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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak

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Retired special education. #FBR. #proudblue. #BlueResisters. #StrongerTogether Happily Married. E PLURIBUS UNUM Promoting Equality! Block No or few posts. LGBTQ support. I Block 🚫 DM&Nude&Crypto&daters. Non evangelical minister.

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hello! I stand for equality. There is wisdom gained in the growth of equality. If you support this growth mindset for equality, let's follow each other.
I stand for compassion's courage in generating change from a mindview of superiority to a mind view of equality.

2 pictures of Jesus. 1 white skinned.1 brown skinned. Under white Jesus: white, Christian, patriotic, justice through retribution, died for your sins, silent in the face of oppression, condemns sinners, endorses church and state, a king, endorses holy war. Historical Jesus: Jewish, ionized by Rome, justice through restoration, friend of sinners and outcasts, liberates the oppressed, critiques religious people, subverts empire,no violent, homeless man and a refugee, had half siblings

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: James Comey pleads not guilty to federal criminal charges, judge sets trial date for Jan. 5

More details TK

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 1h

Morning Folks,
Well the Nazis are murdering Americans in cold blood now. Still think this will end with drum circle and big hug? I'm just waiting for them to come murder me at this point. I have zero faith in Americans.

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@RuadhMairi.blusky.social 📎🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇷FuckICE @ruadhmairi.bsky.social · 1h

YES on 50!!!

#VoteCA!

Ⓜ️𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊 💙 🦋 @lmariev.bsky.social · 1h

A new poll of Californians likely to vote in November 4th’s special election shows the majority support Prop. 50, the state’s redistricting measure.

Fifty-four percent said they support the measure, compared to 36% who oppose it and 10% who said they’re unsure.

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New poll shows majority of California voters support Prop. 50

The poll also asked likely voters how swayed they were by arguments on either side of the campaign

www.yahoo.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

Self care day. The river is calling. See ya later

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

I can't read it either. But the headline is enough for me.

Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

I can't believe 40% support it. That's nuts

Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

You know. It's so twisted that freedom of speech may now mean any quackery practice can exist in the medical field. That's some dick thinking out of control!

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 3h

Freedom of speech may be the one constitutional right the current Supreme Court doesn’t demolish.
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Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ kids - The Boston Globe

The court’s conservative majority didn’t seem convinced that states can restrict talk therapy aimed at changing feelings while allowing counseling that affirms kids identifying as gay or transgender.

www.bostonglobe.com

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Wednesday to all these fabulous resisters 🦋
And always grateful @hopeful66.bsky.social for continuing to bring us together 🦋✨🦋✨🦋✨🦋

go.bsky.app/2vvfhLt

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

It feels that way.

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Jane June @janejune.bsky.social · 1h

Today (and every day) in MAGA World:

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 2h

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A painting of a bird beside the text "stand back, some dipshits are swinging their dicks around"

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

I am self care day.

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❀𝕀𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕜𝕖𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕞𝕒❀ @irmaspikeymama.bsky.social · 4h

👋Good Morning Friends☕️
I know it's not easy, but please treat yourself with love today and every day❤️Try to have a wonderful Wednesday💙🫂🫶

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like we should have a betting pool not on WHEN the Comey case blows up in spectacular fashion, but the specific means by which it does so.

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Prosecutors further expressed concerns about the department's ability to take the case to trial quickly due to problems identifying all the relevant materials that would need to be handed over to Comey's lawyers, sources said. They also raised alarms over the potential for Comey's defense to cite the statute of limitations for the case, which derives from testimony in 2017 and was only reinforced by Comey during his 2020 testimony in response to a question from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 4h

👇👇💯🎯🗽

fernandolongo.bsky.social @fernandolongo.bsky.social · 6h

Someone provide the National Guard the legal advice that will protect them if and when they do disobey orders #usa - support them to do what is right

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 16h

Posted about 23 hrs ago
Credit: @btnewsroom.bsky.social

"btnewsroom: In response to the announced deployment of 200 National Guard troops & 150 🧊 agents to Portland, a group of military veterans gathered in front of City Hall, calling on service members to remember their oath to the Constitution"

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 1h

Omg. So medical care can now become anything goes?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3h

I actually don't think that Discount Goebbels censored himself.

One possible explanation is that somewhere deep inside Stephen Miller he still has fragments of a human personality and he recently underwent a trauma that would have floored humans with actual human emotion.

Fighting Against Fascism @fightinginjustice.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said.

The fact that he knows he's not supposed to be just saying it out loud like that because it's not true and he didn't mean to telegraph their intentions that clearly

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 3h

As Americans face rising grocery bills, rent hikes, and job insecurity, the Trump WH has delayed a critical inflation report—critics call it a dangerous “politics of erasure,” where facts vanish, trust erodes, and democracy falls into decay.
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