your no holds barred criticism of him. I love that about you.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 4h

Wut?!!! This reads like an action you support, like a threat to Senator Murphy.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 4h

Project 2025 is a horrifying playbook but it does NOT include a plan to only have 100M white Americans living in the US. Please don’t spread such alarming information. Things are bad enough.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 5h

From everything I see, that’s our best bet!

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 5h

May he succeed!

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Derick Zoolander @syncopatedemocracy.bsky.social · 13h

tik tok brain rot.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 7h

This is beyond bizarre and frightening.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

Where? When?

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

What the fuck?!!!!!!!!!

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe that here in the United States of America we are living the horrors of Nazi Germany. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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HMH Murray @nillcord.bsky.social · 22h

I am trying to count on the trait that is both America's blessing and curse: the sheer stubborn pigheaded ornery independent spirit of the place.

Ain't nobody telling us what to do.

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

You might want to rethink this.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

And I came across this. www.cair.com/press_releas...

BREAKING: CAIR Calls on Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Machado to Renounce Her Support for European Fascism, Likud Party and Anti-Muslim Bigotry

www.cair.com

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

The entire GOP too.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

Problem is she’s a right winger. www.cair.com/press_releas...

BREAKING: CAIR Calls on Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Machado to Renounce Her Support for European Fascism, Likud Party and Anti-Muslim Bigotry

www.cair.com

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

Yup

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 17h

Wow.

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 18h

Like a gaggle of geese? Army of frogs? Huh!

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 19h

WUT??!!!!!!!!

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 1d

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Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 1d

PERFECT!!

Gardener68 @gardener68.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond wonderful!!!

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize