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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 11h

This is Erica Chenoweth's finding: participating in one activity can blossom into many more actions, and deeper involvement.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely work.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 21h

$31 billion in tariff revenue represents taxes paid by Americans for foreign goods. That was our money in the first place!

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 21h

We should spend our time on actions that make structural change at all levels. Proximate drivers of events: structure of election finance and shifting taxes away from capital and onto labor. At the least let's disincentive bad actions and require prosocial ones.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 1d

$20 to the first person who asks if accusing George Soros of funding protests is anti-Semitism.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 1d

Chip Roy performing as a Christian. Ask him how cutting SNAP benefits to poor kids satisfies Jesus's call.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 1d

Have you looked into Earthwatch science opportunities? Families or just adults are welcome to work on real science projects in the USa c abroad.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't read this simple analysis: that the cartoon depicts his attitude toward his constituents. Yes, even those who voted against him and are protesting are his constituents. THAT is the norm in this country.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 2d

Jimmy Carter left the southern Baptist church late in life. He saw no reform coming and he couldn't cotton it any longer.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 2d

Always a fight for control.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 2d

With a crochet hook, start to rework the working stitches, knits from front to catch float, purls: put float in front and pull thru to back. You can even fix cables or lace patterns using this method. One caution: make sure you use float from correct row.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 2d

You can do it. Try this: take two needles, free up the stitches you need to work on, place the other stitches on the two needles, points facing towards the working stitches. Unravel the working stitches, place them on a third needle. (Sizes do not matter). 1/2

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 3d

Not Fallows but Trump is infamous for blocking access from outlets he thinks aren't favorable to him. Downplaying the demos might be a way to protect their "Access".

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 3d

The point of unmasking/body armour is to be able to hold them accountable for their actions. The theory is accountability reduces their violence. While we work to get rid of ICE from neighborhoods the courts are extending these accountability techniques.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 3d

You can ladder down multiple stitches in a row and as long as you have a good crochet hook and extra needles or pins to hold work while you are making adjustments, you can even fix cables without frigging all the way down.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 3d

Being part of the conservative herd requires a lot of conformity that is surprisingly difficult to achieve ..not just in thought but in appearance, life style, how your kids act, etc. It means accepting your place in their hierarchy and asking no questions. Like life in a kit. Being free is harder.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 4d

I have been sampling "British food" since the 1970's -- through weddings of boiled beef, triffles, breakfasts of bangers and mash, toad in the hole, beans on toast to the wildly varied "ethnic food" that now is everywhere. Immigration is the best thing that happened to British food.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 4d

Or obligation.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 5d

So other countries don't pay the tariffs? S/

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you. I have been in protests where mob-like behavior was caused by fear starting a stampede. Today, trained monitors help minimize these issues. Let's hope for a peaceful, joyful demonstration on Saturday.

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry Will, that is not true.Read the stories of the SNCC volunteers who slept in the shacks of tenant farmers. Those farmers were as much a part of the movement as marchers. The women church group that made sandwiches, the union members who passed petitions. The movement was larger than you think.

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Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 5d

Is the redress for this treatment?

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 7d

What I worry about is that entrenched forces will. Work to have him fail. After all, Cuomo & NYPD did something similar to Di Blasio

Linda Kaboolian @lindakaboolian.bsky.social · 8d

Granting you that point, families with names that used exotic alphabets used the romanized names they were given at Ellis Island. Hence: their names were changed.