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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter

@bleupolimcf.bsky.social

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Late bloomer; retired educator; actor; wife/mum/nana; ally to those who seek social justice; one who tries to follow the compassion and truth of Christ; learner; a person gobsmacked by recent choices (not mine) that are sending my country into a chaos.

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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · Dec 10

Oakwood University Aeolian Singers are The Best! Check out the. YouTube of “World O World” for an out-of-this-world arrangement.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Oh this is not great

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6h

Marjorie Taylor Greene just said the Republican Party is “getting destroyed” during this government shutdown as they refuse to protect health care.

“Everyone’s just getting destroyed... Republicans, you have no solutions... It is hurting so many people.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

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Nate "the Late" Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 1d

Six former surgeons general say Kennedy is "endangering" the nation's health

The former officials condemned Kennedy's "dangerous and discredited" rhetoric about vaccines.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

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🍯 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝙷𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢𝙱𝚎𝚎 🐝 @thehoneybeee.bsky.social · 12d

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

If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 12d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 9h

A woman in a leather jacket sits at the controls of an airplane and holds a sign “Nice try. Release the files.”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17h

Number of days since Donald Trump and the GOP shut down the government so they can protect the rich and powerful pedophiles within their ranks: 8

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 23h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 22h

I read this reporting this morning and my heart broke.Thank goodness there is still some accurate reporting happening by brave journalists.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 23h

Put my order in at Quiet Quail a woman-owned/Indigenous bookstore in Highland and San Bernardino, CA! Can’t wait to get it.

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Stacey Haines @staceyhaines.bsky.social · 1d

"Spiritual people use religion to become better people; fundamentalists use religion to prove they're better than you."
~John Fugelsang

John Fugelsang: Right-wing Christians use the Bible ‘as a prop’ & ignore Jesus’ message

YouTube video by MSNBC

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1d

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Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for bringing her to our minds. Another brave brave woman.

Deborah Witherspoon McFatter @bleupolimcf.bsky.social · 23h

The Fear Factor
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Excellent analysis of how fear is used by the right and the left; how it can actually be an impetus for action.

The Fear Factor

The right and the left both use fear to drive politics, but the difference in how is striking

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aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's America.

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 3d

The President of United States exhorting cadets from one of the branches of the Armed Forces to eliminate one of our two national parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.