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Designer 🖋️ for a healthcare app. Mystery lover 🔎, trans guy 🏳️‍⚧️, knitting enthusiast 🧶, Indianapolis-based. I have a wife, two cats 🐈‍⬛ 🐈, and a badass dog.🐕

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Nov 11

In my free time I love to knit (I’m on Ravelry) and I’m a mystery writer. I’m a member of my local Indiana Chapter of Sisters in Crime. I also have some romance stories in progress, including a Regency Era romance.

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Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.social · Jun 7

me: time to do some laundry, let me close this door so the cat doesn't come in after me

tarragon, the cat: i am bereft; mother has passed from my sight. where is she. where is she. if i am not permitted to see mother, i shall scream.

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · Apr 22

The average age of a first-time homebuyer is at a record high of 38 years old. Housing is a basic human and economic right that’s now out of reach for most Americans.

We need to pass my Stop Wall Street Landlords Act and do more to stop corporate landlords from inflating the housing market.

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 13

I’m okay. Just stuck in a rehabilitation facility. Not to bad.

HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 12

Why dole out drugs in the middle of the night??

HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’m in the hospital and when I refused to take the drug ivermectin, I asked to have it removed from my medicine list. They failed, and added it back to my drug list in the middle of the night. Good thing I noticed it had been returned in the middle of the night.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Apr 11

You gotta remember that for centuries men have stolen from women. They stole their labor, they stole their ideas and passed them off as their own, they stole their potential, they stole their freedom and autonomy. The past few decades have upended the historical precedent and they want blood over it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Apr 11

A lot of conservative men would burn the entire world down if it meant getting women out of the workforce because their entire sense of self is based on the idea that they were born superior to women

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 11

This.

HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 11

More like this. It had wool.

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 11

Probably more like this in the original. Or

HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Apr 2

I’m having massive nosebleed for sunny dinner that anyone could have.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 24

An insane response.

Don’t let up on this story.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 24

"Nobody was texting war plans" -- Pete Hegseth

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · Mar 23

Imagine thinking a guy who charges around $100K for a vehicle with glued on metal panels that just fall off is the one to be trusted anywhere near our government.

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · Mar 18

It seems like when you write a decision giving the President king-like powers, you shouldn't be indignant when he acts like a king.

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sylviashrawder.bsky.social @sylviashrawder.bsky.social · Mar 18

One of the dumbest and unforgivable decision ever made

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · Mar 18

#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

“If trump gets rid of Medicaid or reduces its benefits, it would be a death sentence for my son.”

This is just ONE story out of Colorado.

#SaveMedicaid

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · Mar 17

On Friday, we broke the news that the VA would stop treating trans vets with dignity in facilities. VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz demanded a retraction multiple times. We stood by the story.
Today, the VA announced it's stopping care for transgender vets.

www.advocate.com/news/va-stop...

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · Mar 16

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HawthornFM #🟦 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @hawthornfm.bsky.social · Mar 16

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · Mar 16

In a related story, I recently won the Will Harris Writing Contest at the Will Harris Creative Center, which is in my house. What an honor! Can’t wait for the awards dinner tonight!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Mar 16

How many signs of democratic collapse do we need?

A push to impeach judges not for misconduct but defying Trump? Refusal to honor a court order to turn around planes? Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act outside wartime? A budget clearing him to ignore Congress? Jailing students?

The list goes on.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Mar 16

Everyone must understand where this is headed.

Martial law. Black-bagging. Firing on protesters. Curtailing freedom of assembly. Trump ignoring Congress and judges.

Any politician who doesn't understand that these fascists won't stop, and their destination is predetermined, shouldn't be in office.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · Mar 11

"People who have been to prison just once experience homelessness at a rate nearly 7 times higher than the general public. But people who have been incarcerated more than once have rates 13 times higher than the general public ... [They] are unnecessarily funneled back through the 'revolving door.'"

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Mar 16

“When we look at Auschwitz we see the end… It's important to remember that the Holocaust actually did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanisation & escalating violence.”

- @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

A poster with a b/w picture of Auschwitz, with the text ‘Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away’

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foglightmj.bsky.social @foglightmj.bsky.social · Mar 16

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Mar 16

EXCLUSIVE: This just happened onstage in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert. "This is America, no kings here!" @dropkickmurphys.com nails it again!!

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