aliswisel.bsky.social
@aliswisel.bsky.social
Poet, lesbian, feminist, professor, blue dot in deep red, lifelong Democrat, dogs cats horses parrots gardening!
I must admit I didn't anticipate the silly b.s. about taking Greenland and Panama and even Canada, or renaming the Gulf of Mexico. This is how much the right hates diversity! Now it wants everything to be called "America."

Trump will run out of places to deport people to if he takes everything.
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Happy New Year, Blue Sky! It's shaping up to be a challenging one for happiness, obviously, but let's do what we can with it. Write! Do not be silenced! And get yourself an amaryllis. 🌺
January 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ho ho ho, Blue Sky! Happy Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! Hope it's all going as wonderfully as possible! Get with those reindeer and DANCE.
a merry christmas card with santa and reindeer
ALT: a merry christmas card with santa and reindeer
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December 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist
December 15, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Hello, Blue Sky. I'm really bothered by Trump's horrible idea to take away Daylight Savings Time. I love long summer evenings more than anything else in life. The thought of trading those for 5 a.m. sunrises makes me sick! How about you? What's your preference?
December 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Here's an Oklahoma story worth telling.
In 1913, 10-year-old Sarah Rector, a Black girl in Oklahoma was given a 160-acre land allotment. While the best farmland was reserved for white settlers, her barren plot struck oil, making her one of the country’s first Black millionaires.
December 8, 2024 at 3:14 AM
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They reversed that decision so fast! 👏🏻
December 6, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Good morning, Bluesky! My aphorism for this Monday morning is--Rewarding vicious people in hopes of satisfying them doesn't work!
December 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Happy Saturday, Bluesky! I was thinking this morning about how Trump picks his staff so irresponsibly he basically just "runs through them," the way sexual predators "run through" women. His entire existence has been a sequence of predation, "hiring" and "firing."

Disgusting! Do you agree?
November 30, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Good Morning, Bluesky friends! A lot of people will go to the shopping mall today, but I am not one of them. How about you? Are you adding to the decline of the in-person retail world like I am? 😏
November 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Blue Sky! I call myself the Thanksgiving Ruiner since I so often get sick on that day or that week, and this year is no exception. So I have to try to make up for raining on the food parade in my household to some degree by saying HAPPY THANKSGIVING over and over to everyone!
November 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Trump has previously proposed cutting all federal funding for libraries.

But we can take action today!

Please join us and sign the petition to show your support for fully funding IMLS in the Continuing Budget Resolution.

action.everylibrary.org/imls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Good morning, friends of Blue Sky! I'm trying to think of things to be thankful for for next week's celebration. Considering what's going on with American politics, it's not necessarily that easy! What can YOU think of?
November 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Exactly right, and I wish it had been discussed more clearly as such before the election too. I could see it coming, I know others could too, and it needed more light on it all along.
Republicans are normalizing misogyny and sexual assault—this is a war on women. They’ve abandoned respect, erased “Me Too,” and want to drag us backward. We must stand up and fight to protect the progress women have made.

#DemCast #Resist

slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Awful Truth Trump’s Cabinet Picks Make Clear
This is a feminist backlash.
slate.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Good morning, Blue Sky! On Twitter the white supremacists are stirred up about Jasmine Crockett, and they had a fun time attacking me for saying something accurate about whiteness. I still like to try to talk to them there, but it's crazy how they react. Gotta keep that from happening here!
November 21, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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It’s really something to watch the Party whose supporters poop on the floor in the Capitol and wipe their feces on the wall tell us which bathrooms to use.
November 20, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Hi, Blue Sky! Today I'm starting to feel a little less drained from two weeks of bad news and a little more like fighting back! How about you?
November 20, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Hey! I wonder where the other writers are on here, especially poets. I saw someone say there's a starter pack, but I haven't seen it. Can anyone help me out? Many thanks!
November 18, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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A rose made of galaxies..
November 16, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The Weave
November 17, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Good morning to Blue Sky! Now that it's finally starting to seem a little more like fall where I live, I'm already starting to miss summer and all the tomatoes my partner and I grew. They're still coming, but these are from the earlier months when everything was new! Do you like to garden?
November 17, 2024 at 3:49 PM