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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 22h

I loved watching the buck spit the shells out one side of his mouth. And hearing the crunch as he chewed.
Very therapeutic!

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 23h

Rain. Blessed rain today. Here’s a photo of two turning trees webbed with moisture.

#Beautyisresistance
#Beautyasresistance

A maple tree beginning to turn red on one side. Viewed through the branches of another tree with individual random leaves that have turned red. There are water droplets in the small-leaved tree branches, but I don’t know how well
They show up in the photo.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1d

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
buff.ly/bdu2eRR

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 1d

But just as quickly as they started, they stopped.Back to business as usual.

We talk a lot about corporations backtracking on their DEI commitments.

We should also talk about church leaders backsliding on racial justice.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

The raisins get nice and plump that way.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

I choose to believe that the planners have concrete information about T's health.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

😂

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 1d

I've got my comments drafted. Haven't sent yet because I want to read them again.

How about you?

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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

The U.S.

open.substack.com

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

Standard Donny MO:

1)do bad or illegal stuff
2)manipulate the legal system to evade accountability
3)accuse regular people trying to hold you to account of the bad or illegal stuff you’ve already done
4)punish them for what you already did

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

A left-pawed beaver ?

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

Worked for me, watching a 6 pt buck eat acorns yesterday. He’d look up & stare at Argyll and me periodically, and I could see him spitting out the shells while he did.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

This is the longest August I remember.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

That's one way to raise the birthrate: shrinking the pool of women of childbearing age.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

Cleaned 3 stalks of celery & left them on a friend’s counter. Munched one while I ran out to the car, then returned to a single stalk on the counter, and a visibly excited Argyll.
Note, my friend is not at home.

Argyll, please discuss.

#dogs
#petsofbluesky

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 2d

On the morning walk. He paused periodically to stare at us while spitting out the acorn shells. I could hear them hit the ground.

#beautyasresistance
#beautyisresistance
#attentionasresistance

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

Punishing all Americans to conceal one sexual predator’s actions.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

I guess the president is rushing to send troops into blue cities because his friends in Congress can't stonewall the release of the Epstein Files forever.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

From today’s psalm for morning prayer.

Happy are those who act with justice *
and always do what is right!

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 3d

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 3d

"Conservative" is not the word. It's "extremism"--and a host of other words.

But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.

Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.

They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3d

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 5d

I have several friends who are deeply distressed, because woman in leadership, but I’m with you.

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 6d

Me? Covet your breakfast?
My feelings are hurt.

#dogs
#dogsofbluesky

Argyll, looking off to the right. Her ears are set to “innocent” but attentive.

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