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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 19

Interesting that media personalities can advocate for murdering homeless people, but keeping Trump accountable warrants free speech violations by his administration's #fcc. #abc and #disney are cowards. I don't even like #kimmel, and I'm fine with canceling my subscriptions with The Mouse.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 18

If MAGA is making the argument Kimmel deserves to be fired for saying something incorrect and thus violating FCC guidelines, well then, so be it.

You also have to cancel Watters, Gutfeld, and Ingraham, who all said without evidence that Kirk's killer was the far left and incited a lot of hate.

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MK.ULTRA @mikeoflegend.bsky.social · Sep 10

MAGA: “Political violence has no place in our society”

Also MAGA: unlimited death threats and jokes about Paul Pelosi’s attempted murder.

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee all voted to require the release of the Epstein files.

Republicans are voting to prevent their release.

SHAME on the Republicans for covering up the Epstein files. Know their names. judiciary.house.gov/about/member...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Question: What do political purges at law enforcement agencies look like in practice?

Answer:

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Sep 10

this is really fuckin wild

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 10

Treatment for erectile disfunction is also gender affirming care for most dudes, but they don't want to discuss that.

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · Sep 10

Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need."

Nancy Mace: *screams*

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · Sep 3

The law is very clear: No one, not even the president, can use the U.S. military for community policing

Erwin Chemerinsky on why a federal judge was right to declare Trump’s military deployment to Los Angeles illegal

The military cannot be used for policing

A federal judge got it exactly right when he declared Trump's military deployment to Los Angeles was illegal.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Sep 3

I recently visited an ICE detention center with @ravenreveals.bsky.social just outside of Chicago. Kidnapping people off the streets isn’t keeping us any more safe.

Let’s close this facility and all the other ones like it down.

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's funny, I was just wishing the other day that I had a CB in my car on a roadtrip like my parents had when I was a kid.

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm a pretty logical person, so I'm willing to allow it was a hypnopompic hallucination, as I've had those before. But I've also had an experience of dreaming of being dragged down to the bottom of the bed & when I "woke up," I was dangling off the end of the bed. Kind of hard to do that on ur own.

Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 3

I was looking through my old posts on FB for a genealogy post & instead found one I'd forgotten existed, abt something shaking my ankle violently one morning to wake me up.

There was no one there or awake to do the shaking. I appreciated it at the time because I was sleeping thru my alarm for work

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Sep 2

Six Flags: We don't know why attendance is down?

*Customers, pointing at SF nickle & diming once included experiences, rides closing down due to maintenance, CS issues, parks being homogenized instead of keeping the local flavor*

Six Flags: So mysterious. So strange. I guess we'll never know!

Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 25

SORRY, Cedar Fair / Six Flags is a joke. And it's bizarre that they pull this nonsense in a city with top rated haunted house attractions, too. Haunt used to be a fabulous full day of spooky fun, and we used to go multiple times in the season, bringing family each time. It's really disappointing.

Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 25

I still planned on going to Haunt this year, because honestly, it's my favorite part of WoF. But now they're charging an additional $10-25 for the haunted houses? Srsly? Guess I won't be going to Haunt at Worlds of Fun after all. Cedar Fair is a joke.

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 25

I didn't buy the season pass this year because of the lowered quality of experience at Oceans of Fun & broken rides last year, plus, the division of day attendance & night attendance for @worldsoffun.bsky.social Haunt screwing up taking my family for a full day of spooky fun....

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 24

To add to this list, Salem is a Halloween town all October long. I'd love to see real Halloween festivals in the lower Midwest.

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 24

I genuinely wish Independence, KS' Neewollah's festival was a true Halloween festival like Irving, ILor Anoka, MN. It started out as one, but it's been tamed down to kind of a general community festival. I still enjoyed it when I attended, but there's so much potential (and money) left on the table.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Aug 21

America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.

Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 21

Honestly, both designs are awful. The old one was too complex and didn't fit well on signage that wasn't huge to accommodate "grandpa/barrel" - the new one is too simple, but at least it's easy to display. Y'all cry too much about the stupidest things. Go eat some potatoes, you'll feel better.

Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 21

Conservatives losing their mind over the Cracker Barrel rebrand are HILARIOUS. It's still an ugly color, it's still an ugly shape (just w/o the weird kidney bean surrounding the name)- if anything, it got even blander & I know y'all adore bland things. Y'all miss "Grandpa with a barrel" THAT much?

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Justice Department still employs a former FBI agent (Jared Lane Wise) who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol and cheering on rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege, repeatedly yelling “Kill ‘em!” as they attacked police.

Pam Bondi fires Justice Department employee accused of throwing sandwich at federal agent

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
composed more than 460 works, which were published under her lauded composer brother, Felix Mendelssohn's name #WomensArt

Print featuring the upper half of a white woman in a dress with hair up facing forwards

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Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 15

Goddess of Highway Sunflowers @lucretiska.bsky.social · Aug 7

Fuck cancer.