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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻

@tidypony.bsky.social

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Anti-capitalist; pro-Houyhnhnm. Career HS humanities teacher; servant to other people's horses. My only cult is the horse cult. Yes, that is hay in my hair. Love my n95 & libraries. Flogging AI, crypto? Expect a 🚫. #deleteZuck #banbillionaires

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 22d

How to Triumph Like a Girl
#AdaLimon

I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let’s be honest, I like
that they’re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don’t you want to believe it?
Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it’s going to come in first.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 3h

Straight outta Russian troll farm central.
Gross.

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Roger H Charles @rogerhcharles.bsky.social · 7h

Traffic control, Wilmington, NC #NoKings rally!

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 6h

Seeing these huge #NoKings crowds feels like a massive intravenous dose of love.

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♄⊙⊙†. @hoothoottooh.bsky.social · 8h

Protest sign that says jd vance puts his cast iron skillet in the microwave

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Minnesota Girl @kimmesota.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is finally drawing the massive crowds he deserves #NoKings

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 7h

So the only arrests today have been aggressive counter protesters?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 19h

Orwell never anticipated that we'd buy and install our own telescreens.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a bit confused by all the snarky comments about older, white protesters as if they somehow aren't legitimate. They actually represent a very big chunk of the population and are usually considered to be more conservative than everyone else. Isn't a good thing that they're protesting fascism?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 7h

I love a shut down street.
Good work, Cleveland.
💪🇺🇸🌏🌎🌍🇺🇸💪

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 9h

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

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Sally Dodds @sdodds.bsky.social · 9h

Downtown

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 9h

The Guardian: not innumerate morons.

At least not for that long.

Thanks for the edit, @theguardian.com

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 9h

Forgot the alt text:
My final word in a NYT survey of why I canceled my decades’ long subscription.

“Your mealy-mouthed obeisance to a traitorous regime makes me ill.
Also, David Brooks.”

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 9h

I know you said you still subscribe.
A few months ago, I couldn’t take one more syllable from David Brooks.

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 13h

What a day for an enormous NYC march for the country we love. This is truly what democracy looks like — and there are #NoKings in the USA!

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 12h

Had some fun reporting the ones posting certifiable nonsense first.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 12h

Looks like a perfect October in Maine™️ day. #NoKings

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. Here’s a cute example of a boy on his favorite yak. youtu.be/KWWEeC5heNc

small boy Yak riding | #himalayan #tibetan #yak #riding

YouTube video by SnowLand Tenzin

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 12h

Reported several for misleading info because their opening salvos were utter nonsense.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

That's right

A sign that says THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS AO YOU DON'T BLAME BILLIONAIRES

Also behind them to the left is a sign that says NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 12h

Fair enough.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 13h

Having met her several times informally when she was Maine’s AG, she’s no Manchin/Sinema. Her whole family is Maine Dem royalty.

That said, she made expedient compromises as governor. That’s why she should sit this one out.

I was shocked to see her Senate candidacy. She needs a break.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 13h

Reported most for misleading information, then blocked.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 13h

Grrrr.
#BanBillionaires
#StarlinkTrash

AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Three launches on the books for Vandenberg. Apparently no launches stopped by the shutdown, likely because someone classified them as "national security required" even though they're just Starlink future space trash. #vandenberg #santabarbara #sonicboom #nazirockets

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