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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · Nov 26

Let me be clear: NO unsolicited DMs.
They are unacceptable to anyone. You will be blocked!
Women have faced sexual harassment for centuries: unwanted touching, denigration, sexual comments, & worse.
Male Offenders: learn self control & GTFO if you can’t.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 6h

"It's the anniversary of several deadly wildfires in 1871. While it was not the deadliest the Great Chicago Fire tends to be the one people remember, not least because observers turned it into anti-immigrant propaganda even before the flames had died out"
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The Great Chicago Fire

Today is the anniversary of several deadly wildfires that took place in 1871.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 6h

"ndra Watkins wants you to know that, unless you are a white Christian nationalist, you are the enemy of white Christian nationalists. Even some WCNs are enemies of other WCNs.

Make no mistake: If you are not living under their guidelines, you will be a target."
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You Will Be A Target. What to Do NOW to Prepare. | Andra Watkins & Sam Osterhout

Is a soft-secession in the works already?

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 10h

"The American news media has been severely compromised & shares complicity in the rise of this fascist regime

They treat this administration as curio piece instead of a threat to democracy

....This is how dictators gain power.

Media treats them like one might negligently treat a spoiled child."
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The Silencing of Karen Attiah

It’s great that Jimmy Kimmel is back on television.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 10h

Sarah Posner, a journalist with extensive experience covering the religious right movement, noted soon after: “Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting — let’s just say — abortion.”
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Team Trump’s clashes with the faith community go from bad to worse

The political world is overdue for a conversation about the severity of the conflicts between the Republican administration and the faith community.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

We won't have free and fair elections if trump gets his way. The Supreme Court started the fall of free and fair election with Citizens United and trump will end elections when he uses the Insurrection Act which is where he is headed putting military on our streets

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

"Imagine if Bondi and her staff put as much time into getting it right as they did preparing her to be combative and personally insulting today. The job is supposed to be about doing justice. That wasn’t on Bondi’s agenda as she delivered insult to senator after senator today."
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Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

Of course presidential elections matter. The other elections are important as they determine who represents us as a city, county, and state. If we dont vote in those elections we lose our voices in the noise of extremists

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the book recommendation. I appreciate it

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

There is an election today in California. Next month there are some in the midwest. We need to learn that all elections matter, not just the ones for president.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

I think reading banned books teaches critical thinking skills that help us navigate through life. It creates more free thinkers rather than people who blindly follow a cult figure

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 2d

The full Harvest Moon rising over the East River as seen from Manhattan on Monday evening.

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Thou shalt put all these war criminals on trial at the Hague.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote " The EAC is considering adopting a requirement that voters show a passport or other proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote."

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 1d

"I should probably emphasize that this is not a joke. The report is not satire. This is not intended to make the administration look foolish for the sake of comedy."
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Treasury eyes a commemorative dollar coin for Trump, with plans for a 2026 rollout

It might sound like a weird joke, but there’s an actual plan to make a legal tender $1 coin next year that would glorify the incumbent president.

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

It's unfortunate you feel that way. But we each have the right to our opinions. I blame those that sat out the election rather than Kamala who was hindered by only 107 days to campaign and define her beliefs and qualifications.

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

I am thankful that I live in a mail in voting state. I can check my registration online, have plenty of time to make my choices, track my ballot to and from and see when it has been recorded. I have the choice of the mail or a drop box.

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

Kamala Harris nailed this during the campaign. Trump just lied trying to claim no knowledge about the plan he put in place once elected on day one. Project 2025 is a plan to destroy our democracy and install a dictator.
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"This was always the plan. Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes."
~Kamala Harris

"I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of Project 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political scam, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, make America Great again! President DJT"
~trump

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

My father's arrowhead collection. He started collecting them as a young boy in Missouri. He also found dinosaur bones which he donated to a Missouri university.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I do 😁😁😁
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Kermit the Frog looking out a rain soaked window. Caption reads, "Sometimes I wonder what happened to the people who asked me for directions."

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom."
~ Maya Angelou
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

North Cascades Autumn Magic
📷 Erwin Buske 2018
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

~Cape Blanco State Park~
"Shot this at 70mm. Not the typical focal length for a landscape."
📷Mitch Schreiber ~ Papatography 2018
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Sunset at Cape Blanco State Park. A view of the beach, sand, and sunset

Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."
~~Maya Angelou.
Make up your mind to bear the light in seemingly dark places.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

"You should live your life as if you are ready to say good-bye to it at any moment, as if the time left you is some pleasant surprise."
~~Marcus Aurelius
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A painting of two young girls holding up their skirts as they wade into a lake with a canoe and a tree in the background

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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d

"We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why."
~Samantha Morton
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