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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 1d

I'm watching @msnbc.com LIVE '25 with @maddow.msnbc.com & @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com. Rachel's answer to a 7th grader is so powerful. Racism/discrimination means not seeing someone as a human being. To support someone different than yourself is to see them as a fellow human being.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 2d

Love this!! 🌈 ❤️

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 2d

That $230M he wants from tax payers? That's to pay for his new ballroom. So much for self-funded, eh?

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 3d

Just heard Jeffries on @msnbc.com's Meet the Press Now - he said the Republicans don't so anything without the permission of their boss...the President. I wish Republicans would remember who their boss really is - THE PEOPLE of the US.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone have any insight into how the MAGA folks feel about the East Wing being destroyed?

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 5d

This makes me feel ill.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 5d

Bobby De Niro on @msnbc.com OMG he's awesome! #RobertDeNiro #Respect (yes, I'm a day late, watching it on YouTube from the UK)

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 8d

I was texting my friend to tell her we had a baked camembert & charcuterie for lunch and was amazed I spelt those two things correctly on the first try. BTW, garlic on top of a baked camembert is #chefskiss 🤌

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 11d

Why is the @maddow.msnbc.com show audio only on #YouTube? In order to watch the series from the UK I have to watch from a third party because @msnbc.com doesn't show the full shows? #TheRachelMaddowShow

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 17d

This Pam Bondi stuff is blowing my ever loving mind. I mean SERIOUSLY, WTAF USA? 🤯 And WTAF Republicans? Were there actually ANY Republicans in this committee? Grow a backbone already. The lack of decorum & respect is one of the things Trump has really destroyed in the country of my birth. 😢

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re going to shutdown the government & not pay federal workers then you shouldn’t get paid either. Fair is fair. #usgovernment #shutdown

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 23d

I hope he wins!

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 23d

A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 25d

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 26d

I finished 11.22.63 recently by @stephenking.bsky.social (great book!) and just realised that they made a TV show about it & it's on @amazonprime.bsky.social! But only for 11 more days - guess what I'm bingeing right now. 📖 📺 #stephenking #jfk #booksky

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 28d

Alt text: EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED
"ARE YOU A PEDOPHILE OR DO YOU JUST SUPPORT THEM
AT EVERY TOWN HALL.
PRESS BRIEFING, AND SPEECH.
JEAN GREEN

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 28d

Is anyone else worried something ominous will happen when they’re all in one place?

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you for the history lesson. I wish those in power could learn from history.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28d

September 26, 2025

Today Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that twenty men who were awarded the Medal of Honor for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre would keep their medals, despite more than ...

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 28d

My BFF asked me the other day if Trump knew Epstein.
Note: we are in the UK and she stays away from political stuff.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · 29d

OMG OMG OMG my daughter just got us tix to see MCR next summer! I don't remember being this excited to go to a concert! @mcrofficial.bsky.social #musicbsky #mcr #mychemicalromance

a baby is swimming in the water with a caption that says `` omg so excited !!! '' .

Alt: a baby is swimming in the water with a caption that says `` omg so excited !!! '' .

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Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 25

I’ll be interested to hear what an “unbiased approach” means.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 23

And now Billy Joel. #parentingdoneright

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 23

I work from home. My daughter is singing along to Amy Winehouse at the top of her lungs in the kitchen 😍

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 22

And I agree with them!
We all condemn violence but glorifying Kirk’s divisive language is not something I would support either.

“If condemning violence was the purpose of today’s resolution, it would have my full support. That’s why I signed on to a resolution led by Rep. Marc Veasey condemning Charlie Kirk’s assassination and all political violence,” Sewell said. “I would have also supported the Senate resolution which passed unanimously earlier this week. In a clear effort to further divide Americans and Members of Congress, unfortunately, the resolution House Republicans brought to the floor today included divisive language glorifying the viewpoints Charlie Kirk espoused.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 22

I am not responsible for other people’s happiness.

It’s not my responsibility to solve other people’s problems.

I am not responsible for making people understand my choices.

I don’t need to understand other people’s choices.

I am not responsible for proving my worth to others.

Shelly Blake 🌻🐸 @shellyblake.bsky.social · Sep 18

Can we all agree that the US is now a 3 party system? Democrats, Republicans & MAGA. Trump is not a Republican. He's the MAGA president. I sincerely hope Democrats & Republicans can come together to defeat the MAGA party. I'm glad to see some R's jump ship. Hurry up & grow a spine y'all.