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Dorothy Petrie

@nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social

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RN, public schools, public health and the public good, Southern Gothic, walk/run/yoga, books, dreamer, and yet serious as an MI, anti-fascist, pro-vaccine and pro-democracy. 🚫 MAGA 🚫 Porn 🚫 Crypto 🚫creepy DMs I make one-of-a-kind Christmas ornaments.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 1d

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.

Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 10h

We are a little more than halfway through our 2025 Flu Campaign and have vaccinated over 3500 employees, students, and volunteers. I’m so proud of my nurse colleagues who are committed to making our community healthier.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 17h

Given what Miller’s threat to arrest Pritzker for seditious conspiracy, I ask again:

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 19d

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 18h

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 16h

He’s “in awe”?

How about appalled?!

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 1d

What can we do to stop him? 1st don’t worry about 2026/28 elections, yet. Focus on the Nov 2025 elections where there will be 52k races nationwide & turn out is key. 2nd, vote for pro democracy candidates that will shape the 2026/28 elections! Key elections are in CA, ME, NJ, PA & VA! #Elections2025

What Can We Do to Stop Him?

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 16h

That’s because he is weak and puny.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

The reason Trump illegally used an anonymous billionaire to pay soldiers during the Epstein Shutdown is because he's going to need troops for the Insurrection Act and martial law.

The reason he'll let the poor die is because he doesn't give a shit about them. Their lives don't advance his schemes.

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 16h

Wait, did he mention ethics?

two men are talking to each other and one of them is saying you keep using that word .

ALT: two men are talking to each other and one of them is saying you keep using that word .

media.tenor.com

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 1d

Have courage.

Stand up to bullies.

Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 1d

Folks standing up To TRUMP has been proven to be successful. There are certain things he can’t stand confrontation on cause it makes him look bad. STAND THE F UP and fight this pricK.

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 1d

“The East Wing…, the site of offices for every first lady for nearly a half century and the home of calligraphers who prepared thousands of invitations for White House state dinners, disappeared into a pile of rubble on Thursday. It had stood for 123 years.”

A Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I hear or read the word “hereby”, I think of this scene with Herr Burgermeister.

He falls out of favor eventually.

Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 1d

“Toys are hereby declared illegal, immoral, unlawful AND anyone found with a toy in his possession will be placed under arrest and thrown in the dungeon!”

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

If Joffrey Baratheon grew up to be an American president, this is pretty much what it would look like.

Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 1d

“Toys are hereby declared illegal, immoral, unlawful AND anyone found with a toy in his possession will be placed under arrest and thrown in the dungeon!”

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 3d

You know what gives me a rush these days? Writing truths that could make Trump come after me.

I don’t chase it, I savor it. Because that pulse of risk, that edge of defiance…that's what resistance feels like.

He hates any truth that isn't favorable to him. Our job is to provide him with plenty.

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 4d

Um, who’s going to tell him.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4d

President Donald Trump admitted that he became "extremely angry" after hearing that he was not a better president than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

'I got extremely angry': Trump enraged as man calls him 'third-best president'

President Donald Trump admitted that he became "extremely angry" after hearing that he was not a better president than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.At a Tuesday event with Republican senators in the White House Rose Garden, Trump told the tale as he described a "Presidential Walk of Fame" he...

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 4d

hey @markhamillofficial.bsky.social he's talking about your dad 🤡

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Dorothy Petrie @nestverchgruffydd.bsky.social · 5d

Cowards.

They are nothing but entertainers who pedal historical fiction.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 5d

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

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ElizabethC 💙🐸 @econklin44.bsky.social · 6d

Most of us who have watched Trump's political career see it. People who have worked directly with him see it. Now even heads of other countries see it. It's high time for America's "free" press to acknowledge it:

Trump is a Russian asset.

#ProudBlue

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 7d

Under three months to go and we'll be rid of the worst governor in modern Virginia history; time to rectify the HUGE mistake made by a narrow majority of Virginia voters in November 2021. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/satu...