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Judy B🎃tt

@judybott.bsky.social

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Native CA living in NC, tech comms emerita, music lover, world-y, reader, tv watcher, foodie, wannabe knitter, dog person. Will travel for my fav bands, like Wilco (pictured)

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · Oct 17

Be the person your dog thinks you are - C.J. Frick

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 7h

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of frog suits to choose from, folks!
www.amazon.com/s?k=frog+sui...

Amazon.com : frog suit costume

www.amazon.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 8h

Somebody muzzle me rn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 8h

PEACE! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 9h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10h

"Ari" is working in the poblano chilis in Santa Clara County. He explains how workers harvest the chilis, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt & dump them on it. The conveyor belt goes up lifting the chilis & "Ari" then directs them into different bins. #WeFeedYou

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 11h

First they ignore you, then you put on an inflatable suit, then they laugh at you, then more people in inflatable suits show up, then they fight you, then you win.

Pretty sure Gandhi said that.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12h

Two workers are hard at work loading full boxes of grapes to be taken to cold storage in Mettler, CA. It was already 90° at 1 pm which made this physically demanding job even harder. To load the truck they had to be in the direct sunlight lifting heavy 20+ lb boxes. #WeFeedYou

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@Crowebarre @davidcrowe.bsky.social · 13h

A list of priorities for the next administration

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 12h

The Noam effect.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Damnit, Amanda @damnitamanda.bsky.social · 15d

Look, I have a perfectly good reason for crying in a Dollar Tree

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

Uh-huh. Yep.

Trump the dictator sadge cuz no Nobel prize

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Minnesota: ICE is now on the ground in NE Minneapolis. See thread. Stay alert everyone!

Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 15h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 13h

This is my new lock screen

Illustration of a very disturbing looking, black cat, who is screaming into the void

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 2d

there’s a lot going on rn so don’t forget to pencil in time to scream

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 18h

I suppose now that the wait is over for the Nobel, we can get back to releasing the Epstein files.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 1d

Are they stoned or just stupid?

Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 1d

Are you drunk WSJ?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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