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Eleanor Martinez

@northstar1939.bsky.social

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San Jose, CA native living in VT on 9 wooded acres with husband of 41 years and our 2 elderly cats. NO RED or BLUEMAGA allowed! GOP is batshit crazy. Dems pushing right, making things worse for all of us while they lust for donor $$+ignore their voters.

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · Feb 6

If you are bashing voters who stayed home/voted 3rd party, DO. NOT. FOLLOW. ME.
It's not the voters' fault that the Orange Domestic Enemy won. It's that of Dems doing the bidding of their donors instead of allowing the people to elect the candidate they want. Name-calling will be reported+blocked.

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 7h

However, we knew better than to fall for Trump's bullshit.

When I saw what Obama did in 2020 during the primary, I 100% knew that Trump was coming back in 2024. And here we are. If Bernie had been allowed to win, none of this would be happening now. www.chicagotribune.com/2020/04/14/a...

‘Accelerate the endgame’: How Barack Obama nudged Bernie Sanders out of the race

Over the past year, Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama practiced a political distancing of sorts, with Obama maintaining a posture of public neutrality in the Democratic primaries, offerin…

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 7h

True. We never experienced the prosperity that these administrations kept claiming was happening. We lost everything during Bush Jr., and we've never recovered. Obama bailed out Wall Street and ignored Main Street. People still had to work 2+ jobs under Biden. SS p'ments have been low with D or R.

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 12h

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- Unattractive and objectionable.
- Fearsome; forbidding.

Use:
“Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

I dunno, seems okay.

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 9h

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
“I live in fear of whether or not I will be able to afford my life saving treatment,” one woman told Sanders’ office.

'I'm Terrified I'll Die': Bernie Sanders Unveils Report on Healthcare Devastation Looming for American Families | Common Dreams

Sen. Bernie Sanders' report reveals Americans' fears over GOP healthcare policies, detailing personal stories of struggles with rising insurance costs.

www.commondreams.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14h

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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Trans Woman Support @tws-website.com · 11h

This regime is dangerous

#riseup #standup #resist #revolt #respect #support #change #together #love #nomorehate #transgender #lgbtqiap2s

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Teeje @theteejeabides.bsky.social · 13h

Of note, I did not see any ICE ads on HBO Max in my area tonight, which was extremely surprising yet pleasantly delightful. I saw that TNT did it though to a bunch of y'all, so please keep bombarding WBD/local broadcasting with emails and calls #AEWCollision 🤼‍♂️

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Wendy M. A. Darling @wendymadarling.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve been saying, over and over: don’t rent to them, don’t let your kids go to their house, don’t sell them tires, don’t fill their cavities, don’t deliver their DoorDash, don’t acknowledge their presence, don’t cut their hair. Nothing. Ever. Until they die.

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historynerd62.bsky.social @historynerd62.bsky.social · 11h

Fascists hate accountability. I used to say conservatives hate accountability, but they've moved the Overton window so far to the right that calling them conservative seems rather quaint.

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Cassandra’s Ghost @jeanieosc.bsky.social · 13h

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine the burden of having to hide, for the rest of your life, that you worked for the MAGA Gestapo, because you know that plenty of perfectly ordinary people would probably straight up murder you for it and unceremoniously throw your body in a ditch then go on with their lives with zero guilt

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 13h

Imagining being at a party in 2032 and some guy says he was in ICE

Quickly, word circulates the party

Someone whose dad was taken teams up with a friends group who had their school raided

Ex-ICE guy just gets the shit beaten out of him

Welcome to the next decade of the USA

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lmhinh.bsky.social @lmhinh.bsky.social · 14h

And for the capitalists, I’ve seen at 2 videos of ICE doing a “hit & run” on some innocent bystander’s car.

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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 11h

3. beg your decent wife not to divorce you (hope she does anyway)

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Lest you think I'm exaggerating, this is just a sample.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11h

To expand on my Tron pitch (which Disney rejected mainly because I just made it up)

A knockoff Candy Crush ”free with ads” game and an abandoned phone app for a discontinued smart popcorn popper are abducted for gladiatorial experiments by developers creating a backdoor virus.

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 17h

Nixon didn’t go to prison

But his AG did.

Bondi, I hope I live to see it.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

#MedicareForAll

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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