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l’il bigisland

@lbigisland.bsky.social

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My combination dyslexia & ADHD can make my posts a bit of a puzzle-still better than NYT Wordle. Fuck patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and fascism. I do social work, support humanitarian groups, and love my spouse, my kids, and my dog. 🏝️🐕‍🦺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍍🌋

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · Aug 10

The US has sent millions of soldiers to foreign soil to fight, risking death, dismemberment & horrible injury to defend freedom & fight for our rights guaranteed in the constitution. Are we going to fight for our rights or hand them over to a felon child predator?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 22h

The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

Just felt like sharing this today. No reason.

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

You platformed a drooling, irrelevant, has been, and tried to manufacture a controversy. What a pathetic waste of time.

l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Stevie, I know that being a handwringing, emotionally stunted fascist is hard. Maybe you need to go have yourself a good cry in the corner and gather yourself. Decent people are dismayed by you, & are flummoxed by your hyperbolic rhetoric & theatrical posturing.

l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

Mahalo. For your kindness & decency. Your kind words are what keep me going. Seriously, the empathy and goodness you expressed make all the difference. 🙏🏼

l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

…goodness changed me in ways I cannot quantify or describe, but touched lives. Today the world is full of strife and division. Please be good to people who are suffering. Be kind to people who are marginalized. Be stalwart in your dedication to humanity & goodness. It matters. It fucking matters.

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

The grief and loss I feel are immeasurable. The love and gratitude I feel are equally immeasurable. My hanai Mom was goodness personified. Do everything in your power to walk through the world today to be goodness personified. My hanai Mom may never know how she changed my life. But her inherent

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

…triumph. Then she fell and broke her leg. We all gathered and she said she was done. She died last Saturday at 6:45am.

She had the ability to hold space for people in horrible pain and suffering. She never offered up trite platitudes and could sit in spaces where people she loved were suffering.

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

…hospitalized & had emergency surgery to save her life. Then my hanai (Hawaiian for adopted) mom fell again and we were worried that she might have too many health complications to come back from the fall. She rallied & the family gathered on 9/20 for an early “birthday” party. It felt like a

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

…their condo that destroyed their home. That same day my father in law had a pulmonary embolism. My son and his wife, who live in TX, have been dealing with medical issues that make it necessary for them to leave their home to get the care they need. Then my sister’s wife had a heart attack and was

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

With all the craziness going on in the world it’s hard to weigh in with the reality of my world right now. Since January my 93 yo adopted Mom had a fall that required in-home 24 hour medical oversight, which led to her move to a medical residential home. Then my sister and her wife had a fire in

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

I lived in the Pacific NW for many years. I miss the irreverence and cheekiness of the people there. They spotlight what clowns the ICE thugs are in the most ironic and obvious way. Stay safe frog man. Stay safe.

l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

No is such an easy word to say. When my kids were less than a year old it was one of the first words they said, & from ages 2-3 years they said it easily & forcefully. And yet this 59 year old AG for the US could not muster the wherewithal to say that simple word. She didn’t want to purger herself.

Image of post from Mrs. Betty Bowers saying:
Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 2d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

This is actually crochet, but this is what the nanas in Portland are doing to claim their city. Mark your territory nanas.

A tree trunk covered in colorful crocheted granny squared yarn.

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it that Black women in the US continue to do the brave thing, the right thing, the smart thing, & they pay they price for standing up? Do whatever you can do to support this courageous woman. Speak out loud and unequivocally and if there is any platform to throw support her way, amplify.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jul 30

Substack is not sustainable from a business perspective— and that's before you get to the fact that they are now pushing Nazi content onto people's phones.

You either move now or move in shame later. Those are the two options really.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

They’re targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James for one reason: she had the courage to hold Donald Trump accountable.

This is political weaponization of our courts, plain and simple—and proof that when you stand up to corruption, they come for you.

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l’il bigisland @lbigisland.bsky.social · 3d

The US is being run the same way that yamtits ran his “businesses”. Every department, agency, or program is seen as an opportunity to take a cut & transfer money from programs & services to pots he has access to control, now or eventually. Citizens who have PAID THEIR TAXES will not receive benefits

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 4d

This is untenable!

SHUTDOWN
THIS IS WHAT GOP CHAOS COSTS:
Senator @SenatorWarnock
X.com:
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what l'm fighting to stop. This is what's at stake in this shutdown fight.

PREMIUMS TRIPLING
WHILE THEY PLAY POLITICS

-THE REFORMERS

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