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Jennifer Harper Tapler | Maui
@jentapler.bsky.social
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Resist. 🔵
Mom, wife, reader, maker, physical therapist, SJW.
Sharing liberal political commentary, real life, creative projects, book reviews, and whatever other bullshit I feel like.
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This is what I call “I’ll do anything to distract myself from the dumpster fire that is our country” right now. #takingamentalhealthday
#paintbynumber
#deepbreaths #1448daystogo
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Be safe out there, Maui!
Emergency Alert just sent to our phones. Not sure if it’s island-wide or what? We live in Maui Lani area of Kahului (flooding is not normally an issue)
#maui #mauiweather #mauiflooding
January 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Thank you, Pete Buttigieg
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Can I just be be like cryogenically frozen or something for the next 4 years and then just wake me up when this is over if we’re good? I’m so tired.
January 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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This is a gut check.
January 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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✊🏻🫸🏻🤡 💪🏻🗣️🥷🔵
#resist
hawaiidelilah.bsky.social HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · Jan 29
We are in the shock & awe campaign, aimed at demoralizing people so they feel defeated & succumb, or check out, which is the gateway to apathy. This is the dictator playbook & I should know - I write about authoritarian regimes for a living. Better to stay defiant & REFUSE to obey in advance.
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I forget… is it 1 Tribute from each district or 2? It’s 2 right?
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I never imagined these scenarios and am continuously shocked that this reality seems to get worse each day it continues.
laloalcaraz.bsky.social Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · Jan 28
Reports of ICE harassing even indigenous people are an extra layer of disturbing that I didn't forsee. But here's what should happen! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
January 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Very Important
January 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Some Democrats have expressed frustration that Democratic Party officials and electeds aren’t doing enough to pushback against the Trump administration.

Congressman Jamie Raskin is hosting a moderated zoom call about this tomorrow.

Anyone can join.
Rising to the Challenges: A Conversation on Democracy with Representative Jamie Raskin
Register Now
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January 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#resist
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 28
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I’m the woman out here in the rain putting a hot pack on my tortoise, who doesn’t even like me, because I’m worried it’s too cold for him. And by cold, I mean it’s like 66 on Maui right now. 🥶
#petsky
And yes, that’s a temperature controlled house made just for him that he refuses to go into. 🤷🏼‍♀️
January 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This steady rain in Kahului for the past hour is so beautiful! Much needed.
January 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.
January 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I never thought I’d say this, but I think Joe Exotic might be right…
January 27, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Heading to book club. It’s nice to get out and not think about things for an hour or two.
January 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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This goes hard (part 2)
Second part of extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. hands of the white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln and of the black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resisters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is of goldsmithing existing in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, and of the first artists of the world in Chiribiquete. You will never dominate us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom and who is called Bolívar opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, They are somewhat timid, naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, now Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me; because Colombia, in addition to being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and it will offer you its sweetness. COLOMBIA FROM TODAY IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OP…
January 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This goes hard
Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the
January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Same.
johnnynicepainter.bsky.social Johnny Nice Painter ⬛🖌️ @johnnynicepainter.bsky.social · Jan 26
I'm mostly not checking social media, mainstream media, or any kind of media these days really.

So, will someone please let me know when he's dead?

Maybe you could send me a letter or something?
January 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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You do not have to answer anything about your neighbors to anyone.
January 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Gift idea for your MAGA relatives -
January 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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If you want to follow my #booksky account to see what I’m reading and discuss books, here it is: @mauibeachreads.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🔥🔥🔥🔥
feraldactal.bsky.social Arlo x͜× @feraldactal.bsky.social · Jan 24
Reading is political.

Reading has always been political.

Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.

#booksky
January 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM